Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-21
ACROSS THE BORDER.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED IN THE
NORTH STATE CAPITAL.
The Railroad Commission Case,
Again-A Hit mt sIxinner-Executtve
CIemency I'm the Graveyard In
surancc" Cases-PersonaI, &c.

| RALEIGH, n. c., January 20.-(Special.
Major j. w. Wilson Is subpoenaed to ap
pear next Tuesday before the Railway
Commission TO give evidence. 1t appears
that though these subpoenas are issued
| by the clerk OF the commission, news as
to their issue is not given out by him. Ir
this case. 1t appears the subpoena was
issued by him TO the Sheriff Major VII
son is not here. The commission Tor
rather the two new commissioners. for
DIR. Abbott is no party to the proceed
ing) will catch Tartar when they meet
Major Wilson.
| OOO) in 1897 is enormous. 1t Is given In re-
ports to the Labor Commission, as is
also the value of the catch-$l. slS,e7s.
AT Greensboro to-day the Under
writer's Insurance Company was organ
lied, with 100000 capital. There is quite
a strong movement for local companies.
Governor Russell, when asked by Rev.
Dr. Babb why the latter was discharged,
said he was mot TO find places for Skin
ner men," This was a hit at Skinner
and the "Pritchard Populists." 1t is the
Bureau, was bounced without a hearing.
Republicans say that Governor Russell
VIII make canvass of the State. The
president of the Republican League says
the Governor last year promised ne
would make the canvass.
The negro politicians insist that the
Governor has made all his plans to aid
Senator Butler in forming a new party.
The penitentiary leases the Tillery
"a N 10
two months ago-a division Of profits
with the owner, who furnishes every
thing, save the convict labor At each
OF the State farms a couple of acres OF
sugar beets will be planted as test.
The Populists are after Federal offices.
A. S. Peace, of the Populst State Com
mittee. asked that A. j. Daily PopulisD.
Of Granville, be given a deputy marshaPs
place. DR.. FOX" Pearson, Of Wayne,
was also seeker after a place.
Mrs Albert Watson. who died night be-
fore last at the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
was buried here to-day. She was only
IS years of age. and her husband, who
shot her and then blew out his own
brains. was but a few years older. The
unfortunate young woman's life was
beautiful one, and she was a Jealous
church worker.
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY.
Governor Russell pardons two Of the
men who were convicted of being en-
gagged in the noted graveyard insurance"
swindle, I'm Carteret county, with head
quarters at Beaufort. Those now par
doned are Selden ID. Delamar (white).
who was serving a twO-years' jail sem
tence at Beaufort, and William Fisher
(coloreD, who was serving a five-years'
sentence in the penitentiary. Each had
served about a year. Delamar was con-
victed Of conspiracy to defraud, and
Fisher of forgery to defraud. Some time
ago Dr. T. b. Delamar. another of the
men convicted, was pardoned. One man
is yet in the penitentiary, and three in
Jail. The pardons are granted because
of the reported poor health of the crimi-
nails.
Lawyers do not appear to relish the
idea that Judge Ewart may get Judge |
Dicks place on the Federal Court. They |
regard him as a bitter partisan.
BRIEFS.
A good deal of public spirit is being |
aroused against the Mormon missiona- |
ries, who are crowding into the State. |
The Mormons say they have got a foot
hold now.
Apropos of the departure of the Lynch
ties from Southport, which, it is
said, is soon to occur. the question is
asked here whether they are going back
to Virginia waters.
Next Monday Gilbert Ward. the white
man who so brutally murdered Maggie
Dinkins, in Wayne. and who is in Jail
here will be taken to GoldsbOro for trial,
but will try to get the case removed to
another county.