The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-02-17
Many Railroad Men Expected al the Rail-
way Commission Meeting Today,
VALUABLE TIMBER RUINED BY FIRE
Homo seekers Max" Inquiry About
baseball Enthusiasts Want
tcnnrinn Whose Ago Was Anthem

Raleigh, N.NC., Feb. 1G.-(SpeclaD--
Little else was talked about here to-
day save the disaster 10 the Maine.
The anii-Spanish sentiment is so pow
erful that nearly everybody believed
the explosion due to Spanish trcaChery
and hoped for war.
Ohio Wilson Uhe Railway Commits
sioncr or cX-commissiQneD rs the
United States Supreme Court may de-
termnc, was asked to-day whether it
had been the custom for one commits
s!oner to Issue subpocnas for wit
nesses. Wilson replied: ANY one of
the commissioners has The right to
issue papers at any time and any
where 1t is not necessary that =
majority of the commission should
caucus as TO such step. Many times
q single commissioner has issued sub
Duenas."
Great forest fires ragged yesterday
and last night south and southwest of
here. AT Rockingham last night there
was five miles of fire. y great deal
Of fine Timber has been ruined. The
wind blew gale.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
College here Is making arrangements
for an exhibit at the exposition at
Omaha
Inquiries were made to-day at the
Railway Commission Office as to
whether there would be n large attend
ance of railway people at to-morrow's
nearing. and II was said there would
be. The passenger rate question, tho
fertilizer freight rate matter and the
nearing Of witnesses rs 10 special rates
10 hotels will all come ur.
Superintendent Goodwin, of the
school for deaf mutcs at Morganton
IS here and says that In the summer
work will be begun on n $4,000 school
building.
The secretary of the Agricultural De-
partment says that there is much in
curry as to lands in North Carolina by
people who say they are homc-scckers
ana that few are coming in, mainly
10 Ashtvtle and Southern Pines Not
much direct and active work is being
done to secure foreign immigration
Ihat has been discouraged for years.
~ very fine oil portrait of the late
Major S. NJ. Finger is on view here
IT Is the work OF w. c. Randall, the
Raleigh artist, and is painted for the
state Normal and Industrial College at
Greensboro
Rev. L. G. Broughton will next week
conduct revival at the Baptist taher-
nacle here.
Under the new. law no fees are al
lowed sherilfs clerks or witnesses when
the grand jury fails to find II true bill
IT is The desire Of n number Of base
ball enthusiasts that this year a State
baseball league shall he organized. 1t
has been dozen years since there
was such n league
Rev, c. G. Jones, Il graduate of Wake
Forest College, Is called to the pas
torate of the Baptist church at Roa-
noko.
some OF the streams in this section
are extremely low. This is especially
the case as to Neusc river. which has
not been full in eight months or more.
Among to-doy's arrivals are Francs
ID: Winston and St. Leon Scull. Of
Windsor
Major W. y. Guthrie, last PopuIis.
nominee for Governor, says that most
certainly this campaign Will be an cx-
Citing one and with some startling rea-
lures. He declined to be interviewed.
1t Is learned that the school tax
election cost only 81 cents in one
county.
AT last woman over 100 years. with
age authenticated, has tourncd IN.
Judith Martin. who died at Rondo las
week Is certified to have been Il5