The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-22
Ills Three scors Years UnfaYorabls to Judi.
ClaI HOnOrS.
STRONG HOME INSURANCE COMPANY
Eate OF Evans Depends Upon the
Judge ma Solicitor Long Tcrm
Convict Escapes-Concord TO HIVE
Another Cotton MuI-Yonng Lady

Raleigh, N c., Jan. 21.-(SpeciaD-
ut is said here that but for his age
". S. Lusk would probably succeed
Judge Dick. Lusk was 60 his last
birthday.
1t is said that the fate of John
Evans, the negro convicted of rape
at Rockingham, depends entirely upon
the recommendation of Judge McIver
and Solicitor Seawall. The Governor
has written TO them.
The Railway Commission subpoenas
Superintendent W. j. Croswell, Of the
Southern Express company, 10 appear
next Friday as a witness.
The Underwriters insurance com
pany, organized last evening at
Greensboro, has $4,000 capital and the
following officers: President. J. Van
Iindley; Vice President e. =. Whar-
ton; Secretary and Treasurer, a. w.
concert with the Southern Stock Mu
tual. The latter declared a 20 per
cent dividend to policy-holdcrs.
The wife Of Mail Agent t,llngniun
Benton, who was killed In the collision
one Sunday last oprlng at Harrisburg.
sues the Southern railway for $4,000
damages for the killing of her hus-
band. Her lawyers say she will get
the heaviest damages ever given in q
North Carolina court
A. l.. Moore. of Raleigh, Is appoint
ed by Governor Russell State Keeper
or Weights and Measures. TO succeed
the venerable Albert johnson, who died
in December
Governor Russell is invited TO attend
the Commercial Congress at Tampa.
He has only been out Of The State
twice since his term began-to the
Nashville Exposition and To Washing
ton in the interest Of Charles y. Cook
The Blackwell Durham Tobacco COM
pany declares per cent. semi-annual
dividend on the M000,000 capital.
Joseph Martin. q convict serving Il
thirty year sentence In the pcnilen-
tiary, made his escape, owing, it is
charged, to the connivance of Il guard.
Martin Is from Wake county.
Up to last year convicts serving life
terms were always kept in the peni-
tentiary, but the pressure for labor to
pick cotton was so great that they
were nearly all sent TO the farms on
the Roanoke by Superintendent Smith
Superin tendent MewbOurne will return
them to the penitentiary The fact as
TO the cotton crop planted last year
on these farms is That it was much
larger than could be properly picked
The Attorney General decides that
public school teachers are not liable
to indictment under the revenue act
for teaching without certificate or
license
1t was said on Thanksgiving Day
that all the pententiary debt would
be cancelled that day. 1t was an
error. There Is yet n debt The
amount will not be known until Chair
man Dockery makes settlement with
the eX-Superintendent and makes his
report to- the directors.
Concord is to have another cotton
mill. There is a steady increase IN
the number in the State.
Miss Bessie Stockard will graduate
ut the State University this year,
and has the honor OF being the first
lady graduate. Seven or eight years
ago Miss Simmons graduated with
very high honors nj Wake Forest Col
lege. There are three other lady stu
dents at the University.
The large lumber mills of the Aber-
deem Lumber company, at Aberdeen,
have been entirely destroyed by fire.
The loss is $4,000 Pennsylvania peo-
pie were the owners, represented by
Adam & Maurer. The fire orginu ted
In the boiler house. The plant will
not be rebuilt as the owners were
dissatisfied and had lost money. There
Is no insurance. Eighty men are
thrown out OF employment.