The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-02-19
Hancock Declares He VIII Contest The
Authority 10 Remove Hin.
SENATOR DANIELS CONVINCING SPEECH.
Cotton Milling Company Organizes
Loss by Forest Fires Hair IL MIL.
be Fusion Halfway Commission
Puts Itself OH Record

Raleigh, n. c., Feb. 1S.-(SpeciaD-
There is general satisfaction at the
oustinS of Robert Hancock as presi-
dent of the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima railway. Republicans are frank
to confess that their party could not
carry him any longer. Wednesday
night Hancock went TO see the Gov
ernor at the Executive Mansion II
there were some sharp words. The
Governor said he had heard Hancock
did not propose to resign; that his case
had been postponed until February %
In order to give him an opportunity to
resign. Hancock said he thought ac-
ton ought to be postponed in the way
of demand for his resignation until
after the $4,000 damage suit against
him on behalf of Miss Annie Abbott
was heard, in May. To this the Gov
ernor made answer hat delay was i'm
possible. Then Hancock said he would
never resign; that he wouI fight TO the
last, and that the courts would have to
decide the matter. The Governor thcn
declared that Hancock should be dis
missed. Hancock left in II rage. The
Governor called the Board of Internal
Improvements together at 3 o'clock yes
teruay afternoon, and soon after .
O'Clock the result was announced-the
dismissal of Hancock as Il director.
To be president he has to be n director.
Hancock left here at 11:30 yesterday
morning. He had a talk before he left
with j. G. L.. Harris, OF the Board Of
Internal Improvements, and the latter
must have prepared him for what was
coming, as Hancock appeared greatly
depressed. 1t appears that the case
VIII so into the courts and that Han
cock will have to be ousted in that
way. Inquiry made MS TO who Will
succeed Hancock shows no one as
agreed on yet. w. ]. Pope is here
working for the place. Republicans
Patrick or Hewitt, Of the directors,
will get the place.
one or the Governors attorneys yes
terday In the Railway Commission
Office. after hearing Senator Daniels
argument, declared that II was plain
the Railway Commission had no power
to regulate telephone rentals. All the
other listening lawyers took the same
view.
The Cape Fear and Northern rail
way directors meet at Holly Springs,
this county. on the 18th inst. This is
the road which 1t is desired to build
from Cary, via Holly Springs, to a
point near Ellington, on the Cape Fear
river.
One of the inmates Of the Soldiers
Home here complained that the orders
4 itHh'ilNSIt olS LOO SlIlcl.
IT Is asserted that p. ~. Brown. of
Salisbury, is The man. He has beer
discharged and furnished with trans
portatlon to his home. He says he re-
fuses to leave II will demand an in
vestigat!on.
The Hallway Commission resumed
It's session at 10 o'clock this morning
ana took up first the matter of fer
tiiizer freight rates on cur load lots.
a committee composed OF Emerson.
CUP, Glover and Borden had been
asked yesterday to prepare a satIsfac-
tory rate on the basis Of a reduction
and of 10000 pounds as a minimum
car load. This made it's report.
The second day of he preliminary
hearing OF b. w. S. Browning for
killing c. b. Strickland, his father
in-law, began here this morning. The
magistrate said that Browning was
broken out, presumably with measles.
The McthodistS are rot satisfied with
the increase in their church member
snip in his conference during the past
twelve months, and are urging greater
efforts. 49,
The Wiscassctt Cotton Milling COM
pany, OF Albemarle, Stanly county.
chartered by the State a few DAYS
ago was organized yesterday, with