Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-15
NORTH cARoLINA's CAPITAL.
Fire-Insurance Matter-0nicials En-
joined-Case of Elijah JOyner.

RALEIGH, n. c.. September H-(Spe-
cial)-It was stated yesterday that there
was a movement on foot on the part
Of cotton-mill men and other manufac-
turers to establish q North Carolina
mutual fire insurance company through
which the New England mutuals would
operate in this State. To-day, Insurance
Commissioner Young, who has been sick
az Henderson. his home. arrived here,
and when asked about this matter said:
you don't suppose we propose to per-
NIT the New England mutuals TO continue
TO do business in this State. either
directly or indirectly? They have been
for twenty years past doing fully half
the cotton-mill insurance business here
in North Carolina without paying a cent
Of taxes. There is no reason why they.
or any other companies, should fail TO
pay revenue to the State. They have been
in communication with this department
for some time 1t Is merely a question
whether they pay taxes or not Com
panies which are insuring as cheaply do
pay taxes, and so can these New England
companies. There IS another sort of in
surance done in this State from which
no revenue is derived. This is insurance
on cotton exported from Wilmington. it
may be claimed that this insurance is
done in New York. But the premiums
. aggregate $4,000 a year. and the State
ought TO get the tax. L am looking into
this matter.
The blind institutions additions and
Improvements, It now appears, certain,
will be completed by November 10th. A
large force is at work.
On April 18th, Governor Russell par
dOned Barnes, white man Of Wilson,
who was convicted Of attempted criminal
assault upon a young white girl who
lived with his family. Like all the Gov
ernor's pardons for the past year or
more it was private. He was asked for
his req sons and gave these 10 one news
paper but refused to give them to an
other. Very few newspaper men ever
enter the Executive office.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
An injunction has been granted by
Judge Simonton restraining the Cor
poration Commission, Auditor, and Trea-
surer, from increasing the tax assess
ment Of the Atlantic and North Carolina
railway from $4,000 to Sl340O0, on the
ground that railways are taxed higher
than real estate and other property. The
State Treasurer last July, in a circular
made a statement that real estate was
not taxed over two thirds of its value.
He said to-day that he had no reason
TO believe his statement was not accurate
in an respects
Two more cases of splenic-fever were
discovered here yesterday afternoon in
q herd of eleven cows. Cattle driven
along the highway communicated the
disease, as ticks fell from them.
ELIJAH JOYNER'S CASE.
Elijah Joyner, the sef-confessed muir
derer of young Mr.. Turnage, in Pitt
county who for many months has been
in Jail here TO save him from lynching,
has been taken to GreenVillc for trial.
He will certainly be convicted and hang
ed 1t will be remembered that
after numbering Mr.. Turnage at night in
the store where the latter clerked, he
plundered and burned the house, and then
tried TO fix the crime on half q dozen
innocent negroes, some Of whom narrow
ly escaped lynching