Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-14
our RALEIGH
news LETTER
Captain Day in Control Of tho
Penitentiary.
RESTORED TO OLD POST
Decision ,ofSuprcmo Court Promptly
Obcyed-Dr. Abbott VIII Fight For
Position OF Railroad Commission.
cr-Chnmber OF Commerce worik-
Ing For City-Thc Now Library
Charters Grnnted-Notes.

Raleigh. n. c.. April 13.-Captain Bill
Day is again in complete possession
and full control of the penitentiary.
The Executive Committee of the new
board, which has for the past month
been managing the institution, yester
day afternoon went out with their at
torneys and turned things over. as di-
rectcd by the Supreme Court. to the
new superintendent.
On account OF the revolution wrought
by the decision a meeting of the direc-
tors of the State penitentiary is called
Cor Saturday.
Both old and new directors are in
Guided in the call. which is made By
the Executive Committee OF the new
board and by Captain Day, the rein
stated superintendent.
The meeting is rendered necessary by
the recent decision OF the Supreme
Court. IT 4t-+All 1rroru III TIC III trrr Z 01
n conference than anything else. The
new directors want to find cut just
where they are ut since the cyclone
struck them. The old directors want to
know just what the new ones are going
To- do about letting the institution have
money 10 pay its debts and run on.
ANOTHER CONTEST.
Encouraged by Captain Days sue
cess DR.. Abbott has put his paw into
the judicial tire for "a chestnut.
Yesterday afternoon he filed in the
office OF the clerk of the court his com
plant in a quo warranto proceeding
against T.. G. Beddingiied for the office
OF Railroad Commissioner.
The case. being quo warranto, Will
come up for trial at the April term of
court, beginning April cath. AS soon as
1t is decided there, the case Will be
taken up on appeal and the Supreme
Court will be asked to advance it under
rule 10, so that it may be finally dccid-
ed at the present term.
WORKING FOR RALEIGH.
A a meeting yesterday of the Cham
bcr of Commerce President Jones was
requested 10 ut once push forward the
subscriptions to the Orphanagc and
Ministers Home. y very satisfactory
report was made regarding the sub
scriptionS TO the new cotton factory
that is proposed to be established ut
an early day in this city. The follow
ing was adopted:
Resolved, That this Chamber cor
DAILY approves the proposition of n
North Carolina capitalist-an cXDcri-
large cotton factory in or near Raleigh
and 10 provide one half of the 500 coo
REQUIRED, provided our citizens furnish
the other half, ana urges upon the
members OF the Chamber ana our citi-
IONS the Importance of obtaining the
stock needed ana securing the mill.
which means so much for the welfare of
the community aud Profit OF tn, invcs-
tors" 49, ~
ON motion. the president YVES direct
ca TO appoint a committee of three to
report to the Chamber OF Commerce at
me meeting Of Northern ana Southern
citiZcni and delegates TO be held in
Southern Pines on Tuesday, 18th inst.
THE s. y. l.. SHOPS. 4
On motion Of JOS. T.. poeua th,
president was requested to aDnoint q
committee of five: to prosecute the in
'ereStS oil Raleigh. with the Seaboard
Air Line railroad and to cndcavor to
secure the location of the shops at this
place.
TIE NEW LIBRARY.
The contract for the Olivia Rancy
Memorial Library building was award
cd yesterday to Mr. Nicholas Itlner. Of
Atlanta. "a
The building will cost about 500 ma
1t is to he completed by November Ist
ana BY this time next year it is caIcu,
lated. the library will be open for the
use Oh the puDlic.
1t Will be a free circulating. library
erected by Mr.. L. f. Ranev ns 800
ument to his wife, Olivia. Cowncr Pn-
ney. i'"
CHARTERS GRANTED.
The johnson Dry Goods Comn,r, 90
Wilmington. was yesterday incornorot-
ed by the Secretary of State. win
capital stock of $50 600 The b,,sinoes
proposed is to conduct and carry On =
general dry goods. notion and millinnrw
business. both wholesale ana retail. Tha
Iicorporators are w. y. Johnson, w. s.
johnson and a. c. Johnson. all of vii.
mington
The Whitney Reduction Company, OF
salisbury, was yesterday incOrnorated
by the Secretary of State. with $500
700 capital stock. The incorporators are
Esbert Is. C. Hambley. John S. Hen
derson and a. II. Boyden The business
OF the corporation-m ana manu-
I"ctuflnS ores and minerals-may he
carried on III the counties Of Rowan
ana Cabarrus. Power is also granted
me corporation to erect factories, ope-
rate electric light plants. manufacture
1ertlii%ers and build roadbeds and tram
ways.
NOTES.
The county OF Caldwell has settled
It's taxes for 1885. They amounted 10
s5.1S4.oS.
The case OF w. II. Wilson VS.. John Y.
JORDAN over the criminal court clerk |
snip Tor Buncombe county, has been adj
vanced on the Supreme Court docket
and VIII he heard tomorrow. The case
I1r Mr. Wilson will be argued ~
The North Carolina Naval Reserves
have not vet decided whether or not
they VIII take the cruise on the North
Carolina cruiser Prairie this summer