The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-23
Fined Ten Dollars forEThat Onense ana
Fifty for Carrying Concealed Hyoa-
pons-Con. gresham Linncy Will
Not Fight for denomination.

WINSTON, NJ c., March Especial
Clarence Call chairman of the Republican
Congressional Executive Committee of this
district. and ex-sheriff of Wilkes. county,
was convicted IN Wilkes Superior Court :
to-day Of disturbing religious worship and
carrying concealed weapons.
He was fined SO in the first case anu
$50 In the second.
A committee left here to night for WASH
ing. TO assist Congressman Linney IN pre-
senting Wins tons claims TO the committee
for holding Federal courts In this CITY.
CONGRESSMAN sLINNEY.
III comes from reliable source that Con-
gresham r. z. Linney has notified the
Republican bosses in this district thar ne
will not make fight for renomlnation,
though he Wil. make the race again II ms
party wants him.
The friends Of Assistant District Attorney
Spencer Blackburn says his nomination
is now assured.
NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
RAIDIGH. n. C., March 22-Special.-
Democratic State Chairman Simmons Will
on Friday night address the primaries IN
New Berne and try and 'pourSoll on the
troubled waters of strictly local 20
li;!cal fight There are many why's as to
the disagreement between the Democratic
Carolina Railroad the chief bone of con-
tention.
News of the improvement Of the condl-
ton of Dr. Hunter Mcclure, OF Rich
mond. is earnestly hoped for in Raleigh. &
An unusual course for the campaign
has been settled upon by the Democrats
for this summer. Immediat ely after the
convention, April 18th, all the party noml-
nees Will in a body tour the State, as 1t
were, and carry OH their own campaign
Thus they will start out on Monday the
18th. and open the campaign at BurllnS-
ton.
A VACANT PLACE.
DR.. George S.. Davis, the second as
sistant physician at the insane asylum
here, resigns that position and goes to
his home in Beaufort, to look after his
father, who is sick, and take up his
fathers practice. who is the physician at
that place. Thus at the next meeting OF
the ASYLUM Board his successor will have
to be appointed.
Mrs. L. I. Holden was laid to rest in
beautiful lakewood yesterday afternoon.
The annex that has been built to the
State Museum does not come up to con-
tract. The Building Committee of the
Board of Agriculture met to-day to make
an examination of the work and decide
what must be done to remedy the trouble.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
Baxter Shemwell, a druggist of Ashe-
vile. was some time ago charged by a
Knoxville (Tenn.) bank Of securing some
81, 500 under false pretences. Shemwell
came here to sec Governor Russell and
asked that extradition papers not be
granted until the Governor was more
conversant with the case. On Monday,
the Goth, Mr.. Shemwell will be represented
before the Governor by Messrs Locke
Craig. of Ashevile; Spencer B.. Adams, of
Greensboro, and Frank Robbins, of Lex
ington. Then at Asheville on Thursday.
the 18th, Judge Stevens viii hear the
case.
The congregation Of the First Baptist
Church rendered an informal reception
to Dr.. A. a. Marshal last night, their
new minister The Baptist Tabernacle
has as yet no minister. DR.. Hubbard who
was called. was taken very sick and had
to recall his acceptance.
Six miles from here, at a station on the
Southern Railroad, Garner, house where
a negro woman and her seven children
lived was fired and all but two children
persisted in the flames. These children
described a man, a negro. who they said
killed some of the family, then burned
the house. The negro was found and ar
rested, and blood stains on his clothes
makes the case look very badly for him.
At 10 o'clock your correspondent tele-
phoned to Garner, but the emberS were
so hot nothing could be done beyond the
fact that three bodies were taken out
of the ruins.
The State charters the Brooks-David-
son Lumber Company, Of Greensboro;
capital stock, 5000.