The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-12
A CONDUCT S
Terrible DE:A TIL.
A CT Passed Over His Entire
Length,
.DIsMEMBERlNG HIS BODY.
Work Has Begun on New Railroad
Between. NJ onroe, n. c., and McBee,
S. c., Which. Will Become
Tar. of the seaboard System
.DIsMEMBERlNG HIS BOD Y,
Especial Dispatch to The Times,

RALEIGH, N c., December lat Hen-
fterson Yesterday afternoon A. E. Lass4ter
conductor on a through freight train tc
Portsmouth, met a horrible death by pc
ing struck by a shifting engine on rhe
yard. One car passed over Lasslter
body, cutting off his right foot, crushing
mis- left hip and side and severing his left
arm from the shoulder. He lived ABOUT
two hours after the accident.
Capt Lassiter was standing on size
track signaling his train to PACK, and the
engineer on a shifting engine mlstook the
signal to mean for him to back the shii-
ter, which he did, the front car str1klnS
his body.
A NEW RAILROAD.
Work has begun on a new raMroad De
tween Monroe, n. c., and AIcBee, >. Z.
1t will become a part of the Seaooard AR
Line system and will give Charlotte and
Western North Carolina short connec-
ton with Columbia, Savannah and other
points in South Carolina, Georgia and
FLORIDA. The new line will be known as
the Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia Rail
way, and is backed by "a private corpora
tion. in which a number of Raleigh CAPT
talists are the prime movers and princi-
pal stockholders
FOR MISSIONS.
The Board Of Admissions and Sunday
schools, appo id by the Baptist State
Convention rel rtly in session in this
city, met yeste by and appropriated s. :
600 among saTboIt one hundred mission
fields in North Carolina.
just before adjournment on Sunday
night the Convention adopted Il resolution
appointing J. c. Caddell. Noah Briggs,
c. B. Justice, J. W. Bailey and c. E. Tay-
Tor committee ITO raise a. fund for the
erection of a. suitable monument to the
late Columbus Durham. D. d., who was
for many years corresponding secretary
of the Convention. The monument is to
be at the head of his grave, in Oakweod
Cemetery. this city.
WANT SEABOARD SHOPS REBUILT
The Merchants Association of Raleigh
is agitating the matter of having the Sea-
board Air Line Railroad Company rebuild
their shops in this city, which We're de-
stroyed by fire some time ago. The COM
pany has already promised ITO have the
shops rebuilt. The assoc tation also has
under advisement the matter of holding
a big street fair next spring.
The Secretary of State has issued let
ters patent to the North State Bohbin Co..
VI NiStlicSDUID WITH IL Sdlyttdl SlOCh OIL
$1,000. and the Acme Lumber Co., of Cum
berland county, the capital stock of which
is 81, 900.
METHODIST ORPHANAGE.
The trustees of the Methodist orphan
age, located in this city, have decided to
begin at once the erection of an addi-
tional $500 building, which will be. when
completed, the main building of the insti-
tuition.
In the Federal Court now in session
here, j. l.. Yoer was. on yesterday, con-
victed of fraudulent use of the mails, and
given six months Imprisonment in the
Wilmington Jail and fined 500.
His crime was representing himself as
being the president of a pant company
which did not really exist, and thereby
obtaining large shipments of timber and
other materials from dealers in all parts
of the United States. The timber was
represented to be wanted in the erection
of additions to his paint manufacturing
plant.
He would bring about the shipment OF
the timber or other material and then sell
it, pocketinS the proceeds. In this way
he defrauded various dealers out of up
wards OF $4,000.