The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-09
At WAR WITH MAYOR
Effort to Take Appointments
Out of His Hands.
Some Hot Passages Between ihe Magistrate ard
Aldermen. The Produce Exchange
Elects Officers.
Especial to News and Observer


Wilmington, ~ c., April 8-The long
standing differences between the ma
jority board of aldermen" and the may
or over the appointment of standing
committees was revived last night upon
the occasion of the first meeting OF the
city council for the new fiscal year. AL
derman Johnson, as the outcome of sew
eral caucusas lately, read a resolution
taking the appointment of committees
out of the hands of the mayor and nam
ing them in the resolution as previously
agreed upon by the majority board. ."
Mayor Waddell declined to put the ques-
ton of adoption of the resolution on the
ground that it was out of order Mr.
Johnson appealed to the board. The
mayor refused to put the appeal and a
hot colloquy ensued, in which the ex-
change of compliments was lively, Mayor
Waddell declaring the evident purpose of
the promoters of the scheme was to get
chalrmanships. He said he was tired of
the pickering. The people were of the
same feeling and he proposed that the
committees shall remain as they are Mr.
johnson said, If the mayor refused to
put the question, he, for one was in ia
vor of requesting his resignation The
mayor warned him against personalities
and in the midst of the discussion Mr.
johnson moved to adjourn until the fol-
lowing Monday night for final considera-
tion of the subject
The amount of revenue from all sources
collected by City Clerk and Treasurer
King during the past fiscal year was
S235, 5S3 a. Of this amount $133, 240 81
came from real and personal property
tax for the current year, approximately
$4,000 from back taxes and the remainder
from license taxes. etc. The bar-rooms
of the city contributed 1863 to the city
fund. Merchants licenses were S14. 742. 68
Judge Timberlake arrived this morning
and convened the April term of New
Hanover Superior court The opening
days session has been taken I'd for the
most part in the trial of a $4,000 dam
age suit against the Interstate Telephone
and Telegraph Company. In July. 1901.
MI. /. &. Williams, of this city, moved
to the 'Scattergood place" about two
miles from the city. A telephone had
been taken out of the building upon the
removal of the last occupant and it is
alleged that the wires to the unused
nine-year-old son of Mr.. Williams was
playing in the yard, near the wire, when
suddenly he was struck dead by a flash
of lightning, the same having been COM
Quoted to the premises. as plaintiff claims.
by the wire of the defendant company
Messrs Russell & Gore and Meares &
Ruark represent the plaintiff; Messrs.
Rountree & Carr and E. X. Bryan. the
defendant.
At the 29th annual meeting of the Will
mington Produce Exchange this after
noon, c. w. Worth was elected presi-
dent j. H. Chadbourn, vice president,
and J. A. Arringdale. S. P. McNair, H. w.
Maltey, L. B. Rogers and G. ]. Boney to
constitute the board of managers. BY
resolution the board of managers for
the ensuing year were directed to take
immediate steps to incorporate a freight
bureau as an additional feature The
Seacoast Railroad Company was urged
| and promised every cooperation to con-
vert the line to the beach into a troll
ley line as sometime ago proposed but
subsequently abandoned for this season.
Much anxiety was felt here for the
North Carolina Naval Brigade aboard
the United States steamship Hornet
when it became known that the vessel
had not reached Charleston prior to an
early morning storm at sea today. Tele-
grams were sent by hundreds to every
point on coast between Wilmington and
Charleston until the good news came
that the ship had passed safely over
the Charleston bar at 4:30 p. NJ.