The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-24
Passenger Train Runs Into
Rear Of Freight.
TWO MEN PAINFULLY HURT
State Farmers Convention Adjourns
After Interesting session-Anti-
Saloon League Petition for an
Election on Liquor Question
Especial to The Tlmes-Dispatch.)

RALEIGH, n. G., July 23-The north
bound passenger train on the Seahoard
Air Line due here at 1:20 this morning
ran into the rear Of local freight near
Southern Pines soon after midnight.
Engineer e. II. Vaughan and his fire.
man were painfully hurt. The passenger
engine was badly damaged and the ca
boose and three freight cars smashed.
The engine Of the local freight was out
Of fix and the flagman failed toNgo back
far enough to give the passenger rah
timo to slow down.
Two through freight trains collided on
the Southern road about 5 o'clock this
morning, six miles east OF Raleigh. "A
large number of cars were wrecked and
the engines we'll nigh demolished. Only
one man, F. ]. Fowler. Of Salisbury, was
seriously hurt He is in Rex Hospital for
treatment Traffic was delayed until late
in tho afternoon.
official notice is given that the North
Carolina State Veterinary Association
will meet In Wilmington Tuesday and
Wednesday. July 2Sth and 29th. The State
Board OF Examiners will meet on the
9th to examine applicants for license.
Judge PEBBLES during the term Of Wake
Superior Court Just closed sentenced
twenty-nlne persons to work on the coun-
ty roads, the aggregate of sentence be-
Ing forty years, four months and twenty
DAYS Fines aggregating s2lS,5o were Inn
posed.
FARMERS ADJOURN.
The farmers convention in connection
with the a. and NJ. College adjourned
at ! O'Clock to-day after a three days
session. Features of the programme to-
day were: Types and Forms OF Cattle
a practical demonstration by Professor G.
W. Burkett.
The Cattle Industry In the State" by
Dr. Nat Butler.
'Plant Improvement" by Professor F.
l.. Stevens; Diseases of Fruit Trees" :
by State Entomologist Franklin Sherman;
Symposium of Rural Schools led by
President George r.. Winston.
State Superintendent of Public 1nstruc-
ton ]. Y. Joyner closed with a forcible
address on "The outlook" in which he
declared that ere many years the art OF
agriculture would be one OF the principal
studies in the rural schools.
An excursion of more than GOO people
went from Raleigh to-day to Ellington,
Harnett county, to participte IN great
jubilee over the completion OF the RAJ
leigh and Cape Fear Railroad 10 that
place-to the banks OF the cape rear
River In fact. There was great parpe-
cue and programme of much interest.
Hugh Mclean, of Harnett; Mr. Robert
A. simms, of Raleigh; Mr., John G. Shaw,
of Fayetteville and Mr.. william r. Mur-
Gibson, of Jonesboro.
MI. ], A. Mills, who is president and
general mS2ager of the road says the
work will be pushed on now to Fayette-
willie.
WANT A DIsPENsARY.
The Executive Committee OF the Raleigh
Anti-Saloon League are out IN card
urging the voters to sign petition TO the
city Aldermen to can an election on the
question of the prohibition Of the manu-
facture of liquor in Raleigh and the es'
adjustment of a dlspensary. The Execu-
tive Committee of sixteen. which has Just
been appointed consists of w NJ Jones,
chairman; a. A, THOMPSON NJ. B.
Broughton, S, w. Whiting w. j. Young
John e. Ray, NJ. w. Butler, W, G. Doug
las, ]. IT, smith, #. w. Honeycutt' George
7, Norwood, j, N. Holding, I; 6, Rogers 70 n;
| Jackson " p. Faun. The campaign will
be directed by these gentlemen.