The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-02
COTTON CROP
IS LARGER
An Interesting Case Against
the Labor
Unions. /,
onlsaInAI pJfA4cE MAIL
GRIM NA,L B.L C K N ALL
Case Now Before Supreme Court
on Question Of Conspiracy Law
Applying to Union Boycotts.
especial e The TImes-Dispatch.)

(Specal to The -Dispatch)
RALEIGH. N. C., November Lection
buyers here estimate that in the belt
tributary to Raleigh about 65 per cent
OF the crop is gnned, and about 30 per
cent. marketed. The sales here this year
10 date amount to $3.50 bales as compared
with 4s03 bales TO this date last year.
The argument by counsel and the
charge by the Judge to he Jury In the
carnage suit Of Insurance companies vs..
the Senboard Air Limo for the burning
OF the cotton compress and Ice plant az
Hamlet two years ago. consumed near r
~ all of the session Of wake superior ,.1sI !, :
Court to-day. The Jury retired with the
case this afternoon. The insurance COM
ranies sue for $4,000 they have paid on
losses by the fire. and charge that sparks
from q Seaboard engine started the fire.
In the Supreme Court to-day tllp<e was
argument In q case OF unusual interest
State vs. Van Pelt ct al.-from Rowan
countq. This is a suit in which G. a..
Rice, a lumber dealer, indicted Van teit
and five other officers Of the labor unions
In Rowan county for attempting 70 rum
his business because he would not agree
to empty only union men. They pub
which he claimed was criminal black
mail. in that it was designed to break
down his business and did damage him
CONSIDERABLY. This was In connection
with boycott Of lumber turned out from
his mill. The union forbade any union
man from working It. The trial below
was before Judge Justice. who dismissed
the indictments on demurrer BY thclr
counsel and the State appealed The
hearing of the case developed the 1act
that there are 1000 members OF the la
Dor unions in Rowan county alone. and
that there are about 5000 in the State.
The Issue In the case now before the Su-
preme Court Is whether or not tho law
against conspiracy covers union boycotts.
Tho Raleigh rostofficc receipts during
October were $6,2;a against $t,8lS FOR Oc-
tober OF 1903, n gain Of $685..
Howell Cobb, lessee OF the Marlborough
and the Park Hotels. this city, has pur-
chased the Upchurch property on Nc
Dowell Street adjoining the Park Hotel,
and will make extensive additions to this
hcstelry, which is to be run as cheaper
hotel than the Marlborough.
ihree charters for new corporations
were Issued to-day. The Wadesboro Mar
bic and Granite Finishing Company, Of
Wadesboro Is chartered with $4,000 capt
tai subscribed by upwards OF fifty incor-
rorntors including w, T. Bnssington. q
other corporation is the Pine Top Supply
Company, of Pine Top, Edgecomhe coun-
ty. has $4,000 capital, the incorporatorH
being w. J. Webb and others. a gen
cral mercantile business is to be con-
Quoted. The third corporation is the
Globe Mercantile Company, Of Old Trap
Camden county. The capital Is $1,000 a.
B. Forbes being the principal incorpora-
tor.
State Entomologlst Franklin Sherman
went to Shreveport. La, to-day to at
tend conference OF specialists with re-
gard to the spread of the boil wceyil IN
| tho cotton belts of Texas and Louisiana
The purpose is to settle on some definite
plan for tho prevention OF the spread OF
the pest, which threatens the cotton In
| dustry In the South.