The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-17
AN INJUNCTION
MADE perpetual
Ruling BY the Court Against
the Corporation Com
mission.
CHARGED WITH WIFE. MURDER
The State Fair Committee Re
port a Balance Of 5000
on Hand.
CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER

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Il RALEIGH N. c., December ia
temporary injunction against the North
Carolina Corporation Commission and the
Greensboro Ice and. Coal Company was
made perpetual to-day by Judge Pur-
nell, of tho Federal Court, in an opinion
handed down III a suit brought by me
Southern Railway TO stop the two defend
ants from bringing suits against them for
the Southern to place cars OF coal con-
signed to the Greensboro Company on
their private siding, the refusal being on
the ground that no further cars would
be placed on private sldings until certain
disputed claims for demurrage for past
placing of cars WAS paid. The right of
the Corporation Commission to force d
railroad to deliver cars under such cir
cnmstances was involved and the court
rules that they have no such right. whero-
as in this case the cars are brought from
other States, they being interstate COM
mcrce.
Reports submitted to the stale Fair
Executive Committee to-day show @s,lp
balance in the treasury after al ex-
penses Of the recent fair are paid and
affairs IN excellent
A handsome silver service was pre-
scented to President Ashley Horne.
WIFE MURDER.
Lewis Jones. n white man, about fifty
years Of age. il in jail at Wadesboro.
charged with the murder Of his wife. 1t
developed at the coroncr's inquest yester-
day that Jones had been drinking heavi-
ly; that on Wednesday he. mad cruelty
maltreated his wife. and that on the , fol-
lowing morning he reported her dead.
An investigation was a t once demand
ed, and the result was the finding OF
finger prints upon the wo-ians throat
and marks OF blows upon her body. The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict that
Mrs Jones had come TO her death by
stranculation and other maltreatment.
=The arrest OF her husband Immediately
followed.
AS yet he has made no statement
sz# CO-RECE1yER .
Judge Purnell, in the Federal Court,
has appointed Captain y. M. McBee as o
5co-recciver for the Carolina Northern
Railroad, Of which w. J. Edward ards $ IS
the original receiver The road Is TO pc
sold Mt auction in January. Edwards mas
returned to the court fifteen Of the re-
ceiyer's certificates that have been is
sued to him and concerning which some
a ue.stion had been made as to the dIs-s
position OF them. They are for sl,Oc0
each.
The annual report of Insurance Cons
missioner j.: R, Young. Just ISSUED. lows
that State property valued at S, lsD,OO0 Is
insured for ss57,73737 Of this property,
the Capitol, valued at $4,000 has no IN
surance, and the penitcntiary. valued at
81 ,25O, 600. He says there is every indi-ss
cation OF decided progress being made
In development OF business by North Car
olina insurance companies. both life and
fire.
Charles C. Jones to-day paid in full the
bill OF costs amounting to $685. in the
case in which he was sentenced to the
ipenitentiary for two years after recelv-E
ing. and selling postage stamps, know
ing them to be stolen, the sentence hav-
ing been changed to payment Of a fine
and costs. stSS
,1rsTrCE no BE PROFESSOR.
Ut is understood that Associate Justice
Montgomery, OF the Supreme Court, who
tretlres from the bench in January Is to
be elected professor Of law at Wake
Forest College to succeed s. Il. gA1ordicae,
who has been elected dean of law at
Trinity College.
The Bank OF Southport was charter
cd to-day with 5000 ca pital subscribed,
and s2O,OoO authorized. The principal m
corporator Is D., T.. Watsomn. Southport
is growing town ut the mouth Of the
Cape Fear River below Wilmington
,nhe Grantham Real Estate Agency OF
Wilson is chartered with $4,000 capital to
do general real estate agency
Governor Aycock has accepted an In
vitation to deliver an address before the
Teachers Assembly, Of Louisiana, at
Lafayette, December 2sth *
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