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KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF
Mad Act of Joseph M. Pouch, a Re-
tired Undertaken of Roselle, N. j.
Father Killed Offspring in Succession
With Poison and Pistol After Writing
For a Neighbor to Lay Them Out.

Elizabeth, n. jim a rear room in
the two-story house ut 139 First ave-
nue., Roselle, Lillian and Mamie Pouch,
aged sever years and eighteen months
respectively, are dead of carbolic acid
poisoning.
In an adjoining room is the body of
their ive-year-Old sister, Minnie, with
a bullet wound in her abdomen. A
thirteen-year-Old brother, Albert, is in
the Elizabeth General Hospital, uncon-
scious, with a fatal bullet wound in his
right side.
The lives Of these children were
taken by their father. Joseph NJ.
Pouch, who then shot himself in the
temple, dying almost Immediately.
Previously, Pouch had written to Mrs.
George B. Reynolds, of Scotch Plains,
that he intended Ito send his children
where his wife had gone" His wife
died a month ago.
"All will be dead when you get here"
Pouch wrote. He gave instructions as
to how the bodies should be laid out.
Mrs. Reynolds received the letter dur
ing the evening. She telephoned to the
County Physician, DR.. f. w. Wescott,
Of Fanwood, who sent Justice f. E.
WOoley and Chief of Police Kenney to
POuch's house.
They found the front door locked and
all the windows but one shut. When
they demanded admittance the open
window was slammed down.
The policeman and the Justice went
after Dave Hennessey, the night po-
liceman at ROselle, and brought him to
the house. Hennessey gave the door a
kick. AS he did so a shot was heard
upstairs, then two more.
Rushing upstairs the men found
Pouch ON the floor in a heap, Albert
and Minnie in bed in their night
gowns, blood streaming from their
wounds over the sheets. The father
had put his children to bed before he
shot them.
In a letter Pouch had started, which
was found beside him on the floor, he
said:
Il have been hunted by everybody
landlord and everybody. Boss dis
charged me to make matters worse.
Things do not go right, OF this would
not have happened to-day. The bodies
of the girls will have to be embalmed.
but none of the rest; bury as soon
AS"
He is a nephew of the Pouch who
built the Pouch mansion in Brooklyn.
His father was a wealthy undertaken
who disinherited this son..
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A Negro MIn.trel.. biography.

In connection with the close of the
long reign of negro minstrelsy at st.
James Hall, we may note that one
early minstrel, Ralph Keller, wrote
his autobiography. 1t originally ap-
peared in the Atlantic Monthly, in
1869, under the title of "Three Years
a Negro Minstrel" He afterward ex-
banded it into a volume of "Vagabond
Adventures" Even then this form Of
entertainment had apparently seen it's
best days, for Keeler's opening sem
tence is: NEGRO Ministries were, 1
think, more highly esteemed at the
time of which l am about to write than
they are now" In 1873 Keller went
to Cuba as a special correspondent,
and there vanished without leaving a
trace.-London Chronicle.
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Mysterious Death in Cab.

William Z. Young, better known by
his track name of Caesar Young,
bookmaker, horse owner and al. around
athlete, was shot and killed about 9
o'clock a. M, while driving in New
York City in a hanson cab with an
actress known as Nan Patterson, with
whom he had been entangled for some
time. The dead man was going to
break off relations with the woman
who sat by him, and who says he COM
mitted suicide. She was arrested and
held without bail. Young's wife was.
waiting for him at the time he was.
shot on the American Line pier, with
the tickets ready for their voyage on
the Germanic to Europe.
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Labor World.

The coal strike il the Southern Col,
oradc field has been settled.
The lowest wages for granite cutters
in Butte City, Mantana, is Sc a day.
Four hundred freight handlers of the
Fall River Lire were replaced by
Italians.
There is no change in the strike
situation in the glove factories in
Gloversville, N. Y.
Several postal clerks unions have
been chartered by the A. f. of L.. and
now it is proposed to form a national
union.
The Manchester and Birmingham,
England, Municipal Councils have de-
cided to open registry offices for the
unemployed.
The long strike of plumbers and
steamfitters was settled at Detroit. a
two-year agreement being signed by
the employers.
The Order Of Railroad Photographers
will celebrate its eighteenth anniver-
sary. having been organized at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, in 1886.
International Typographical Union
Organizer John e. Mclaughlin reports
that local No. 424 has enrolled every
journeyman printer within it's juris.
diction.
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DEFICIT INSTEAD OF SURPLUS.
Treasury Statement Shows Loss in
Nav of S13O472

Washington, D. C.-The Treasury
statement shows that the available
cash balance is $163, 2S7, SIG, a loss dur
ing the month of $57, 631,6 $50. Pay
ments of the Panama Canal and the
loan of $4,600,O0O made to the St.
Louis Exposition explain this large
falling off in cash.
The receipts for May were ST.
6SS,O60, a decrease of $2,425, $40 com
pared with May, 1903. The expen-
ditures for the month were S96,41S.-
472. Deducting the payments to the
exposition and to the Canal Commits
sion, the disbursements for May ag-
gregate 81, 81S,472, and reduce the
deficit for the month to $13O,472. For
the corresponding month of 1903 there
was a surplus Of So, 600, 900.
The Secretary of the Treasury esti-
mate in December last that the sur
plus for the fiscal year which will end
with June would be $14, 1000, 600. The
indications are that the Secretary's
estimate of receipts will be realized.
but that the estimated expenditures
Will exceed by several million dollars
the Secretary's figures, and instead of
a surplus at the close of the current
fiscal year there will be q deficit.
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500 Reward. S1nn.

The readers ofthis paper will be pIeasedto
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
itsstages, and hat is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
%stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls CatarrhCu Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The pfoprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun
bred Dollars forany case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
f. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation.
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Sporting Brevities.

Terry McGovern and Eddie Hanlot
are pretty sure to come together in the
ring shortly.
The Arsdale Golf Club, Of Eas.
Orange, is to have its course length
ened from $500 to 5000 yards.
Thomas, a Freshman at Purdue. SET Z
new State record in the hammer throw
at Lafayette, Ind, hurting the weight
1913 feet.
Findlay S. Douglas, the Metropolitan
Golf Champion, was defeated for the
title by arden NJ. Robbins. on the
Garden City links.
The Pickett won the Brooklyn Han.
dicap, with irish Lad second and
Proper third.
A. ]. Gilmore, President of the
Philadelphia Motor Cycle Club. Jour.
neyed from New York to PHILADELPHIA
on motor cycle in less than four hours.
Sir Thomas Lipton's letter of in.
quiry regarding future cup challenges
and the N. Y. Y. C.'s reply have been
published by the clubs Challenge
Committee.
Ormonde. the world famed horse Is
dead from paralysis, Mt the Nenlo
Park stock farm of w. OBJ. Mac.
donough. Mr.. Marlborough paid S15O.
900 for the horse.
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Winter wheat Improvement.

A general Improvement in the condi-
ton OF wiAter< wheat is indicated in the
PRINCIPAL lat States.
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Tragedy Provokes Riot.

Victor, Col.-Deadly rioting broke ont
in Victor during a mass meeting held
to discuss the killing of non-union mi.
ners by the Internal machine at indie.
p~endence. Forty shots were fred into
a crowd in the street. r. MCGEE. of
Victor, was SHOT dead, and at least six
persons were injured. Crump. an at.
torney. and the special representative
OF Governor Peabody, was wounded
After the rioting began Sheriff Bell or
dered u all the soldiers in the region
and appointed 100 deputies. Soldiers
nave already arrested $50 men. includ
ing three editors and printers of Inc
Record and City Marshal O'Connell
and put them in the bull pen" Gro
Gerry stores owned by the Miners
Union have been raided in Victor and
G%oldfeld, and most of their goods
thrown into the street.
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Soak the feet or hands
on retiring in a strong,
hot, creamy 1ather of
CUTICURA SOAP.
Dry, and anoint freely
with CUTICURA
OINTMENT, the great
skin Cure and purest of
emol1ients. Bandage
lightly in old, soft cotton
or linen. For itching,
burning, and scaling &C.
zema, rashes, inf1amma-
ton, and chatting, for red
ness, roughness, cracks,
and ~fissures, with brittle,
shapeless nails, this treat
ment is simplywondetful,
frequently curing IN one
night. ;
Complete Humor Cure. eons,s.;rg q, cr-T1cr-Ra
Resolvent, Soc. lin form Of Chocolate Coated Pills, sc.
Per vial Of co., Ointment, SOC, Soap, Csc. Depots London,
q CharterhOuse So. Paris, Rue lie ia PaiI; Boston. la
Columbus Ave. Potter Drug 4 Chem Corp, SOLE PropG
Is Send for How to Cure Eveyy uGm0E"
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NO BULL At ST LOUIS
Police Stop Exhibition and Angry
Spectators Burn the Arena.
An Attempt TO Give the Worlds Fai,
visitors a Real Spanish Spectacle
is Baked by the Governor.

st. Louis, Mo.-Incensed over their
failure to see a genuine Spanish
bulltght," which the authorities had
ordered stopped, a riot was started in
an arena near the Worlds Fair
grounds by a crowd of $500 men and
boys, who were unable to get their
money back, and the building was
burned to the ground. -Four men were
arrested by the authorities of st. Louis
County, charged with destruction Of
property. The crowd, which numbered
about 1000, thinking these men were
connected with the show, made an at
tempt to mob them, and in their en-
counter with the deupty sheriffs a
number were roughly handled and
some received scalp wounds. The
building is said to have cost $25, 900.
1t is a total loss.
The initial performance by the COM
pany of Spanish bullfghters had been
advertised widely, but Governor Dock
cry, to whom numerous protests had
been made by religious and humane
societies, ordered that the fight should
not be allowed to take place. Despite
these orders, a large crowd assembled
in the arena at the advertised time of
opening. Before the regular perform
ance a number of cowboys drove in
some bulls, which they ran around
the arena in true Wild West style.
The crowd soc became tired of this,
and called for the bullfight.
The announcement was then made
that the bullfight would be proceeded
with. AS the matadors came into the
ring a county official stepped up to the
announcer and handed him a paper in
forming him that the proposed show
could not take place. When this be-
came known to the crowd they leaped
into the arena and demanded the re-
turn of their money, 81 apiece. Fail
ing to get this, the crowd went to the
office, which was in a small building
outside the arena and began to stone
it.
This was followed by attempts to
burn the main structure, which was
an immense building constructed of
pine. Bits of burning paper were
thrown at the woodwork. and finally
some n went inside and dropped a
lighted match in a pile of hay under
the building. The whole structure
was soon IN fire and before long was
in ruins.
A call was made for the fire depart
ment, but the single engine that re-
sponded stuck in the mud, and there
was nothing to stop the progress of the
flames. The fire department of the
Worlds Fair was called out to protect
the exposition buildings, but, as the
wind blew in another direction, there
was no danger.
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The National Game.

McCinnity keeps on with his great
pitching.
Napoleon Lajoie is hitting them
harder than ever.
Nichols continues to win his games
and handle the st. Louis team in fine
style.
Whether Barrett or Bay gets to first
base the faster is a question hard to
decide.
Catcher Carisch, Of Pittsburg, is &C.
cused by Jack Warner as being a
bat-tipper.
Kelley, of Cincinnati, never strikes
at The first ball pitched to him.
Jack Doyle never hit 50 feebly as he
is hitting this season.
Geier is at last making good in major
company. He is playing grand ball
for Boston.
Al Orth is back in a Washington
uniform, but is not strong enough ia
pitch as yet.
Matthewson attributes his poor work
in the box to adhcring too closely to
| the balk rule.
Mccormick, the centre fielder of the
New York team, has been a student at
! Bucknell College.
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Sheep, per iO0 Ib,.......... 5 > 3 ) II
Lambs, per 100 lb.......... 6 50 e. 81
Hogs, live. per 200 lb...... tlIHt.
Country dressed. per b.. 8 g. Gai
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EMBEZZLER CONFESSEs.
New Haven Paying Teller Used
Banks Funds to Speculate.

IL ACllcI OSpu
Banks Funds to Speculate.
New Haven, Conn.-Douglass M.
Smith, paying teller Of the National
Tradesmen's Bank, of this city. was
arrested, charged with having embez-
zled 100000 of its funds, a greater part
OF which he admitted he had lost in
speculation.
1t was stated after a partial inves-
tigation of the accounts, that Smiths
shortage would total $4,000.
The bank will make q test case of
the rights of the bucket shops, hav-
ing sued the firm where Smith specu-
lated for $4,000. 1t is alleged that
the firm Of Yeomans & Dill share IN
the responsibility. The banks ac-
counts will be o%verhauled and O.
change of administration made.
Teller Smith received President
Fields at the Hotel Majestic where he
has lived with his wife and child for
i've years, and made a formal confess
sion that he had taken the banks
funds to speculate. Mr.. Smith Sc
cured bonds for ST. 5000.
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r" News From the Seat Of War.
Food in Port Arthur is reported to be
growing scarce.
Large reinforcerents have reached
the Russian army near the Yalu.
Three hundred sick and wounded
men from General Kuroki's army
reached Toxic.
1t was reported that 1000 Cossacks
of General Relnenkampf's squadron
Lad been captured.
The American nurses who offered
their services to the Japanese army
will be sent to the HIROSHIMA receiv-
ing hospital.
The Japanese sharpshootcrs are fire.
quently mentioned as playing an i'm
portant part in battle.
Sixty japanese transports landed
troops at Pitsewo on the east coast of
the Liaotung Peninsula.
A new Japanese army division en-
parked. presumably to head off Rus.
sian inroads upon Korea.
General Kuropatkin reports that 49,.
COO Japanese, with many heavy guns,
were landed at Ta%kushan.
Toxic dispatches announced thai
the japanese lost 5000 men in killed
and wounded at Kin-Chow, Nanshan
and Tallenwan.
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COUNTRY GROWS ECONOMICAL.
Americans Buying Less Manufactured
Goods and Luxuries From Abroad.

Washington, D. C.-The foreign trade
statement for the month of April dem.
onstrates the economies which the
American people are now observing.
The imports for the month decreased
$4,163,262, all of which was represent
ed by smaller imports of manufactured
goods and luXuries. The latter item
contributed $~2.24O,000 of the net de-
crease. Exports increased only $116,-
800, resulting from the falling off Of
the sales of agricultural products to
foreign countries. Total imports were
$S3,51S,S44, and total exports $780,
943, 725, leaving a very creditable net
balance of trade in favor of the United
States. For the ten months ending
March 80 imports have fallen off L
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COST OF MILK REDUCED.
Supply Increasing and is Greatly in
Excess of the Demand.

New York City.-At the regular
monthly meeting of the Consolidated
Milk Exchange held in the Mercantile
Exchange Building, the price of milk
was reduced to two cents per quart in
the twenty-siX-cent freight rate zone.
This price makes a f%orty-quart can de.
livered in New York cost Sill, and is
perhaps as low as milk will be
sold at wholesale during the pres
ent year. The supply is steadily
increasing and is greatly in excess of
the demand. In addition to this fea-
ture the wholesale price of butter is
only eighteen cents per pound, and
cheese eight cents. Creameries and
cheese factories have been unable to
use the surplus beyond consumptive
requirements, as these low prices af,
tord very little, if any, profit.
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Mark Twain's Wife Dead

Mrs. Samuel NJ. Clemens. the wife of
MARK Twain the American author
and lecturer, died of syncope at Flor.
ence. Italy. Half Al hour before her
death she had conversed cheerfully
with her husband. The body will be
sent to the United States for inter.
ment Mrs. Clemens was married in
1870. Her maiden name was Olivia
u. Langdon. She was born in Elmira.
n. Y.
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A Courteous Custom

a door key hung outside a house in
Sweden is a sign the family are not at
home. The custom is more courteous
to callers than the American practice
of allowing the visitor to find out by
ascertaining" through futile bell ring
ing or button punching, but it requires
a greater confidence in YOU fellow
man, justifiable, perhaps, in Sweden.
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Republicans Elect Congressman

Republicans have elected their Con-
gress candidates in Oregon by large
pluralities. Congressman Binger Herr.
man, OF Roseburg, Republican, has car.
ried his district over r. NJ. Veatch,
Democrat, by from 5000 to 1000. John
IL. Williamson, of Prineville, Republic
can, Second District, will carry the
district by probably 10000 over J. e
Simmons, Democrat.
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MILITARY PRISONERS SHOT.
One Killed in Fight, Other Failed to
Stop at Word of Command.

VTU L CUffffTTTfTU. -
Minneapolis, Minn.-Two military
prisoners in Fort Smelling made an at
tempt to escape, and one of them.
Tony G. Wisch, was shot dead by
Private Kennedy. Wisch. with Pri-
vate Reilly, had crossed the bridge
leading to st. Paul. On their return
the prisoners tried to throw Kennedy
over the rail into the river
Columbus, Ohio.-John w. Manning,
a prisoner in the United States bar
racks, was shot and killed here by
Private Speck, a sentry. Manning
vas held awaiting trial for desertion,
having enlisted fraudulently three
times and deserted twice. Failing to
stop at the command he was Shot
through the head.
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Conditions of Trade.

Concerning general trade conditions,
Dun's Review says: Retail trade is
stimulated by s%easonable weather and
the industrial outlook is brighter on the
whole" Bradstreet's says: THE sit.
uation is rather more irregular. Dis
trfbutive trade, stimulated by better
weather in some sections, has i'm
proved, but is still behind a year ago."
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Baltimore'S New Mayor.

Mayor McLane's suicide puts the Re-
publicans in control of the Baltimore
city government under a provision
for the Capitalization of power pro-
vided by the new city charter. ThS
Republicans now also control the
burned district commission and all i'm
provements from this time on. Pres
ident E.. Clay Timanus, of the Second
Branch of the City Council, took the
oath Of office as Mayor. Mayor Tim
anus will serve out the balance of
Mayor McLane's term Of three years.
He is a Republican.
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Koch's Theory Disproyed.

The Royal British Commission, ap-
pointed in August, 1901, and meeting
in London, England, to inquire into
the relation between human and ami
NAL tuberculosis, has arrived at a con-
clusion Justifying the issuance of an
interim report, according to which the
commission finds that human and
bovine tuberculosis are practically
Identical.
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The largest amount of general rail-
road tonnage is moving in the South.
west and in the South. The latter
has not shown any material falling off,
but the former is considerably behind
the corresponding volume of traffic
last year. Since the crop conditions
nave improved, the farmers and mer-
chants are in a much easier frame of
mind.
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The President Benefits.

The report of Charles +. Lewis, who
was appointed to appraise the per-
sonal estate in New York of James
King Oracle, who was an uncle of
President Theodore Roosevelt and
who died in New York City on Novem-
Der %, 1903, has been filed. The will
benefits the President and his family
to the extent Of $36, 00C. Mr.. Lewis
appraised the estate at $44O,672 Is.
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Travis Worlds Chamnion

The American golf champion, Walter
j.: Travis, acquired the title of amateur
champion of Great Britain on the links
at Sandwich, near London, where he
defeated e. d. Blackwell, a represen-
tauye of the Royal and Ancient Club.
st. Andrews, by four up and three to
play in a thirty-siX-hole match. This
was the first time an American has
won this honor.
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Chicago oleomargarine manufacture
ers admitted that the Supreme Court
decision sustaining the law imposing
a tax of ten cents a pounds on artif.
cially colored butterine was a crush
ing blow to the business. The prOduc.
ton has already fallen from 100, O0O..
600 pounds in 1902 to 10000, 900 las!
year.
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Lightning Kills Two Girls.

Two young women, Miss Mabel
Flanagan and America Mclaughlin,
were instantly killed by a stroke of
lightning a few miles from Athens,
Ga. They were in a field, and just in
front of them was a young man. AL.
bert Flanagan. The bolt killed the
two girls instantly and the young man
was knocked senselesS, but will re
cover.
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Objects to Sending Paupers.

A bishop whose diocese includes one
of the Stun districts of London, pro-
tested at a charity organization meet
ing against sending any of the "unem-
plOyed" to Canada. He declared that
they had neither brains nor tenacity
or character to contribute to any indus
try in which they might be engaged.
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Long Deadlock Broken

Charles S. Deneen was nominated for
Governor by the Republican State con-
vention at Springfield, H., on the sew.
e%nty-ninth ballot, breaking the most
spectacular deadlock in the history of
Illinois politics. The ballot stood:
Yates, 1; Lowden, 5221a; Deneen, 957h;
Warner, 81. J
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Nearly all reports respecting oats in
dicate that this crop has made very
favorable progress. Early oats are
heading as far north as the central
Mississippi Valley and the southern
portion of the middle Atlantic States.
Harvesting continues in the South.
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Cloudburst and Floods.

"A cloudburst and tornado at Dallas.
Tex, caused considerable damage;
neavy floods were reported in the Kaw
valley, and much loss was caused in
southwestern Missouri by flood and
wind.
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NORTH CAROLINA GETS ROAD
Governor Said Militia Could Be Used
to Execute Courts Orders.

to Execute Courts Orders.
Raleigh, n. C.-The return of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
to the State authorities occurred here
when Judge Purnell approved the
bond required in the supersedeas of
Chief Justice Fuller.
Governor Aycock, after Judge Pur-
nell had acted, wired the superin-
tendent of the road at Newbern to
take possession. The answer came
back that the receivers would not re-
cognize his authority. though warned
that this was at their peril, and Mr..
Dill asked if he should put them out.
Governor Aycock t%elegraphed back
to put them out of the office and. if
necessary, call upon the Sheriff to do
so, adding:
IF military needed. notify ne. Order
OF Chief Justice Fuller shall be
obeyed."
Finally, by the use of constructive
force, Receivers McBee and Meares
were removed.