The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-09
YOUTHFUL
WRECKERS.
Negro Boys Pit Obstruction on
Track to Sec Train Roll
Over Into the Water.
Or. MOORE .ACC EPTs POSITION
a Lcttcr-Box Out Of Wllicl, the
Mail Had Not Been Col
lcctcd for Two Weeks.
tspoc,nl to Tho Times-Dlspatch.)

Especial to Tho Times Disputcl,)
RALEIGH, N. CT, jan. S.--Tlio North
Carolina Corporation Commission today
set Tuesday january 10th. rs tho date
for d special hearing Of tho matter OF
Union depot at Charlotte, In that city.
The Corporation Commission will give
a further hearing Tuesday III the matter
OF tho Selma connection between the
Southern and the Atlantic Const Line.
An order was issued some weeks ago
that the Atlantic Coast Line must change
their schedule SO trains, morning and
afternoon. would connect at SclmtL. The
change was mnde as TO tho morning
trnin but exceptions were filed as to a
change Of the afternoon southbound
train,
NEW. CHARTERS.
The Secretary Of State charters tho
Forester Grocery Company of North
%Wilkesboro with a cupital Of 1000. The
lncornorators arc r. s. Mcneil. w. W.
McIIvens, N. s. Forester and others.
Another charter was TO the Darlington
Gonnella Stone Company, Of Sanford.
This concern has an authorized capital
Of $4,000 and proposes to do q general
stono uuarrying and contract building
81 ".
Gonelln are the principal incorpora-
tors.
Tho Burroughs Coleman Company, OF
Henderson, received their charter t2-day.
for which application was made some
days 60. The capital is $4,000. A gen.
oral merchandise business will be con.
Quoted.
DIR. MOON ACCEPTS.
Chairman N. 3. Broughton, OF tho
Baptist State Sunday School Committee,
received this morning from Rev. Hight
8, Moore, pastor Of the BAPTIST Church
at Chapel fIil, another letter in which
he positively accepts the position Of State
Sunday school secretary. to which he was
elected by the State Board Of Missions
at their annual meeting January LIST
He will move to Raleigh within month.
Baptists here are much gratif!ed.
Ex-Governor Thomas ]. jarvis Is spend
Ing few days In the city and says no
is not taking any part at all IN politics
now. 4 Il, Z
YOUTHFUL TRAIN WRECK DRs
Two negro boys, ten and eleven years
old, we're caught to-day by the master
for this section of the Southern Rail
way putting large iron nut on tho
track near the city with the evident
Intention OF wreckng a train. They
were brought before n magistrate. who
ordered them severely whipped, ihasmucn
as they were too young to receive the
regular process Of punishment for, such
ioffenses. One OF the boys confessed that
they put the obstruction on the rail-
in the hope Of "seoing the train roll over
into the water The track run close oy
Walnut Creek, at this point, which was
not far from the scene Of the big wreck
.o5p stl3uoW lpIaAoa
uNCOLLECTEDa MAIL.
A letter box was found in this city
Yesterday from which the mail had not
been taken up since December 10th. Tho
carrier on that route has been suspended
by Postmaster Bailey, pending an IN
ycstigation. The carrier says he thought
another carrier was gathering the mail
from that box. Both passed 1t In their
rounds
in Goldsboro yesterday. after the Ed
gerton- Borden wedding. fire was dlscov-
cred In st. Paul's Church. Fortunately
very near all the congregation mad AZ
ready passed out of tho building before
the alarm was given, and a panic there
by ayerted. The damage was about $l,-
| 900,