The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-21
PETITION IN ANKRUPTCY
Merchants ournal Organ Of the.
Retail Merchants Association, "A
to8bc Published lin Raleigh.
Especial 10 Tho rimes-DIspa,ch.)

s&5a Especial 10 Tho Times Dispatch. 3S33
Ri RALEIGH, n. c.. December .o.-Last
night, on one Of the principal streets Of.
the city. a negro youth attacked two
ladies, Mrs. Mitchell and her sister, Miss
Hattie Eerrall. snatci,ing 9. numbers OF;
bundles from one and d purse from the
other. They were returning nome about
dark from a shopping exredi ton. Miss '
I 5serfall was knocked down in the scuffle.
He escaped. leaving no clue to his iden-
tity. III
a voluntary petition In bankruptcy was
fled in the Federal Court to-day for w.
w. Mills, tllis step being made necessary
by the recent failure Of the ". w Nj Ills
Lumber Company. The petition places
The liabilities at about $4,000 and the
assets at about s10c.O10N MIR. Mills retired
from hegpresidency of tho, Carolina Loan
ard Trust Company some months ago.
The State Department Of Agriculture
has arranged for "a series of farmers In
stitntcs to be held lin eastern counties, be-
ginning nj Warrenton. January 9th and
closing: January 422sth at Windsor. Other
Y1lucessin their order are Jackson, Halifax
$Kinston. circenvilc Iarhpro. Washing
ton, Roper WILLIAMSON. Cnrrituck. Cam
den. Elizabsth5 City, HEREFORD. Edenton,
sGatesYille and Winston. 81 ssj # ii
55ss CHARTERS GRANTED. ~
THE Charlotte Ducli!nS Company, OF
Charlotte. Is chartered. with $50, Geo CAPT:
tai authorized and sl1 800 subscribed. BIS
J.. EIirshinser. Belk Brothers, .. a. Thomp-.
kins Il. 2. sIeat!,1 L. ST. Myers. l.. A.. Dods-5
worth.HH. L.sgAdn-ls and others a5
Other charters are to the Highlands
Hotel 4 Company, Of Charlotte; capital
i$33o,co0 authorized and $1,000 subscribed,
by r.. 81. Dunn and others: The Brock
Supply Company Of Trento ~ capital,
So, goo authorized and si,G9D subscribed;
EIarnett News Publishing Company, LIZ
lliagtop: 5000 capital; W. stewart,
and Curtis Muse, principal 5incorporntors;
Merchants sind Manufacturers Bank
Cherokee. county $40 COO capital
nv. p, & Walker. principal incorporation.
East Side Mercantile Company, BELMONT
Springs near Charlotte; capital, sa5, ooo;5
tors. &c gorge w l'llifer, w. i.
Gargiss and A. B. Cook: The Bank Of.
Marshville, Union county; CAPITAL, $4,000;
W. S. Lee. j. Fl. Lee and ri. b. Marsh.
principal 5incoiporators; the capltalsof the
"a. c. cox Manufacturing Company, 4of.
JTinterviie is increased from SSsse, 600 "
s1Gn.020. The charter amendme9lnit vas g at 4
lowed to-day, III &. . ~
A statement from the Office of the COM
missioner OF Labor and PRINTING on teie 8.
phone systems or the State shows s.
systems, oi,GsO3 miles OF wire, 1869 sub
scribers and SO, sos conversations. With
s346,47a receipts and s47..$54 net Profits,
'r's THE AIERC IIANTSHJOuR
( A a corporation was formed to-day TO
published The Merchants Journal the Or
gan OF the Retail Merchants Assocln-
ton, which has bsen Issued here for
several months by Messrs. Norman H.,
johnson and William Henry. Engley,i Mr.
Bi,gley, who has been business mans
neer. sold his interest to Messl's. u w,
Bailey, g. Fl. Poe and ]. s, Pearson
These gentlemen, together With Mr.. John.
son, who still has half Interest and VII
continuo rs editor .orsnnlSesi lie lolIh!l
ock COMPANY. "a N At u. ,s,.gI ss