Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28
North
Carolina,

commercially interested element of the
state has been the validity of the anti
bucket shop law" enacted by that legisla-
ture Even after the law was passed test
cases were instituted in the superior court
IN every section of the state, special YER
diets agreed upon and the cases appealed
TO the supreme court They were argued
Jointly and the court considered them for
nearly two months, handing down the de-
c1slon only this week. The opinion was
written by Chief Justice Walter Clark and
concurred in by the whole court upholding
the act declaring dealing in futures in
North Carolina to be unlawful. The suits
We're begun upon the ground that section
Z or the act, which provides that the act
should not be construed so as to apply
70 any person. firm, corporation or his or
their agents engaged in the business of
manufacturing or wholesale merchandise
Ing In the purchase or sale of the neces-
safy commodities required in the ordi-
nary course of their business was I'M
constitutional In concluding the opinion
the court held that the legislature had
unquestloned power to make bucket shop
business indictable. The facts found are
that the defendant was carrying on the
.oreidden business. 1t can in no wise af-
rect the validity Of the statute making
such business indictable that the purchase
by others upon margin shall, under GER
tam circumstances, raise a prima facie
case that such purchases We're void and
other circumstances shall not constitute
such prima facie evidence. A statute NAV
De void in part and valid In part. If til
pioFiSion as 10 prlma fac1e evidence to
certain purchases upon margin We're null.
this would In no wise invalidate that part
OF the statute which forbidS carving on
business of running a bucket shop The
defendant is not indicted for buying COM
noditleS for future delivery upon a mar
gin; nor of manufacturers and wholesale
merchants; nor anyone else exempted from
the prohibition of carrying the bucket
shop business. Upon the special verdict
the defendant was properly adjudged
guilty.
he Sfa
prohibit purchases or sales for future de-
livery when made bona fide, and although
sectlon mentions only manufacturers
ana wholesale dealers 50 as to permit them
to make future contracts for actual de-
livery, there is no prohibition of any other
class OF persons to make such sales or
purchases in the ordinary course of bust
ness, such contracts being nowhere prohib-
TIED by statute. AS the law of the state
now stands it is illegal and a misde-
tations furnished thai it is prima IA
Gle evidence of guilt; and to sell to any
person, manufacturer or otherwise an OBJ
ton for future delivery when the actual
delivery OF the goods is not contemplated,
Is also illegal and a misdemeanor as it is
also to buy such an option.
A Blind Man Honored.
Mr.. John A. Simpson of this city has been
highly honored by the Southern Conserva-
tory of Music OF Durham by its comforting
on Mr.. Simpson the degree Of doctor of
music, the first honorary degree since its es-
tapIshment seven years ago. Mr.. Simpson
In many respects is remarkable man He
Is now about siXty-fiye years of age has
been totally blind from infancy and with
out means. has by indomitable energy and
constant study and application stored his
mind with much learning and fitted himself
for great usefulness. He is a distinguished
musician and has been a teacher in the
State School for the Blind in Raleigh for
over thirty years.
The Chowan Baptist ASsOciat ton is in ses-
sion this week in Elizabeth City and has
taken strong stand against the liquor bust
ness. 1t was resolved unanimously that in
view OF the commendable advance in the
temperance sentiment in the state and the
effect of the drink evil and the demoralizing
tendency of the traffic that in the future the
association refuse to seat members of
this body any delegates from any churches
which retain in their fellowship any men,
bers who make sell liquor
The Raleigh Evening Times Is again to
change its management. Messrs. K. r. and
Numa Reid Hoyle. who only last February
on the retiring of Mr.. J. C. Caddell, sue
ceeded to the editorial and business man
aSement, Will retire June / from the pa
per and return to Richmond Va Mr..
George B. Crater. business manager of the
Charlotte Observer, will assume the man
agement. and Mr.. Howard A. Banks of
Philadelphia will be editor Mr.. Banks is a
graduate of the State University and is a
strong and capable writer He has been a
member of the editorial staff of the Char
lOtle observer, ana mas also been editor of
the Asheville News-Gazette. Mr.. John c.
Drewry, the owner of the paper, will put in
a second linotype machine and increase the
size of the paper to eight pages.
Large Shipment.
Thirteen solid carloads of cabbages In re-
frigerator cars We're shipped from New Bern
Monday to Philadelphia and New York.
This the largest shipment ever made
fl ON that section
st. Augustine School, colored, has promi-
nent northern visitors this week. They are
a committee of the board of missions of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. and are MAX
ing a tour of the south with the special pur-
pose of visiting the colored Institutions of
this church. The committee is Right Rev
d. H. Green of New York, Bishop Frederick
Burgess of Long Island and the Right Rev.
Edwin s. Lines OF Newark. N. J.
Mr.. John d. Biggs of Williamson, aged
sixty years, nephew of the late Judge Asa
Biggs, who has represented the state in the
United States Senate and was leading bus
mess of North Carolina, died suddenly
this week Mr.. Biggs had been a member
of the board of directors of the State Hos
pttal for the Insane for twelve years He
was deeply interested in the care and treat
ment OF the insane AS chairman of the
board and member of the executive COM
mittee he gave much of his time to the
patriotic discharge of his duties
DIR. e. M. Mccoy, prominent physician
Of Mecklenburg county, has been bound
over to the superior court charged with v1o-
lating the Watts liquor law. In the war
rant he is charged with issuing prescrip-
lions for whisky to persons other than his
regular patients. This is the second in
stance where reputable physician has
been bound over to the court for violation
of this law since Charlotte has been under
prohibition.
Officially Outlawed.
Nathaniel Crump, the negro desperate,
recognized as one of the band of assassins
who fired upon and dangerously wounded
both II. Clay Grubb and his friend, Clar-
ence Thompson, while riding in an open
buggy early Monday morning near Grubb's
home. has been officially outlawed by the
action of three justices of the peace of
Davidson county. III. Clay Grubb, a large
distiller. was only last week acquitted of
the charge of numbering his brother-in-law,
o. e. Davis. Clarence Thompson was a
prominent witness in the trial for Grubb |
Nathaniel Crump is VIGOROUSLY bad
negro. and was recognized horubb in a
company OF men who thread ed and did
attack from ambush. This ambuscade was
the elimination of the inteE1B i'll feeling |
In the county resulting from family feud.
and the inference Is that these cut-throats |