The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-15
MORE PENSIONS
/ FOR :|. Rv Il /. 6.
North Carolina Will Dispense a
Much Larger Sun
This Year.
A TAX FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Tie People Of One Section Ap-i
prove lt--Unvcilit1g Is
Postponed.
Especial to The Times Dlspatch.)

EifE ASpcClAl 10 tluc EAlI1eS-OlBUulCIls)t5t 35a
RALEIGH N. c., September a.
The new dormitory at the North Caro-
lima Soldiers Homo ls being completed
this week. and will afford room for
tlirty-fvc additional old soldiers. There
arc now 1870 being cared for, and about
Nforty-nvo applications for admission on
file.
The state will dispense s275,0VJ for Con-
fedorate pensions this year instead Of
$500. 900, an additional $4,000 having been
added last Legislature. However, the
State Board of Pensions finds that there
are 1900 new pensioners. 30 that they
have decided to make the distribution on
the basis Of &G0 each to first GLASS, SIT
each to second class, $35 each to third
class, and s1S each to fourth class PEN
sloners. The fourth class heretofore res.
cclvcd 81 each. There Is no change In
tho amounts to tho first and third
classes. ss$$tjig 4. aifss
rho state superintendent Of Public In.
structon Is notified that al election for
local tax for the Improvement OF public
schools was carried yesterday at Dunn.
In Harnett county. State Auditor B. y.
Dixon made speech In advocacy OF the
tax last week. In fact, he made six
speeches last week for local tax cleo
lions, ali the others being In Columbus
county. lie says Dunn was the only
one about which there was any doubt.
The other elections are yet to be held.
UNWILLING POSTPONED.
Information has been received here
from Col A. G.. Avery. Of Morganton,
chairman OF the North Carolina Commits
sion of Chickamauga battlefield to the
effect that the unwilling Of tho tablets
~ t.t, ~ N,r y,
Carolina troops-"farthest to the 'front.'
will not take place september 10, owing
3 10 the Inability OF the contractor to COM.
plete the work at that time, and the
event has been postponed to November
9th and 10th, at which time the Southern.
Railway will be asked to renew their,
special rate OF one fare plus rs cents for
the public and to bands and companies
Of twenty-five veterans each one cent per
mile.
\ Assistant Commissioner Of Labor and
Printing, M. L. shipman, has returned
from trip through Mecklenburg and
CASTOR counties gathering cotton mill
and other mandatory statistics, and
says excellent progress Is being made.
He found the manufacturers. the mill
operatives and the farmers In excellent
spirits and prosperous. He visited Char
lotte Belmont, McAdenvlle, Lowell,
.Bessimer City, Kings Mountain, and
,Gastonia. q
L The board Of directors investigating the
State Hospital for the insane here has
determined upon a complete Inquiry into
every complaint against any one con-
nected with the institution. All nine
members OF the board are present. Last
evening several letters and reports from
j. -. te9u md. oth All king
plants were read and most OF them re-
ferred to former administrations, so that
they could not be Investigated.
The directors took up the Nall case
this morning. Coroner Jordan and Dr..
Taylor the latter OF Chatham county,
were among tho principal witnesses ex-
AHMED a number OF local physicians,
also present during the day. at the IN
stance Of DR.. Mckee, srporintendent
who still insists that his first diagnosis
Of the case--thnt Nails death was due
to being oVerheated and not to cruelty.
was correct Expert testimony Is to be
introduced.
Tho next session OF the committee
Investigating the management OF the RAJ
leigh Dlspensary will be held Tomorrow
q afternoon at o'clock, when the charge
that LIQUOR Is sold to minors and drunk
ards will be investigated. Last evening
tha charge that records required by law
are not Kept In the dispensary was
withdrawn, as was q charge that the
dspensary had not caused reduction In
the taxes paid by citizens. The commit
tee has decided not to contlne themselves
to the charges made against tho manage
ment. but to mako an examination into
the details OF the Management.