The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-20
CAROLINA TOWN
SWEPT by FLAMES
Eighteen Stores and Dwellings
Consumed, Involving Eighty
thousand Dollars.
coLoRED MAN KILLS ANOTHER
Contest Over Raleigh Postmas-
tership Develops Into Pretty
Three-Cornered Fight.
.C0L0RED MAN KILLS ANOTHER
Especial to The Tlmes.plspatch.)

RALEIGH, N. c., February 19.--Prac-
tlcally the entire business district OF
He'd Springs was destroyed by fire sun
day evening. Eighteen stores and two
dwellings were consumed involving a
loss OF $4,000. with an approximate in
surance of $4,000. The fire origiaa ted
from defective flue In n restaurant in
the rear of one Of the stores
The following were burned out:
j. A. Higgins, five stores. dwelling
and merchandise; Parlor Grocery Com
pany. Miss Kate Brown, millinery: J.
b. McColman. dry-goods; ~Ed. ID. Mo
Lean. merchandise Post office. Red
Springs Drug Store, Carrot md Mcneil
Grocery: l.. M. Cook. Groceries and Fur
nitnre; w j. Council. dry-goods; T. ].
Bostick. dry-goods: A. D. Black. Son
and Company. mill supplies: Cope and
Turner, Merchandise and market; ]. N.
Hadley, dry goods; Frank Jessup. gro.
ceries; r. b. Loyelin. groceries; Red
Spring Mercantile Company, millinery;
Archie Kinnon, insurance; C. III. Huckle-
bee, barbershop; j. NJ. Pope. Office:
Knights of Pythlas and Masonic Hall:
John G. Brown. dwelling and furniture.
No vacant stores are available, and
nearly all of those burned out will 20
out OF business until new buildings can
be erected.
l ) MAN SHOT AND KILLED.
~ Alex ClaH., colored trainman run
ming between Richmond and Raleigh on
the seaboard Air Line. was fatally shot
here this evening by Ben williams,
colored fireman on the Seaboard yeard
engine, at the Johnston Street Station.
Williams went to his room at the station.
took q revolver from his trunk, saying
to several standing about that he had
been cheated out of five dollars and pro-
posed to kill a man If he hung for 1t. 1t
was scarcely five minutes before he called
Clark out OF the house at AL Salisbury
Street. Just at the edge of the freight
yards, and sent bullet crashing through
his head. The ball entered just above
the left ear. and came out in front OF
the right ear. The negroes brain and
blood We're spattered about the porch
where the shooting occurred. williams
has not been captured.
CHARTERS GRANTED
Charters were Issued this morning for
five new corporations the authorized
capital aggregnting $4,000
They areyt General Transportation
Company. Canton. 100000 capital, by
oma Carr. w. T. Mason, of Ashvlile
and others; the Graham Canning Com
ipany. Graham. capital $4,000. By ].
N. .Mccrackin. w. s. West and others:
the Washing On. CD Drug Com
pany. capital $500 by j. C.
Rodman p. A. Nicholson and others:
the Shelby Wood Working Company.
$4,000, by j. e. Gaffney. C. j. woodson
and others; the Washing Davis Lum-
Der Company Wards Mills. Onslow coun-
ty. capital s125.0OO, by j.. Z. Basnight.
a. w. Davis and others
~ dys,<I,tia,
for the Monroe Hardware Company, OF
Monroe. the dissolution being by mutual
consent OF the stockholders
Contest is developing over the Ra-
leigh postmastership appointment, which
must be made within the next few
months. Those In the race are C. T.
Bailey. the present postmaster; j. w.
Hardin. Jr.. of the Raleigh Savings and
Trust Company. and w. G. Briggs a
well-known newspaper man; C. T. Bal
ley will make hard and probably sue
cessful fight for re-appointment. /.