The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-17
BANK LOSES BIC
SUM N SENT 5 4 by MAIL
Atlantic Bank Entrusts $4,000 to
Uncle Sam and 1t Is
All Gone.
TO CUT CHARGES IN TOO
This rs What Cole Manufactur-
ing Co. Seeks to Do Regarding
Cotton Planters.

Lspeelal 70 INC Times. plapa.eh. J


RALEIGH, N. CT April 16.-Unitcd
States Marshal Claudius Dockcry has
received at his Office here the lcEa,
papers In II sensational steal that has
been perpetratcd in connection with
the mail service between Wilmington
and New York, In which the !.ttnntic
National Bank lost a package CONTAIN
Ing 10000. Mail route inspectors ana
detectives are ut work on tho case.
but 80 FAR as cnn be nsccrta!nc1 All
efforts thus far have been futile Or
iicials are declining to talk FIR pub
licntion about the matter, the news
having gotten to tho newspapers in
spite OF tho purpose OF Marshal Dock
cry and other officers to keep IT
quiet" The package OF money dis
appeared early lastSwcck, and 1t was
last Friday that the search began. one
OF the first acts being to search the
house OF the mail agent at Winning
ton, who first received the pouch con-
tanning the package for tran3porta-
ton. 1t Is understood that no clue
has yet been discovered, and the theft
is as likely to have been at any other
point on the route to New York as
on the Wilmington division. All that
Ii known Is that the pouch was OPEN
cd in New York and the $4,000 pack
ago missing. 1t was locked in n seam
less pouch with official register lock-,
the mechanism bciEs such that 1t is
not supposed to be po4sibie for 1t to
he unlocked until It reaches sts desti-
natiop.
In this connection 1t Is of inteInot
to note that the maximum loss that the
government pays for lost registered
packages is SIS, 30 that the remainder
OF the loss must fall on the Atlantic
In M ckn 10 M
ments Of this kind are often sent by
registered mall for the reason that tho
transportation charges are far less
than express charges, and they are
rarely ever lost.
After Express Company.
Charters are issued Tor the Charlotte
Lumber and Land Company, capital
$4,000. by j. NJ. Emery, NJ. oglesby.
T. G. Tooney. Also to the Guildford
Realty and Insurance Company. of
n High Point, capital $1,000. by II. A.
Mills, ". III. Itagan and others.
Division Superintendent w. T.. PUCK
ner, of the Southern Express Company,
appeared before the Corporation Com
mission to-day to oppose q Petition
from the Cole Manufacturing Company,
Of Charlotte, for the express charges
on cotton planters to be reduced by
half; that IS, from the double NOR
ehandise to simply merchandise clas-
sincation. The large bulk of the
planter Is the reason given by tho
express company for the double charge
State Auditor B. T. Dixon spent this
day In Durham looking into matters
connected with the listing OF corpora
lions for taxation. He conferred with
the county and city authorities about
this wosk, which Will be in order May
LIST.
Professor W. L. Poteat, president OF
Wake Forest College, delivered an able
address last night at q citizens meet.
ing under the auspices OF the Cham
der Of Commerce. His subject wal
"Clty Government" He pointed on
as defects In the American system O.
city government Its diffuse and intan
gibe character, the system OF electinf
aldermen from wards instead OF u
large. and the domination Of politics
which he Insisted should have NJ
place In city government. He urget
that the system should be simplnet
and centralized.