The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-07
].
.PEARCE IS VICTIM
OF FATAL ASSAULT
Negro VINO Caused His Death
Is Placed in Jail at hi
Raleigh.
EDUCATORS IN CONFERENCE
New Salary Law for Wake
County Goes Into Effect.
Pardon by Governor.
EDUCATORS IN CONFERENCE
Lspee.al 70 rhe r.mes. pisra,eh. ]


Raleigh, y. c.. June Ed. Pearce
the young man brought here from
zebulon last night. terribly beaten w
BY a negro, died to-day In Rex Hos
pltal The negro who made the as
sauit was captured late last night in
Nash county. and brought to Jail hero
this afternoon. Will Weaver is his
name. and he Is seventeen years old
Fearce leaves wife and Ave children.
The Corporation Commission has
procured the appointment Of T. II.
Rouse as temporary receiver to wind
ur the affairs of the Bank OF La
Grange. closed yesterday on account
OF bnd financial condition and misman-
apement The appointment was pro-
cured last night from Judge Whcdbee,
at Goldsboro and is effectve at once.
Rouse has been for quite a while
cashier OF the Rouse Banking Com
pany of LAGRANGE, It is not expected
that any of the depositors will lose
anything by the closing of the bank
Educators In Conference.
II The three days conference of promi-
ncnt educators, who are to be assigned
during the summer to holding teachers
institutes for the public school teach
ers in various counties. convened here
to-day In the Senate chamber of the
State House. State Superintendent j
~. Joyncr made brief address. In
which he outlined his Ideas of the
scope of the work that should char
acierize the Institutes There are to
be about thirty of them this season
The law requires that every county
must hold one at least every two years
Proba bly, two-thirds of the counties
held Institutes last summer. Partici-
pants in the program to day in the
work of presenting Ideas for conduct
ing the county institutes were A. j.
Bnrwick, of the State Department of
Education: J. A. Bivens, of the State
Department OF Education Miss Emens
Miss Alma Meade NIichaux. Professor
NJ c. s. Noble, A. j. Matheson and
Mrs. D. w. Peade. M
Governor Kttchin returned to-day
from the Georgia State Normal Col
lege. where he delivered the address
for the graduating exercises Monday.
pardon is granted by the Governor
for J. j. Lindsay, serving six months
on the roads in Nash county for selling
whiskeY. Tho pardon is ut the reques I
),
and is conditioned on good behavior.
lie has served Ave months of the
term.
The new salary law for Wake coun
~ officials has just gone into effect
having been enacted by tho last Legis-
lature to be effective the first Monday
in June Under the new law. the
sheriff receives $3.50; the clerk OF the
court, s2,I5o: the Registrar of Deeds
s2,a0o: the Treasurer, $4,000 and tho
Auditor Ia new ohlce), $1,000.
SuEent Is Captured.
zeb Nusent Stokes county man
who was sentenced in 1899. in Stokes
Court. to serve FIVE years In the pen
itentiary for larceny. and who escaped
from the Castle Haynes convict camy
coon after his commitment has jus-
been recaptured near Mount Airy. and
recommitted 10 the penitentiary II,
claims that he served as a volunteer
In the Spanish American War, and has
been about the country quite a goot
deal, His parents live about eight
miles from Mount Airy and he hat
slipped into the county to see the ole
folks when the shcrin of Stoke.
caught hislr:
The North Carolina corporatior
\ Commission announces its opinion thu
The cities and Incorporated towns II
This State have the right to leave tn,
actual fixing of the tax rates for cit,
purposes this year until after the new
las valuations are made The matter
can be opened at the June meeting.
this week. and final action deferrec
until the new tax valuations are nm
tshed and In hand. II is expected lha
the reassessments this year will great
" Increase the aggregate. SO that /
VIII be possible to have lower Ia,
rates in many towns and cities.