Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-19
PAGE RECAPTURED.
Tue NOTORIOUS MURDERER AGAIN IN
AcELL AND CHAINED.
a,,,o,n,cd 10 North Carolina Scholarships
Wake Forest W.. the University"
Boy Rescued by Ladies'.

RALEIGH. n. c. June ls.-tspsciaL'-
Orange Page. the notorious negro mui-
aerer who May 18th, while under death
sentence, broke out of jail here IN com
many with nine other prisoners, was this
afternoon brought back and Is again III
iail. He was captured at Jamesyiiie' MAT
tin county, by Joe Ray. constable VINO
&c also a barber. Page went into Kay >
shop and was shaved. Ray recosii]eu
him from descriptions which had oeen
sent everywhere, but went to see III
Guirkln. who had in past years empioyeu
Page.
IDENTIFICATION.
Or. Guirkin's identification was POSI-
tive. and then Ray arrested Page me
pursuit and capture have cost shetin
Page. of this county. $3.50, Of when Wow
goes t, Ray. The rrlvA. OF Page erea'e'
a great sensation here this ai,etuoo'',
hut ne was in a few minutes Jaiiea anu
nlaced in a strong cell alone and chaiheu'
SCHOLARSHIPS.
The following are to-day appointed 20
North Carolina scholarships al icaDous
Normal College, Nashville, Tenn Mary
y Holt. OF Wayne; Sallie boyce. OF
Necklenbure: Walter Chambers and
NJ. holland, Of Haywood: James a MIX
OF Stanley, and l.. \. Cook OF warren
Rev. DR.. Greasy, OF Charlotte last e''-
ming preached the baccalaureate sermon
~ the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
Ieee. his discourse being upon the re-
movsl of mountains OF difficulties.
After the conviction of the negro post
master at Oberlin near here, OF embeZ-
element il was said the Office woulG De
abolished but It is now decided 10 con
Time IT, and man named Turner Is
appointed.
.RESOLUTIONS., MODIFIED
The trustees of Wake Forest College
prepared resolutions calling for the mi
mediate cutting Off OF the state appro-
priation to the university. This trustee
Iohn & scarborough. who Is State super
inteudent OF Public instruction. Sharply
antagonized. The resolutions were uioul-
fed. Mr.. Scarborough was absent Wheu
the vote on them was taken. Mr. u .
Vann voted against them.
Saturday an S-year-old boy In ba''e
county fell in well. There were some
ladies' ON the premises They lowered a
bucket and the child was pulled hai way
nm when it again fell. They again low
cred the bucket and at last rescued the
little fellow, who, strange 10 say, was hos
hurt.
TEACHERS ASSEMBLY.
Early tomorrow morning a speciai
train. which will carry members OF the
North Carolina Teachers Assembly u
Morehead city, will pass here. IL IS eA-
pected that at least 500 members OF ue
assembly will go on this tram.
Ia-
davs and to-day had not recovered SUM-
GENTLY to be at his office.
Tho state Superintendent OF PUBIC IN
structlon is now arranging the srhedule
Of teachers Institutes. The STATE no
longer makes an appropriation for tness
institutes and hence the Peabody iuru
no longer gives them aid.
THE DRY WEATHER.
The state weather report issued this
morning saws II Is extremely dry m the
central and western sections, and that
while there has been more rain IN the
cast vet IL Is not near enough Inc
warmer weather H. more favorable TOT
cotton; corn is doing well. better than
cotton; gardens are suffering greatly. IL
Is too dry 10 plant peas IN the stuppie
fields. The wheat harvest Is almost oVer'
and threshing has begun; there Il ohly
about half "A crop. Hay-making has pro-
gressed well and the crop Will be large
and we'll cured.
COLLEGE EXERCISES.
At the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege this evening the senior class, when
has eight members. held its exercises.
H. C. Rogers, its president. delivered an
address. There were orations by Il. +.
Watts and Charles Peasson. David Cox
Jr., was historian; G. G. Corpening' pro-
phet. and r. ID. Patterson, Jr., presented
prizes.
II Is so dry in Mecklenburg county that
some farmers are irrigaung lands. Inc
plan Is found 70 work well.
BIG LAND SALE.
The Southern Land and Title Company
OF Baltimore, OF which Chauncey +.
Black Is the president and which has
several North Carolina directors, last sat
urday made a sale OF 100000 acres IN
Mississippi.
A meeting Of the directors Of the state
Normal and Industrial school was called
to be held here on the Dist instant. II Is
now changed to Greensboro on the same
date.