The news & observer., 1897-02-12
DURHAM WATER WORKS
IN SIGHT BETWEEN
COMPANY AND CITY.
Mr.. Watts's New Residence New ice
Factory ILLNESS of Mr.. Harden
Other Bree zy items

Work has begun ON the new ice FACTORY.
Application has been made to the boaru
of aldermen for the privilege of erecting
n plant and constructing an electric line.
| The parties asking the privilege have
plenty of money behind them, and 1t Is
proposed to have cars running in the next
six months committee consisting OF
| Thos III. Martin, t. A. Carr was APP
pointed to investigate the proposition and
| report to the board with such recon-
mendafions as they may think best.
The contract for handsome new resi-
dence has been given out by Mr.. George
| w, Watts A Mr.. Taylor, Of Boston,
Mass, is the architect, and Mr.. Chas. II.
| Norton. of this city, is the contractor. 1t
| is to be built of Salisbury granite and
when completed will be one Of the hand
soonest residences in the South. The
present handsome wood structure will be
moved to another site and the new and
imposing granite building will be reared
in its stead. Before leaving all the
furniture was moved out in few days
the work of moving the house will be-
gin.
Mr. George NJ. Ilarden, Sr., is dan
gerousiy sick at his home on Queen
street. For some time he had been in
feeble health, and Monday night suffered
stroke of paralysis in the right side
that makes his condition precarious.
His sister, Mrs. Noel, of Roxboro, is
with him and his son, George NJ Harden.
Jr., was summoned from Danville, where
he has been several weeks. Mr.. Harden
has been citizen of Durham for many
years and has numerous friends here
L
family in this atfiiction.
For some time there has been friction
between the town authorities and the
Durham Water Company, it being claim
ed that the latter was not complying
with their contract, and in consequence
of which failure the town refused to pay
the water rental. In the face of this re-
fusal the Water Company has made no
effort to comply with the contract and
now the town authorities have made an
ultimatum. Notice has been served upon
the company and unless the differences
complained OF are remedied, steps will
at once be taken to annul and abrogate
the charter.
For some time there has been a sys
tematic breaking in and pilfering OF
stores in the suburbs of this city, and ii
seemed impossible to obtain a clue to
who the perpetrators were. But at last
a clue has been gotten, arrests have been
made and four persons are now in Jail
awaiting preliminary hearing. One of
the parties under arrest is white man
and three are colored. George s. Pick
ard is the white man, and up to the time
of his arrest has been night watchman at
the Erwin Mills. The three colored men
under arrest are Jerry Balm, Charles
Manly and CASTOR Bynum. Pickard has
always borne a good character and pro-
tests his innocence. The only evidence
connecting him with this wholesale steal
ing is the statement of some or the col
ored defendants, which ought to be
taken with many grains of allowance.
Jerry Balm is the brother Of Charles
Bain, who was charged with the muir
der OF Doe Harrington last summer, and
who is now serving a sentence in the
work house for an offense committed
after his miraculous and questionable
escape from a trial for his life. Charles
Manly, who is charged with being one
of the party of store-breakers, was Bain's
partner in the killing of Doe Harrington.
and shared his ill-gotten liberty. The
trial has been set for five O'Clock this
evening
1t is seldom the good fortune of n
Durham audience to have so great an
intellectual treat in the theatrical line |
as that which was presented last night |
by Miss Eugenia Blair and her excel |
lent troupe.
George Walker of Revenue farm, and |
who is under indictment in Durham Su-
perior court for perjury ON yesterday |
gave bond in the sum of $500 and was
released from jail The bond was a |
justified one, and was signed by j. ii. |
Adams and b. G. Ryeroft, of Granville |
county. At the last term of Durham |
court the case against this defendant |
was called and through counsel he moved |
for a continuance on account Of the alb
senee of important witnesses. Judge AL |
len ruled him to trial and after quite a
number of witnesses had been examined |
decided to make mistrial and grant the
continuance. In the preliminary hear
ing before the Mayor, Walker attempted
to prove that on the very day he was
charged with being in Durham and ut
tering the forged order he was far away
in Granville county playing baseball
But in this he utterly failed, and now
he is looking for witnesses to prove
something else.
Cards have been issued TO the marriage
OF Miss Lou Lee Rigsbee, OF this city,
to Mr.. Charles Lewis Haywood, of Will
mington, N. G. This happy event will
be consummated in the First Baptist
church on the morning OF the oath of
February. Miss Rigsbee is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. AN. Rigsbee, and is an ac-
complished lady. She is graduate Of
Peace Institute and reflects much credit
upon that institution. Mr.. Haywood is
a popular young business man of the
"city by the sea" and is to be congratu-
lated upon his good fortune in having
won the love of such true and worthy
woman, the bestowal Of whose hand is
30 he made the crowning event on the
oath. They will leave Immediately after
the ceremony ON a Northern bridal tour
and will be "at home after March 1st,
III North Sixth street, Wilmington,
North Carolina"