The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11
CITY ITEMS.

CITY HENS.
The weather man says there will now
be four days of cool weather.
The car company case will come up
Monday for argument before Referee
Deyereux.
The Supreme court library will be
closed a week or ten days for renovation
and repairs.
The Edemton Street Methodist Sunday
School excursion train will leave the
Unicn depot at 5 O'clock Wednesday
morning.
Quite number of Raleigh people yes
terday went down to Morehead to attend
the Teachers Assembly, which meets
Tuesday.
There will he a meeting of Raleigh
Typographical Union No. 81, this after
noon at $50 o'clock. Business of inn
portance.
Treasurer Worth will tomorrow begin
paying off the claims against the State
lenitentiary--th is such as have been
approved by the executive board.
The wonder lis. what has become of
the Eftzsimmons hackers im Raleigh.
Every man YOU could meet ON the street
yesterday had his money on Jeffries.
L 10, la f,.tH0 r,y.a nnfEltY stnI1
that the bond elections tomorrow-hcth
city and school-wil goo for bonds
There is no opposition to the city bonds
worth mentioning.
4 tract of land belonging to w. II.
Haywood and others. lying III Marks
Creek township and containing 100 acres.
was sold at auction yesterday TO w. A.
Nyatt, of this city. for $3.50.
The Equity Life Insurance Company
Of Staunton, Va, Yesterday complied
with the provisions of the Craig Bill
and is now a home corporation. Mr..
W. T.. Manor is State agent.
The twenty-fifth annual catalogue of
Shaw University has just been iss;icd
and MAY he had upon application To the
president. Chas r. Mescrve. 1t is
a handsomely printed pamphlet of ID
pages.
Frank Gibson. the negro that fell
through the elevator shaft Go feet at
the Tucker building Friday, has about
recovered from the slake-up and eX-
pects to leave the hospital today or
tomorrow.
Edenon Street Sunday School will
take its annual outing and picnic ut
Holly Springs next Wednesday. Tickets
will he sold to outsiders as follows:
Adults - cents: children under - years
of age 60 cents.
County officials deny the report sent
out from here Friday that another ease
of small pox had developed here in
jail. One Of the prisoners has an erup
ton on his face, but the doctors say
it is not small rox.
Reference was made in these columns
yesterday to meeting of the trustees
of the University here Friday. 1t should
have been printed meeting of the exc
cutive committee of the board Of trus-
tees of the University"
The Standard Life and Accident In
slrance Company was domesticated yes
tcrday. The president of the company
writes Secretary Of State Thompson that
he would have complied with the provi-
sions of the Craig Bill earlier had he
known of it.
he afternoon passenger train from
Weldon came near killing man yester-
day near Boylan's bridge. The South
ern and Seaboard trains We're backing
III almost together when white man
stepped off the Southern track on to
the Seaboard track and had the narrow
est possible escape from being run over.
Cooper Brothers have just received
two car loads of marble in which is the
stock for the stairway for the Tucker
building. This will be the handsomest
stairway in Raleigh. The stairway from
basement to first and from first to secS
ond story, is to consist of risers, treads.
strings. wall-boards and platforms, to
he of the famous "Kennesaw" Georgia
marble. which is being used so largely
in many noted buildings. The Rhode
Island and Minnesota State houses are
built of it.
NEW OFFICERS ON THURSDAY.
A Change in Officials at the Agricultural