The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-04
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

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IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Prof. Barbour will be the attrac-
ton at the Academy of Music Friday
night.
Gov. Russell is now in the eastern
mart of the State. looking after some
private business matters, it is SAID.
Faust will be presented at the
Academy of Music on April 10th. Adj
vertising paper for it was put up yes
terday.
There will be an important meeting
of Chapter No. 2, ST. Mary's School
Guild. this afternoon at the residence
of Mrs w. ii. Williamson.
Mrs. Lydia E. Lee yesterday quail,
fed as sole executriX of the estate OF
her husband, John w. Lee. The estate
is estimated to be worth $4,000.
Ladies will not be charged for adj
mission to the A. and NJ. and Blng-
ham game Friday afternoon. ms
was decided at a meeting of ulie A. ana
M. Athletic Association last Saturday
evening.
Sometime ago the Raleigh postoffice
went up into the first class. NOW
Winston follows suit and her office
becomes the second first class office
in the State.
The next game of baseball played
here will be between Bingham School
and the A. and NJ. College, on Friday
afternoon. The game will be called
ut o'clock on the A. and Ms. athlet-
ic grounds.
Five more negro women left here
Yesterday morning over the Seaboard
to enter service in New York as cooks
and housemaids. Some % or 80 negro
women have left here during the past
two weeks to work in New York.
Sheriff Scott, of Wayne county, was
here yesterday to get requisitlon pa
pers from the Governor for negro
who killed a white man near Colds
boro several years ago and fled. He
has been located in another State.
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It is said that but for the fact that
Judge Thos. Sutton, of Fayetteville.
was repudiated by the voters of the
district at the last election. Gov Rus
sell would now appoint him Criminal
court Judge to succeed Judge Battle.
The committee was at work again
yesterday finishing up the work of
.i,,fia ff,, hn n
ditorium. Only a few hundred dol
lars is lacking to make the $4,000
required before the organization of
the Auditorium.
In saying yesterday that the
plant of the Allen q Cram Machine
Company had been sold at public auc-
ton for $1,000. the News and Obser-
YER meant to say simply that the
building and the real estate was sold
not the machinery and other prop
erty.
Manager Wynne, of the Raleigh
Telephone Company, says poles have
been gotten for his lines and he eN-
poets them to arrive here this week
probably tomorrow. The work of put
ting them up will begin at once. The
exchange for this new telephone COM
pany will be over Harding's shoe
store.
Capt. c. B. benson, secretary Of the
State Poard of Public Charities. went
before the county commissioners yes
terday and urged upon them the nee
, essity for enlargement of Wake coun-
tvs Jail so as to provide separate
apartments for females. His argu-
ments were endorsed by DR.. Hines, the
county physician.
Tn some few places in the county
principally in the sandy regions
slight damage to peaches is reported
from Sunday mornings frost. Reports
from the eastern part of the State are
also to the effect that unprotected
Strawberries and other truck crops
suffered to some extent by the frost
and succeeding cold weather. Anoth-
er tendency of the cold snap in it's eff
feet on the trucking crops is to delay
the season to some extent
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