The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-05


entity to s p. M: Conditions favor
showers and somewhat cooler wealth
er Tuesday.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, 70; minimum
temperature, 81; mean temperature,
49, total rainfall, O.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Members Of l.. OBJ. Drum Corps will
meet at Camp Hall, in uniform, this
evening at o'clock.
The old ice factory near the Union
depot caught fire Sunday afternoon,
but the alarm was turned in and
the fire extinguished by the Capital
Fire Company.
The seventeenth annual: session OF
the North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly, meets at Morehead next Tuesday,
June 18th. a number of people from
this city will attend.
The North Carolina State Board of
Agriculture has received notice that
it has been awarded a premium on its
apple exhibit at the Paris Exposition.
This is the first award to this State.
The West Raleigh Baptist Sunday
school will go on its annual picnic to
Fuquay Springs tomorrow. Train
leaves Union depot at o'clock a. IN.
The price to outsiders will be % and
so cents.
Memebers of the Ladies' Auxiliary
of l.. OBJ. Branch Camp, 515, \. {. v,
are invited to attend Il netting of the
Camp this evening at o'clock. to
hear report of delegates to the 10th
annual reunion at Louisville, Ky.
The Elizabeth City Water Company
was incorporated here yesterday. The
duration of incorporation is thirty
wears, and the capital stock is $4,000.
The incorporators are Chas. H. Rob
inson, w. ]. Woodey, j. b. Flora and
Louis Ellig.
The house at the corner of New
bern avenue and Blount street belong
ing to Mr. j. ID. Boushall. is being re-
modelled, and will be reconstructed
and AN addition built. The contract
has been given to Messrs. Barrett
and Thompson.
Prof. w. +. Massey. of the \. and
NJ. College, leaves this morning for
New Hanover county to make an adj
dress at Leland Academy, five miles
from Wilmington The occasion is
d farmers picnic and closing eXer-
ciscs of the school.
In the mayors court yesterday
John Lee, charged with larceny was
bound over to court under Il bond
of So. and for an assault upon Dan
iel Woody, was bound over in a like
amount Robt Chavis was fined 1925
for disorderly conduct.
The front car to the Seaboard train
that passed here yesterday at II: so
q. III. was very badly bruised The
effacement occurred in shifting in
Hamlet. The damaged places were
painted and smoothed while the train
was at the station here.
The next Farmers Institute in the
State will be held in Stokes county
ut a place called Kings. 1t will be
attended by Prof. Massey, of the A.
and NJ. College; Prof. Kilgore. of the
Experiment Station, and Mr. John
w. Thompson, immigration Agent.
The cast iron front to II. Mahlers
Sons establishment will soon be torn
out and bent plate glass front
will be put in. The entire front with
the exception of two iron pillows
will be of glass. and it is said this will
In Of
adjustments in the South.
On Sunday afternoon a short while
after the fire company's team return
ed from the fire at the old ice fac
tory, Blue, one of the best horses in
the fire company's stable, dropped
dead. 1T is supposed that his death
was caused by the rupture of Il blood
vessel during the race to the fire.
During the month of May the mean
temperature was 81 degrees-the
highest 90 on the 18th, and the low
est 16, on the 10th. The average
mean temperature for this month for
II years is 6S. During the month
there was 3.12 inches Of rainfall. or
over two inches less than the average
for May during a period of Il years
The class publication of the gradu-
ating class of ST. Mary's is called
"The Muse" 1t contains sketches of
the faculty. the class. the school
buildings. the class prophecies car
toons, etc. The pictures are all the
work of the art class. This year the
"Muse" is a beauty. The work was
done by the Capital Printing Com
pany, to whom the young lady ed
itors of the Muse desire to return
thanks for the excellent work.
Dispositions were taken yesterday
before Squire Maroon in the case of
Ferederick Goodwin against the Uni
ted States. The case, which is pend
ing in the Court of Claims, is for
property destroyed during the civil
war. and the dispositions taken yester-
tlya were to prove loyalty to the Tn
ion cause on the part of the claimant.
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