The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-22

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Maximum temperature, rs; minimum
temperature, IS; mean temperature,
70. Total rainfall Trace.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Rev. Mr.. Barber, of Burlington, who
was in the city yesterday has returned
home. y
ST. Luke's Circle will meet this af-
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. F. A. Olds. A
Jerry Scott, colored, was yesterday
given thirty days on the roads for dis
orderly conduct by Mayor Powell.
Marriage license was yesterday
granted to Mr.. James Benson and Miss
Ada Johnston, bothsof this county.
Rev. r. B. John, of New Bern, pass
ed through the city yesterday to at
tend the Kilgo-Gattis trial at Oxford.
The Rosemary Club" and the ''Pine
Straw Club nave been suggested as
names for the newspaper mems club
recently organized in Raleigh.
The cotton receipts here yesterday
amounted to 236 bales, which is more
than any one day since the decline in
price. The best grade brought 10
cents.
Mr.. w. g. Clements says that the
farmers in his section are putting in
large crop of wheat, and that the far
mers generally will sow large crops of
wheat this fall.
Deputy Sheriff Wooten, of Lenoir
county, brought to the penitentiary
yesterday, three convicts. One is in
for twenty years for murder, and the
other two get short terms.
At the Superior court on Tuesday,
the goth, Faison against Hicks was
submitted on brief by Stephen Beas-
ley and Weeks, attorneys for the de-
fendant. This case was omitted from
notice yesterday.
The body of Miss Anna M. Pomeroy,
daughter of Edward Pomeroy, of jack
sonville, Fla, but formerly of this city,
will be brought here for burial at 2 D..
m. tThursday. Services at lakewood
cemetery, conducted by Father Crit
fin.
Raleigh will soon be connected
with Fayetteville by telephone. The
Southern Bell company is building
line from Raleigh to Fayetteville and
from Fayetteville to Wilmington. It
will probably be in operation by Jan
nary 1st.
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Governor Russell yesterday commut-
et1 the sentence of Jim Hill, a negro
who was sentenced to the penitentiary
in 1898 from Alamance county, from
ten to three years. He was convicted
of attempted rape, and has only one
year more to serve.
Miss Bessie Wyatt, of this place, a
graduate of the Southern Conserva-
tory of Music in Durham, is to take
charge of Miss Johnston's piano pupils
at Red Springs for while. Miss john
ston is suffering with a bone felon,
and is in the sanitarium at Fayette-
Vile.
The pastors of the city held a meet
ing at the First Presbyterian church
yesterday morning and decided to
hold a Union Thanksgiving service at
the First Presbyterian church. In
stead of the usual Thanksgiving SER
mon, the different ministers will de-
liver brief addresses. The complete
program will be given out later.
J. C. Braswell, John Griffith, T. III.
Battle, e. III. Crews and others have
filed articles of agreement with the
Secretary of State for the formation
of ''The Railway Advertising and Sta
tion-Indicator Company" for manufac-
turing and selling a patent railroad
advertising machine. The headquar-
ters are at Racky Mount, and the cap
ital stock is $4,000.
The lowest temperature reported
yesterday were 16 degrees below zero
at Bismarck, 4 degrees below zero at
Huron and 10 degrees below zero at
Miles City. 1t is not thought, how
ever, that the temperature in the east
will go below freezing today. Rains
occurred throughout the south and
east. Heavy winds are reported at
Chicago and Cleveland.
Col. Shaffer left for Newbern in con-
nection with his work for the State
Board of Health yesterday. He will
shortly go to Wilmington, and in con-
junction with Dr.. Thomas, president
of the board, will make an examina-
ton of the situation there and plans
may. be- drawn UP for securing the
city's water supply nine miles up the
Cape Fear instead of right at the city,
as is done now.