The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-09

Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, 81; minimum
temperature, 20; mean temperature
so, total rainfall, O.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Two new lodges of Masons have
been formed this month.
Master Kinneth Woollcott Partin is
nue., son of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. IL. Par
tin.
Miss Annie Jones will sing -,
Shining Light" at the evening service
in Eedenton Street Methodist Church
tonight.
Remember the sacred music con-
cert to be given by the Hollowbush
orchestra at Pullen Park next Sun
day night.
The Protestant Pastors Association
will meet at the Presbyterian Church
at 10 O'Clock Monday A full attend
ance of members is desired.
A. l.. Bailey and man named Mas
sey, both white, got into fracas yes
terday and were fined $4.25 each by
his Honor, Acting Mayor Wynne.
The report comes from CataWba and
other counties in the West that the
Mormon missionaries are very active
there and are making some converts.
Religious services at st. Lulle's
Home this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Services this month conducted UNI
der the auspices of the Tabernacle
Church.
A sacred concert will be given at
Pullen Park this evening from r to o
O'Clock, by the Honowbush orchestra.
The program was published in yester-
days paper.
Rev. E. C. Glenn. formerly pastor
of the Central Methodist Church i'll
this city, has during the past week
been holding revival at Red Springs,
in Robson county.
1t is said that the following gentle
men will be in the next race tor
Mayor: Messrs w. s. Primrosey j.
f. Pogue, A. NJ. Powell, and Brown
Pegram-all four of them Ps.
The State Auditor, Hal Aver, has
received an application for pen
sion from a colored man in Bladen
county, who says he was duly enlist
ed as a teamster and that he was
run over by a wagon and injured.
State Veterinarian Cooper Curtice,
goes to Rhode Island about the mid
die of next month to take the position
that he holds here, at a salary u
$4,000.
Judge Shepherd, standing master,
will go up to Greensboro Monday af-
ternoon to begin hearings there in
the contest by the railroads against
paying the tax levied by the Corpo-
ration Commission. The hearing there
will require a week.
bryan will certainly carry Mary
land,'' said MIR. II. H. Croker yester-
day. He has spent about ten days in
Baltimore recently and made it a
point to try to learn the political sit
nation He says that Maryland is as
safely Democratic as North Carolina
this year.
The warden of the penitentiary
saws the output of convict-made mat
tresses this year will be something
over 10000. All these are sold under
contract. In the shirt factory the
output is getting to be as high as
100 dozen a day. These shirts are
made under contract.
Last week the last of the Federal
prisoners was discharged from the
Penitential.y here. His name was
Frank Hindman and he was from
Georgia. The total number of Fed
eral prisoners received at this prison
was 268. The greatest number at any
one time was about 1863. The first
ones were received in the spring OIL
1898.
Dempsey Leach, a negro boy, was
tried before Mayor pro tenn j. ).
Wynne yesterday morning charged
with larceny from the residence or
the late Mrs. w. n. II. Smitli, on Hal
flax street. The other three negro
boys who were in this plot have been
previously arrested and sent on to
court. Leacn was likewise bound
over.
The News and Observer is asked
to state that Mr.. q. w. Pou, who was
on Thursday named as the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Fourth district, is confined to his bed
by carbuncle on his neck, and he
is therefore unable to attend to his
correspondence. This accounts for
his failure to Immediately reply to
letters and kilograms that have been
sent to him. -. -