The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-14
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

There are eleven horses in training in
the State Fair grounds here
A large party left yesterday for Char
i0tte on the Seaboard Air Line excursion.
Tomorrow afternoon ball game be-
tween Wilmington and Raleigh on the
Fair Grounds here.
AS the result of an ARRAY Walter Howell
and Will Taylor were yesterday fined $5.25
each by Mayor Powell
Mr.. A. J. King, whose business has
called him into all the adjacent counties,
says the Improvement in the crops within
the last month has been wonderful.
letter to the Agricultural Department
from Kinks, Stokes county, says the
Farmers Institute recently held there
was largely attended and quite success.
The Raleigh Gun Club will have their
regular weekly shoot this evening at
4.30 wednesday, The crack shot and
representative of the Dupont powder will
take part.
Rev. R. S. Stephenson, who is assisting
Rev. Mr.. Fry in a revival meeting in
East Durham, was here yesterday. He
says that great interest is being shown
in the meeting.
Magistrate Maroon yesterday bound over
Ben Holderfeld, a guard at the peniten-
tiary, to answer charge of failure to
support his family, and compelled him to
give bond of $25 to keep the peace.
TIL colOred people of the city will give a
concert at the Academy of Music on next
Monday night, for tn benefit of Blount
Street Baptist church. Some of the best
talent of all the colored churches Of the
city will take part.
The funeral services of Elsye May, the
infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Phil.
Broughton was held yesterday afternoon
from the residence on Swain street at
three o'clock. There were present many
sympathizing friends.
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Monkeying with the monkey at Pullen
Park caused the appearance of Tessie
Foster, negro pickaninny, aged IL, be-
fore Mayor Powell yesterday. Tessie had
poked the monk with stick and as Tes-
sizes mother promised to use stick on
Tessie he was discharged.
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Mr., Sid F. Page, brother OF Sheriff
M. w. Page, of this county, died early
yesterday morning at his home in Norris
Vile after an illness of three weeks He
was seventy years old, man of Christian
life and sterling character, honored and
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eral will be held today.
Repairs continue at the Supreme Court
building. Yesterday the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings gave orders to
have the walls calsomined in colors.
Pink is the color with which the main
hall is being adorned. New carpets will
be put in some of the rooms and on the
hallway floor and stairsteps.
Yesterday afternoon at 1.50 Jesse
Heathcock died at the Soldiers Home. He
had been declining for several months
Mr.. Heathcock was from Stanly county,
and served in Company H of the Four
teenth N. C. Regiment, under Col Ben
nett. The funeral will be held from the
chapel at the Home this morning at $50
o'clock.
Sheriff w. B. Bard, of Watauga, yester-
day brought to the States Prison a young
white man, Hardy Henderson, convicted
of the larceny of a pocket book with $40
in it, from the counter of a store. He was
sentenced by Judge Council to twelve
months in the penitentiary. The sheriff
had his man tied securely with a rope
and held on to the end
Capt. James Mayhem, who was for years !
the master mechanic in charge of the
Seaboard Air Lines shops here, and who
was lately transferred to it's Richmond
shops, of which he was in charge has
been displaced land returned here. Mean |
while the old rumor of the shops here
closing completely hobs up every day or
two. The Seaboard officials have en-
phatically denied it several times re- |
Gently.