The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-05
TRIAL OF W. ]. BROTHERS.
The Election Monday Recruits For the Army
Choral Vesper Service.
Especial to the News and Observer

| Especial to the News and Observer
Goldsboro n. c.. May 4.-Under the
| recent act amending the town charter
the mayor is directed to prepare boxes
and tickets for the election to be held
| Monday, special for one year term
and for two year term. The officers 70
| be elected Monday will be for the tern
designated by the voters ballot.
| Mayor Peterson makes report for tn
month of April as fellows. Twenty-si
cases with fines and cost, $l1041 deaths,
white 2. colored 6; total $, The mayo!
| will submit his annual report to th's
| board meeting on Tuesday. This report
promises TO be Of interest to the pubic.
Fork Township Sunday school COR
yention will be held Saturday May
18th. An interesting program has been
! arranged
Sergeant Lying, Z. $. A., recruitin2
officer. Goldsboro station. reports be
| tween February 18th and April Both
ll6 applicants for enlistment, OF these
| 1lS were Americans ? Hebrews,
| German OF the number of applicants
| only IS were accepted-all Americans.
The boys of the Agricultural Works
/ hung up the shovel and the hoe" and
made for the river today on a fishirs
| frolic
| The trial of w. j. Brothers merchant
| and postmaster at Institute, on tn,
charge of tampering With the mails,
was heard at Kinston last evening be-
| fore United States Commissioner A. J.
| Ioftin Y r. Ormond end Geo. M.
| Lindsey are counsel for the prosecutions;
| Wooten & Nooten II. e. Shaw and
| N. j. Rouse appear for defendant. "
| F. Hardy is the star witness. 1t seems
| that Hardy had been missing letters
/ and with the assistance of Others pre-
| pared letters mailing them One i'm
/ question was written by Mr. Turn
| age and addressed by Hardy, this
| one to the Postmaster General. 1t is
/ claimed the postmaster was seen to
destroy a letter. throwing the fras
| nlents into q stove, which fragments
| slightly burned were in evidence yes
/ terday Considerable interest in the
outcome prevails here where Mr.. Broth
ers is we'll known.
At the recent session Of the Legis~
/ lature Dover was Incorporated, but K
/ seems the act failed TO name temporary
/ officers In the absence OF this certain
citizens there have taken the bull by
the horns and an election is ordered
Certain other residents there object Q
| these proceedings and injunction pro.
ceedings have been instituted. This
action will come up before his Honor
Judge Hoke.
On exhibition at the Goldsboro under
| taking establishment is the body of Il
! negro woman who died at the Hospital
On Monday last and was embalmed on
| Tuesday by Mr.. Jack Slaughter, of this
firm the fluid used being Shemco. "
put up by the Goldsboro Scientific
Company The body seems in per
feet state of preservation.
The three excellent business men,
Messrs. G. A. Norwood Jr,, Chas.
. Dewey and Nathan O'BerGy, who were,
by the several ward conventions, recon-
nended as a Board of Public Works,
appear to be disqualified for the posi-
ton owing TO their connection with GER
tain enterprises here. This provision
| is a part CT the recent town charto!
amendment The nominating conven-
ton met last night. only to adjourn T.
meet again tonight when a ticket viii
be agreed on.
J. E. Latham. Of Newbern. duly com
nlissioned. he says, to purchase III
Texas. one oil gusher for Bill Bladei
and FIVE million feet of red heart cy-
press fer Charlie Hall, passed through
town today. Some here are inclined
10 the opinion that friend Latham
making for Utah, there being severn
Mormon elders on the same train.
Judge w. A. Holle will spend Sunda%
here.
Mrs. A. B. Andrews of Raleigh
passed through going east.
Evangelist SchoolfieId, of Danville
begins a series OF meetings tomorrow
he was in this city today enroute.
Mrs. n. d. Castex is visiting rela-
, tives in Wilmington.
An attraction by the children of tn
colored graded school, of which tn
Rev G. billiard is principal, was credt-
tably rendered at the opera house las
evening.
At St Stephens Episcopal church to
morrow they Will give the second
choral vesper service at A:30 p. m. TIL
, music will be as follows: Berry's Juh'
, late Dce-iu A. Make Joyfr
! Noise" sherman, EXalt Him
and Warren's Come Holy Spira
, Heavenly Dove" In addition to th
organ accompaniment will be addee
flute, violin and cornet. The yestet
choir of forty voices will be aided 5H
) a sextette of Misses Marx Best Jones
/ ! Helen Privet and Mr.. Frank t.Wai'
Charlie King, w. Q. Gattis and X. +
Shaw.