The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-13
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.


Cotton picking has not yet COM
later than usual.
Governor Aycock and Treasurer Lacy
in Nash county. They are expected to
return to the city today.
Mr. F. w. Hancock. of Oxford. who
is in the city. says that Oxford Female
Seminary and Horner's School have OPP
ened better this year than at any time
in the history of these famous educa-
tional institutions.
DIR. B. F. Dixon has returned from
Smithfield, where he has been to ad-
dress the Confederate veterans. Quite
a large crowd attended. Barbecue was
served. There were resolutions of SYM
patty for President Mckinley passed.
Mr. r. E. l.. Bunch has so much i'm
proved in health, that the barrier which
prevented the passage of vehicles in
front of Col. F. A. Odds home, where he
is being cared for, were yesterday re-
moved He is regarded as now being
on the high road to recovery.
Mr.. John B. Kenney, of Charlotte, was
yesterday appointed delegate from
North Carolina to the South Carolina In
terstate and West Indian Exposition ito
be held at Charleston. Mr.. Kenney lived
for many years in Charleston and has
q large circle of friends there.
State Superintendent To0n left last
night for Wilkesboro, where he Will
speak at an educational meeting on
Saturday. There are a number OF town
ship educational meetings going on in
Wilkes county, and also in Iredell, which
county will be visited by General Toon
before he returns.
AIR. E. D. Kyle, whose headquarters
have been in Raleigh for some time
past. has been promoted in the traffic
service of the Seahoard Air Line with
headquarters at Jacksonville. Florida.
Mr. Kyle will very shortly proceed to
that point. ard will remove mis- family
there December LIST.
Sheriff J. r. Harris, of Edgecombe
county, with his deputy, W. 0. Bull
lock, brought four convicts to the pen
itentiary. VIM. Riddick gets twenty
years for burglary; Charles Gunter, five
years for burglary: Joe Mosely, three
years for larceny; Dan Sharp, two
years for larceny.
Yesterday was day borrowed from
Marcia day of mad wind and driving
dust. The street sprinkler wasn't
brought out until after the dust had
done it's worst because it didn't look like
rain, so the eyes of pedestrians We're
filled with sand and the housekeeper de-
SPARED of ever getting things clean
again.
Geo. A. Burns, sheriff of Cumberland
brought in two convicts. One new
one. John Burns, who gets ten months
for manslaughter: the other Zetta Gill
more, is an escaped convict and has ten
years yet to serve he also is an es-
capped convict from South Carolina. He
has been to England since his escape
and returned to see his mother.
The weather prediction for today is
increasing cloudiness, with rain and
cooler weather. A storm was central
yesterday over the Lake region, with
rain throughout the entire central val
ley and threatening weather with rain
in the Pacific coast section. Rains oc-
Cured also on the north Atlantic coast
and scattered showers in the central
portion of the cotton belt. The weather
continues clear only over the south At
lantic States from North Carolina to
Florida. Forecaster Won Herman
thought it probable that the rain area
would reach North Carolina last night.