The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-10
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

The Atlantic Symphony Quartette went
to oxford yesterday, where they had an
engagement.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w.
Harden has been critically i'll, but was
considered decidedly better yesterday.
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Insurance Commissioner James r.
Young left yesterday for Henderson.
where he goes to investigate fire loss.
80
Bette Jones, colored, the wife of AL
bert Jones, a plasterer, died suddenly
last night at $50 o'clock at her home on
South street.
Rev. Livingston Johnson left yester-
day for Waxhaw, where he goes to take
part in the Union County Association.
now in session there.
So
Two white women have been brought
to the tenitentiary by Sheriff Christian,
of Stokes county They were sentenced
to nine years for infanticide.
80
Mr.. George Vanderbilts farm mana
ger writes to the State Fair management
that he will have the best agricultural
exhibit ever seen in North Carolina.
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The enrolment in the graded schools
this year will reach $780, Superintendent
Moses says There are now about 1900
white children and nearly 1000 colored.
49,
Prof Collier Cobb, of the State Uni
versity, was in the city yesterday on
his way to Wake Forest where last night
he gave his illustrated lecture on the
Yellowstone National Park.
49,
The bulletin of the State Board of
Health for August reports typhoid fever
in seventy-eight counties. Smallpox is
reported in sixteen counties, with three
deaths in Craven and Carteret.
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The general opinion among farmers In
Wake county is that there never was
time when the crop was so closely pick
ed cut at this time of the year as now.
1t has turned out better than expected.
80
The residence at the corner OF Elm and
Polk streets, now occupied by Mr.. NJ. L.
Haynes, has been bought by Mr.. Webb
Holloway, who will improve the proper
ty and occupy the residence in few
weeks. M ~
Mr.. A. Dughi will leave today for
Chapel Hill, where he will serve the Gin
Ghoul banquet 1t will be nine course
banquet, the greatest affair of the kind
ever given at the University by the or
>ganiZation. ia
Adiutant General Royster says the
Calling Guns for the battery of artil-
lery at Charlotte have arrived. The COM
plete cost is about $1,000 each. Next
year field piece will be issued. perhaps
a 32-inch gun.
Haywood Driver, a colored man, who
disappeared last August after being dis
charged with assaulting Oscar Pace,
came back yesterday and submitted be-
fore Magistrate Yearly. He gave bond
of $25 for his appearance in court.
DIR. j. NJ Battle, of the firm of Battle
& Co., of st. Louis Mo-. arrived today
with his wife and little grandson. Bat
tie Smith, and are visiting the family OF
Dr. w. B. Harrell, whose wife is a sister
of DR.. Battle.-Dunn Daily Guide.
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Mr.. Henry NJ. London, who has been
in the census office, and also studying
law at Washington for the past two and
half years, will return here tomorrow
and complete his law course at the Uni |
versity so as to get his license next Feb ]
ruary.-Chatham Record.
80
Mr.. j. c. Maroon yesterday qualified
as administrator of the estate of the late |
Weston Parker, personal property VAL |
ued at 81 200; Ransom Freeman, personal |
property valued at $50; and John r. |
Maynard. who died in 1898, personal prop |
orty valued at $50.
s.*
The friends of Maj w. B. Gulick, who |
at one time resided in Raleigh, but who |
has been of late in the Navy Depart |
mcnt in Washington, will regret to hear |
that on account of loss of eyesight he |
has resigned his position. He will here |
after make his home with his daughter |
in Columbia, S. c.