The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-22

Will Begin in Durham
Next Monday.
Aged Inmate of County Home Starved
Himself to Death. Ate Nothing for
Two Weeks. New COmmandant
for State Division of Canton.
Especial to News and Observer


Durham, n. c., Sept. 21.-Every ar
rangement is being made for the
great Stewart meetings which will be-
gin on next Sunday. The meetings
will he held in the Par
IRISH warehouse. the same place,
where on two different occasions,
great meetings were conducted by
Samuel p. Jones. Seats are now be-
ing placed in the warehouse. There
will be seats for four thousand people
and one man has the contract for
furnishing two thousand chairs. He
is under bond to have these chairs in
position by Saturday.
In the meetings Evangelist Stewart
will have the active cooperation of
most of the ministers of the city
churches He will be here ten days.
and it is understood that there will
be no services in most OF the city
churches during that time the church
people giving way to the Stewart
meetings, and the ministers and ac-
tive lay workers giving support and
help at these meetings.
Quite a number of committees have
been appointed and these are now at
work getting things in readiness The
ushers, some thirty or forty in num-
Der, have been appointed and are get
ting organized preparatory to taking
charge Of their work. Then among
the other committees is one commit
tee of prominent business and church
men who will look after the financial
end of the proposition. The choir
will be made up of a great number OF
singers, these being selected from all
of the various churches.
When the Evangelist reaches here
he will find everything in readiness
for the beginning of the meeting that
is scheduled to continue for ten days.
The annual session of the Emo Prim-
tive Baptist Association adjourned
this afternoon. This association has
been holding meetings at Rose church.
a few miles from the city, and lasted
for three days. There was a large
number in attendance. The crowd
yesterday and today was estimated
at between fifteen hundred and two
thousand people. This afternoon {.
large number of the elders and prom
inent lay workers. who live i'm differ
ent parts of the State, We're here on
their way home.
Starved Himself to Death.
Hiram H. Hester, about sixty years
of age, died at the home for the aged
and infirmed this morning at $3.50
O'Clock. He was sent to the home
because his family thought him de-
mented and expressed fear of him re-
naming at home. He has never been
violent and recently went TO attend
the funeral and burial of his mother.
in Granville county Some two weeks
ago he told of his troubles and said
that the world did not know what
he was suffering, and that he was
going to starve himself to death. He
told the keeDer at the home that he
was not going to eat from that time
on, this being two weeks ago. Since
then he ate but little. Gradually he
approached death and was perfectly
conscious when the end came. The
remains were brought to the city this
afternoon and the funeral and buria!
will take place tomorrow morning, the
funeral being preached from the
home. He left a wife and four chill
dren, all sons.
News has been received from Phil
adelphia, where the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of ODD Fellows and Sovereign
meeting of the Canton, uniform rank
of odd Fellowship, are in session, that
Mr.. w. H. Overton, of this city, has
been appointed commandant for the
North Carolina division of the Can
ton. Mr.. Overton, who is secretary
of the Conservatory Of Music in this
city, is there attending the meeting
Mrs. ]. F. Council died at her
home in Chatham county, near Will
liams' Mill, yesterday. She left a
husband and seven children. The
youngest child is but seven years of
age. She was forty-two years old.
Her husband is a prominent and well
known citiZ2n of Chatham.