The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-28
TRAINS LEAVE RALEIGH DAILY

Going East. 0oIns west
5:15 a. m. 1:4O a. m.
1890 a. m. $40 q. nj.
4:36 d. M $3.50 p. m.
Raleigh and Cape Fear.
1920 a. m. Ais p. m.
THE WEATHER TO-DAY.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vi
entity: Friday, fair.
The Weather Yesterday.
Maximum temperature, IA; mimi
mum temperature, 60; rainfall, Trace.
In AND ABOUT TILE CITY.
Mr.. Murray Allen has qualified as
administrator on the estate of the late
Mr.. Tai II. Murray.
The friends of Mr.. Alfred Jones
will regret to learn that he is still
confined to his home by sickness.
Captain r. b. Terrell, who has been
confined to his home by sickness for
the past week is now convalescent.
Rev. Hight c. Moore left yesterday
for Caswell county, where he goes to
attend the Beulah Association of the
Baptist church.
stephen Douglass, colored, was sent
to the city farm for thirty days yester-
day by Mayor Powell for being drunk
and disorderly.
Commissioner of Agriculture. S. l..
Patterson will return from his home
i'll Caldwell county, where he spent
Easter, next week.
improvements are being made at
the Supreme Court building. A new
roof is to be put on and all the in
terror walls repaired and Kalsomined.
Henry Watson. we'll known col
ored man in Raleigh who died We'd
nesday was buried yesterday. He was
81 years of age, and had many friends
among both white and colored.
Mr.. H. F. Seawell, of Carthage, who
was in the city yesterday, says that
Judge Geo. w. Ward adjourned Moore
county court on Wednesday being
called home by the illness of his wife.
Mr.. J. T. Broughton. of this city, a
young newspaper man, who left Raj
eigh to accept a position with the
Elizabeth City Economist has accepted
a position on the Norfolk Landmark.
A large supply of pamphlets con-
tanning the captions of the acts and
resolutions passed by the last General
Assembly are in the office of the
Secretary of State, one of which can
be had on application.
Polk and Person streets youths in
dulged in a game of batting yesterday,
which was tied until the fourteenth
inning, when Polk street climbed five
runs ahead The score was % to Is
in favor of Polk street.
A correspondent desires to correct
an error relative to the alleged game
of ball played Monday between Wen
dell and Eagle Rock. The letter does
not state which side was victor, nor
whether the game was even played
or not.
In the statement in this paper yes
terday of 1.-The bankruptcy case of Mr.
j. A. Mills" it should have been the
bankruptcy case of Mr.. j. r. Franklin,
of Chalybeate, in which Mr.. j. A. Mills
has been made the trustee. 1t is re-
GREETED that the error was made.
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the general secretary of the Epworth
League Association of the Southern
Presbyterian church and editor of
the Epworth Era, who spoke last
night at Edenton Street Methodist
church is the guest of Mr.. Joseph G..
Brown.
Messrs. Charles E. Johnson & Co.,
of Raleigh have been notified that
4 10 Ill
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
for Cotton. Mr.. Charles E. Johnson
will receive the medal and a diploma
of award. which will be distributed
in few days.
Mr.. Percy J. Olive, of Apex, was in
the city yesterday. He stated that the
primary in his town for the nominal
ton OF candidates for city officers, had
resulted as follows: For mayor, j.
A. Norris; for commissioners, w. H.
Howard, l.. S. Olive, S. C. Olive and
A. V. Baucum; for marshall, L. p.
Olive.
State Entomologist Franklin Sher-
man says that the strawberry weevil
last year did damage estimated approx
imately at 100000 in five counties in
this State, and thus far promises to do
dill cQudI dIIlOunI VI udIldSe lllIS Sct-
son. A member of the department is
now in the berry region making in
spections.
The sale of seats for the forthcom-
ing engagement of Mr. Charles B.
Hanford in Don Caesar De Bazan
and Othello at the Academy of Music
is now going on at the Tucker Build
ing Pharmacy. The the engagement
promises to be of unusual interest as
Mr.. Hanford is very popular among
the theatre goefs of this city.
A gentleman interested in the straw
berry growing industry in this State,
stated yesterday that the protracted
drouth which reduced the output of
berries greatly in Florida. will be of
large benefit to the growers in this
State, and they will experience no diff
ticulty whatever in finding a ready
market for every crate grown.
A gentleman from Elizabeth City
who was in Raleigh yesterday, stated
that his town would not soon install
n street railway system. The Eliza
hath (tifxy IF Al1nr,91a an OF n