The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-17
FURRY AT GREENSBORO.
All Caused Because, People at the
Station Thought Lady There
Was from the Fever District.
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Greensboro, n. c., Aug. 16.-Al-
though Greensboro has been consider
ing the question of extending an IN
vitation to the people in the yellow fe-
yer district to refugee here the pres
! ence last night of a lady at the pas
senger station reported to have just
come from New Orleans, created such
furry, that the stationmaster had
to stop the lady in question. He was
relieved to find that she came from
Jackson, Miss, apd had provided her
self with physician certificates t>,at
she had not been exposed to any con-
tagous disease.
A gentleman who reached Green's
boro Monday night, said that he
boarded a through northbound train
at a station in South Carolina and
found the first-class car so crowded
With Italians fleeing from NewOrleans,
that it was impossible to get even
standing room, even had he felt safe
in so doing He paid an extra two
dollars for Pullman, and found u
difficult to get seat there, so crowd
ed was it with northbound New Or
leans people escaping from the pes
thence.
Major Charles M. Stedman and Col.
A. 3. Kimball returned last night
from Winton, in Hertford county
where they had gone to make out a
case on appeal before Judge PEBBLES
wherein at the last term of Guilford
court, one MabrX, suing the South.
ern Railway secured Judgment OF
$4,000 for injuries in wreck. The
Railroad through it's attorneys, King
e. Kimball, appealed to the Supreme
Court. The lawyers say they travelled
500 miles getting to and from the
Judge. coming home by way of Suffolk
and Danville, Va.
A one week term of the superior
court for the trial of civil cases, Judge
Ward presiding, begins here next
Monday. There are ESQ cases on the
docket and thirty more to be enter
ed before court convenes. Onder the
present system of courts or the pres
ent method of trying cases, or both,
parties having to litigate their dii-
ferences have but small chance OF
reaching settlement duringf e !lltG-
time. A court official this morning
said that for every case disposed OF
and cleared finally from the docket
at least six new ones were instituted
There are forty-five prisoners re
ported to be now in jail awaiting the
next term of court.
Industrial Items.
Mr.. c. p. Vanstory has purchased
from d.. J. T. j. Battle his farm of
III acres, adjoining the fair grounds
Mr. Vanstory will divide the track up
into city lots
The Emanuel Lutheran College
building being erected by the Synod
of the United States here for educa-
ton of negroes is expected to be ready
for occupancy by November first, but
in order that the school may open
Sentember 1st, n frame building near
by. has been secured, in which to ac-
commodate students until the main
building is completed.
The Carolina Construction Com
pany have secured the contract for the
erection of the Southside Hose Com
pany building on Asheboro street. 1t
will cost $4,000.
The steel beams being placed today
in the now Bob Glenn building, are
the largest yet used here in structural
work They are forty-nine feet long,
three feet by eighteen inches in thick
ness. and weigh five tons, or ten
thousand pounds each.
While at work at the southern
railway round house here yesterday
afternoon Machinist f. A. Rlves was
painfully injured by being struck by
a falling crow bar. the stroke render
ing him unconscious for some time.
No bones were broken, and he is re-
ported as resting very we'll this morn
ing, though unable to get out.