The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-10

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The Weather Yesterday.
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IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
The long section of steps in front of
the office of the Corporation Commits
sion are being replaced with new
ones.
DR.. N. C. Carroll, Chief of Police
Mullins and Mr.. HI. e. Butler returned
yesterday from the Masonic meeting
in ASheVille.
Messrs. c. w. Richardson and Z.
NJ. Novel;, of Selma, were here yes
terday to see Mr.. c. Nj. Novel;, VINO IS
ill., but improving.
Iieut-Governor Francis d. Winston
is here from Windsor on legal business
i'm the Federal court. He reports mat
the conditions in his section are excel
lent.
Commissioner s. L. Rogers, of the
CORPORATION Commission, have gone TO
Beaufort and Morehead to inspect q
number of canals and steamer lines IN
that section.
The two front rooms on the third
floor of the City Hall nave been
nicely fitted up for offices for the
Board of Audit and Finance, and the
Health Department.
Yesterday morning about $3.50
o'clock two houses on the Holloman
road. near the city, were burned
They were the property of Mr.. L. b.
Crowder and were uninsured
Mr.. M. c. Judd left yesterday morn
ing for Goldsboro, to do some speclal
work in stenography for Traffic Man
ager r. E. L. Bunch, of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad.
The movable section of the iron
fire escapes at the Academy of Music
have been taken down, as they were
a menace to pedestrians on M1ftln
street. A new arrangement will be
made.
Mr.. John B. Stone, a former citizen
of Raleigh, now cashier of the Jeffer-
son bank at Newport News who has
been in the city on business the past
few days. left for home yesterday
morning.
Two visitors to the city, witnesses
at the Federal court, as the result OF
a spree, were before Judge Badger
yesterday morning. The decision was
that they stay in the lookup till they
were sober.
The will of the late N. c. Dunston,
colored, was probated yesterday, Ell
mira Dunston, his widow, qualifying
as administrative with will annexed.
There is $4,000 real estate, and $400
personal property.
Mr.. c.. H. Beine, representative OF
Centre Lodge No. 8, and Mr. w. w.
Wilson, of the Finance Committee,
will go from Raleigh to the State
meeting of the Knights of Pythlas IL
Charlotte next week.
A passing locomotive is supposed to
have started the fire to Hillsboro
street bridge yesterday morning about
nine o'clock. The fire was promptly
extinguished by the fire department
with but slight damage.
Mr.. H. A. Miller. a well known con-
tractor, now engaged in building the
railroad bridge across the Cape Fear
river at Ellington, was in the city
yesterday. He says the work at LII
lington is getting on nicely.
Mr.. Perrin Busbee, of this city,
Grand Warden of the Odd Fellows
has accepted the invitation of the Odd
Fellows of New Bern to deliver the
address at the memorial exercises of
the order at the New Masonic Theatre
i'm New Bern on Sunday afternoon.
Rev. ]. A. Baldwin. the promoter
of the Piedmont School, Charlotte,
was in Raleigh yesterday for the pur-
pose of disposing of a number of
copies of paper issued to aid in the
building up of his school which is to
educate poor children in mill settle
ments.
DR.. George T.. Winston, left yester-
day for Washington and New York on
business connected with the a. and
M. College. He will visit Stevens and
Pratt Institute, Cornell and others. He
is to attend the graduating exercises
at Cornell, where he graduated thirty
one years ago.
Raleigh is the ideal place for picnics
and they are heartily welcomed here.
Yesterdays Kinston Free Press says:
The Methodist Sunday school will run
its annual excursion this month, go
ing to Raleigh. The date Is not set,
but will not be earlier than the 18th
nor later than the 23rd.
A head-on collision occurred be-
tween two street cars Thursday night
on Hillsboro street at the intersection
of Boylan Avenue. No damage was
done beyond the smashing of the fend-
ers. One was an empty car return
ing to the park, the other was loaded
with passengers for the city
Rev. r. S. Stephenson, superinten
dent of the Associated Charities. is
back from a tour of investigation of
charity work in New York and Nor
folk. He has obtained some new
ideas in the work, but finds that Raj
eigh has a better system than many
larger cities. Norfolk has no organ
lied charity work.
Mr.. Ashley Horne, here yesterday
from Clayton, says that Clayton felt
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