The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-25
THE WEATHER TO-DAY.

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THE WEATHER TO-DAY.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vi
cinity to 8 D. m. Thursday: fair.
warmer.
The Weather Yesterday.
Maximum temperature. 10: mini
mum temperature 81.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Friends will be glad to learn that
little Graham Prince. son of Mr.. r.
Z. Prince. is improving.
Mr. w. J. Peele has returned from
Greensboro where he has been several
days on legal business.
Mr.. VIM. j. Gaines, editor of the
Selma News, was in Raleigh yester-
day. He says his town is growing
steadily.
The young ladies of Peace Institute
were in throngS at the Union Depot
yesterday afternoon. The session is
over and they were on their way home.
DR.. George r. Winston returned to
the city yesterday from Reidsville,
where he delivered the annual address
at the closing of the graded schools
there.
Cotton went up again yesterdar- and
the best grades are now selling on the
local market at eight and one-eighth
of a cent pound. with favorable
outlook.
Insurance Commissioner Young has
admitted into this State to do bust
ness in North Carolina, the Peter
Cooper Fire Insurance Company. of
New York.
1t is reported that another sprinkler
wagon will be put on the streets. 1t
will be pulled by horses from the fire
department. giving the animals oc-
casional exercise.
Mr.. c. d. Wayne. of Portsmouth, the
chief clerk of the General Passenger
Agent of the Seaboard Air Line is in
the city and his many friends are de-
lighted to see him.
Judge r. B. PEBBLES was here yes
terday on his way to his home IN
Jackson. Northampton county. He
held court at Hillsboro this week and
this ended yesterday morning.
Mr.. c., M. Busbee. of Raleigh. and
Mr.. John G.. Shaw. of Fayetteville.
went to Ellington yesterday where
they are to appear in a suit involving
a large tract of land in Harnett
county.
The State Librarian will soon have
made duplicates of the Shaffer town
ship. North Carolina map. This is a
III. hot. fntnr
in the State, and there have been
many requests for them.
Mr.. Percy ]. Olive of Apex. was in
Raleigh yesterday. and reports great
progress on the construction of the
new bank and warehouse at Apex and
the railway which will connect Apex
with Durham and other points.
Since the departure of Captain
Phelps, ex-Commandant of the A e
NJ. College cadets. there has been some
levity among the students. and under
various charge thirty were placed
under arrest last Saturday night.
All who desire to aid in sending the
only Confederate Drum Corps in the
world to the Louisville reunion
should go at once to Mr.. A. B. Stron-
ach, subscribe and get one of the
souvenir pictures of the Drum Corps.
The Agricultural Department is be-
ing re-wired and fitted with electric
lights. The work has been in progress
several days. and will the completed
next week. 1t is being done under the
supervision of Mr.. Tulus Ruth, of the
Raleigh Construction Company.
A negro reported yesterday that ne
had seen two colored men taking off.
convict suits in East Raleigh and put
ting on citizens clothes. No escape
had been made from the State prison,
but the water carrier. trusty, has
just escaped from the county road
force, though ne is not supposed 10
have been one of those.
Sheriff N w. Wallace. of Beaufort
county was here yesterday his
way from Washington to Charlotte
having with him six negro cOnvicts
who have been hired to work the
roads of Mecklenburg. The negroes
were chained together and are all in
for larceny the terms ranging from
six months to two years.
A class of eighteen pupils from the
odd Fellows Orphanage at Goldsboro
was here yesterday on their way to
Asheville. where they will sing at an
Odd Fellows celebration tonight. the
event being the comforting of the Dec
grafton of Chivalrv on Capt !. P. Saw
YER of Asheville. a prominent Odd
Fellow Mr.. j. F. Crimson. the SUPER
intendent. accompanied by the matron.