Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-08-02

LA0 CITY Oh WISH 10 nor sister MRS
E. F. Pate.
Miss Janet Austin, Of Tarboro, i:
in the city, the guest Of her friend,
Miss Eleanor MunrOe,
Misses Amy and Viola Joseph
went down to Kinston this morning
to spend a few days.
Mr, Lionel Well, Misses Helen
Well and Susie RosenthaI, who have
been spending soIae days very pleas
9ntiy at Wrightsville Beach, return
ed home last night.
Mr.. w. q. stroud, the popular
and efficient young assistant cashier
Of the Bank OF Wayne, is OF on a
visit TO relatives and friends u
Florence, s. @.
ME- T. E. Bri1ton, Of the local
staff Of the News and Observer, and
M, JnO, 3. Str0nach, = prosperous
merchant Of Raleigh. were in the
city today.
Capt. .. ]. Broadhurst, Secretary
and Tres surer Of 5h 4. q r. &. R.R
Go, is busy today issuing checks to
the stockholders Of the road Tor q
seni~anpuaI dividend VI II per cent.
Chief Of Police J. 3. Royal, Of
Mt. Olive, passed through the city
today, with q demeutei white qgO-
man by the naEne of Kate Fulghun,
en- route 10 the insane asylum at
Raleigh,
Miss Nsry Humphrey, who has
hcan visiting the horne Of her brother
Mr.. VIII /. Humphrey in Dillon,
S. G., IS at home again, accompafn~
Il on q visit by her sister in lazy
Mrs. w. L. Humphrey.
John Adkins, q young negro about
20 years Of ege> who is charged with
whipping q negro woman, and who
has evaded arrest for more than 4
month, was captured by officer
Smith IN q c0iored shoe shop on
John street this afternoon aud locked
up.
Yesterday vas a day of casualties
throughout the State. A wreck &C.
CURED at PittsbOro, N. c., turning
over two ears and injuring several
ladies and one man; another wreck
the Norfolk and Southern near
Elizabeth City demolished a locomo-
tive and four cars; Henry Bryan,
colored was killed by another negro
named Henry Battle, in Columbus
county; Hiram Wilson, a white man
and a desperate, was shot and killed
by a rural mail carrier named Fred
one man was killed and
another fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline tank at Dur
ham; a railroad detective, named
fell overheard at Savan-
nah harbor and was drowned; while
thieves entered a bar at Black Creek
and stole a case of whiskey valued
at $500.
On complaint of a number of repu-
table citizens on John and Ash
streets, the Mayor had before him
his morning a number of restaurant
keepers, who are known to keep dis
and disreputable places in
hat locality, and after giving them
lecture aDd issuing an order that
hereafter these places shall not be
opened at all on Sunday, and close
very weekday at s 80 O'Clock, they ,
discharged. No sooner had -,
hey returned to their places than
ne Of the negro women, Kate ,
smith made a personal attack on )
Of the witnesses, Mr.. j. J.. =
Street, abusing him in language un- :
it for print, whereupon she was re- =
.rraigned before theMayor and fined :
500 and cost, amounting to $7.35. I
nd she left the City Hall this time
q a better humor. l
There was a wholesale dog poison :
ng on South John street a few nights l
go. The dogs of Messrs. w. I. c
EelvertoD, Loren Bass, w. Fl. Grit q
IN and Mrs. Raiford, were the VIC L
inns. Messrs. Yelverton and Bass 9
9th lost their dogs, while the I
theirs saved theirs by prompt &C. !,
Mr.. Yelverton's dog was a (
Water Spaniel, a most beautiful dog,
erfectly harmless and a general pet !
With everybody and especially the 7
hildren OF the family, who were q
cry much hurt over his death. i
Jim," as he was called, died Sun r
ay morning after intense suffering, \
nd was given a decent burial by =
is many young friends in the y
eighborhood, and his grave was =
terally heaped with beautiful flow =
RS. The poisoning of these pet dogs Y
without a justifiable cause-was a .
aprehensible act.
The Second Regiment, North Caro- b
ma National Guard, under command I
Col. III. @. Bragaw, OF Washington, p
oes into camp near Morehead City q
l-daY. and will hreakucamn ON the 8