Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
Local Matters. Mr. John A. Wilkerson, of Belhav, en. will be chief marshal at the next State Fair. The commencement exercises at Meredith College and the A. & M. College were held this week. The St. Mary's conference for clergy and lalty of the two Carolinas will take place at St. Mary's School during the week of June 5-10. The Finance Committee of the State Board of Agriculture held its meeting Tuesday and yesterday preliminary to a meeting of the whole Board to-day. Josh Beasley, colored, chief porter at the Capital Club, died suddenly Friday afternoon in the club-room. Josh was politeness itself and will be greatly missed by the club members. Columbus Taylor, a negro sentenced to serve a term for housebreaking, who escaped from Camp No. 4, April 11th, has been arrested in Rochester, N. Y. The prisoner will be brought back to finish his sentence of two years. Diplomas were awarded to fortyfour graduates at the A. & M. College yesterday. There were twenty-six girl graduates at Meredith College. Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, delivered the annual address at Meredith. Tom Wade and Dave Holland, two colored carpenters, fell from a scaffold on Fayetteville Street Tuesday and received very painful injuries. They fell a distance of twenty-five feet. Holland had two ribs broken, while Wade escaped with severe bruises. Mr. J. P. Holmes died Friday morning at his home on Pace Street, this city, after a lingering illness of several weeks. Mr. Holmes was an Englishman by birth, but had lived in this country since early manhood. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Dr. W. H. Evans, of the office of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture, was in Raleigh Saturday in conference with the heads of the different divisions of teh Experiment Station. Dr. Evans is chief of the Insular Experiment Stations located in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Guam. Since the suicide last wek of Cashier R. H. Spruill, the Corporation Commission is to apply at once to the court for a receiver for the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Columbia, Tyrrell County, N. C. State Bank Examiner Doughton has returned to Columbia and taken charge of the bank to hold the assets until a receiver can relieve him. Promoters of the proposed South Atlantic Trans-Continental Railroad, from the Tennessee coal fields through Knoxville. Waynesville, Asheville, and Rutherfordton, to Southport and connections of vast proportions, had a hearing Saturday noon before the Governor and Council of State on the question of procuring from the State convicts for the construction of the road in this State, compensation to the State for the convicts to be in stock in the road. There is to be another conference during the coming week, at which
