The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-10-20
NORTH STATE NOTES


I u e8ass&Af 4rDfa W ynsS lie sufz Is ?
said tlat Tom Lore. tbs negro Who
| several months ago engeros. The rezs-
dence and sleeping apartments Of Mrs.
| Rogers, at that place. wss convicted
/ ia Haywood Superior Ccuxt Saturday
| 81 burglary in the lrst degree aud sen
/ fenced b. Judge Long to hang on I'Tl-
| day. October %. II Lore explases his
! crime on the galiows IL will l.. the sec
ond hanging that has ever occurred IN
| the county OF Haywood. One Saturday
| right, several months ago. Tom Love,
| a negro about 50 gears of age, egte.s
the residence OF Mrs. Rogers. aud when
| the lady awoAe she found the man ia
her room. The negro escaped. hut was
subsequently arrested anl placed In
jail.
\ special from Elizabethown says
that the Clarkto1 negroes charged with
assault and murder, on trial In the SUI
ierior Court there, who narrowly os-
capped lynching in Wilmington, three
weeks ago, arrived safely from tkc
penitentiary at l O'Clock Tuesday 14og1-
Ing, having been held at the state
prison for safe-keeping since their
crime. The grand jury returned a true
bin against each the same morning.
and early IN the afternoon they were
aTraigned. Neil Sellers, one cf tie ne
groes. still declares that he is innocent
ard the ether, Dave Brown, says lie
knows nothing further than that Sell
lcTs left tho camp. lie appears II be
excited while Sellers is perfectly quiet.
In an interview with state Aud!t4g'
Dixon. who has charge of pension MAJ
ters, he-wa asked about the number
OF pensions On the new list and re-
piled that there were II The first-class
81. who will receive $40 year; Of
the second class, g95 who will receive
Sis: OF the third class, 551, who go1
$35; fourth class. whose annual al.
lowance IS $14. There are 1850 wid.
Ows, who receive SIi. The total num-
Der Of pensions is 1886, an increase
OF 1913 over last Year. The largest
increase in any enc year was in 1902
when the new law went into effect,
aud it was over ., 500. Last year the
increase was only 7f5.
Superintendent Archibald Johnson
ef the Baptist OTplanage at Thomas
Vile reports that there are now twenty
cases CT typhoid fever il the orphan
age hospital and as fast IS one patient
is discharged there ere others to take
| their places. There have been forty
! eight cases and two deaths up to the
! present. He says they have been u1-
able as yet to discover the cause fc"
the epidemic. He says the institution is
in sore need Of $4,000 for sewerage
| plant and other improvements.
There were set for the present term
| Of Durham Superior Court, which con-
vened CT last Monday and for two
| weeks, eleven divorce eases. Up ID
Tuesday five cases had been tried, and
| al five divorces granted. Monday morn
| ing one case was tried, which was dis
| posed CT in less than ten minutes time.
! Tr to the sixth one there had not been
"a single contested case.
Richmond officers went to Raleigh
Wednesday after John Sterling and
Walter jenkins, who turn ont to be
tie car robbers and not poStoffice rob-
te-s John o. DCnneli, the man ar
rested. was also held. at the request of
the Richmond officers. Sterling says
he has been stealing and selling rail-
way property ever since he was boy.
The State grants q charter to the
Bellevue Manufacturing Company. Of
HiilsbOro, TO make yarns anG cIotA
and knit goods OF cotton. wool or silk,
the capital stock being S125,000. aud
| the principal stockholders s. S. Strud-
| wick aud T. NJ Webb. II is the
second cotton mill chartered this
week.
The State has chartered the Elwood
Hotei. at High Point, with a capital
stock Of s125, 600 J. Elwoo1 Cox, is the
principal stochbo!ier.
Revenue officers made raid near
ia Grange, Lcncir county, tcfo:e day
light Tuesday morning, and captured
q 150-gallon d:stiilery. The mooashin-
| ers and their friends llew Eo:ns In
warning in all directions.
4 charter is Issued to the Wades-
| boro Live Stock Co., Of WadeshoTo.
The capita! is $4,000 and the princi-
| Pal ineorporators are J. A. Leak, w.
| 3. Kerr and w. II. Little.