The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-09
NORTH STATE NEWS
Items of Interest Cleaned from
Various Sections
FROM MOUNTAIN To SEASHORE
Minor Occurrences Of the Week of
Interest to Tar Heels Told in Para
graphs.
Tar Heel Notes.

There was another negro shooting
sc~ao in Statesville Tuesday night
and o. result Tom Ferguson hack
diver IS dangerously wounded.
Charters are granted the Clarkton
Planning Mill Company, Capital stock
Sz5o4o, o. l.. Clark principal stock
holder Another charter is granted
the High Point Machine Company.
capital stock $25O,OOO, which is 70
take over the High Point Machine
WORKS and the Dixie Motor Company
i. ". NanBrunt and II. A. Meaeraw
of IIigh Point being the chief stock.
holders. The company will make
numbers Of articles, including bicycles
The King Whiskey Distilling Com
ranF, Salisbury, has changed its name
f. the II. j. Summers Company.
\ charter is granted the Montreal
Concrete and Building Company, to
aaIs" blocks, brick and tiles, capital
stock, $4,000; Fleming Ramseur, Of
Shelby and others stockholders. An.
other charter IS granted to the Newton
'mdIe Lumber Company, Elizabeth,
to"n, $4,000; F. a.. Addington, Of
Wake and other stockholders.
The county superintendent samp-
son informs the State Superintend.
rnt Of Public instruction that con-
tracts have been let for seven new
public schools and that four local tax
elections III school districts will be
hcId III few days and that a favor
able result Is sure. When the board
'nccsS next Monday three more peti-
'"nS for such elections will be pre-
scented. A tirst-class county high
school IS to be established at Salem
burg and besides this more rural
frh"'fis are to be built.
- {. Beckwith of the State board
- internal improvements sold the
State arsenal III the corner of capita
S4I2re by order of the Legislature far
Si')> The building is 80 years Cid
The penitentiary authorities an
noucc that John Bailey, a mulatto,
aged y, sentenced form Mecklenburc
last December for % years for muir
der, escaped from the convict camp
near Goodwin. A reward of $50 and
dII ptcessary expenses is offered.
y new company Of the national
guard has been organized at Shelby
10 take the place of the one disband-
cd last week for failure to appear
tor inspection. 1t seems that the fail
ure 10 appear is owing to some local
trouble. In few days the new COM
rany Will be mustered in and will
lake the old place in the regiment.
State Superintendent Joyner is no.
llh".l by Superintendent Giles of Nc
Bowel that local tax elections were
q carried in two school districts in that
county and that another is pending
with good prospects.
The agricultural department is
making very complete arrangements
Ter It's summer series of county insti.
tH;cT for farmers. These will cover
mar" than two-thirds of the State
and very great care is to be taker
Ill making up a strong corps of fielt
workers to conduct them. The de
nartment Is very mnch gratifed by the
iact that from year to year interes
III and attendance at these institute:
mas increased. The work of arrange
m@nt Is entrusted to State Veterin
aiIan Butler.
Two lives were lost on the Seaboarc
Alr Line at Norlina, Engineer N. S
L1teIson drove his fast freight trail
nouhbOund into the tender and som
cars shifting engine in the yards
quarter of a mile the other side o
the station. The engineer and hi
. fireman B. F. Johnson were instant
Killed and their engine utterly wreE
ed. Strange to say the engineer an
fireman on the shifter were unhurt.