The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-09-19

An unknown white man was killed /
- irzfn near AshevilIe Sunday.
Gastonia Is 90 have another one
hundred thousand dollar cotton mill. |
Two hundred and Afty thousand
pounds OF tobacco wss sid On The
Wilson market last Thursday.
Tom White, . negro, or Aar1rz,
was drowned In the Pamlieo River
II Washington Monday afternoon.
The CORPORATION Com mission has
the Seabosrd Railway to
make connection with the Coast Line
at Maxton.
There were the larges, sales at the
tobacco warehouses in Goldsboro Fri
day Of any time in The history Of
that town.
The carding mill Of the Holt Cot
ton Manufacturing Company at
Smithfield was burned early Tues
day morning.
Thomas Letter, q young white man,
was seriously injured Saturday night
while dismounting freight train at
Glass, near Concord.
The xesidence of Mr.. S. II. Nor
fire Monday afternoon. The fire Is
supposed to have been caused from
rats.
The Supreme Court has decided
that Joshua Harrison, charged with
kidnapping Senator Beasley's little
son, must serve his twenty years in
the penitentiary.
The Lindsay Chair Company of
High Point, which was adjudged a
bankrupt some time ago, was sold to
the Ford Johnson Company. The
price paid was S15,025.
Revenue officers destroyed two
blockade stills in Johnston County
the past week. One was near Four
Oaks and the other one was eight
miles east of Smithfield.
The sales of leaf tobacco in this
State during the month of August
amounted to 8,766,O96 pounds.
Kinston led the sales during the
month with 1,674,017 pounds.
Mr.. J. A. Porter, a student at the
A. and M. College, at Raleigh, died
Thursday afternoon of pneumonia.
The remains were taken to his
parents home at Biltmore for burial.
The time for holding Federal
Court in Raleigh and Wilmington
has been changed. The Court in
Raleigh will meet December 10th
and in Wilmington on January 9Th
Mr.. Eugene Croker, the seven
teen-year-old son of Mr.. Lindsay
Croker, Of High Point. dropped dead
Monday morning while at work in
the factory Of the Globe Furniture
Company.
depot at Rockford, station between
Winston and Wilkesboro, Saturday
morning, but the fire was soon dis
covered and extinguished before it
did much damage.
The town of Hope Mills, near
Fayetteville, was visited by a dis
astrous fire Thursday night. The
main business portion of the town
was destroyed. None Of the cotton
mills were damaged.
In the Superior Court at Winston
Friday W. D. Temple was given a
verdict against the Southern Rail-
way for $3.50 for the killing of two
mules and the destruction of his
wagon and harness by a passenger
train.
The Commissioners of New Han
over County have passed an order
requiring all dogs in the country
townships affected with rabies to be |
killed, the sheriff to be the execu-
TONER. Mad dogs have been com.
mon In that County, hence the order.
The case in which the Southern
hallway was fined $50, 900 by Judge
Long, in Wake Superior Court, for
allure to observe the passenger rate
aW, was argued in the State Sui
oreme Court Tuesday. The Court
will hardly reach a decision in the
ase for several weeks.
John Lipe, the sixteen year old
on of Mr.. and Mrs. John Line. of
1nochville, Cabarrus County, died
saturday morning from injuries re-
elved the previous day. He was
iding horse across field when the
nimal stumbled and fell into ditch
hrowing the boy beneath him and
atally injuring him.
revenue officers captured Julius
'elmet, moonshiner, near Kings
fountain, in Cleveland County, Sat
rday. The prisoner was taken to
'hsrlotte and placed in Jail in de-
uit OF Dali. The officers captured
ne still and DESTROYED couoral L |