The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-07-25

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
The Hotel Lafayette, at Fayesss-
vile, has been sold 10 q. q. Cooper.
A Mrs.. Hyiton, Of Kernersvills.
this Stale. has . severe csse OF small
pox~ The csse vas diagnosed By
DR.. Harrison. Of Greensboro.
President Winston, or the A. and
M. College. Raleigh, ien Sunday for |
the north TO select seveni professors
TO teach in the college the coming
session.
The First Regiment Of Infantry
will 60 10 Morehead City August
sth, where they viii be In camp for |
Eve days, and win then 60 10 James
town Exposition for three days.
Mr.. j. III. Makepeace, mayor OF
Sanford and manager Of the Sanford
Sash and Blind Company, died Tues
day afternoon Of congestion OF the
liver. He had been I'LL only . few
days.
Revenue officers captured o block
ade distillery near Rockingham, In
Richmond County, Saturday. The
outfit was supposed to belong to
eagle Bros, but no arrests were
made.
Mrs. Thomas Ellis, Of Paint Rock,
n. c., while crossing q railway
trestle near her home, was struck by
a passenger train and hurled to death
into the French Broad River, ffty
feet below.
| Two negroes were killed by
freight train at Barber's Junction,
near Charlotte, Tuesday morning.
The men had lain down on trestle
and gone to sleep.
| The Yeager Manufacturing Com
pany, of Gastonia, was chartered
saturday. The Company will manu-
facture and sell women's dresses,
skirts, clothing, and wearing apparel
of every description.
| The dead body of young white
man was found by the railroad track
near China Grove Saturday morn
ing. 1t is supposed he was killed by
!. a passing train. Nothing was found
, on his person by which he could be
identified.
!, Thomas Milraney has been placed
in the Forsyth County jail, In de-
fault of 5000 bond, charged with
criminal assault on his ten-year-old
sister-in-law, Lucy Spense. Lucy,
the outraged child, was the witness
against Milraney.
Mr.. E. E. Phillips, of Washing
ton, n. c., was the victim of sun
stroke while fishing In the Pamlico
river Saturday. He was carried to
Washington in an unconscious con-
dition, and his physicians have pro-
nOunced his case hopeless.
sallie Walker, a young white girl
of Reidsville, upon learning that her
brother was in jail charged with
shooting woman In the mouth with
rifle, attempted to commit suicide
by drinking laudanum, Prompt
medical assistance saved the girls
life.
/ Sunday afternoon on the planta-
ton of widow Yelverton, four miles
east of Saratoga, in Wilson County,
the 13year-o son of Mr.. ]. B.
| Ellis found half gallon jug of
whiskey. He crank Of its contents
10 such an extent that he died shortly
after.
Il Van Breese, son of Maj. W. E.
Breese, of Pennsylvania County, was
run over by train at Brevard Sat-
iurday and received injuries which
resulted in his death. Young Breese
was trying to mail some letters on
the train when his feet slipped and
he fell beneath the moving wheels.
Revenue officers captured an illicit
distillery near Washington, this
State, a few days ago. The distillery
was of about eighty gallon capacity
and along with the still was about
$50 gallons Of beer and fifteen gal
Ions of hard push. The owners had
f1Qd and soon offor tho H{oooxyovxy a
terrific explosion occurred. It is be-
lieved that the operators had set q
trap with the intention of blowing
up the revenue officers, but fortu-
nately no one was hurt by the ex-
plosion.