The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-04-23

The Odd Fellows of Raleigh will
celebrate the 50 nnaht a.
The WakeIon new school building
will be ready by the fall. Six teach
ers will be employed in the school.
ar. Henry Clay Johnson died sud.
denly at Wendell Saturday morning.
He was former resident of Raleigh.
Judge r. r. Purnell and United
States Marshall Dockery left Monday
for Washington. y. c.. to hold United
States Court.
Governor Glenn has offered a re-
ward for John Goodlet, colored. of
Ashville, who murdered his wife on
April 18th.
Mr.. J. K. Lane, who has been In
the pest house for some time with an
attack Of smallpox. has recovered and
has been discharged.
Sheriff f. A. Martin, of Rutherford
county, Saturday. brought Oscar
Borders and Crowder Michael to the
State penitentiary to serve terms for
burglary.
Mr. G. f. BOyette, a student at
Wake Forest College, died Sunday,
after undergoing an operation for
appendicitis. His home was at Muir
freesbOro.
Chicken thieves entered the yard
Of Mr.. b. Reiner, on New Bern av-
enue. Saturday night and stole nine
fine fowls. They killed the chickens
in the yard before carrying them
away.
celebrate the seth anniversary of that
order at the Academy of Music on
Tuesday evening April 28th. Mr..
Plato Collins, of Kinston, will deliver
the principal address. The entertain
ment will be public.
A three weeks term of Wake Supe
rior Court for the trial of civil cases
convened Monday, with Judge Biggs
presiding. At the beginning of the
week there were II cases on the cal
At AshevilIe Tuesday Judge Pee
bles sentenced three boys to the
penitentiary for horse stealing They
claimed they intended returning the
animals. that it was all joke. But
Judg PEBBLES thought it a poor joke.
Two mules, a two-horse wagon and
harness were sold Saturday at the
court house at auction and brought
$207.5O. They were the property of
the late Paul Stephenson, and were
sold under a mortgage given to w. A.
Wyatt.
There was an election held in Ra-
leigh township Tuesday on the propo-
sitic1 to vote a special tax for the
Raleigh schools and to insure bonds
to improve the roads of Raleigh
township. Both propositions were
defeated
Clarence Mohler, young white
man who has been in charge of the
news and lunch stand at the Union
depot has disappeared and 1t is al
legged that his accounts are short
nearly $500. Charles Perry, a Grip
pied negro who sells pies and cakes
at the depot says that MohIer Dor
rOwed $40 from him before he left
the city.
The Raleigh and Southport Rail
way have inaugurated a new SEIZED
ule of its trains. Trains now leave
Raleigh and Fayetteville daily at
a. m. and 1870 p. m. The train leav
ing Fayetteville at 1:30 arrives a
Raleigh at 4:30 and the train leaving
Raleigh at 1870 arrives at Fayette
vile at 4:30, making connections fo
Wilmington and other points.
Louis Aston, who is ex-treasure
of a colored fraternal order in Ra
leigh, was arrested Tuesday on
warrant sworn out by the new treas
urer, charging a shortage of $50
in Alston's accounts. He was ar
rested and put under bond.
Mr.. Vernon McCrary, a Raleig
boy, had a narrow escape from deaf
while trying to board a train a
Greensboro Saturday while trying t
mount the steps of moving trai
his foot slipped and went under tn