The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-25
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Near Louisburg, Mrs. w. o. Stone
was nearly crushed to death by q
heavy farm bell she was ringing
falling on her.
The new Erwin Cotton Mil at Dur
ham will cover f1ve acres of ground.
The machinery for the new mill Is
arriving daily.
The University of North Carolina
won the intercollegiate debate with
the University Of Pennsylvania, at
Chapel Hill last week.
Vespasion Warner, United States
Commissioner of Pensions, has re-
signed. The President has not de-
cided upon his successor.
The plant of the Guilford Plaster
and Cement Company, of Greensboro,
was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday
night. Loss estimated at $4,000.
The Kinston and Caswell Cotton
Mills, at Kinston. closed down last
Saturday night for one week. The
mills will start up again Monday.
The Runnymede Knitting Mills No.
af
chimes busy turning out ladies hois-
cry. Other machinery will be INSTALL
ed in the spring.
The little son of Mr.. Jacob Orren,
who lives at Monbo, Catawba County,
was burned to death in the barn on
his fathers premises between IL and
1 o'clock Sunday.-Statesville Land
mark
Mr.. Jesse Powell, a farmer living
near Warsaw, Duplin County, while
out hunting with Mr.. G. A. Noel, was
accidentally shot by Mr.. Noel. The
wound Is serious, but there is hope
for his recovery.
Chas. Parker and Charles Robert
son, two young white men of Green's
boro, were tried Tuesday for gam
bling and were sentenced to four and
three months, respectively, on the
county roads.
The Dukes, who own valuable wa
ter powers, are planning an inter-
State trolley line from Anderson, 8.
c., to Greensboro, N. c. This devel-
opment will be hailed with gladness
and will do great good.
Officers who searched the residence
of defaulting Cashier J. B. Cara
way, of New Bern, in the hope OF
finding some Of the $4,000 he is
charged with having stolen, were
unsuccessful. Not dollar was re-
covered.
Hiram Elliott, one of the three
men in Jail at Greensboro, charged
with the death of Simpson Coble, in
Guilford County, recently, has con-
fessed that he killed Coble.' He
claims self-defence. The homicide
occurred at mountain distillery.
Forest fires have been raging for
several days in New Hanover County
and the portion of Robson County
along the Carolina Central Railroad
between Lumberton and Wilmington.
Several hundred cords of wood,
fences and other property was de-
stroyed.
Collector of Customs Loeb, of New
York, has "kicked out" 104 employees
and minor officials of the customs
service at New York for various Of
fences of alleged irregularities" and
worse. More than one hundred more
are to go, it is said, while others are
to be reduced in salary.
| Wood Rogers, aged 18, was shot
and killed by Sarl Caldwell, a COM
rade Of the same age, near Lincoln
ton, Saturday. The boys were out
hunting, and following a brief and
trivial dispute, Caldwell placed his
shotgun against Rogers side and
fired, killing him instantly. He then
walked to town and gave himself up
William Laffan, successor tc
Charles A. Dana in the ownership
and conduct of the New York Sun
Is dead. He had been in charge o.
the conduct of the Sun for more
than twenty years and was grea
newspaper man. An Irishman b!
birth, he stood in the front ranl
of journalists for forty years ant
more. He died (aged So as the re
suit of operation for appendicitis
and was buried last Monday at Lonl
Island.
A New Bern dispatch says tha
Senator F. M. Simmons has returne'
to New Bern after an absence of sev
=, eral weeks, during which time a
!, the minority representative on tn
part of the Senate on the Nationa
Waterways Commission, he made