The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-18

killed Monday by the explosion of
his own gun by accident.
Thomas Mitchell, eolored. was ar
rested at Louisburg and placed In
jail. In default OF bond. on the charge
of retailing whiskey.
Mrs. J. ID. Bardin. OF Wilson. died
Friday night. She had q complica-
tion OF diseases. but peilaEra was
the immediate cause of her death.
The East Carolina Teachers Train
ing School at Greenvilie. was formal
ly opened and President r. II.
Wright installed into once last FRI
day.
The Cade Manufacturing Company
of Shelby. has been organized for
the purpose of developing the new
type-setting machine recently invent
ed by Rev. Bayius Cade.
Walter Frady. a young white man,
aged 20 years, attempted to commit
suicide In Asheville this week, by
shooting himself Ave times. He is In
the hospital and may die.
On Monday, 18th inst, property to
the value of over one million dollars
and a half hundred human lives were
lost in q Jamaican storm. The bana-
ma crop was seriously damaged.
John Sellers was instantly killed
in saw mill explosion near Nash
Vile. Nash County, Tuesday after
noon. The mill was the property of
the boys father, Mr.. William Sellers
Dock Atkin, young white man of
Asheville. % years old, is at the Mis-
sion Hospital seriously hurt as q re-
suit OF an attack made on him Satur-
day night a little after II O'Clock by
two negro boys.
A dispatch from Timmonsville, 8.
c.. says that Thomas ]. Crews. Of
Durham, aged 70 years. walked out
Of second-story window there while
asleep. and was killed. His funeral
took place at Durham.
The Drainage Association, which
met at New Bern last week, elected
former State Senator Joseph A.
Brown, of Columbus, president for
the ensuing year. and decided to hold
next years meeting at Wilmington.
At Greensboro two additional ar
rests have been made in the case OF
the killing of Simpson Cable. whose
own father and a brother-in-law are
charged with numbering. The homi-
eide occurred In brawl at a whiskey
distillery.
Mr.. Hugh Moore, yardmaster for
the Norfolk & Southern Railway, at
Kinston, had his right foot and ankle
crushed Saturday morning. He was
using his foot to adjust q coupling
when the cars bumped together.
catching his foot.
More than 800 bodies of miners
were entombed In a coal mine by an
explosion In the st. Paul mine near
Cherry, Illinois, and the work Of res
cuing them for Christian burial will
be only partly successful. Some lie
covered by thousands of tons Of
earth which caved In on them.
President Taft will make q short
excursion from Washington on FRI
day to speak at the convention of the
Atlantic Deep Waterways Associa-
ton in Norfolk. Va. On the follow
ing day he has promised to address
the negro and Indian students Of the
Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va.
The engagement of Miss Rose
Few, of Henderson County. to Mr..
C. F. Tomlinson, of High Point, was
announced some days ago. the mar
riage to occur December 8th. After
the announcement Miss Few changed
her mind and was married Monday
night at Hendersonville to Mr.. Mich
ael Schenk, a former mayor OF that
town.
A dispatch sent out from Boston,
Mass. Tuesday night, says that the
Bell Telephone Company has pur-
chased a controlling interest in the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
which gives the Bell Company con-
troll of practically all the wires In
the United States. except the Postal
Telegraph Company.
The Greensboro News Of Saturday.
gives the following account of .
shooting affair In that town: FOL
lowing q quarrel between Sam MUIR
ply. q notorious negro, and . small
brother Of Worth Smith, . negro
about Is years old. At corn shuck-
ing on Bennett street about IL
o'clock last night, Murray went 70
his home, secured . double-barrelled
shot gun, proceeded to the home OF
Smith. about 800 yards distant, call
ed him to the door and emptied the
contents of q double barrel shot gun
into his side and hip"