The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-12-02

BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Congress will convene next Mon
day.
Durham proposes to hold a tobac-
CO fair next year.
| Four white prisoners escaped from
jail at Shelby Friday night
A woman's suffrage league was or
sanissd in Richmond. Va. Saturday.
The Baptist State Convention will
meet In Wadesboro. N. c.. December
7th. and continue for four days.
The Moth Carolina Grand Lodge
Of Masons will hold their annual
meeting In Raleigh the FIRST week In
January.
Morgan Chambers, a negro prison
er, was lynched near Meridian, Miss.
Thursday night. The prisoner had
assaulted and robbed an aged white
man.
The telephone train dispatching
lantic Cost Line Sunday on all the
trains between Richmond and Will
| mington.
Jane Douglas, an aged colored
woman, who escaped from the Meek
lenburg County Home October 26th.
was found dead Saturday two miles
from the home.
c. NJ. Edwards. of Greensboro is
in Jail charged with attempting to
kill his wife. He shot at her, but
fortunately the ball missed the
woman. Friends claim that Edwards
is dope ffAra''
North Caroana won several prizes
at the National Horticultural Con-
gress at Council Bluffs, Iowa, last
week. The fruit exhibit from this
State was not very large, yet 1t won
twenty first premiums, six gold med
ais and four silver loving cups.
Martin Luther, boy of Randolph
County disappeared from home over
two weeks ago, and has not been
heard from since. He did not want
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think that he drowned himself In a
mill pond near by.
A special from Greensboro to Sun
days News and Observer says that
Guilford County has been awarded
the thousand dollars offered for best
roads between New York and Atlanta
traversed by the recent New York
Herald-Atlanta journal long distance
automobile tourists.
Mr.. C. B. Newberry. Of Fayette-
vile. lost his barn and stables by
fire on last Thursday night, and on
Saturday night an attempt was made
to burn his dwelling. In an attempt
to burn the dwelling one SIDE of the
house was saturated with oil. There
Is no clue to the incendiaries.
A special from Rockingham, Rich
mond County, to Sundays News and
Observer, says: Gilmore Maner and
Alex. Covington, two young white
men, are In jail here charged with
assault on F. G. Punke, an old Ger
man, who runs a restaurant here.
The injured man will probably die"
Mr.. Alvis A. Peasants, of Dur
ham, was drowned in the Cape Fear
River, near Wilmington, Sunday.
Peasants and Hubert Maynard, also
of Durham, were in a boat when it
capsized. Maynard came near losing
his life before he reached land.
Peasants body was not recovered
| until Monday
The Jennings Cotton Mill, Of
Lumberton, has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock Of
| 100000. The Center Brick-Wat-
son Warehouse Co., Of Wilson, has
also been incorporated with an -au-
thorized capital stock of 100000.
The company will buy, sell and man
ufacture tobacco.
G. r. Winstead and Wiley Dew,
of Wilson County, were fined $50
each by Judge Cook last Thursday
for contempt of court. Winstead
was a defendant in a case and Dew
was a juror. and the two had dined
together each day while the trial
was in progress. A mistriaI was or
dered in the case against the Rock
ford Manufacturing Company for
carelessly causing woods-burning,
the case In which Winstead was a
defendant.
Mr.. Lee H. Battle, Of Greensboro,
has been on trial In the Federal
court in that city for the past week
on the charge Of Irregularities In
mis- accounts while he was cashier of
the defupct City National Bank of
Greensboro. He is charged with using
the banks money to help float the
business OF the Pomona Mills, OF
Witch he was director. There are
also other counts in the bill of in
dictmeEt The case will probably 60
to the jur- to-day.