The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-12-09

The Waters-Pierce Oil Company
was sold at auction at Austin. Texas.
Tuesday.
During the month of November g.
0fs,14S pounds OF tobacco was sold |
ON the Wilson market
The Carolina Clay Company. with
principal Office at Asheville, has been |
placed In the hands of a receiver
Rowley Pless, Jr.. was crushed to |
death by rolling log at mill near |
Canton, Buncombe County. Saturday. |
Atlanta is to buy the home where |
Joel Chandler Harris lived and pre-
serve 1t as an Uncle Remus Memo
rial"
Four more negroes escaped from
the jail at Louisburg Monday morn
ing. Three of the number were re-
captured.
The Nash County Manufacturing
Company's plant at Spring Hope was
destroyed by fire Saturday. The loss
is placed at $4,000.
Mr.. J. F. Hedrick's livery stables
at Lexington, N. c., were burned
Sunday night. Twenty-six head Of
horses and mules, and all the feed
and vehicles were consumed in the
flames.
Stanley Leveque, a French-Cana-
dian, employed as millwright at the
plant of the Waccamaw Lumber Co.,
at Bolton, n. c., was killed Monday
while about his duty at the mill. He
| leaves wife and several small child
rem.
Mrs. Cary D. Moore. OF New Hope
township. Chatham County, attempt
ed suicide few days ago by cutting
her throat; however, the cash was
not deep enough to cause death. She
had been deranged for two or three
months.
Vance Massey, the son of ]. H.
Massey, a farmer living eight miles
from Durham, was dangerously in
jured Saturday morning three miles
from Durham, by falling under
wagon loaded with wood. His head
was crushed by the wheels.
The Hookworm Congress will meet
in Atlanta, Ca, January 18th and
10th. The governor of each South
ern State is asked to appoint dele
cation of representative men, includ'
: ing physicians and laymen, from
each Congressional district, to attend
the meeting of this Congress.
The Jury in the case against Mr.
Lee H. Battle Of Greensboro who wal
charged with irregularities in his &C
counts while cashier of the City
National Bank of that city, Saturda!
returned a verdict of not guilty. Thu
) other cases against him we're no
pressed, and there will hardly bs an!
indictments against the other official
. of the bank.
The Supreme Court of the Unite
= States has granted the petition for
:, writ Of certiorari in the contemp
cases of Samuel Gompers, Frank MOI
= rison and John Mitchell, officers Q
n the American Federation of Labor
e The effect of the decision will be t
a bring the entire record in the Buck
Is Stove and Range case against tines
n men to the Supreme Court for RI
% view.
William Pendleton, aged 3 year
son of Rev. w. H. X. Pendleton, re-
g tor of the Church of the Advent
Spartanburg, S. c., was strangled
death Monday afternoon. He wei
- into the bath room to brush his hail
80 mounted a chair, which tilted an
his shirtwaist collar caught on
), hook on the door, and he strangle
Ia to death before assistance cou
reach him.
b.
On The Board of Directors OF Il
North Carolina Sanitorium for T
Is berculosis held a meeting on Mover
Id Der 3Oth. at Aberdeen. 1t was
cided to name the main buildil
1.-THE Lewis Training School,
honor of DR.. R. H. Lewis, Of Raleie
The sanitorium on the Aberdeen a.
80. Rockf1sh railroad, Is located nj
miles from Aberdeen, at Montro'
- Cumberland County.
- Mrs. w. A. Stewart, of Dur
-, widow of w. A. Stewart, deceas'
has caused a restraining order to
-. served on the Coast Line and n.
NV McNeill, executor, to stop payment
the said McNeill by the railroad co
pany of-the judgment of $3.50
rendered against the railroad co
pany at the November term OF II
yri- nett Superior Court. for the kill
ion of w. A Stewart. The Injunction
ing issued in an action which has b.
ate. brought for the removal Of Mr..
TIA Neill as executor.
lis,
led Attorneys were in Raleigh Mon'
Ar to plead with Governor Ktchin
ppf communication of the sentence of
months Imprisonment against Ban
cbouuo1l The ATTORNEYS want