The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-03-03

| There is an spidemlc OF hog chol
era In Meeklenburg County.
A vote on the Postal Savings Banl
bill win be taken In the Senate to
day.
Tbs bank OF Coaeto, OF Cons.o
Edgscomhs County. was chartsrs,
yesterday
Another case OF smallpox was dis
covered In Rocky Mount yssterda,
| afternoon.
Henery Holland 10 op trial q
Snow Hill this week on the charg,
Of clipping with another mans wife
r. II. Shannon, Of Charlotte, me
| death Tuesday by falling more thar
forty feet from the top OF a telegraph
pole.
George. Hargrove, colored. hal
been plarAe in jail at Salisbury
charged v IA numbering his wife sat
urday nigs.
Mrs. Te: ale Lunsford, of Pine
Creek, Mac lson County. was burned
to death Thursday while burning g
pile of brrsa.
A coloref man, named BENJAMIN
Belts, was killed near Hoboken
Pamlico County, Tuesday afternoon
by falling rom a log train.
John c. Gorham, well-known
citizen of Fayetteville, died sudden.
ly Monday afternoon while on q
visit to friend at Lake Charles, La
The contract for the new Govern
ment Building at Henderson, N. c.,
has been awarded and work will be-
gin within sixty days. The new build
ing will cos. $64,450.
The four 1aonths'- old child of Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Parker, of Washing
ton, N. c.. was found dead in bed
Sunday morning. 1t is thought the
child became strangled in the covers
and smothered to death.
Two Great Northern trains were
covered in an avalanche near Wei.
lington, Wash. yesterday. Sixty per-
sons are dead. injured or missing a.
the result of the avalanche.
The administrator OF the estate OF
L. v. Dunlap has Instituted suit In
Arson Count Court against the Sea-
board Air Line Railway for $4,000.
Dunlap was killed last year at a
railroad crossing.
The February term OF Davidson
County Court, which was convened
Monday by Judge Biggs, adjourned
Monday afternoon until August term
ON account of the prevalence OF
smallpox in that county.
The special committee in charge
OF the State Experiment Farm has
decided to establish q dairy at the
Pender County farm. which Is situat.
ed near Wallace, N. c. Twenty-one
cows will be placed there.
The House Judiciary COMMITTEES
yesterday made q unanimous report
favoring the resolution to amend the
Constitution to change the date Of
Presidential inagurations from March
4th to the last Thursday in April.
Elijah Childers is ON trial In Jack
son Superior Court this week for the
murder of Bell Frizzell. Childers
child died yesterday while the tria
was in progress. but the trial pro
ceeded and the prisoner could not g
to her bedside.
Miss Sammie Harrison, younges
daughter OF Mr.. 8. T. Harrison o
Plymouth, N. c., attempted suicid,
Monday night OF last week by Jump
| ing into the river. Friends rescuet
| her in time to save her life. II
health was given as the cause Of he
| rash act.
Henry J. Fnrlong, former polio
magistrate In Brooklyn. New York
was yesterday found guilty OF accept
ing q bribe. The minimum peRalt
is flve years Imprisonment Fur
long was once very prominent 4
FBrooklyn politics.
At Wilmington Sunday night flr
OF unknown origin destroyed one 6
two new large storage warehouse
of the Seaboard Air Line with al
Joining sheds. containing lars
lamounts OF fertiliaer constituent
The loss. which is approximate
| $160.000. is covered by insurance.
The War Departments Court /.
Inquiry. which has been investiga
ing the "shooting-up' of Brownvill
Texas, has completed its work
gathering testimony and will SOC
: make Its report. 1t Ii believed
!, Washington that President Roos
/ velt's action In dismissins the reg
: ment will be sustained.
Il Among the opinions handed dov
d by the Supreme Court is the case