The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-01
State News.

Zeb. Griffin, when aTraigned al
Wilson Saturday, waived examina-
tiea and was remanded 10 jail to
await trial OF killing Calvin Thorne-
The postmaster at Raleigh on FRI
day applied TO the Postmaster-Gen-
eral to have q savings department
established at his Office under the
new postal savings act.
Miss Lilly Crouch died at Wades-
boro Sunday afternoon after an III
ness of eighteen months. The fu-
neral service was held to-day at her
former home, MacFarian.
The jury In the case Of John Lane
suing the Southern Railway for 49,
600 damages for injuries received In
yards at Spencer. on Saturday night,
awarded plaintiff a verdict Of 900.
The executive committee Of the
board Of trustees Of the university
in Saturday elected DR.. Harry W.
Chase 10 be Professor OF Education
and DR.. James NJ Bell to be Asso-
ciate Professor of Physical Chemis-
try.
Dr. Frank Lambe. a prominent
contractor of Burlington, while
working on a scaffold to the steeple
OF the new Episcopal Church, step
ped off, fell fifty feet to the ground
and was instantly killed. Mr.. Lambe
was a respected citizen. a faithful
member of the Junior Order, and his
death has shocked his town.
Mr.. Sam May, aged sixty-five, shot
and killed himself at his home at AL
tamahaw Monday morning. He got
up, went to the field to work and re-
turned at 7 o'clock, feeling i'll, sent
After going a short distance his son
heard the report of a gun and re-
turned, finding his father lying dead
with the top of his head blown off.
Theodore Gilbert, the five-year-old
son of Mr.. Will Gilbert, of the VAN
pun mill, at Lincolnton, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed Fri
day afternoon at $50 o'clock. The
little fellow with his mother had
gone to the we'll for water and while
his mother was talking to a number
of her friends who had gathered at
the we'll, the fatal bolt struck in the
midst of the group.
Sheriff Hunter, of Buncombe
County, safely delivered to the
States Prison Friday at Z o'clock
James B. Allison, sentenced to die in
the electric chair February oath, the
trip from Asheville having been
made without special incident follow
ing Allison's sensational attempt to
take his own life Thursday in the
Asheville prison by cutting his throat
with a small knife he had concealed
in his CELL
The committee on the Sixth Dis
trict primary (Mr. J. r. Young, Mr..
]. Bryan Grimes and Mr.. II. A. Fou-
shee) met and decided that the pri-
mary should be held on September
18th. All persons who desire to en-
ter the race must give notice to that
effect by September 1st. The votes
will be canvassed in the counties of
the district on Saturday, September
18th, and the result will be declared
on the Goth. If there is no nomina-
ton a new primary will be held. The
candidate receiving a majority of the
votes cast will be declared the nomi-
nee.
At brownsville, n. c., the other
night, two near-beer joints were ut
terly demolished, one by being burn
ed and the other was blown up by
dynamite. The one owned by Ern-
est Harris, southeast of town, just
outside of the corporate limits, was
burned to the ground. About the
same hour, another one on the Fish
er Ferry road, southwest of town,
was blown to atoms by dynamite.
Fortunately nobody was hurt Ru-
mors are afloat that some party, or
parties, had it in for these near
beer saloons and thought this the
most practical way of disposing of
them.
At the North Carolina School for
the Deaf and Dumb at Morganton
there has just been completed the
domitory for the accommodation OF
one hundred additional children as
provided for by the last General AS
stmbly. However, this building can.
not be used for the impending ses.
sion Of the school for the reason that
there are no available funds for fur
nishing it. This will have to be pro.
vided for by the next General AS.