The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-04-28

Greensboro has raised 3ss.soo to-
ward the election OF q Y. NJ c. a.
building.
Carelessly leaving q gas Jet open
Mrs. Jane l. Fagg. OF Washington
was asphyxiated last Friday.
In attempting 10 escape from the
Changing at Greensboro. Pleas Har'
ris. q negro convict, was shot and
badly wounded.
Zilla Taylor. a notorious Ashsvilis
woman, while resisting arrest. stab
bed Oficer Blackstock with hat pin
inficting painful injuries.
| A large lumber mill belonging tc
T. r. Tolar. near Lumberton. was
destroyed by fire. causing a loss OF
$4,000. partly covered by insurance
In a bitter second primary, Capt
J. D. McNeill was nominated fol
mayor OF Fayetteville. defeating v
C. Bullard. present mayor. by a very
small margin.
Col. Paul B. Means. OF Concord
long a member Of the Legislature
and generally prominent in State AT,
fairs, died last Thursday after a lin,
gering illness. He was seventy-three
years of age.
The United States Departments
are buying furniture for Office pur-
poses largely in this State. The
State Department has just given an
order for a large supply intended fol
foreign consulates.
Government officers have seized
the warehouse of N. Glenn Williams
in Yadkin County, containing $4,000
gallons of whiskey. Alleged irregu-
larites caused the seizure, which is
being investigated.
Badly decomposed and evidently
dead over a month, the dead body OF
well-dressed white man was found
in Piedmont Park. Greensboro. There
is no clue to his identity, but he is
supposed to be from Richmond, Va.
The Federal Court, sitting at New
Bern this week. will try the case of
]. B. Carraway, accused of robbing
the National Bank of New Bern, of
which he was cashier, of 10000.
The indictments covers forty-five
counts.
While fishing in the river near
Goldsboro on Thursday last, Troy
Crawford, aged seventeen, was
drowned and Chas. Williams mar
rowly escaped death. Over-turning
the boat. they became entangled with
a seine.
The band Of Cherokee Indians in
the Qualla reservation, this State,
will receive about $475,OOO from the
sale of lands by the Government
made years ago. The fund is in
charge of special agent appointed
by the Government.
Because juryman was discovered
to be witness for the defense. a
m1strial was ordered by Judge Lyon
IN the case of James Smith and
Clark Little, on trial for murder at
Wadesboro. The juryman was Sc
verely rebuked by the court.
At Greensboro, a policeman while
serving warrant on a colored wo-
man, became boisterous, cursing and
abusing the woman's husband. The
latter had the officer arrested and he
was fined $40. Charges are now be-
ing filed that may result in his dis
missal.
Owing to the absence of two ma
terial witnesses, the State will ask
FOR a continuance in the case of
Police Officer Watkins, accused of
killing John Hill Bunting, a travel
Ing man at Black Mountain last sum-
mer. The first trial resulted in a
hung jury.
John o. Burton has been named
Tor postmaster at Weldon, and Henry
Reynolds, OF Winston, as Collector
OF Internal Revenue for the Western
North Carolina District. Collector
Brown, who was displaced, has asked
that the appointment be held I'D.
There is some doubt as to whether
or not North Carolina will have nine
or ten Congressman after the next
census. It was by the smallest mar
gin that the State got ten ten years
ago. and while cities have grown.
some of the country districts have
lost in population.
The heavy rainfall early last week
played havoc with Nash County
bridges. Many of the abutments
were washed away and the county
VIII be put to hundreds of dollars of
expense. The rivers were higher
than they have been since August,
1908.