The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-17
State News.

State News
II. D. Edgerton has been appoint
- ,o the state Board Of Agriculture
succeedlnx AsheIey Horne. rssagnsa-
A Young man named WiiIisms .
caught between two cars at Eliza
beth City on Tuesday and crushed %
death.
The hest record made this season
,oh.cco sales At Rock Mount was
Thursday Of last week. when one ioN
sold at an average price OF % sehsS
. pound.
An elopemen; was spoiled last sat
nrday at wadesboro. when y. n
cadax endeavored 20 run away Wiz
- daughter of ]. Z. Adams. but
vas prevented by the young woman
father.
publIc school exercise VIII Dc
Aald At Benson on Friday evening
An elaborate program has oeeh 81
-.n9ed and considerable interest has
been awakened in the affair.
The Ave thousand dollars needed
for the erection OF 7. II. {. n
hntlding at Rocky Mount. has been
raised and work on the structure
wtII-be9tn at an early date.
The vacancy to the Office OF Ad1u-
,ant General of the State>h has been
filled by the appointment OF n. l..
Ta,nster. who has served as Cher OF
STAN for the past ten years and has
a record of nineteen years In the
militia.
At the Atlantic Christian College
AT Wilson, last Saturday, a hazing
affair broke out and came near caus-
ing a serious injury. as a razor was
handled rather too roughly by one OF
the students, who was expelled from
the institution
A Federal grand jury at Asheville
has returned a true bill against 10
seph Napier. South Carolina; u.
Charles Quaster, Baltimore, ana
Charles Randolph, alias Charles
Brown, for alleged violations of the
white Slave Law"
DR.. Thomas Little, a well known
and popular physician Of Greensboro,
is dead and the circumstances point
to the death as result OF suicide.
He was of a prominent family in
Arson County and had built up an
excellent practice in Greensboro.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has approved an application to or
ganize 1.-THE Merchants National
Bank of Winston-Salem." The CAPT.
tai stock will be 100000. The In
corporators are G. w. Coan, j. L.
Giimer, G. w. Maslin and ]. S. Dunn.
Judge Pell has sentenced John
RAIDER to two years in the State pris-
on for burning the warehouse at the
Newton Hosiery Mill last year. This
is the minimum sentence, the law
providing that the court may impose
a sentence anywhere from two to for
ty years.
J. A. Fountain, Superintendent OF
the Wilmington division of the At
lantic Coast Line, submitted in
the Recorders court in Wilmington,
to charges OF assault with deadly
weapon on J. s. Parker, of the Sneed
Furniture store, and carrying con-
cealed weapons.
A strange disappearance is report
ed from Hamlet, an aged gentleman
named Cromartin, on his way from
Georgia to visit his nephew having
become lost, supposedly having got.
ten off the train at some other point
and not being heard from after the
arrival of the train at Hamlet.
On yesterday the State of Pennsyl.
vania dedicated monument at Sal.
isbury to the soldiers Of that State
who died in the Confederate prison
during the Civil War. The dedica
ton was made by the Governor o.
Pennsylvania and a number Of ap
propriate addresses were made.
Webster, the county seat Of Jack
son County. has suffered disastrous
IRE. For time it was feared tn,
whole town would be wiped OF the
map, but, fortunately. the flames
we're checked at the postofice. Til,
loss will aggregate more than SIS.
900, with only small amount of In
surance.
The first train-an engine and ca
boose-to make a trip over th,
Southbound left winston-Salem Sat
urday, proceeding as far as South
mont, where sale OF lots took place