The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-02-03

I. c., THURSDAY, r
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
| Columbia. g. C.. reports the firsi
negro woman dentist there.
The South Carolina Senate Tues
day killed the bill for State Prohib!-
ton.
A threemasted schooner from
New York was wrecked OF Hattsras
coast Tuesday morning.
Sid Tinsley. of epartansburg. s. c..
has been declared insane. due 10 an
attack from peliagra-
Ten men were killed and several
injured In a mine explosion, near
Draskesboro. KY. Tuesday.
Lonza Hinton. OF Little River
township. has been placed In jail on
the charge of selling whiskey.
The graded schools at Newton
were closed a few days ago on ac-
count of the smallpox situation in
that town.
Fisk & Robinso 4. bond dealers and
members of the sew York Stock Ex-
change, failed Tuesday for one mill
lion dollars.
At Greensboro Monday a burglar
broke into the home Of II. P. Brady
and stole a watch. $40 In cash and a
diamond ring. and made good his
escape.
William Moses. the Wayne County
negro who was charged with roast
ing his wife to death. was acquitted
by the jury which tried him a few
days ago at Goldsboro.
Baltimore was visited by a disas-
trous fire Tuesday afternoon. A
large lumber plant and nearby build
ings were destroyed, the loss
amounting to a quarter million dol
lars.
At Primero, Colorado, February
1st, more than 100 miners were en-
tombed by an explosion at the Pri-
nero mines. 1t is believed fully 100
lost their lives. Many mangled
bodies have been recovered.
Allen Green. q constable, fatally
shot Bass Browning at Waynesville.
The men, who were neighbors and
related by marriage, engaged in an
alteration in the Bank of Waynes-
Vile. Green shot Browning in the
left breast. the latter dying where
he fell.
Thomas NJ. Osborne, of New York,
who was born and reared in North
Carolina, was elected president Of
the general committee Of the Demo
cratic League of New York State, at
the formal organization of that body
at Albany few days ago.
The great food at Paris (from
overflow of the river Seine), which
has caused the loss of so much prop
erty and life. and rendered thousands
homeless for the time being, Is at
it's ebb this week. and normal con-
ditions are hoped for soon.
Next Wednesday, February 9Th,
there will be a meeting of the trus-
tees of the University of North Car
olina, at which time, 1t is understood,
the selection of a successor to the
late Judge McRae. dean of the Uni
versity law school. will be made.
Senator Simmons this week took
on a degree of legislative activity in
an attempt to secure the repeal of
the law making a tax on oleomar-
garine-"the poor mans butter"-
| which he claims Is "as healthful as
butter and should net be discrimi-
mated against"
Mrs. e. M. Saunders of Washing
ton, N. c., recently gave birth to
triplets, and this week she wrote a
letter to Governor Kitchin claiming
a supposed prize for such evidence OF
| fecundity. She was referred to ex.
President Roosevelt, upon his return
to the United States a few months
hence.
A cyclone" Is reported from
Greenville, Pitt County. but the ex
tent of the destruction wrought wa!
the demolition Of a negro school
house and a small building used b!
the keeper of a restaurant. Severa
chimneys were torn down and tn
glass skylights in a tobacco ware
house were broken.
, Ex-Sherif J. V. Shipp Of Chatta
: nooga, Tenn, who has just complet
) ed a sentence of three months i
Jail at Washington, D. c., for cor
tempt of the United States Suprem
Court, in connection with the lynch
. ing Of the nepro Ed Johnson q