The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-04
State News.

4 very destructive fire took place
in the town of Pantego. in Beaufort
County. about thirty miles from this
city between and o'clock Monday
morning.
1redell and Columbus Counties are
not troubled with race suicide. In
Iredell, there are twenty-four chill
dren In one family. and In a Column
bus family the number is sixteen.
Tuesday afternoon between and
Z o'clock the grand-stand at Kanap-
oils vas blown down by the severe
wind storm and Robert Gunter. Who
was one of its occupants vas killed.
Bitten by bulldog belonging to a
member Of the Raleigh band. the lit
tie daughter OF e. ID. Bradham, OF
New Bern was badly hurt The dog
was shot and the head sent to the
State Physician 10 determine II 1t
had rabies.
The receiver. stockholders and d.
rectors Of the Peoples Bank OF
Chapel Hill. met last Monday before
Judge J. e. Biggs I'm the Office Of
Attorney 4. o. Everett and 1t looks
now as II the bank will be put on its
feet and will open its doors again.
Jealous Of the attention her hus-
band was showing another woman,
Helen Price. a Charlotte negress, shot
and blowed of the head of her hus- |
band, Oscar Price. She surrendered
quietly to arrest and was placed in
jail. i
Leave of absence has been granted q
to third and fourth-class postmasters /
in North Carolina to attend the meet 1
ing OF the North Carolina State a
League of Postmasters to be held at t
Winston-Salem, September 23d and
oath.
Alb Byrd, of Fayetteville, who is t
charged on July End inflicted the {
blow which subsequently caused the T
death or Fred Thomson, was arraign-
ed Monday before Magistrate Nc
Lean. He pleaded guilty, waived
examination. and was remanded to n
Jail without bail -
Waynesville is just now in the ;,
midst of the busiest part of the u
tourist season. Every train brings in =
crowds of visitors from the south and "
east. The hotels and boarding houses o,
are filling up rapidly, and it is quite
certain that the town will be crowded h.
by August 1st =.
The committee appointed by Gov io
ernor Kitchin to make an investiga- -
ton into the management of the
State tuberculosis sanitarium at
Montrose has begun it's investiga-
lions. The committee is composed
Of B. c. Beckwith, of Raleigh. and
R. F. Beasley, of Monroe. ~
Lewis Stewart, a farmer, was Vi
found unconscious with his skull LII
fractured in one of the stalls at a to- Ct
Dacco warehouse at Winston-Salem. u
The supposition is that he was as I'll
saulted with a brick by a negro and
robbed Mr.. Stewart was removed III
% the hospital. His condition is Sc
rious.
J. w Davenport, a merchant OF Sc
Rocky Mount, is held for court, nc
charged with assaulting and choking m
Mrs. Agnes Rose. The woman, who m
vas in a delicate conditions, is seri- or
,usly ILL There is considerable feel WI
ng on both sides, Davenport's friends or
claiming that there is absolutely no III
grounds for the charge.
By communicating to Jailer J. M.
Branch a conversation overheard be-
ween two negro prisoners, Rev. T. Sa
/. Aston, the preacher-tailOr, and IN
1eorge Green, both colored, and SEN tn
enced to terms of the county roads ia
or false pretense and forgery, re- ap
pectively, a negro woman probably TO
aved the life or serious injury of the ed
ailer at Wilmington and prevented
he escape of the negroes mention
d. The negroes had plotted to over a.
ower the jailer when he entered the
orridor with their breakfast, secure
is keys and make their escape, but dc
he timely information of the negress pc
aused their plans to be frustrated. pu
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