The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-03-03
Local M a t ters.


day after an illness of only two days.
Capt. II. H. Brooks, Superinten-
dent OF the Soldiers Home at Ra-
leigh, is confined TO his home by i'll
ness.
The North Carolina Baptist Sunday
School Assembly will be held In
Wake Forest the second week in Au-
gust.
Three men charged with being
drunk, and two disorderly, were
tried in the Raleigh police court
Tuesday.
The meeting of the Wake County
teachers, which was to have been
held last Saturday, was postponed
until March 18th.
The Lodges comprising the eighth
district, OF odd Fellows, will hold
their District Convention in Raleigh
Tuesday, March 8th.
There will be meeting OF the col
ored teachers of Wake County held
in the Washington school at RaIeigh
Saturday at II o'clock.
The contract has been let for re-
modelling the Union Depot in Ra-
leigh and the force is expected to be-
gin work in the near future.
DR.. ]. \. Templeton, President OF
the Wake County Farmers Union,
went to Clinton to-day to address the
Farmers Union of Sampson County.
Pink Love, colored. was tried be-
fore Police Justice Stronach Thurs
day on the charge of beating his wife
and was sent to the roads for thirty
days.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Burns dice
Saturday night at brownsville, Ga.
She was native of this city, and a
sister of Messrs. Joseph G.. Brown
and John w. Brown.
Mrs. r. n. Allen, of st. Matthews
Township, Wake County. died Mon
day in the 83rd year of her age. The
funeral was held Tuesday from
Samaria Baptist Church.
Mrs. Jennie Moore, wife of Mr.. ].
T. Moore, died yesterday morning of
pneumonia at her home about five
miles north of Raleigh. She is sur
vived by her husband and five chill
dren.
Walter Carroll, white, of Johnston
County, was Tuesday committed to
Jail by United States Commissioner
John Nichols. He is charged with
selling liquor and his hearing has
s been set for next Thursday.
Thomas Poteat. of Burke Countq
was Monday granted a conditional
pardon by Governor Kitchin. At the
August term, 1909, of Burke court
he was convicted of the crime of Sc
duction under promise of marriage
aud was sentenced to eighteen
months on the roads.
Mr.. c. V. Brown, of Rocky Mount
was Monday appointed by the NORTH
Carolina Corporation Commission as
Assistant State Bank Examiner. He
succeeds Mr.. w. L. Williams of Cum
berland County, who resigned to &C
cept a position with the Erwin Cot
ton Mills at Durham.
The national headquarters of thu
advocates of Woman's Suffrage a
Washington, D. c., sent petition t.
a Raleigh lady last week to get sign
ers petitioning Congress for Woman
Suffrage. If the petition has received
any signatures in Raleigh, the re
porter is not aware of the fact.
Jim Chavis, colored, who live
about ten miles north Of Raleigh
fell dead at the Union Station Satur
day morning between $50 and
O'Clock, while being taken HON
from the State Hospital for the Co
ored Insane at Goldsboro, where b
had been an inmate for sometime.
Mr. V. C. Tompkins, of this cit.
has been promoted from the positio
of commercial agent to that of a.
sistant general freight agent of tn
Seaboard Air Line. with headqua
tiers in Savannah. Ga. He goes
his new duties on March 18th. H
successor here has not yet bee
appointed.
A horse was killed near the corns
of Polk and Person streets in Ra
eigh Monday afternoon, by electro
ity. There was fastened to a TIRE
on the sidewalk a guy wire, which !
some way became crossed with a
electric light wire. The wet grour
became charged with electricit
Upon approaching the spot, the hor
reared and fell dead.
Before Justice Collins in Greer
boro Tuesday w. E. Massenbu
waived examination in the t.
cases against him charging him wi
abduction of Mrs. Arthur NOVEL; a.
little son Frank. and the other ca
charging him with kidnapping of
child. Massenburg gave bonds
the sum of $4,000 for his appearan
at the next term of Guilford Cou
which meets the 4th of April.
Mr.. Leroy Yeargin, who lily
about six miles north of Raleis
was injured in a runaway on Blou
street Monday afternoon. His hol
became frightened at a street C
when just in front of the Governo
mansion, and ran for some distan
throwing Mr.. Yeargin out of the b
gy. He was taken to Rex Hospi
where it was found that his ri
leg was fractured He was tai