The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-02-24

NIB nome III durham.
Mr.. George D. Lockamy died We'd
nesGay morning at his home on West
Morgan street. this city.
The banks and all public Offices In
Raleigh were closed Tuesday. 1t be-
ing Washington's birthday.
Governor Kitchin yesterday order
ed special term OF court for HarnetI
County, TO begin March ZIsL and last
one week. 1t viii be for the trial oil
civil cases only.
Robert Allen. who escaped from
the insane asylum IN Raleigh some
days ago, was captured at Pine Level.
Johnston County, Thursday alter
noon and brought back TO the asy-
lum.
Mr.. ID. F. Morrow of Burlington,
who came TO Raleigh ABOUT SIX weeks
ago TO undergo an operation at ReA
Hospital, died few days ago and ms
body was shipped to Burlington for
interment.
Governor Kitchin Monday granted
pardon TO Cepnus Ladd. OF Dur
ham County, convicted at the June
term, 1903. OF the crime OF selling
liquor, and sentenced to twelve
months on the roads.
Governor Kitchin has ordered a
special term OF Craven County court
TO be held for the trial OF Criminal
cases Tor one week. beginning Oh
the twenty-tirst OF March. Judge
ferguson Is TO preside.
II is said that Mr.. J. +. Bats, the
champion corn-grower, who lives
near Garner, Will cultivate thirty
acres THIS year in the same way he
did the one acre on which he pro-
duced 226 1-3 acres last season.
Herman Beasley, colored, was
found dead in the house OF colored
woman in Raleigh Saturday night.
Three arrests were made. but the
parties were later released. as 1t was
decided the negro died from suffoca-
ton.
There were sixteen cases in Raj
L "a
the defendants answering to the
charge of pubic drunkenness. w. +.
Jones, of Graham, was tined for be-
ing drunk ana carrying a concealed
weapon.
The Wake Sunday School Conven-
ton Will be held in the Methodist
Church at Cary Saturday March
18th. There are one hundred ana
twenty-nine Sunday-schools in ehe
county, and all are expected to be
well represented.
Mrs. B. Moore Parker. wife Of Mr..
B. M. Parker, head of the textile de
partment at the A. & NJ. College Ill
Raleigh, died Sunday in hospital
in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Parker ha0
been in i'll health for several months.
She was a daughter of the late E. R.
Stamps, of Raleigh.
Mr.. Gus A. Harrison, prominent
farmer of Alamance County, his son,
Mr.. Bastian Harrison. and his daugh-
ter, Miss Bertha Harrison, are in RAJ
leigh taking the Pasteur treatment.
They were not bitten. but were lick
ed on the hand by a hound that af-
forwards went mad.
Mrs. Oscar Williams died Friday
morning at her home in this city.
The remains were taken to Cary,
where the funeral was held from the
Baptist church on Saturday morning.
Mrs. Williams had been married only
three months. She was a daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Smith, of Cary.
Mr.. H. M. Reece of Raleigh, died
Thursday, from an attack of pneu-
monia. Mr.. Reece was a clerk in
the State Treasurer's Office. He was
native of jamestown, Guilford
County. Mr.. Reece had been loco
motive engineer for a number of
years before coming to Raleigh.
In the Superior Court Monday,
Chas. E. Stephenson was awarded
$500 damages against the city of
Raleigh. The case had been on the
docket for fifteen years. Mr.. Steph-
enson stuck a nail in his foot while
crossing Hillsboro Street bridge
where some repairs were being
made.
Junius Wall, colored. while clean
ing out we'll in New Light Town
ship, Wake County, was buried alive,
the result Of a cavern. Austin Cren-
shaw, colored. went to the rescue
and was lowered in the we'll and res
cued the entombed man. 1t took if
teen hours to extricate Wall from his
position.
Mrs. Susan Harper, of Richmond
Va, is critically i'll at the home OF
Mrs. N. R. Sandy, on West Johnson
Street, this city. Mrs. Harper is
nearly seventy years old and there
is little hope for her recovery. Al
of her relatives have been telegraph
ed for. Mrs. Harper is a sister Of
Mrs. Hilliard Bell. of this city.
Governor Kitchin has issued par
don to Sudie Hannor. of Cabarru:
County, who was serving a FIVE years
sentence for killing a man named
Stacks who had abused and mistreat
ed her. At the time of the murder
in 1906. the girl was under fourteen
years of age. Many citizens of Ca