The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-03-31
STATE NEWS ITEMS

STATE NEWS ITEMS
Disastrous Are At Rocky Mount
Friday night caused . loss OF
$4,000.
A movement looking 70 the cree
ton OF q bonded warehouse At VIII
mington is under way.
W. J. Blake. wanted IN Laurenburg
for murder of Hector Stewart. two
years ago. has been arrested at Co
lumbus. Ohio. @
Benz. G.. Barnes, OF Henderson.
committed suicide by taking laud-
mum on Tuesday.
Luther Proctor and Chas. Holt.
young white men OF Greensboro,
were sent 10 the roads for six months
for selling whiskey.
Henry Stanbury. an East Durham
youth, killed himself by taking a dose
Of carbolic acid. He is said to have
previously shown signs OF insanity.
w. A. Hip recovered $3.50 for
injuries and w. A. Austin 81 800 for
the loss OF his son. against the Cham
pion Fibre Company near Asheville.
E. E. Powell, Of Halifax, who kill
ed Officer Dunn and wounded Sem
ator Travis and Representative
Kitchin, will be placed on trial to-
day.
The Southern Railway announces
that it will shortly begin extensive
improvement on the passenger depots
at Raleigh, Statesville, Sanford, and
Marion.
Reports indicate that the truck
crops in the eastern part of the State
will be unusually large. The Fruit
and Truckers Journal predicts that
this will be one of the most success
full years ever known.
Charlotte is in danger Of losing the
United States Mint. Franklin Mac
Veaugh, Secretary of the Treasury,
has a plan to curtail the expenses of
his department and the century-old
mint of the Queen City is marked for
slaughter.
In suit brought by a Texas bank
against Brodie L. Duke, at Durham,
to secure $4,000 on a note given by
Duke to Alice Webb, his alleged
wife, the jury found for Duke. He
claimed to have been mentally ire
spOnsible at the time he signed the
note.
While beating his way on extra
freight train No. SIS, northbound,
passing Thomasville Thursday even
ing, Charles Looabill (better known
as "Chad'D, who lives in Lexington,
fell under the moving train and was
cut in two across the stomach and
died almost instantly.
w. E. Logan, recently appointed
Marshal of the Western North Caro-
lima District, will assume office April
LIST. He announces that he will make
no changes in his official force. J.
M. Bailey, acting Marshal, will be-
come chief clerk.
Aroused by a noise in the early
morning hours, Mr.. J. Harens, a
prominent resident of Washington
found Charles Johnson asleep in the
dln1ng-room. Johnson claims to have
been drunk, but he is locked up un-
der a charge of forcible entry.
The millers of North Carolina
have organized under the title of the
North Carolina Millers' Association.
}. D. Mcneil, of Fayetteville, is
President, and at a meeting called
for May Gath, it is hoped to have the
45O millers in the State present.
Salisbury citizens have issued a call
Tor meeting in the interest of local
option. w. A Self. of Hickory, who
addressed a similar meeting a few
weeks ago at Henderson, has been
invited to speak. The movement.
which is being pushed all over the
State. is for the abolition of the pres
ent law and the. re-establishment of
the local option plan.
Suit for damages against Jeremiah
Goff, OF Charlotte. has been formally
instituted by Mrs. M. w. Christen-
bury, of Derita, as a result of the
death OF her husband who was run
over and killed on the Derita road
several weeks ago by the automobile
belonging to Mr.. Golf, driven at the
time by George. Evans, the negro
cnaufeur. It is understood that the
amount of damages asked for will be
$4,000 or $4,000.