The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-01-27

talking TO friend.
Houston Barber, colored, was kill
ed In row at a negro ball at Win
ston Saturday night.
One hundred persons have been
killed in a religious riot at Bokara.
Russian Central Asia.
John Lee. a negro OF Selma, n. c.,
was shot and fatally wounded in a
crap game Saturday evening.
The State tuberculosis Sanatorium
at Montrose. Cumberland County, is
now open to receive patients.
Mrs. J. Langhorne Barham, wife
Of State Senator Barham, died Sun
day at her home in Goldsboro.
Five persons were killed and If
teen injured In wreck on the Big
Four Railroad near Cincinnati Satur-
day morning.
The Census Bureau at Washin gton
reports only 9,792,OOO bales of cot
ton ginned to January 10th, from the
growth Of 1909.
A negro named Will Tribe was
shot down by Calvin Jones, another
negro, at Moyock Saturday. The
shooting was without provocation.
Pink Dry, white man of Cabarrus
with the murder of Ann Flowe, a ne
gro woman, who lived near Concord.
Four prisoners made their escape
from the Jail at Pittsboro, Chatham
County, Sunday night. The jailer
thinks the prisoners had outside
help.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at Beamount, Texas, Monday night
for attempted assault on white wo-
man.
Thomas Taggart, ex-Chairman of
the Democratic National Executive
Committee, was seriously wounded
Friday night while hunting near
Natchez, Miss.
Mr.. J. H. Dorsett, of Surry County,
sold a small quantity of tobacco in
Winston Friday for seventy cents a
pound and another lot for forty-eight
cents a pound.
Joseph T. Paxton, son of a promi-
nent mill machinery manufacturer Of
Philadelphia, Pa, was found dead
Saturday morning in the Corcoran
Hotel at Durham.
Governor Kitchin has appointed A.
M. Stack, Esq, of Monroe, Solicitor
succeed Mr.. L. D. Robinson, re-
signed.
Henry and Colt Ratcliff, young
white men, plead guilty toSassault
and battery on negro woman in
Superior Court at Wadesboro Satur-
day and were sentenced to six months
on the roads.
The Guilford County Agricultural
Association announce that they will
give $1.25O in prizes to farmer boys
who show best yield of corn in Gull
ford County. The prizes will be di-
vided in county and township prizes
The high price of meat has caused
the consumers in many cities
throughout the country to sign an
agreement not to eat any meat for
one month. 1t is thought this course
will cause the packers to reduce the
| price.
Sheriff Watson, of Cumberland
County, captured an illicit distill OF
twenty-five gallons capacity Friday
night, making thirty-three captured
by this officer. The still was located
in Seventy-first Township, eleven
miles from Fayetteville.
The sheriff of Cumberland County
has notified the near-beer dealers in
Fayetteville that they must close VI
shop or they will be arrested, not
withstanding the fact that they have
Just paid $500 to the city for license
to operate their business.
Walter O'Neal, a prominent farm
er of O'NeaPs Township, Johnston
County, living about seven mile
from Selma, was kicked to death b.
a mule a few days ago. 1t is re
ported that O'Neal was in the stabl
beating the mule when the acciden
5 occurred.
Bernice Mangum, an eleven-year
old boy Of Durham, died Monda
morning of hydrophobia. Youn
Mangum, with four other boys, wa
: bitten two months ago by mad dog
t A maidstone was applied to tn
: wound on the Mangum boy, but
did no good. The other boys too
the Pasteur treatment and recovered
Governor Kitchin has telegraphe
the sheriff of Burke County to r,