The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-24


wbo lived near Big Lick. Stanley
County, committed suicide Monday
morning.
All absolute pool Of the tobacco
crop grown this year has been or
dered By the Farmers Union in
Stokes County.
Boss" Scarborough shot and Sc
riously wounded Johnny Leach In
Wilmington Sunday night. Both par
ties are colored.
Miss Elsie Williams. OF Plttsboro.
was brought 10 Raleigh Friday and
taken to Rex Hospital, where she
underwent an operation for appendi-
citis.
The Dallas Cotton Mills Of Dallas,
CASTOR County, has gone into the
hands OF a receiver. The mill had
not been On a paying basis for the
past year.
Arson County was visited BY
heavy wind and rain storm Saturday
night which did considerable dam
age to corn and cotton crops in some
sections of the country.
Charles Harrison, a white man
about twenty-five years of age, was
drowned Monday night in a cinder
Dit under the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad coal chute near Wilmington.
The first native tobacco was sold
on the Durham market Saturday. The
lot sold was $40 pounds, raised by
Mr.. G. d. Beavers, of Person County.
The average price for the lot was Ia
cents d pound.
The first bale of cotton raised in
Arson County this year was sold at
Wadesboro last Thursday for II IL
cents a pound. The cotton was
raised on Mr.. John S. Watkins farm,
near Wadesboro.
Secretary Wilson, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington,
will visit this State in October to
attend some rallies that will be held
along the Cape Fear in the interest
of the drainage project.
Allen Trivett, aged thirty-two
years, was shot and killed by his I'M
Gle, w. Pitt Ballew, at the latter's
home, in Asheville, yesterday morn
ing. The killing occurred in the sick
room of the slayer's mother.
A large dry kiln of the Grace Fur
niture Company in Salisbury, col
lapsed Friday, entailing loss to the
plant of several hundred dollars. The
night Waterman had a narrow es-
cape from being caught under the
falling timbers.
Mrs. Luetta Taylor, widow OF
Rocky Mount, put a burglar to flight
at her home Monday night. The
burglar was trying to open the blinds
and refused to leave when ordered
away, until Mrs. Taylor opened fire
on the intruder.
Miss Bessie Jones, of Montgomery
Ala, was killed in a wreck on the
Seaboard between Hamlet and Will
mington last Thursday. The engine
hut
car, in which Miss Jones was riding
turned turtle. Other passenger!
were slightly injured.
Columbus County was visited by ;
severe rain and hailstorm Sunda.
morning. The smokestacks Of tn
Whiteyille Lumber Company wer
blown down and 1t will be week be
fore the mill can operate again. Sew
eral residences in the vicinity o
Whiteville were badly damaged b
the wind and falling trees.
Burke Privett, a drug clerk, sho
and probably fatally wounded an uI
afternoon. The sheriff had seen tn
negro in "crap" game and was gi1
ing him a chase when the drug cler
joined the sheriff and shot down til
negro. Reports do not state whethe
the drug clerk was placed under a.
rest.
Tuesday night negro mai
Charles Whitsley, applied to the Wi
son police station for nights lod,
ing-saying that he was sick an
had no home. He was told to go
and lay down in one of the cell
Nothing more was thought about hi
until the next morning, when on il
vestigation he was found cold
death.-Wilson correspondent New
and Observer.