The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-23

Reports from Henderson are that
Tuesday had the largest tobacco
breaks of the season. and the prices
were higher than for years.
The six months child OF Sr. HaT-
ris Rummage. OF Mt. Gilead, - C.,
fell into a pan OF hot water few
days ago and vas scalded TO death
Vernon Hart, a thirteen-year-old
boy OF West Hillsboro. while ascend
ing a stairway a few days ago. made
a misstep. and fell. breaking his
neck.
Mr.. w. p. Pritchard caught a huge
black bear on his place about five
miles from Elizabeth City Friday af-
ternoon. The bear weighed 206
pounds.
Mr.. w. b. Bullock, who lives near
Scotland Neck, Is asid to have plant
ed eleven acres in cotton this year
and has gathered twenty-five bales
OF 437 pounds each.
Mr.. Charlie Parker, of Hartford
County, aged 16, is said TO be now
the champion corn-grower OF the
world, having raised on one acre
235 IL bushels of corn.
ri. -af aH OF
New Bern yesterday morning and will
continue to-day. 1t is said to be one
of the biggest events Of its kind ever
attempted in Eastern North Carolina.
While alone at her home at Dia-
mond Hill, near huntsville, Mrs. w.
l.. Winfield, during a fainting spell,
fell into the fireplace and was so
badly burned that she died Novem-
Der 16.
The Elkin 6 Allegheny Railway
has completed track-laying to point
eight miles beyond Elkin. The COM
pany expects to complete the track
to the Blue Ridge Mountains in two
weeks.
Will Logan, charged with the muir
der and robbery Of Elander Henrick-
son, at Blewett Falls, Sunday morn
ing, was given a hearing in Wades-
boro Tuesday and committed to pail
without bail.
Wilson Thomas, the negro who
was placed on trial yesterday for the
murder of George Glover, another ne
gro, while the latter was asleep in
watermelon patch last August, plead
guilty to second egree murder.
Mr.. James D. Legget, a well-known
and highly esteemed citizen of Will
liamston, died at his home Sunday
afternoon Of paralysis. He had been
in failing health for about a year.
He is survived by a wife and several
young children.
Mrs. Sallie Tatum, of near States
vile, died Tuesday night from the
effects of burns received a few days
ago at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. F. M. Scroggs. Her dress be-
came ignited from contact with a
heater. She was rs years old.
John Bragg, small white boy liv-
ing near the cotton mill in Oxford,
had a few words with a colored boy
who was passing when the negro
drew a No. % rife and shot the
white boy, knocking out some of his
teeth and fracturing his jaw-bone
The First North Carolina Printers
Cost Congress met in Greensboro
yesterday and will continue until to-
day noon. More than one hundred
representative job printers of the
State, with fully fifty out of State and
factory representatives, are in atten-
dance.
A reward has been offered fol
William Pride, one Of the negroes
who assaulted Deputy Sheriff Smith
in Laurinburg, a few nights ago
while he was conveying a negro pris.
oner to Jail. The officer is not as Sc.
riously injured as was at first
thought.
Deputy Sheriff Paxton, in an at
tempt to arrest Thomas Elrod and hi.
son, Leroy Elrod, who were wanted
in Pickens, s. c.. for alleged muir
der, shot and killed the younger Ell
rod, and wounded his father, in {
skirmish near Asheville, Novembe
16.
Mr.. Virginus Miller, young mai
OF Wilson, had the misfortune to ge
his hand caught in the machinery o
cotton-gin at Elm City a few day
ago and his arm 90 hadlv crnshad 1