The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-22


The State reunion Of Confederate
veterans will be held al Wilmington.
August End and 2rd.
The North Carolina Epworth
League Assembly will convene In
Hickory next Wednesday.
The North Carolina Medical So
ciety are holding their annual meet
ing in Charlotte this week.
The North Carolina Bankers Asso-
citation Is holding its annual session
at Hendersonyiile this week.
MIR. ]. ID. Jenkins, a merchant OF
Mount Airy, committed suicide Friday
nv taking an overdose of laudanum.
The DISQUALIFICATION Com
pany furniture dealers OF Winston
will erect a 5000, addition to their
building.
At Tarboro Saturday afternoon
Willie Jones, colored, shot Hillard
Foster through both arms. Jones
was placed in jail.
The eighth annual convention OF
the North Carolina Building and
Loan League was held in New Bern
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Guilford County Superior Court is in
session this week. Seventy new
cases have been added to the docket
since court opened Monday.
The Rockingham Post comes for
ward with the first cotton blooms or
the season in Richmond County
which was plucked on the 18th.
Mr.. ]. L. Scott, of Graham, died
few days ago, aged seventy-nine.
Mr.. Scott was a former member OF
the State Senate from Alamance.
A blind horse, left standing un-
hitched near a saw mill in Moore
County, walked into the saw and was
cut to pieces -Statesville Landmark
The Mocksville Record says that
fourteen COWS belonging to II. &.
Grubb were killed in an electrical
storm near Mocksville some days
ago.
A residence owned by Mr.. Clarence
Edwards in Durham was destroyed
by fire Sunday afternoon. The resi-
dence was set on fire by a stroke iof
lightning.
At meeting of the Cotton Manu-
facturers' Association of North Caro-
lima at Charlotte last week Mr.. S. B.
Tanner of that city was elected pres
ident for the ensuing year.
Mrs. J. D. Meredith, of Taboro,
committed suicide few days ago.
Her husband found her lifeless body
in a creek near the city Mrs. Mere
dith had been in i'll health for some
time.
Coon Fender, farmer of Wilson
County, was shot and seriously
wounded by John Hollywood, another
we'll known farmer of, that county
Saturday night. Hollywood was ar
rested.
Henry Marshburn, of Durham,
was run over and fatally injured by
a train at Greensboro last Friday.
He died Saturday afternoon and the
body was shipped to Durham for in
terment.
Mr.. Gill Bentley, a bachelor who
lived near Taylorsville, Alexander
County, was found dead beside a
creek near his home last Thursday
night. Mr.. Bently had been dead
for several days.
J. H. Merritt, a life insurance man
of Greensboro, was arrested in Nash
County a few days ago on the charge
of appropriating some of the com
paHy's funds. Merritt says he has g
claim against the company.
John M. Hopkins, of Durham, fell
from a scaffold while painting 6
building in Norfolk, Va, and received
injuries that caused his death Satur
day morning. The body was shipped
to Durham Sunday for interment.
Two prisoners set fire to the Spen
Ger Jail few days ago hoping there
by to gain their freedom, but, a
help was slow in arriving, the pris
oners decided it a safer proposition
to extinguish the fire themselves.
In Federal Court at Greensbor
last week Sid Allen, a prominent Cit
zen of Carroll County, Virginia, wa