The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-09-28

A charter has been granted the
Merchants and Farmers Bank at Shall !
Iotte, and IL will begin business on
October 10th. The capital stock Is /
$4,000.
The fourteenth annual convention
of the yirginia-caroIina Photograph !
ers' Association Is in session In Aghe- /
Vile this week with very large at
tendance.
Dir. S. II. Holt. of Pittsboro, Con
federate soldier, and Clerk of the
Superior Court OF Chatham for eight
years, died suddenly at his home on
September 23rd.
In a chase for a stolen engine on
the tracks of a Norfolk. Va, lumber
company, Engineer II. l. Latham. OF
Elizabeth City, was killed near Nor
lima, September 25th.
The Cash Grocery Store on Depot
Street at Waynesville was very badly
damaged by fire on the morning OF
September 25th. The loss is esti-
mated at $1,000, partially covered by
insurance.
At Asheboro. September 23rd, the
Southern Railway train No. 143 was
wrecked on the return trip from
High Point About a dozen passen-
gers were badly shaken up, but none
were very seriously hurt.
The first cotton steamer from the
port of Wilmington this season sailed
last week for Genoa, Italy, from the
Sprunt & Son. 1t carried 6,467 of
the staple valued at $388,00O.
A colored man named Broadway, |
at work in a well in Arson County, |
on being drawn out, supposedly be-
came affected by foul air and lost his |
balance, falling fifty feet, crushing
his skull and killing him instantly.
Tom Linthicum, a well-known, and
at one time popular man of Durham,
was found dead few days ago in a
house in that town by an officer who
had gone to arrest him. Drink is
said to have caused his downfall.
Near Wilson, September 23rd, on
Bud Burnett's farm, Hassell Joyner
shot and killed Gorier Hinnant. Both
are colored. Joyner had been drink
a. ;r%o I'm 4
for another negro with whom he had
a grievance.
Ralph Morrison, of Charlotte, held
for the shooting of Cliff Ellis has
been released on bond of $1,000.
Morrison and two companions attack
ed ]. A. Moose, Morrison's uncle,
when he fired on them, seriously
wounding Ellis.
At Warsaw, September 3rd, ne
gro named Ed Rouse, at the Camp
Manufacturing Company's saw-mill.
cut and perhaps fatally wounded
three young white men, employees of
the company,-E. H. Boiling, ]. G.
Pridgen and J. S. Boiling.
The Stokes County Farmers Union
adopted a resolution providing for
the pooling of their 1911 crop leaf
tobacco, in a meeting at Danbury,
September 23rd. A large dry-house
to be- used by the union is nearing
completion at Walnut Cove.
\ On Saturday last, during thun-
derstorm, residence belonging toI
John F. Carpenter, a farmer near
Cherryville, CASTOR County, was
struck by lightning and burned to
the ground. 1t was occupied by al
tenant, who lost all he had.
L. G. Hancock, who was convicted
in February court, of Forysth Coun-
ty in 1909, for embezzlement, and
sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary, has been pardoned. Evil
dence presented to the Governor i'm
pressed him that Hancock is insane
John Turner, young white man,
was found in the road near Guilford
Battle Ground Saturday night, Sep
TENDER 2Srd, with two ugly gashes in
his head. He was unable to explain
: how he was hurt, beyond the fact
that he was in company with John
and Oscar Nelson, and that the entire
party was under the influence of
whiskey.
Revenue Officers Kanipe, Rowland,
and Possemen Jones and Winkler, on
September &c, made raid in Burke
County, capturing Noah Brittian and
arresting him for blockading and de-
stroyed a still, twenty-three fermeR-
tars and & 00n gallons of hear Rrita]