The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-09-07

Deputy Collector John II. c-~Sor-
man. OF Dobson, aged fifty years.
died OF peIlagra on September Is,. He
was In the Revenue service many
years.
Washington vas visited By slight
earthquake shock on the night OF
Sepfember 4th, two distinct shocks
being felt between the hours Of and
10 O'Clock.
In brawI at BrocktoH. near Hick-'
DRY. Walter Jones. a white man. and
one negro were seriously hurt. Jones
was in a negro section and became
involved with three negroes.
DIR. L. y. Burieyson, a prominent
physician of Concord. has been ar
rested On the charge OF selling CO.
caine. There are two cases against
him, both of the witnesses being ne
groes.
News received by the family Of
Preston l.. Yount, formerly OF New
ton, who was murdered at Ardmore, !
Oklahoma, state that the murderers
have been caught and are held with
out bail.
1t is stated that a new hotel is
soon to be erected near Asheville, by
Mr.. E. B. Grove, owner of Grove
Park. Said building Is to cost $780,
900, and will be up-to-date in every
respect.
Mr.. S. L. Gilmer, one Of Mount
Airy's most highly respected citizens,
died at his home September 5th, in
his S5th year. Mr.. Gilmer was
member OF the well-known Gilmer
family Of this State.
Braxton Barley, seventeen years
Of age, mailing clerk for the Sails
bury Post, was drowned in the North
Yadkin River, about twelve miles
from Charlotte, at point called Horse
Shoe Bend, on the morning of Sep
TENDER 4th.
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II. c. Thompson was arrested in Win
ston last week for taking subscrip-
lions to the Ladies' Home Journal for
81, when the price is $3.50. The
Home Journal people said she did not
represent them.
A reward of $500 has been offered
by ]. A Rowe for the recovery Of the
body of his brother-in-law, M. r.
Walker, the young man who was sup
posed to have committed suicide on
trestle over Banks Channel, near Will
mington, few days ago.
Mrs Kate Brown Hogan, relict of
the late ]. B. Hogan, for many years
one of the Seaboard Air Lines most
popular conductors, died very sud-
denly at her esidence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. B. Utter, at Hamlet, on
the morning of September 4th.
Announcement is made by J. O..
Fitzgerald, of Pelham, President of
the National League of Postmasters
of North Carolina, that the League
will meet in Asheville, September 49,
81, in connection with the association
of first and second-class postmasters
of North Carolina.
Adam Smith, colored, convicted of
manslaughter in the killing of Jim
Townsend, another negro, in three
handed fight between Smith, Town
send, and Clay Johnson, August 18th,
near Fayetteville, has been sentenced
to three years in the States Prison by
Judge Whedbee.
Rathbone Clinton. a broker. 3 5
years old, and a member of an aristo-
cratic family in North Carolina, and
brother of Capt. James Clinton, U. S
A, and of Capt. Thomas Clinton OF
the marine service, attempted suicide
in New York on August 81 by shoot,
ing himself in the left lung. He viii
recover.
About five thousand people gather
ed at Asheboro, on September End, tt
witness the unwilling Of the monu
ment to the Confederate soldiers o.
Randolph County. Hon. Walter Clark
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
was speaker of the day, being intro
duced by Col. James T. Morehead, o
Greensboro.
Mr.. J. w. Fitzgerald, of Davidson
County, has agreed to donate to tn
trustees of Greensboro Female Col
lege, the sum of ten thousand dollar
for the purpose Of erecting dormi
tory, provided other friends of tn
college contribute fifteen thousan,
dollars, said building to cost twenty