The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-10-19
Local Matters.

Commissioner OF LADoF anu FIlnt~
81. shipman has returned from
= at, TO Western North Carolina
pov Davis. a negro who lived at
..-,sburg. was killed in attempting
board a freight train near Wake
ro,sst. october 10th.
~ : Lee. of Dunn, who was acct
s.,,aJIy shot in Mexico during some
.,ra.cal troubles down there, has re-
nod home for treatment.
g,,,erIntendent J. T. Laughing
,onse and Warden T. P. Sale have
-ore TO Omaha TO attend the meeting
:, the Southern Prison Association.
Information from the State Depart
rept Of Education is that there are
-or over 1900 rural local tax dis
riots in North Carolina with reports
=, new ones steadily coming in.
r II. Ellis and Roy Carroll, both
=, CLAYTON, were bound over to the
November term of Federal Court
Monday by United States Commits
sfoDer Nichols, on a charge of retail
ing without license.
" l.. Sandlin, the Wilmington
wife murderer, will not be electro
rgted Friday, the day on which he
uas sentenced to die. Governor
Kltchin will on November 9Th appoint
time for the execution.
Sheriff J. H. Sprinkle and Regis
ter of Deeds ]. F. Moore, of Davie
County, brought two prisoners to the
States Prison Saturday. One Julius
Clay, A white man, has a three-year
sentence for manslaughter, while the
other, Spencer James, a negro, has
thirty years for second degree bur-
glary.
Mr.. C. Marvin Bradley, about 80
years of age, and an engineer on the
Raleigh and Southport Railroad, died
at Rex Hospital October 18th after
several weeks illness of typhoid few
er His remains were shipped to his
late home at Kipling for burial. He
leaves a father, mother, and several
brothers and sisters.
Director E. G. RoutZahn, known in
Raleigh in connection with the Amer
lean tuberculosis Exhibition, is here
again in the interest of the Christmas
seal campaign which is being vigor-
Ously pushed all over the country by
the American Red Cross and the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis.
People visiting the State Fair will
have an opportunity to know just
what a hookworm dispensary is, as
there will be a model dispensary at
the Fair. Hookworm victims, hook
worms and hookworm eggs will be on
exhibition, and physician will make
free examinations to all who are in
tested and administer free treatment.
Dan Curry, an old negro, convict
ed in Davidson County in August of
selling whiskey, and sentenced to six
months in jail, was the beneficiary of
a communication of sentence to two
months and a bond approved by the
Clerk of the Superior Court for his
appearance for the next three years
at the first spring and fall terms to
show that he has been law-abiding.
There was filed with the North
Carolina Corporation Commission
Tuesday the answer Of the Norfolk
Southern Railroad to the petition for
union passenger station at Wilson.
The railroad claims that it's station
is adequate and that already better
service is furnished than is justified.
The State Fair is in progress this
week. Governor Kitchin opened the
Fair Tuesday morning and Governor
Harmon spoke yesterday.
In this issue appears the first in
stallment of Burning Daylight" a
story Of love and adventure. The
story begins with life in the mining
districts of Alaska. Jack London is
one of the very best writer's of adj
venture, due to the fact that he him
self has been an adventurer. We
have had many requests to print a
serial story in The Caucasian and
have decided to adopt the suggestion
and the story will run through sew.
eral issues.