The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-07


ago. He was sixty-six years old
The champion corn grover IN
North Carolina this year 10 Charles
Parker, sixteen years old. OF Hsrt-
ford County, who gathered 23s l~z
bushels from an acre.
Mr.. Arthur Owens. Of near Shell
by, was accidentally shot and killed
By a revolver In the hands Of Fonx
Williamson. the ten-year-oId son OF
Ar. Charlie Williamson, OF the same
vicinity.
Mitchell Wilson, young white
man OF Glade Greek township. Allie
ghany county. was shot and killed
by John Moxiey, of the same vicinity,
a few days ago. Moxley was drink
and claims the shooting was acct
dental.
The dormitory at Mount Amonea.
School. Concord, was destroyed by
fire Nov. 80. entailing a loss or from
five 10 ten thousand dollars, partially
covered by insurance. The fire start
ed from an explosion of a lamp In a
students room.
Mr.. Henry Hodges, son of DR.. J.
NJ. Hodges, OF LAGRANGE, was knock
ed senseIess Tuesday evening by an
unknown negro whom he found
prowling around In DR.. Hodges lot.
The negro escapes, as no witnesses
were present.
Mr. s. C. Sullivan, a young man,
formerly OF Greensboro, engineer of
the Atlantic Coast Lines power plant
at Rocky Mount, was electorcuted in
the shops at that place Last Friday.
Thirty-three hundred volts passed
through his body.
Lyle Ellis, the sixteen-year-old son
OF Mr.. j. A. Ellis, OF Grover, was &C
cidentally shot while out rabbit hunt
ing a few days ago, by the dogs
jumping On the gun and causing it to
discharge, the shot taking effect in
the boys left breast.
Rev. F. II. Jones, a well known
Baptist minister, died at his home in
Reidsville, Friday, December i, at
the age OF rs years. During his
ministerial career he baptized four
thousand persons, and among them
ten men who became preachers.
Douglas Roberts, the seven-year-
old son OF Manager w. J. Roberts, of
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Office, Winston
Salem, was accidentally shot in the
forehead few days ago by Linden
Miller, another boy of the same age.
The boys were playing with a rife.
A freight wreck at Haw River
trestle caused the delay of traffic a
number of hours, November 80. Fire
man Joe Hawkins (colored) was IA
tally injured, while Engineer Avery,
Of Greensboro, was seriously injured.
The cause of the wreck is not known.
G. M. Crompton, the young man of
Ossipee Cotton Mills, Alamance
county, who was shot near Green's
boro by Abe Conklin about five weeks
ago, died November 20, at st. Leo's
Hospital. Conklin is in jail and will
have to answer to the charge of muir
der.
The large Morgan warehouse at
Burlington, with prizes of British
American and Continental Tobacco
Companies, was burned on Monday
morning, entailing a loss OF twenty
thousand dollars. The fire was
caused by an oil-stove being turned
over.
Capt. Isaac Emerson, a former
Tar Heel, and now a Baltimore null
ti-millionaire, was attacked a few
days ago by an employe at his
Southern home near GEORGETOWN, S.
c., and would have been shot but
for Mrs. Emerson, who threw herself
between the two.
Thursday afternoon while two lit
tie children of Mr.. Charlie Kirk, OF
near Wadesboro, were playing around
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a lot Of cotton in the yard, one OF
them set fire to the cotton, damaging
seven bales or more before the fire
could be extinguished by the neigh.
borS
Marvin Williams, colored, was shot
dead in Winston, Friday night, anG
Virgil Boyles, young white man
is charged with the shooting. Boyle!
was In the employ of the Winston
Salem Light and Fuel Company, ant
it was said he caught the negro
stealing coal and fired on him as b,
ran.