The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-27

The Durham steam Laundry, o.
Durham, vas Quilted b. FIRE Monday.
Loss about $1,000.
s. EinsteIn died in Wilmington
few days ago as a resllt ofNInjuries .
received by being Knocked down b.
a street car.
Thomas Castor. a young man OF
Concord. attempted suicide Monday
by taking bIchloride tablets He is In
a very serious condition.
The State Association OF County
Commissioners OF this State will hold
their fourth annual convention in
Asheville on August 10th.
Jim Blanchard. young white
man. was arrested in Asheyille Sun
day, charged with attempting to GRIM
inAlly assault young girl.
Mr.. Alvin Horton, a well-known
newspaper writer, was killed in Yam
cey County few days ago by the &C
cidental discharge of his own gun.
Edgar Roch, the 18-year-old son
of Mr.. W. ID. Roch, of Mecklenburg
County, was drowned a few days ago
while swimming in the Catawba
River.
Mr.. Chas. Trent, of Durham,
was accidently killed in the railroad
yard at Florence, S. C.. Sunday. The
remains were shipped to Durham for
iRterment.
The young son of Sam Lindsey,
colored, of Arson County, sucked
bean in his windpipe few days ago
and died OF suffocaticn before aid
was rendered.
The J. II. Malone woodworking
shop, the store and dwelling house |
occupied by Mr.. Curtis Yates, of Dur
ham, were destroyed by fire last Fri
day. Loss about $4,000.
Henry Richie, of Charlotte, was
sent to the county roads for six
months when he would not tell the
names of Charlotte citizen for whom
he had ordered whiskey in large
quantities.
Mr.. Robert A Leinster, of States
Vile, father of Adjutant General
Leinster, died Tuesday afternoon, |
after a lingering illness. Mr.. Lem |
ster was one of the oldest citizens of
Statesville.
Revenue officers captured a large
"moonshine" still near Spout Springs,
in Harnett County, a few days ago. |
Twenty gallons of low wines, a pistol |
and a mule and wagon were included
in the capture.
Brown Fesperman, the seven-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. e.
Fesperman, of Statesville, was run
over by a threshing machine Thurs
day afternoon and almost instantly
killed.
DR.. John Randolph Brown, a lead
ing physician of Indianapolis, Ind,
died Monday in a sanitarium in Nash
vile, Tenn. He was native Of Ran
dolph County, this State, and was a
brother of the H. G. Brown. former
Corporation Commissioner.
While attempting to cross the rail-
road track at Laurel Hill Sunday, Mr..
J. T. Jockey, Of Wadesboro, was
struck and almost instantly killed by
the Seaboard Air Line train. The
remains were taken to his old home
at Clarkton for burial. He leaves a
wife and six children.
The case against Reuben Combs,
of Iredell County, the young man
charged with the murder of his wife,
Mrs. Bessie Combs, at their home,
near Stony Point, some weeks ago,
will be tried in the Superior Court at
Statesville next week. Combs is now
in jail and has made a partial con-
fession.
The Winston Journal says that
Monday night of last week the horse
and COW of John A. Whitaker, who
lives near Sloan, Surry County,
were poisoned with Paris green and
that an attempt was made to poison
the family by putting the same pois-
On in the milk and in the spring. A.
E. Burgess, a white man, said to be
an ex-convict, tenant on the farm
of Whitaker, is charged with the
crime.
With both arms and her nose
broken, Mrs. William F. Jones lies
at her home on North Cherry street,
the victim of most unusual acct
dent which occurred late Thursday
afternoon. When she started down