The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-30

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- -crlce court Monday.
,,ss pcuiah Miller, OF Augusta, I
t,s been secured as the teach
,he Pleasant Grove School. In
g.. Creek township. Wake county.
~ 3. Barbee Is confined at his
- North BIount Street By Ill
- having suffered a nervous
.,eakdo~n.
~ VI. r. Yearly, of this city.
- o, Rex Hospital Monday evening
- age Of AZ years. He had been
~se~.ag for some weeks past with
Corol.cation of diseases.
The Wake County teachers will
80. % Raleigh next Saturday at
-,cr his being decided on in order
49,. --ay may attend the sessions of
80 state Teachers Assembly.
Mrs F. A. Whitaker, who lived
..,.- miles south Of Raleigh. died
~.essav morning following short
...,r., Of pneumonia. She Is sur
~.,at by her husband and four chill
dren.
ur J. Y. Joyner, State Superin-
,a,.ent Of Public Instruction. has re-
,a-ged from Chicago, where he went
~ meeting of the Committee Of
eleven Of the National Council of
Education.
Sidney Salmon, Confederate vet
Gran about 70 years Of age, died
Friday at the Soldiers Home. He
came to the Home seven years ago
from Chatham County, and had been
member of Company G, Fortieth
North Carolina Regiment.
Charged with seduction under
Dromise of marriage in Cleveland
County, Rowland Lovelace was car
red, back to Shelby Monday to stand
trial. He is a young white man and
had come to Wake County and enter
ed the employ Of a lumber company
in st. Matthew's Township.
Two special terms of Superior
Court have been ordered by Governor
Kitchin. One for CASTOR county,
January s, for one week for trial OF
civil cases, Judge B. F. Long to pre-
side, and a special term for Perqul-
mans county, January 1. for one
week, Judge G. w. Ward to preside
The North Carolina Teachers AS
sembly held it's opening session last
ngiht in the Auditorium. Preslden'
Chas. l.. Coon, of Wilson, N. c., de,
iiyered the opening address. Today
the Thanksgiving sermon will bt
preached by Rev. John E. White, O.
Atlanta, Ca, and tonight Hon
Champ Clark will deliver an address
Ross French, the Cherokee Indian
paid the penalty of his crime for thu
murder of Miss Ethel Shuler, o.
Swain county, last September, In tn
electric chair last Friday morning
This was the eighth electrocution II
North Carolina since the law pro
vided that electrocution In tn
States Prison take the place o
hanging.
DR.. Archibald Henderson, PROBES
sor of Mathematics in the Univers1t
of North Carolina, was awarded tn
Patterson Cup, on Monday night o
the first meeting Of the State Lii
erary and Historical Association, hi
life and works of Bernard Shaw DC
ing pronounced the best piece OF III
erary work done in North Carol1n
during the year.
The two days session of the Stat
Literary and Historical Assempi
came to an end Tuesday night afte
the most successful meeting OF II
history The principal event OF tn
evening was an address by Senate
Henry c. Lodge, Of Boston, on tn
Constitution and it's Makers.
was a great address and he was hear
with keen attention and enjoymen
After the speaking a reception WI
given the Assembly by Judge ar
Mrs. R. w. Winston.
Among the FIVE State cases to
argued on appeal in the Supren
Court this week, that of State v
Charles Murphey. from Yancey Cou
ty, is of special interest, the prison
being under sentence to be electrocu
ed for the murder Of John Simmol
December 81, 1910. This is the ca
in which Murphey became enraged
the deceased because he refused
give him a drink of whiskey wh'
they met in the public road. Mu
phey shot the old man three time
He set up the plea of insanity due
epileptic fits and also pleads defe
tive verdict by the jury in that 1t W
not specified that their verdict W
murder in the first degree.