The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-14

s.,er Is to preside.
r.,e crap shooters were taken In
- saturday night by police OFF,
They were located in cottage
=. O.. south Street.
,rez has voted $4,000 for COM
.,.foa city hall and market house
= for street improvements, $1,000
/ : - expended for each.
vrs Jacob S. Allen, relicit OF the
-. Jacob 5. Allen, died at the home
!, her son, Mr.. John G. Allen, in
-. city Sunday afternoon. She
=. sister of Mrs. John Nichols
( this city.
ont OF the ffty-nine applicants for
-,sBge 10 practice pharmacy in North
r,roIlna. examined here last week,
.,1y fifteen passed. In the list Of
.-rressful ones there are ten whites
and five negroes, one of them being a
s0maa.
V- I ". FELTON,, of Harnett Coun-
r. died at the Soldiers Home Sun
4ay morning, at the age of sixty-nine
ysars He served in Company E,
Nineteenth Regiment, during the War
between the States and entered the
Home four years ago.
4 well-dressed man was found on
me streets in Raleigh yesterday in a
srazy condition and taken to the po-
Ice station, later being committed to
The State Hospital. He said his
name was A. B. Noell, and his hat
lore the name of Mock & Bagby of
Winston Salem.
Cary is to have a storage ware
house, to be called the Union StOr-
age Company" in which cotton can
be stored and put on the market to
the best advantage. The main stock
holders are members of the Farmers
Union, but other business men are
Interested in it.
The Piedmont News Stand, in the
building on the corner Of Martin and
Dawson Streets, was destroyed by
fire Monday morning. The damage is
said to be about $1,000, and the in
surance was given as $500. The ex-
posion of the fireworks in the place
is said to have been the cause.
NJ. y. COrbin, of Henderson Coun-
II, who was convicted at the October
term, 1911, of Henderson County
court of the crime of polluting a wa
Ter supply, and who was sentenced to
four months on the road and $40
fine and costs, was pardoned last
Thursday by Governor Kitchin upon
payment of the said fineand costs.
Thos. B. Whitson, who was con-
Ticted in Mitchell County Of murder
and who escaped twice and went to
kentucky to live, has made out q
strong application for pardon, Mr.. w
c. NeWland appearing before Cover
nor Kitchin in his behalf. WhitsoI
led a straight life in his Kentucky
home, and it is thought he has had
punishment enough.
A. NJ. Gouge, the Mitchell County
tax collector, who was sentenced tt
twenty months on the roads for OBJ
lterating the records of his books
has been granted a reprieve by Gov
ernOr Kitchin until January 5th II
order that his attorneys may bring
forth the 'meritorious grounds TO
an application for pardon. Goug'
vas convicted in April, 1911.
Jesse Lincoln Ray, of the New
Light section of Wake County, wa
arrested Tuesday by Deputy Marsha
frank K. Knight on the charge o
operating an illicit distillery. He wa
given a preliminary hearing befor'
Col. John Nichols, United State
commissioner, and in default of
bond in the sum of $500, was com
Qitted to the Wake County Jail.
Governor Kitchin on yesterday re
celyed the resignation of Judge Geo
". Ward of the First Judicial Dis
Elct. The action was prompted b.
Ill health, and a desire to engage il
Jaw practice in Elizabeth City. s.
lar only two names have been men
uoned as uccessors-Messrs Steph
en- c. McGraw, of Washington, an
'" c. Rodman, of Beaufort County
Six young men of the University
VINO are making journalism par
VI their studies, spent yesterday il
Naleigh, making a study and obser
'atlon Of journalism as it is carrie
IN at the State capital. In the elias
are L. M. Morgan, Goldsboro; J. L
UT, Mars Hill; S. l.. Winters, Reids
vile; T. S. Page, Biscoe; E. L
stephenson, Charlotte, and A. L. N
Virgins, Durham, N. G.
Mr.. Ernest w. Hill brings sui
against the city of Raleigh for i'm
rlsonment in a damp cell and fai
uFe to provide necessary medical al
'enlon, because of which failure