The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-21

few days ago ana IatailJ injured
Dir ID. r. Holcomh. one Of the best
known physicians OF Surry County.
died last Friday. at Rockford. aged
seventy-hve.
At eolored festival In Spencer. =
few nights ago. a negro woman. Lucy
Hobson. was killed by Jim Bern
hardt. Bernhard was placed in jail.
Chas. r. Dowdy. of Wilmington.
Who was arrested on suspicion OF
numbering his father on Sunday night
Of the 9Th, proved an alibi In Re
corder's Court and vas released.
A still OF $50 gallon capacity was
located and destroyed near Went
worth, Rockingham County. last
weak by Oficers Starbuck and Kirk
patrick. No one was found at the
sill.
The dead body OF an infant. appar-
emily two days old was found in a
field near Salisbury few days ago
The discovery was made by colored
boy and the body was taken in charge
Of by officers.
The North Carolina Architectural
Association Is in session in Winston
Salem this week. Architects OF South
Carolina and Virginia. were invited to
attend this meeting and some Of them
are in attendance.
Two young children of a colored
couple living near Wilson were burn
ed to death a few da}3 ago. The
parents were away from the house, |
the mother having been away for
few moments only.
Benny Hudson, young white /
man in Salisbury, was caught in the |
act OF robbing a safe a few nights J
ago and has been lodged in jail. The .
safe was In the store belonging to .
George II. Shaver.
land County, was found dead upon F
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad +
track at Wade, a station eight miles +
North of Fayetteville, Sunday. EX-
animation showed that he had been /
murdered and placed upon the track. /
At Raynham, Robson County, one .
1o-k ctr h1Ir %
lied and set on fire, the store and two
other buildings being destroyed.
BloOdhOunds trailed to the door of
Croatan Indian and he was arrested
and put in Jail
The skeleton of negro, thought
to be that of John Allen, was found
in the Price-Higgins Mountain be-
tween Dysartville and Greenwood one
day last week. It was evident that
he had been murdered. No clue has
yet been obtained.
Jesse Afford, fifteen-year-old
white boy of near Greenville, was
found lying in a decomposed condi-
ton near a hog-pen near the farm
house Of his father a few days ago.
A rifle was found near by. The boy
had been missing for several weeks.
a young man named Peterson, of
Wilmington, was found guilty in the
Recorders Court for selling cocaine
some days ago and sentenced to six
months on the road. He took an
appeal, but was unable to give the
bond of $500, so was committed to
Jail.
Ed Hodgin, who was arrested some
time ago on the charge of killing
John Lovett, in the vicinity of High |
Point, and was discharged because
the evidence was deemed insufficient,
was re-arrested last week, the Gull
ford County grand jury having re-
turned a true bill against him.
Dan Meisenheimer. a well-known
young white man of the town of
Newton, assaulted Ivey Slime, night
operator at the Southern station,
stabbing him several times. Nielsen
heimer was drunk and causing dis
furbance at the station and Slime at
tempted to get him out.
The entire plant Of the Grace Fur
niture Factory, located just south of
Salisbury, was destroyed by fire a
few nights ago. It is estimated that
the loss will reach $50, 900, with only
partial insurance. This is the second
time this plant has been destroyed
within the past five years.
Ten models have been submitted
in competition for the monument to
be erected on the battlefield of Gull