The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-26

The one hundred and thirty-second
anniversary of the battle of Kings
Mountain will be celebrated at Kings
Mountain Monday, October 7th.
Sheriff D. G.. Ragan, of Watauga
County. died q few days ago after an
illness of a few weeks from typhoid
fever.
J. n. HarreIl, an insurance man
of High Point, mysteriously disap-
peared on September 5th and has mott
been heard from since.
The contract for the State Nurses
Home at Black Mountain has been let
at a cost of $500. Work IL already
progressing on the home.
The Republicans and Progressives
in the Seventh District have nominal
ed Mr.. R. Don Laws, editor OF the
Yellow Jacket, for Congress.
Emmitt Johnson, a young man OF
Durham, was arrested Saturday
charged with forging the name Of the
z. B. Lyon Motor Car Company to a.
$50 check.
Ed. Atwater, a native OF Orange
County, committed suicide at Miami,
Florida, a few days ago. His body,
was shipped to his old home in Or
ange for burial.
Mr.. George Clark, a white man of
Henderson, was run over and killed
by a passenger train Sunday morn
ing Mr.. Clark was deaf and did not
hear the train approaching him.
Joseph Israel, of Hendersonville,
was shot Sunday night by julie Col
Inns and died Monday morning in an
Asheville hospital where he was TAX
en- to undergo an operation. Collins
was arrested.
A special term of court for Hoke
County has been ordered by the Gov
ernor to try both criminal and civil
cases, the term to begin December !,
9th and continue two weeks, with
Judge c. c. Lyon presiding. !
Revenue officers made raid on an !
Illicit distillery about five miles from
Durham Sunday morning, capturing
three white men, John and Luther /
Dollar and a man named Ferrall, a |
seventy-gallon still and quantity Of
meal.
The Ogburn-Hill Tobacco Company |
of Winston-Salem whose plant was
recently destroyed by fire, will not |
resume business, as the same has
been taken over by the r. J. Rey-
holds Tobacco Company. 1t Is un-
derstood that the consideration was
100000.
At Salisbury Monday night Clar-
ence Trolhnger, young white man,
struck Charles Woodruff, also white, |
across the head with a water pitcher,
fracturing the skull and making a
wound which may prove fatal. The
fight occurred in the Southern Hotel, |
near the station.
Mr.. John w. Bolton, prominent
attorney of Fayetteville, died sudden
~ Monday night. He woke his wife
about midnight and complained of
severe headache. She doctored him |
for the headache which apparently |
gave relief, but when his wife awoke |
Tuesday morning Mr.. Bolton was
dead. |
Marshville Home says: MRS. Wi
ley, wife of Rev. E. A Wiley, fell
dead at her home in Goose Creek
Township last Tuesday, 10th, while !!
she was calling up the cows. Mrs. !
Wiley was apparently in good health !
and had been busy with her house
hold duties all the day of her death. |
She was about sixty-five years old
and the wife Of a well-known Metho-
dist minister
Mr.. Louis Carr, of Asheville, has
closed a contract with Mr.. George w.
Vanderbilt's manager for the timber
stumpage of 5000 acres of land, all
but about $4,000 acres of the timber
ed part of the estate. The price paid
= by Carr was given at between $780,
900 and 100000. Carr has twenty
years to remove the timber, which
must be done without injury to the
young growth.
Bingham and Preston Gray, sons
of Mr.. Lewis Preston Gray, Presi-
dent Of Bingham School at Mebane,
engaged in a quarrel a few days ago
when Preston struck Bingham with
an iron bar, fracturing his skull. An
operation was performed and a small
piece of the skull removed, and the