The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-22

100000 fire August 18th In the
Bowery section. which produced a
panic among the residents and IL took
one hundred policemen to keep the
crowd back. Two fremen were in
jured.
The two men injured by the ex-
plosion of the inferal machine at
High Point are recovering. McIn-
tyre. the man charged with having
sent the machine. has escaped arrest
/ thus far.
NJ. Kemp Saunders, of Thomas
Vile, an employe of the electric au-
| tomato signal department of the
| Southern Railway, was run over and
killed instantly by a freight train a
few days ago.
| Clarence S. barrow, the lawyer
who appeared fro the Mcnamara
| brothers at the famous dynamiting
trial at Los Angeles, and who was
| indicted for attempting to bride jur-
! ors, was acquitted last week
| A sixteen-year-old negro at CO.
| lumbus, Ga, who had been convicted
of manslaughter for killing a white
child, and sentenced to three years
in prison, was taken by mob of the
citizens of that city and hanged one
| day last week.
Norfolk suffered disastrous fire
from an explosion of gasolene in the
Seaboard garage one day last week,
which destroyed the Seaboard garage,
Kolbs bakery, the Old Palace
stables, and J. w. Gamage's lime and
cement warehouse. The loss will
reach SIS, 900.
Friel Allen, one of the mountain
outlaws, charged with completely III
the Hillsville court house murder
last March, pleaded guilty to murder
in the second degree last week and
was sentenced to eighteen years in
the penitentiary.
War on pellagra is proposed by
Representative Byrnes, of Tennes-
see, who has introduced bill in Cno-
gress instructing experts of public
health service to investigate to dis
cover it's causes and cure. The bill
would appropriate $4,000.
Thirteen prisoners escaped from
the prison camp at Lima, Ohio, few
days ago and created a reign of ter
ror before they were captured. They
ed, fought among themselves and
with citiz ems and created quite SEN
sation fer short time.
President Taft has sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of Edward L. |
Rodrigue, to be surveyor of customs
at New Orleans, succeeding L. P. |
quested for political activity on be-
half of the Progressive party.
1t is reported from Danville, Va, !
that a irteen-months-old child was
drowned in three-gallon jar of but |
termilk, near Callands, Va. Mrs
Booker Reynolds, the childs mother,
left the bucket of buttermilk on the
floor and went into the garden to
finding the child drowned on her re-
turn.
Near Simms, Wilson County, Fri |
day night, Geo. Whitley, a youth
eighteen years of age, crushed the
skull of his step-father, Chas. Bur-
nett, with a gun, and then shot him.
Burnett was under the influence of
whiskey and was beating his wife
The jury held the killing justifiable.
The Senate last Friday voted to
sustain the vetoes Of the President
on the wool and metal tariff revis-
ion bills. On the metal bill the mo-
ton to override the President did
not obtain majority, the vote being
3S to 80. To pass the wool bill over
the veto the vote was SO for and SO
against.
Virginia Christian, a negro wo-l
man, was electrocuted in the States
Prison at Richmond Friday, being
the first woman to be electrocuted in
Virginia. She had brutally robbed
and murdered her employer, Mrs. Vir-k
ginia Belote, at Hampton, Va, last
March. An effort was made to have
her sentence committed.
Mrs. Ben Cobler, of Danville, Va.
was killed one day last week on cross
ing the DRY Bridge" crossing of
the Southern Railway, by a local
freight train. Her sister, Mrs. Luz
Gle Wells, was also badly injured.
They were walking the North track
when passenger train No. 43 passed. ;.