The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-11-14
Local Matters.

LOCUI III ~ LEI Dc
~ " Rufus Stephenson, of Swift
~-@aE township, is reported as criti-
-.Ifv III with erysipelas.
..ron Faison, the negro who as
.r,ed Nh Peter Horton at Zebulon
10 weeks ago. has been arrested
- rraced in Wake County Jail. He
az CAPTURED in Vance County.
coyernOr Kitchin has issued a
..ouisition on the Governor Of Geor-
-, for John Huff, the negro, who
:. uauted in Asheville for the MUIR
AR Of Policeman Z. c. Mcconnell
tao years ago.
Mr. A. Dughi has sold his farm in
cary Township. Before many months
- evnects to visit his old home in
yortbern Italy. Mr.. Dughi conduct
81 q fruit store in Raleigh for a
number of years.
Governor Kitchin has appointed r.
u Salisbury, Of Martin County, as
member Of the board of directors Of
the Central Hospital for the Insane
here He succeeds John D. Biggs, Of
WILLIAMSON, resigned.
Governor Kitchin Tuesday offered
reward of $3.50 for the capture of
Letter Barnett, who is wanted in
Mitchell County for the murder of
Felix Bryan. The crime was commit
ted near Magic City, September Fl.
Comrade w. S. Dixon, sixty-eight
years old, of Company F, Twenty
eighth N. c. Regiment, who enlisted
from Alamance County, died Saturday
morning at the Soldiers Home. Mr..
Dixon entered the Home only few
weeks ago.
On last Tuesday Mrs. Ccrnelia
Lewis Holleman, the aunt of Mrs.
Needham Broughton, of this city,
celebrated her one hundrdedth ami
yersary She is in fairly good health
and able to read some and converse
with her friends.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
has received four new locomotives,
these being the first delivery out of
twenty that have been contracted for.
Both passenger and freight engines
are included in the order, all being of
the new Pacific type and the largest
that have ever been in service in Ra-
leigh.
Robbers entered the drugstore of
Mr.. James I. Johnson last Thursday
night and robbed the safe of about
$3.50. Mr.. Johnson is confident that
he locked the safe as usual on leaving
his place, and thinks the combination
clock was worked by the robbers. The
thieves entered the store by breaking
a WindoW-pane in the rear.
Mount, has been awarded the con-
tract by the board of aldermen to
build the city abattoir, his bid being
$15,825, his price being the lowest Of
six bidders. The abattoir will be To-
Gated on the city farm and deep wells
Will U0 DOISu W luTulSu WdISI. 1AS
equipment will cost $4,000 addition
al.
Mr.. George B. Fleming, of Raj
eigh, a former engineer in the en-
plOy of the Norfolk Southern Rail-
way, won his case for damages
against the railroad for personal in
juries sustained in a wreck in the
yards here. The Supreme Court has
found no error in the judgment of
the lower court, which awarded him
10000.
The new president of the Norfolk
Southern Railroad, Mr.. G. H. Hix,
and other officers of the road, includ-
ing Mr.. W. A. Witt, who Mr.. Hix ap-
pointed as general superintendent,
are making a tour of the system, the
first since taking control of the prop
erty, and spent Sunday night and
Monday in Raleigh looking over the
interests of the road here where the
connecting link is being completed
Ior the Raleigh, Charlotte& Southern
division.