The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-26

Mr. ]. G. Barentine. q prominent
retired business man OF WILMINGTON.
} died Saturday OF heart trouble.
J Charlie Staten. a young eolored
} boy. vas run down and killed by an
. automobile at Kinston last Saturday.
Mr.. A. Jones Mitchell. OF the Viz
ginia Carolina Chemical Company,
r died at his home in New Bern Friday
night.
} Mrs. Abram Russell. who lived in
Montgomery County, was shot acct
IDENTIFY by a small boy a few days ago
and died OF the wound the following
day
Aaron Stackhouse and Henry Lilly,
of Maxton, had some trouble a few
days ago over a pint of liquor. Stack
house killed Lilly and made his es-
cape.
\ E. L. Pickard, one of the highway
engineers Of the North Carolina Geo
! logical and Economic Survey. died
very suddenly at his home near Bur-
lington, December 90.
! VIM. Norwood Pope, the eight-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. ]. c. Pope,
of Fayetteville, was fatally burned a
few days ago. The childs clothing
caught from on open fireplace.
The body of Nicholas Mitchell, of
/ Wilmington, was found in the Cape
Fear River Saturday at the foot of
Dock street He had been missing
| two weeks, and it is the general opin-
! ion that he committed suicide.
| Governor-elect Locke Craig has an
nounced Immediately following his
| inauguration in January he would
appoint Maj. Lawrence W. Young, Of
Asheville, as Adjutant General of the
North Carolina National Guard.
At a corn shocking in Gardeners
township, Wilson County, Thursday
night, Cleveland Farmer shot to
death Charles Skinner. Immediate
after the shooting Farmer went to
Wilson and took a northbound train.
Milton Creech, farmer of Lenoir
County, is at the point of death in a
Kinston hospital, as the result of a
wound received in an encounter with
Leon J. Sutton, another farmer. SUIT
ton is under bond for his appearance
in court.
The following postoffices in North
Carolina have been transferred from
the fourth to the presidential class:
Bessemer City, with a salary of ST.
100; Cherryville, 1000; East Dur
ham, 81, 100; Fremont, 81 900; Rose
Hill, 700.
City Alderman J. J. Maloney, Of
Fayetteville, was seriously burned
! Saturday afternoon while acting as
! Santa Claus at Christmas tree at
/ school. A quantity of cotton on his
person caught fire and he was Sc
riously burned.
The warehouse reports at Winston
Salem show that over five million
pounds of leaf tobacco had been sold
on that market from December l to
81. Over seventeen million pounds
have been sold on that market since
the season opened August L
DR.. Thos. N. Ivey, for a number Of
years editor of the Raleigh Christian
Advocate, underwent an operation
for appendicitis at Statesville a few
day ago. DR.. Ivey's home is in Nash
| vile, Tenn, but was taken i'll while
, in this State attending the Methodist
: Conference.
Miss Henrietta Treadway jumped in
to the well OF Mr.. George Brewer,
t about two miles from Wadesboro,
and was drowned before she could
2 be rescued. She was about forty
3 years old and had been in poor health
for some time.
Mr.. John d. Meares, of Wilson
I died suddenly at his home in that
city Thursday. His death is attribut-
, ed to heart trouble. Mr.. Meares was
fifty-fve years old and was formerly
a prominent politician of the county
He leaves a wife and three children
D Kernersville, Forsyth County, was
r visited by disastrous fire few days
! ago. The hotel and a store building
: adjoining were burned Mr.. and Mrs
T B. Fl. Marsh, of Richmond, Va, had
eight trunks in the hotel. They con-
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