The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-11-21
State News.

OIQI2 N RWS.
Cumberland County Superior Court
convened Monday with heavy dock
ct There are two criminal cases TO
. be tried.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
at Graham was destroyed By FIRE
Monday. The loss Is approximately
/ So 500, with $500 insurance. The
origin OF the fire 10 unknown
Herbert HOWE. . thirteen-year-old
coIored youth OF wi!ming ton. was
shot with TOY" pistol and almost
/ instantly killed Sunday by James
| Henry. another negro youth.
John Shaw. OF Pinehurst, y. c.. was
badly injured in a wreck at Putnam.
Conn, Monday. He was taken to the
hospital. Shaw was on his way TO
New Hampshire with a carload of
horses.
The Western North Carolina Con-
ference of the NJ. E. Church, South,
will convene in High Point November
20. Bishop Collins Denny. OF Rich
mond, Va, will preside over the ses-
sion.
While Mr.. Fl. l.. Worth and family,
OF Greensboro, were at church Sun
day morning, some one cut a hole in
a wire fence and led off a cow and
calf. No neighbor could give the po-
lice any clue.
Testimony will be offered before
a New York aldermanic committee in
vestigating graft conditions that the
Condorf gang, which feeced Will
mingtonians, gave up part of their
profits to the police.
Mr.. 0. c. Wilkerson, a prominent
tobacconist of LAGRANGE, died at Rex
Hospital, Raleigh, last Thursday fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
His remains were shipped to La
Grange for interment.
The Masonic Temple Company, of
Asheville, was chartered Saturday
with 100000 capital authorized and
$1,000 subscribed for the purpose of
erecting a Masonic Temple for the
Masonic lodges of Asheville.
While engaged in unloading light
er of cross-ties Friday evening with
a gang Of rivermen in Wilmington,
William Starkey, colored, fell from
the lighter and was drowned. His
former home was in New Bern.
Mr.. Ed. Linn, of Kannapolis, Row
an County, met sudden death Friday.
While working at a manufacturing
plant large beam dropped MASKING
his head on another piece of timber.
He leaves a wife and six children.
The Banner tobacco warehouse at
Oxford was destroyed by fire Friday
morning. The sales for the morning
had just been completed and much
of the tobacco was still On the floor.
The loss amounts to several thousand
dollars.
Mark H. Smith, a travelling shoe
salesman of Lynchburg, Va, commit
ted suicide few days ago at the Sa-
luda passenger station near Ashe-
vile by shooting himself in the heart
with 38-calibre pistol. Before the
occurrence he went into the agents
Office and secured a piece of paper,
upon which he wrote note to Sam
uel S. Smith, of Whitesburg, Tenn,
asking the latter to come for his
body.
Nat Strickland was accidentally
shot and killed by his brother, W. II.
Strickland, in Sampson County, Sat-
urday afternoon. They were out tur-
key hunting Both had whistles and
were calling wild turkeys. Each took
the other for turkey by their calls
until they came very close together
when the deceased was shot, his
brother thinking he was shooting a
turkey.
H K. Buie, a white man, aged
about sixty years, was found dead in
his bed at Danville, Va, early Sun
day morning. The coroner declared
that death was due to apoplexy.
When the dead mans effects were
searched, it was found that he was
due to appear before the Federal
Court at Littleton. N. c.. Monday