The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-07-25
State News.

the practice OF Law.
Forsyth County Democrats have
nominated ex-Judge E. B. Jones for
the Senate, and William Porter and
s. ]. Bennett for the House
The Cape Fear Club of Whining
ton is soon TO erect home at the
corner OF Front and Chestnut
streets. said building to cost about
$4,000.
William Pruet, a well known con-
tractor of Charlotte, came In contact
with a live wire last Monday and was
electrocuted. He was thirty-eight
years of age, and leaves family.
Little Walton Bagley, the six-year-
old son of Mr.. s. H. Bagley. OF near
Clayton, while walking In his sleep a
few nights ago, fell from dindoW
upstairs and was severely injured.
At the Catawba Kennels, near the
town of Newton, John Ramseur was
shot and killed by Robert Hide
brand. Both are negroes. 1t was
supposed to have been accidental,
but the slayer fed.
a movement is on foot at Ashe-
vile to organize a cavalry company
to be known as the Governor Horse
Guards. The only cavalry company
in the State so far, is one recently or
ganized in Lincolnton.
Mrs. Jane Kelly, seventy-eight
years of age, of Wilmington, fell
from the window of her room one
day last week and received injuries
from which she died later. She was
mentally unbalanced.
The North Carolina Firemens' AS
ISOLATION convened in Fayetteville
last Tuesday morning. The dele
gates were welcomed by Mayor John
Underwood, and Hon. A. H. Boyden,
of Salisbury, responded to the well
come.
Little Park Shuford, the twelve
year-old son of Alderman w. z. Shu-
ford, of Asheville, accidentally shot
and killed himself a few days ago
while guning for pigeons together
with some neighborhoood boys in the
back yard Og his home.
Mack Cause, a white man, about
fifty years of age, shot and killed his
wife at their home near Cerro Gordo
last Sunday evening. The man
claims the shooting is all a mystery
to him, and 1t is thought to be the
result of drunken brawl.
AS result of difference growing
out of some failure to agree with. re-
gard to some land.boundaries, Simon
Stevens shot and seriously wounded |
Robert Overman a few days ago. |
Both men lived in Alamance County,
where the shooting occurred.
Four prisoners made their escape
from the Lenoir County Jail last
Tuesday night and have not been To-
Gated yet. 1t is thought that out
side aid was received by the prison
ers, as an iron bar was found which
had evidently been used in effecting
way of escape.
Mrs. Maud Hamlin was arrested in
Asheyille last Tuesday, charged with
the killing of her husband, John
Hamlin, at Marshall, about three
weeks ago. 1t is said that she had
expressed herself as anxious to get
rid of her husband, and his sickness
was rather mysterious.
The skeleton of a man was found
in the Smoky Mountains near the
Tennessee line few days ago by a
party of woodsmen of the Ritter
Lumber Company. The mans iden-
tity has not been established as yet,
but he is thought to have lost his
way and frozen to death while follow
ing one of the trails across the State
line.
Relatives and friends of Charles
Lavden, he sixeen-year-old son of
Charles Lavden, of Perquimans Coun-
ty are very much distressed and puz-
zled of his disappearance about ten
days ago. He was last seen in the
company of man named Vann, and
was traced to Berkeley, Va The
man disclaims any knowledge of the
boys whereabouts.
Beween the hours of and 5
o'clock Tuesday morning, robbers en-
tered the postoffice at Snead's Ferry,
and rified the safe, securing only a
small amount of cash, and a few
postage stamps. The thieves also
broke into the store of C. c. Jenkins