The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-01


/ and leaving the city almost IA ruins-
A number OF people were killed and
injured
/ At a negro frolic near Ganney, s
c., a few nights ago. Charles Barnes
shot and killed Cliff Littlejohn. Both
negroes are said 10 have been drunk
! when the murder occurred.
| Rev. DR.. Griffith John, for fifty
! three years missionary TO China, died
/ in London a few days ago. He was
the first Christian missionary to
reach Central China.
| Six people were killed and several
| injured when a Lake Shore passen-
egr train struck an automobile near
! Toledo, Ohio, a few days ago. The
machine contained nine people.
The discovery of bubonic PLACE was
made in New Orleans few days ago
by the health officers in a rat caught
at the water front. 1t is declared
there is no cause for alarm locally.
Bonnie Henderson, white man, in
! Asheville, successfully stood off two
! policemen for some time who were
trying to arrest her, by fiourishing
two long hat pins as weapons. She
was finally arrested, however.
The body of Naomi Mitchell,
fourteen-year-old girl, was found in
a corn field near Carmel, Me-, one
day last week. She had been muir
dered supposedly by an escaped in
mate of the Bangor insane asylum.
Mrs. Harvey r. Payne, one of the
most popular young society women
of Jacksonville, Fla, committed sui
eide in a vacant house in the heart of |
the city last Saturday by turning on
the gas Domestic troubles are said
to have been the cause.
Robert Thornborow, president of
the State Bank of Bancroft, Kansas, |
committed suicide last week by shoot
ing himself at his home. He had ,
been arrested on complaint Of the
Kansas State Bank Examiner, who al
legged there was a shortage of 81 900.
Justice Keogh, of the Supreme
Court, declares that Harry Thaw is
still insane and must remain in
prison. The court took the ground
that Thaw's release would be danger
Gus to public safety. He must remain
in the prison where he was placed
after the killing of Stanford White in
1908.
At Wheeling, w. Va, at Masonic
outing a few days ago, platform on
which 200 Masons and their fami-
lies were seated, over ravine in an
open air theatre, suddenly collapsed
and dropped to the bottom of the
ravine, which was thirty feet deep.
some fatally.
While being initiated into a lodge
of the Woodmen of the World, at
Friendship, s. c., few days ago,
Furman Bagwell shot and very Sc
riously wounded Milton Taylor. Dur
ing the initiation he was being shot
at with blank cartridges, when he
took it for real shooting and fired his
pistol with the above results.
Claude Allen, one of the Hillsville
outlaws, was convicted of murder in
the first degree for the killing of
Commonwealth Attorney William
M. Foster. He was found guilty of
in the second degree in a former trial
for the killing of Judge Thornton L.
Massie. Sentence was not passed in
order that he might testify against
others.
AS a result of bad blood between
the races at Rome, Ca, all the ne
groes were driven from the town of
Plainville, in Gordon County, Ca,
few days ago. Many shots were ex-
changed, and the latest reports are
that Sheriff Owens was MORALLY
wounded Several negroes were
wounded and one Or two white men
were shot.
The body of the missing nurse,
Miss Dorcas I. Snodgrass, who has
been missing from the home of her
sister in Mt. Vernon since July II.
was found last Sunday in Dubois
Creek, near Catskill, n. Y. The iden-
LITIGATION was made by Frederick
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