The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-28
Local Matters.
work has been commenced on tn

uork has been commenced on the
N. c. A. site. on Edenton and
Wilmington Streets.
Ex-Governor Aycock will open his
canatoriaI campaign with q speech in
he auditorium on April 18th.
wake court is In session and VIII
brown will be tried to-day for the
nurder of Jack Freeman in Wake
Forest Township.
Rocker T. Washington, President
of Tuskegee Institute, arrived In the
c,,y Saturday night and delivered an
sddress at Shaw University. He gave
#some good advice which was well re-
#ceiyed
Miss Bessie Daniels. daughter OF
#Nr ]. NJ Daniels, Jr., OF Dobbers-
vilIe. came to the city last week for
#,he Pasteur treatment, having been
2bitten by a rabid dog on her way
from church at that place.
Mr.. II. E c. Bryant, better known
as Red Buck" was in Raleigh Tues
dav He came to Raleigh from
uiIlsviIle, Va, the home OF the AL
liens and the place of the recent as
assinations of court officers.
A special venire of thirty men has
heen summoned for Thursday morn
4 ing in the case against Will Brown,
q charged with the murder of Jack
Freeman, in Wake Forest Township,
some time ago. Trial to be in Wake
j County Superior Court.
The colored Republicans of North
Carolina have called a Convention to
meet in Raleigh on Monday, April 1.
The object of this meeting is to take
under advisement the present politi-
8 cal situation and to adopt such &C
8 ton as may be deemed wise.
J. l.. Roberts and J. c. Green, of
Zebulon. were given a hearing before
s Justice of the Peace Stallings last
Friday-Mr. Roberts on the charge
of obstructing justice and Mr.. Green
on fraudulent checks. Bonds were
required in the sum of $50 and
$500.
Mrs. Margaret A Leard, mother
of Mr.. H. S. Leard, of this city, di-
vision passenger agent of the Sea-
board Air Line Railway, died at the
home of Mr.. Leard, on Polk Street,
Tuesday after an illness of several
months. She was in her eighty-sec-
ond year.
Mrs. Rebecca Sanders, of Granville
County, was brought here Tuesday
81 and placed in the State Hospital.
q She is the remaining member of the
family who were murdered in De-
cember. 1910. by Nathan Montague.
8 1t is said that brooding over this
q trouble caused her mind to become
affected.
Officers and guards of the State
Penitentiary are looking for Reuben
Combs, the thirty-year convict who
escaped from the penitentiary Mon
day. Combs was sent up from Ire
g dell County several months ago for
murder in the second degree. A re-
ward of SIS has been offered for his
capture.
The Carolina Power and Light
Company of this city has been grant
ed charter by the Secretary of
State to constitute, maintain and op-
crate a power and light system in
Asheville. The authorized capital of
the Asheville company is given in the
charter as 100000. with $1,000
subscribed for.
Mrs. Laura Francis Ball, relict of
8 the late Rev. John T. Ball, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. L. w.
Brogden, on North Wilmington
Street, Sunday evening at the age of
seventy-eight years. She is sur
vived by five sons, Messrs. ]. R. Ball,
Of New Bern: George F., J. c., w.
s T.. and c. o. Ball, of Raleigh.
Seaboard Air Line detectives are
looking for some one said to have
robbed Mrs. NJ. H. Drake, of Weldon,
on the Weldon-Raleigh shoo-fiy
train, on her way to Raleigh a few
days ago. She missed her purse,
when she had gotten off the train in
Raleigh, which was found later by
the train porter, but it had been
rifed.