The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-04

AS0e county.
kilograms from Mitchell and Avery
Counties to-day state that as a result
of conventions held, delegates were
unanimously instructed for Roose-
welt.
Webb Jeffries, a negro OF Moore
County, stabbed and probably fatal
" wounded Mr.. J. w. Moore, his en-
ployer, last week. The negro is In
Jail.
In Greensboro on last Friday night
Clyde Brooksher, a negro, shot and
killed another negro at Brroksher's
home. 1t Is said that the shooting
was accidental.
Webb Jeffries, who stabbed and
probably fatally wounded John w.
Moore, near Carthage last Thursday,
was captured in Stanly, Randolph
County, Saturday.
On last Tuesday morning near Scot
land Neck, a negro named Hawkins
shot and killed another negro named
Gotten in a row at a disreputable
house in that vicinity.
A charter has been issued for the
Pamlico Co-operage Company OF
Washington, with capitol stock of
h1y Co0rOo
T. Linch, and C. F. Freeman.
The contract for the erection of
Carnegie library building in Hender-
sonv:lle has been let. The building
it to cost $4,000, and will be the
handsomest brick building in Hender-
sonville.
Daniel Koonce, an eighteen-year-
old boy who lives near Tranton. Jones
County, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself last Monday afternoon.
He was disappointed in love affair,
it is said.
At gold mine, near Cando, in
Montgomery County, few days ago,
Jim Ward, negro employe, dropped
seventy-five feet through a shaft to
the bottom of the pit and was killed
instantly.
Charlie Robbins, the man who cut
and seriously wounded man named
Copp, in West Durham on Friday
night of last week, was caught in
Greensboro Saturday and carried
back to Durham.
Mr.. w. L. Bryan, of Boone County,
it is aid, is getting up subscriptions
for the erection of a monument to
the memory of Daniel Boone, which
cabin in East Boone.
Mrs. Elias Carr, widow of the last
Governor Carr, died March 29th, in
Washington, where she had gone to
visit her son. She was seventy-two
years of age. Her remains were TAX
en- to her former home in Edgecombe
for burial.
Investigations in the case of Len
G. Smith, who was found murdered
and lying near the track of the Nor
folk Southern Railroad a few days
ago, near Farmville, have resulted in
the arrest of three, who were bound
over to Superior Court.
The case of Warren against the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which
was concluded in Durham last Thurs
day, resulted in damages in the sum
Of $4,000 for the killing of James
Warren who was killed in the Hamlet
yards last year as a negro excursion
train was leaving the yards.
The body OF young man about
twenty years of age, was found near
Line) at Hayne, Sampson County,
April LIST, by two travellers, e. A.
Billiard and Francis Parker, who
were in buggy going to Hayne. 1t
is supposed that he was killed by the
train.
The body of an unknown white
man was washed ashore on the Cape
Fear River, about two miles from
Wilmington, Sunday morning. The
body had been in the water, it is
thought, for more than a month.
There were no DaDerS or anvthin0 in
the pockets to give any clue to his
identity.
A United States Government in
spector who was in Greensboro with
in the past few days examining the
court records relative to the granting
Of naturalization papers, finds, it Is
said, that not more than one out of
ten naturalization certificates are le-