The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-15
State News.

The Friends held their yearly meet
ing at Guilford College last week with
a good attendance. Ministers of that
faith from all parts of the world
attended the meeting.
Andy Albright, a farmer living
near Statesville, was attacked by yell
low jackets while working alone in a
field a few days ago and and stung
until he was unconscious.
Charlotte doctors now have an
agreement by which thye will now
charge $3.50 for day calls and $500
for night calls. Double fees will also
be charged In cases OF contagious dis
eases.
HRS. Mary E. Chappelle, last PEN
sioner of the War of 1912 in North
Carolina, died In Charlotte few days
ago at the age of seventy-nine years.
Her husband, Eli Chappelle, died sew
eral years ago at the age of LOT.
Two Durham negroes broke jail
Tuesday night, went out and got
drunk, but returned to the jail in
time for breakfast Wednesday morn
ing. No one knew they were out un-
til they came back and asked to be
locked up again.
Negro boys entered the home Of
Mr.. r. G.. Harrison, in Fayetteville
Sunday, and took all the silverware,
china, and other valuable articles
they could get away with. The boys
were located and the goods found in:
the house Of a negro woman in no
torious section Of the city.
Mrs. w. B. Pruett, of Charlotte, has
brought suit for $4,000 against the
Southern Power Company and the
Charlotte Gas Company for the death
of her husband, who was killed by
coming in contact with live wire
in a new school building at Fairview,
July %.
Mr.. Harvey Barley, Confederate
veteran of Mecklenburg County, was
found dead in his wagon in the road
last Saturday. He was hauling saw
dust and failed to return home when
expected, so a search was made for
him. Heart failure is supposed to be
the cause.
Deputy collectors and Revenue Of
fcers captured a distillery in Alex
ander County last week and arrested
Ed. Lippard against whom there are
charges of Illicit distilling and retail
ing. Two keys of brandy and about
three hundred gallons of pomace
were poured out.
movement is on foot to mark
the graves of three North Carolina
Observation-Disclosures Abner Nash,
Governor Richard Dobbs Speight, Sr.,
and Governor Richard Bobbs Speight,
Jr., which are two and one-half miles
from New Bern on the banks of
Trent River.
AS the jailer at Henderson, Vance
County, entered the Jail with dinner
for the prisoners, one day last week,
he was overpowered by six prisoners,
one white man and five negroes, who
made their escape. The prisoners had
sawed their way out of their cells
and were in the corridor ready to sur
prise the jailer.
F. H. Schutters, thirty years of
age, and formerly United States !
army recruiting officer in Whining /
ton, who was sentenced to thirty |
days in Jail for violating his agree
ment following plea OF nolo conf
trendere in case charging him with
the sale of whiskey, died in jail a few
days ago of delirium tremens.
Mrs. Pheope Tomberlin, an aged
lady living near Monroe, was found
unconscious in a fence corner near
her home few days ago. She APP
peared to have been terribly beaten,
and tenant of Mr.. A. G.. Scott by
the name of Bob Moser, has been conf
nected with the crime, having been
seen near the place where she was
found.