The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-19

Charlie Leatherman. OF Catawoa
/ County was killed a few days ago by
falling tree.
| Needham Ball, q negro OF John
ston County. was brought TO the pen
itentiary Friday 10 serve thirty years
/ for shooting his wife.
Mr.. S. c. Welch, of Waynesville, a
prominent member OF the Haywood
County bar. died Monday morning at-
ter short illness OF pneumonia.
Joe Cooper, negro OF Goldsboro.
was shot and killed by two other ne
groes from Kinston Tuesday night
while the trio were engaged in a crap
game
The Union Republican states that
Mr.. II. II. Labberton, a well-known
citizen and merchant of Winston, died
suddenly last Wednesday from heart
failure.
Richard MCGEE, of Scotland Neck,
drank carbolic acid a few days ago
thinking it was whiskey, and died
in great agony a few hours after
wards
Miss Sadie Harkey, who lived at
the home Of John Watson in Union
County, was fatally burned a few
days ago while starting a fire with
kerosene oil.
Henry Wilkerson, colored, was
brought to the penitentiary Friday
evening by Deputy Sheriff of Martin
County to serve zen years for the &C
cidental killing of white boy.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of
Indiana, Vice-President-ele will de-
liver the principal address at the |
commencement exercises of the Uni
versity of North Carolina next June.
The six-months-old daughter of |
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Dingle, of Trout
man, N. c., died Monday of measles |
There are seven other cases of |
in the Dingle family.
Charles G. Walker, alias J. n. |
Dowsing, wanted in connection with |
the overlapping swindle of two Will
by New York conf |
dence gang, was arrested in New Or |
leans Friday.
The Aberdeen and Rockf1sh Rail-
road has reached Fayetteville with |
it's line and the management expects
to be operating trains through from |
Aberdeen to Fayetteville by next |
Monday.
Two store buildings and a resi-
dence belonging to Joe Wods, a mer-
chant of Durham, were destroyed by
fire Monday morning. The Durham
believe the fire was in
Of incindiary origin.
Miss Oma Beaver, of Rowan Coun-
ago by her brother, George Beaver,
who was trying to shoot hog. The
lady was taken to Salisbury for treat
ment. She will recover.
A fve-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Young, who live on the
farm near Troutman, Iredell Coun-
afternoon while it's mother was at a
spring engaged with the family wash
in.
The North Carolina Baseball
League was organized at Charlotte
Thursday and succeeds the Carolina
and Charlotte, Raleigh,
Greensboro, Winston-Sa-
lem and Durham compose the league.
Clinton Boyette, aged fifteen, who
lives near Smithfield, Johnston
County, was out hunting Saturday
and accidentally shot himself through
the arm. He was hurried to Smith
field where it was found necessary 20
amputate the arm.
While feeding a corn shredder on
the farm of w. A. Tillinghast, a son
of D. l.. McComb, of the Eureka
Springs neighborhood, Cumberland
County, had his left hand caught in
the machine and torn off with the
arm up to the elbow.
Tuesday afternoon ". E. Penning-
ton, young man twenty-one years
of age, was lodged in Wilson Coun-
ty Jail on the charge of seducing
Leora Rose, of Lucama. His bond
was fixed at $1,000, which he failed
to give. The bond was later reduced
to $500, which he gave.