The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-11

Governor Kitchin has ordered a
sneeial term of court for Buncomoe
County to begin June 10 Tor TWO
weeks. Judge B. F. Long Is TO pre-
side
Joe Tate, who has been on trlai
charged with the murder OF BOD
Thompson last August, in Cherokee
County. was found guilty of man
daughter a few days ago.
A tbirteen-year-old colored girl, OF
near Monroe, was almost killed Dy
two vicious bulldogs few days ago.
The dogs belonged to two colored
men and were killed by the police
Chief-of-Police Rogers, Of Clyde,
HAYWOOD County, has been commit
teed to jail without bail for the muir
der of Lee Willis, who created dis
turbance at the closing OF school at
that place some time ago.
Mr.. John Hicks, young man of
Troy, Montgomery County, and an
employe of the Troy Brick Company,
managed to get his hand caught In
the machinery of that plant few
days ago and had his hand torn off.
Rev. C. F. Hypes, of Spencer. was
severely injured few days ago, be-
ing struck by an automobile in that
city. He was walking along the
street and the machine, in an at
tempt to pass a team, ran into Mr..
Hypes.
The citizens of Guilford County are
making demands upon the authorities
of that county for more and better
bridges, as a result of the severe
winter followed by the recent floods
which destroyed so many of Gull
ford's bridges.
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over County, has been hired out by
the Commissioners of that county, to
his wife for six months, Jones re-
questing this arrangement rather
than serve the time on the public
roads. He was sentenced on the
charge of non-support.
Charles Murphey, of Yancey Coun-
ty, who killed John Simmons some
time ago because he would not give
him some whiskey, has been commit
ted to the States prison for seven |
of murder, but on evidence being
teen years. He was first convicted
produced that he was an epileptic, he
was sentenced to prison instead
Fire in Goldsboro burned the home |
of Mr.. J. D. Rice, Sunday last, en-
failing loss of about $4,000.
The depot and hardware store at
last Thursday night and some whis-
key from the depot and a few arti-
cles from the hardware store were |
taken.
Joel Gaddy, young white man
was killed one day last week, by a
train No. rs which pass
es Concord. It is said that Gaddy |
made an effort to catch the train and |
was caught under the car and was
killed.
The barn Of Mr.. Ernest Sloop,
who lives near China Grove, caught
aflre in an unknown way and was de-
stroyed Tuesday, together with two
horses and Ave head of cattle; also
a quantity of feed The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Solomon Burke, a negro who had
been employed in saw-mill near
Fayetteville, died in Highsmith Hos
pital there Tuesday as q result of
burns received in an explosion of a
boiler at said saw-mill a few days
dSO. nal "A. Dill, ouPOI
was also painfully scalded.
In five township elections held in
Randolph County Tuesday, for the
purpose of voting bonds for the Ran
dolpr and Cumberland Railroad,
three townships voted a total of $780,
900 in bonds to be paid over to the
company in return for the stock in
the railroad after the completion of
the road to High Point.
The five-months-old child of Mr.
and Mrs. Ulysses Pritchard, of Eliza
beth City, was burned to death to-
gether with their household effects,
on Bell Street, in that city, Tuesday.
The mother had left the child in the
kitchen and had ran over to a neigh
boris for minute, and On her return