The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-22

High Point Consolidated Mliis Com-
pany.
The Prospect House at Southern
Pines was burned last week, entail
ing a loss of $4,000. with $500
insurance.
In handling a pistol carelessly at
Rich Square last Saturday, Miss EN-
ma Johnson was shot and killed by
Arthur Davis, a neighbor and
friend of the family.
The three year-old child of Mr.. W.
/. Lanier, of East Durham, was acct
dentally shot and probably fatally
wounded last Saturday in playing
with an old pistol.
p. A. Lewis was shot by his broth
er-in-law, l.. E. Fountain, In Tarboro
Saturday night and very seriously
wounded. The cause of the trouble
was not learned.
Six persons were injured and
westbound passenger train No. Is
was wrecked near Morganton Monday
morning by meeting a number OF
runaway freight cars.
In attempting to secure his liberty
one day last week, William Morrison,
a negro convict on the Rocky Mount
road district, was shot and killed by
Fletcher Proctor, one of the guards.
Mr. J. NJ. Hoover, of Winston-Sal-
EN-, was thrown from a street car in
that city last Saturday and killed
The accident was caused by a split
switch. He was thirty years of age
and leaves a wife md one child.
Walter Russell, the young white
man who was sentenced to the Ire
dell road for five months for the kill
ing of June Summers, has escaped,
and had not been apprehended up to
last reports.
Fire broke out in the plant of the
Stantonsburg Lumber Company All
gust 18th and most of the lumber
yards were burned, entailing a loss
of $35, 200, throwing one hundred
men out of employment.
Mr.. Jake Newell, noted Republic
can politician and chairman of the
Republican Executive Committee of
Mecklenburg County, is said to have
resigned his Office to join the Pro-
gressive Republican party
Gen. E. M. Hayes, U. S. A, retired,
died in Morganton last Thursday fol-
lowing stroke of paralysis. He was
seventy years of age, mad was wide
ly known in army and official circles,
where he had fifty years of actual SER
vice.
A barn and horse belonging to
Tom Pheeler, of China Grove, was
burned one day last week The fire
was caused by the explosion of a
lantern which he carried on his arm,
which ignited the entire lot of straw
in the barn.
The Charlotte postoffice has been
promised an appropriation of $780,
600 by the Treasury Department in
stead of the $18O,O0O, which means
that the Charlotte Office will be lar
ger and prettier than the contract
calls for.
Capt. E. D. Kuykendall, of theI
Greensboro Company of Coast Artil-
lery Corps, North Carolina National
Guard, has been elected major, fillingi
the vacancy caused by the promotion
of former Major Max. L. Barker, of!
Salisbury, to the position of lieuten-
ant-colonel.
E. H. Miller, Register of Deeds for
Rowan County, was seriously burn
ed by an explosion of gas in the
court house in Salisbury last Friday l
A gas jet was left open accidentally
in the vault, and when Mr.. Miller en-
tered and struck match, an explos-
ion followed.
DR.. Henry G. McFarlane, of Will
mington, who was connected with the
Ann May Memorial Hospital at
Spring Lake, N. j., was drowned at
that place a few days ago. He was
thirty-five years of age, and had liv-
ed in New Jersey for the last ten
or twelve years.
w. r. Beard, who robbed the
mails while railway mail clerk be-
tween Asheville and Spartanburg
some years ago and ran away, has
recently been arrested in Texas and
plead guilty of embezzlement in the
Federal Court in Atlanta and SEN
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