The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-29


oath, by Lewis Adams. Il weighed
546 pounds and brought 12.75c.
Rocky Mount was again visited BY
a destructive storm last week. Roots
were taken from small residences and
great damage was done by lightning.
Durham Superior Court Is In ses-
sion this week. There are about two
hundred cases On docket, two being
first degree murder, and about sixty
blind tiger cases.
Carl F. Taylor was perhaps fatally
painfully hurt last Monday at Mon
roe by a runaway horse, which be-
came frightened at a passing automo-
bile.
Lightning struck church at
Reepsville last Sunday afternoon in
Turing four lady members of the con-
gregation. A number Of the congre-
cation were rendered unconscious
for few hours.
Mrs. J. w. Beland, who was shot
Friday morning in Wilson by her hus-
band, and carried to a sanitarium,
died Saturday. 1t is thought her hus-
band was temporarily insane. She
leaves six children.
A house owned by Mrs. Walter
Rankin, of Salisbury, was destroyed
by fire on the outskirts of Spencer
Sunday night. 1t was occupied by
Messrs. J. A. Bolden and w. M.
Koontz. The loss Is estimated at 49,
600, besides the household effects.
Mrs Rosa Hartsell, charged with
the murder of her husband, Victor j.
Hartsell, near Charlotte, some weeks
ago, was acquitted by the jury in
Mecklenburg County last week. A
plea of insanity was offered by her
counsel and stood good.
Clyde Melton, who has been on trial
in Asheville court last week for the
killing of f. B. Sweeney, on West
College Street, in Asheville, some
weeks ago, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to eighteen years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The five-year-old child of Mr.. John
Terrell, of White Oak, near Green's
boro, was burned to death in their
burning home last Saturday night. |
The house was SO nearly burned when
the family were awakened that it was
impossible to get the child out.
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com !
pany, in it's meeting in New Jersey |
last week, passed resolutions to in
crease it's capital stock and allow Of
ficers and employees to participate in
the earnings. This will make the
capital stock in Winston-Salem $1O,-
100000.
Lieutenant Hawkins, a negro in the .
employe of Mr.. Iredell Williams, !
about fourteen miles from Nashville,
body was literally cut to pieces. Paul .
Howell and Oscar Hatman, two ne
groes in the vicinity, have been placed .
under arrest.
Claude Washington, of Ayden,
was seriously cut by Heber Summerill !
last Saturday morning. 1t is said
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brother were engaged in fight when
Heber Summerill ran up and stabbed |
Washington. Summerill has been /
arrested.
E. A. Carr, the express messenger
who has been in Jail in Asheville on |
suspicion for the robbery of his car !
near Biltmore some days ago, has
been released on bond of $1,000 fur
nished by the people of Marion where
the young man lives.
Charles Randolph, a boy of thir-
teen years, was arraigned III the Su-
week for the killing of Perry STALL
lngS, boy several years older, and
a verdict of manslaughter was enter
ed by agreement. 1t is thought the
boy will be sent to a reformatory.
Winston suffered destructive fire
last week. The fire originated in the
basement fthe factory recently pur-
chased by R. w. and P. A. Gorrell,
though how is not not known. The
Ogburn-Hill Tobacco Company were
the greatest losers. Total loss is said
to be estimated at about 100000,
covered by insurance.
John J. Kerner, a member of the
firm of the American Hosiery Mills of
Kernersville, was shot and seriously,
if not fatally, injured by a young
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