The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-21


drew Carnegie, a few days ago.
Mr.. Block Harrison, a well known
and fearless Burke County ofnceF'
was found dead In bed a few morn
ings ago.
Wilmington was successful after
a ten DAYS campaign, in raising $751;
600, the amount needed Tor the 1. m'
C.. A. In that city.
The Republican Executive Commit
tee of Guilford County have issued
calls for the County Convention TO De
held In Greensboro, April 8.
There is to be built in the near
future a hosiery mill at Henderson,
by Mr.. r. P. Freeze, treasurer OF the
Fidelity Hosiery Mil, at Newton.
Gilbert McDouglad and Theo Luz
cas- engaged in a quarrel in Fayette-
Vile a few days ago, when Lucas
shot and killed McDouglad. Lucas
escaped.
A negro, John Holleman, OF Kin
ston, brutaly stabbed his wife TO
death a few days ago, near Pink Hill,
where the woman had gone 10 Sislt
her sister.
The thirteen-year-old son of Mr..
W. w. Gales, of Glendale Springs,
Va, formerly of Salisbury, was
drowned few days ago, in stream
near his home.
Nat Mclean, the negro who was
shot by Gus Holmes in a street fight
last Saturday night, died Monday at
the Highsmith Hospital at Fayette-
Vile. Holmes is in jail.
charter has been issued to the
Franklinton Lumber and Power
Company of Franklinton. The au-
thorized capital is SIS, 700, with S.
600 subscribed for by T. H. Whita-
kerr
Lippard & Barriers grocery store
on Church Street, Concord, was en-
tired and robbed one night last week.
An entrance was effected by way of
a window. A few articles were miss
ing.
Reports are that Frank Melcher,
who was wanted in CASTOR County,
for the murder OF a negro, John
Ross, in February, 1911, was cap
tured near Rutherfordton one day
last week.
Capt. W. H. Powell, a prominent
citizen of Tarboro, died suddenly at
his home in that city few days ago,
at the age of fifty years. He was
president of the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank.
Charles Flicker, native of Hen
Jacksonville, was found dead in bed
in a club in Greenville, S. c., few
days ago. with a bullet hole in his
right temple, and a pistol lying on
the floor nearby.
Sam Whitfield, negro employe
in the saw-mill of the Kinston Manu- |
featuring Company, was caught in
the machinery few days ago and
received injuries from vhich he
died in a short time.
A storm at Carthage Thursday
blew down many houses, brew up
trees, and in one instance blew a |
stable together with COW which was
in same, away. Strange to say, it
did not kill the COW.
Mr.. ST. Clair Pugh, one of the |
most widely known merchants and
fishermen of Eastern North Caro-
lima, died at his home in Wanchese, |
Dare County, on the 14th instant.
He was ffty-fve years old.
Mr.. Zero Huffman, a well-known
citizen of Hilderbrand, near Hick-
DRY, was found dead, hanging to a
standard of his wagon, on his way
home from Morganton, a few days
ago. Heart trouble is supposed to be
the cause of his death.
Mr.. Robey Montgomery, a young
man of Lenoir, and a f1agman on the
c. & n. W. Railway Company, was
caught between the couplings of the
cars AID killed a few days ago in
front of the depot in Lenoir.
Mrs. Kathleen Lorillard, wife of
Beekam Lorilard, of Asheville, COM
mitted suicide in New York one day
last week by hanging herself in a
bathroom in ha