The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-30
State News.

The business of the State banks In
North Carolina shows an increase
since the last report Of nearly eight
millions of dollars.
Col. John d. Taylor. Clerk OF Su-
perfor Court of New Hanover Coun-
~. died a few days ago at his home
In Wilmington, aged eighty-two.
The Presbyterians Of Salisbury are
preparing TO build new church to
cost about $4,000. II is TO be OF
stone and brick, and will be located
near Fulton Heights.
A negro in Wilmington attacked
the foreman OF a force at work on
the streets Monday and was knocked
in the head with a hammer, in the
hands of the foreman.
A dwelling belonging TO Mr.. Jones
Rummage, of Stanley County, was
burned, together with all its contents,
one day last week, while the family
were away HUN
p. d. Sinclair, a dentist In Ashe-
Vile, shot two shots in his shoulder
right above his heart Monday, evil
IDENTIFY attempting suicide. No cause
was assigned for the deed.
Randolph was visited by a very
bad storm last Saturday. The wind
and hail did damage to crops, un-
rooted houses and barns, uprooted
trees in a section of two miles in
width.
John Davis, Temple Raynor, and
John Raynor, three white men, have
been placed in Jail in Fayetteville in
connection with the death Of Neill
Smith, who was found unconscious
near the home of K. Raynor, near
Fayetteville, last Friday.
Mr. Frank Wall, a carpenter, fifty
eight years of age, and resident OF
High Point, was killed by Southern
Railway shifting engine near the sta
ton in High Point Monday. He was
originally>from Randolph County, and
leaves a wife and three children.
A business deal in which the Pied
mont Railway, running from Thomas
Vile to Denton, was sold to w. n.
Coler & Co., of New York, has ben
made within the last few days. This
railroad passes through a fine section
of farming land and opens a large
body of timber land.
George Cathaway, a well-known
young man, of Asheville, was shot at
Waynesville last Saturday afternoon
by Chief-of-Police Blalock and seri-
ously, if not fatally, injured. 1t is
said that Cathaway accused the Of
ficer of following him, struck him in
the face, when the officer fired.
A head-on collision occurred on the
main line of the Southern Railway
between Fairforest and Wexford,
near Spartanburg, Monday, when a
southbound freight and northbound
train ran together. Considerable
freight was damaged and destroyed,
and an unknown white man who was
train was killed.
A barn belonging to Mr.. w. A.
Wilson, near Arlington, in Mecklen-
burg County, was burned last week,
and in addition to this lot of feed
ments; also three mules and several
vehicles were burned. The loss is
estimated at about $4,000, and it is
supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
G. c. Campbell, of Charlotte, aged
twenty-seven years, steward on the
camp car of force of Western Union
Telegraph Company linemen, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
while alone at Lake Waccamaw, Co
lumbus County, last week. He hat
been respondent for several days, bu
no cause has been assigned for ths
deed
Miss Lucille Pugh, a young NORTH
Carolina woman who practices law il
New York, and who recently cam,
into notice by appearing for negr,
in a murder trial in New York, los
her case, her client being convicted
of manslaughter. The negro aske,
the young woman to defend him OF
the ground that his people we're a
one time slaves of the Pugh family
YentiOn.