The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-03-27
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

DANAIA ANSV - u LNACs /
Chief OF Police J. Caudle Tucker.
Of Louisburg. shot and killed Fred
die Green. a negro. Sunday night. |
The coroner's jury exonerated the
chief.
After April Z. all women In Mas
who do not cap their hat
piHs with a device that will protect |
others from injury will be liable to q |
fine of 800.
The plant OF the Wilmington, ~.
c. Handle Works was destroyed FRI
day night by fre originating in
the dry kiln. The loss Ia estimated
at $4,000 to $4,000.
At Elm City Sunday afternoon
Grover Cobb, demented young
man of about eighteen, drank large
quantity OF box lye from the effects
OF which he died a most horrible
death a few hours later.
Feny Murray, a young man OF
Burlington, was arrested Friday and
bound over to court on the charge
of assault upon Miss May Walton of
that town. His guilt was not fully
established.
The jury Saturday acquitted Muir
den Stokley, for killing J. FELTON,
Towe at Elizabeth City a few weeks
ago. Stokely claims that Towe
ruined his sister and then refused to
make amends.
Bulgarian besiegers Tuesday cap
tured the Turkish advanced positions
to the east of the fortress of Adrian
| ople, after a heavy bombardment; a
large number Of prisoners and siege
guns were captured.
Rev. R. G.. Pearson died Saturday
in Columbia, where he occupied a
professorship in the Presbyterian
Pearson did evangelistic work in this
State, and was one of the most effec-
| tive evangelists of his day.
! Because Elliott Moore stepped on
the toe of Fannie Biting at a negro
dance near the Spencer, N. c., cattle
pens Friday morning, William Clark
cut a hole in Moore's side with a
knife. Moore lived only a short time
after being stabbed. Clark escaped.
The whipping post for white slave
trafickers and seducers of women
was among measures advocated for
a conference held in Washington Sat
urday through efforts of the Illinois
vice commission.
After killing his wife and inflict-
ing a strious wound on his son, l. w
Williams, an aged farmer, of Rome
Ca, attempted suicide by drinking
} laudanum. He probably will recov-
er. Williams and his wife quarreled
J over the possession of their three
children.
= Willis L. Moore, chief of the
Weather Bureau at Washington, re-
signed his position Saturday. Mr.
| Moore was a candidate for Secretary
| of Agriculture, and was disappointed
: when he did not receive the appoint
t ment. His resignation becomes ef
/ fective July /.
= The Porto Rican Legislature helt
a it's final session Friday. The bill
D passed include measures regulatin,
2 child and woman labor, establish
s ing an employers liability law, pro
q viding for the construction of road
q and bridges and increasing the reve
nue. by the imposition of taxes OF
: liquors, cigars and cigarettes.
q Mrs. Jennie May Eaton was locke
!. up in the county jail at Plymouth
8 Mass, Friday, pending a hearing O.
a the charge that she murdered he
: husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Gle
+ Eaton, by poisoning him. Admirs
q E<dLOus WAO was OAC VI IhC ASAS
4 of the Spanish-American War, die
- suddenly a few days ago under pecr
!, lier circumstances The home lif
:. of the Eatons had not been pleasan
A revised tariff will be submitte
- by the New Zealand Government 9
the next session of Parliament, VI
:, der which, apparently, the prefel
- ence to British goods will be extent
ed. The New Zealand Governmer
also proposes to insist on all import
% being accompanied by certificates {
le origin in order to prevent the az
D. mission at the preferential rates
At goods of foreign manufacture re-e'