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THE CAUCASIAN. Page Two. 1 rxr State Netfs. Chas. L. Steveat, for many years the owner and editor of the New Bern Journal, has Bold the paper to E. J. Land Printing Company. Mr. E. D. Dunnovon, formerly of Rocky Mount, N, C, committed sui cide Tuesday at Danville, Va., by tak ing an overdose of laudanum. J. E. Harris, a letter-carrier in Henderson, has been charged with breaking open letters, and placed under a bond of $300 to answer the charge. Minnie King, a negro woman of Wifmington, was shot and killed on j inc. by Rachel Pollock, another negro . woman. Mrs. Mary Poston, of Lancaster, j died a few days ago as a result of eat ing cucumbers, causing acute indiges tion. She had been in bad health for some time. Jas. E. Parks, of Goldsboro, has been appointed clerk in the ocean mail service to succeed Woody, the North Carolinian, who was lost in the Titanic disaster. The reunion of Confederate veter ans and picnic will be held at MtC Zion Church, Cornelius, this year on August 1. Judge Walter Clark, of Raleigh, will deliver the address. A fire at Mebane last Friday de stroyed the store of A. P. Long and the po3toffi.ee building, besides dam aging other property. The loss was estimated at from $5 to $6,000. The nineteen-months-old child of Mr. Clyde Roney, of Burlington, ran away to his father's store, near his homo, a few days ago, and drank a quantity of kerosene, from which' he died in a few hours. Two men were killed and three se riously injured in Washington Mon day by an electric shock received in repairing a transformer which had been disabled by a storm. The men killed were James Reagan and Dan iel Kelly. During a very bad storm at Mt. Airy last Saturday, the large shed of the Mt. Airy Granite Company was blown down, killing Robert Perkins, a stone cutter, and injuring several others, besides damaging thousands of dollars worth of property. Three boys, from twelve to eigh teen years of age, two sons of Mr. S. D. Tucker, and one of D. W. Hardee, of Greenville, were drowned in Tar River last Friday afternoon. It is supposed that they were swimming and got too near a dangerous hole near the spot they were last seen. The bodies were recovered. At Blowing Rock last Saturday afternoon, Alonzo, Hartley ind Lewis Trexler, two white men, engaged in a quarrel and Hartley struck Trexler over the head with a billiard cue, knocking him to the floor and wound ing him to the extent that he died a few hours later. Trexler was twenty eight years of age and was married. Lewis Perkey, about eighteen years of age, and Miss Ada Gibbis, both of Gastonia, were caught on the trestle of the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad just outside the incorporate limits of Gastonia, when they werefthe valuable and popular free treat caught by a train and Perkey was in stantly killed. Miss Gibbie jumped from the trestle and broke one limb, besides receiving internal injuries. THREE YOUNG MEN DROWNED. Lost Their Lives in Tar River, Near Grimesland, in Pitt County. Washington, N. C, July 14. News has reached here of a. tragedy that occurred at Farmer's Landing, near Grimesland, Pitt County, when three promising boys met their death by drowning in Tar River. From what can be learned of the unfortunate af fair, Theodore Tucker, aged 18; El bert Tucker, aged 13, and Robert Hardy, aged 12, their cousin, deter mined to go -fishing in the afternoon and left the Tucker home with fish- Ing tackle, etc. Milton Tucker, an- meaning they had. It is of some other brother of the Tucker boys, ac- interest to note here that there, is a companied them to go in swimming, case in court against several men in and later returned home to attend Jacob's Fork for disturbing these peo to some duties at the farm. When pie in a service sometime ago, and supper time came, the boys not shoyr- we hear that if it comes to trial, the Ing up, Milton went in search of defence will make the point that this them, and when he arrived at the riv- sort of thing daesn't come under the er he found their clothes on the bank head of religious worship as the term and the boat drawn up on shore, but is commonly understood. no trace of the boys. He hastened : home and gave the alarm and search- No Grass Would Grow on His Grave. ing parties were immediately organ- ized and searched the river, dragging ..... . . . . tor cue uouies mi uigui wuuuui success. The bodies were finally lo cated this morning floating in the river. The two Tucker boys were sons of S. B .Tucker, ap rominent farmer of Pitt County, and the Hardy boy a son of Coon Hardy, of Green ville, N. C. The sad deaths have cast a gloom over the entire county. An Increased Endowment for Trinity College. "An effortis now being made to add one million dollars to the endowment of Trinity College. This endowment took definite shape' when about a year and a half ago, the General Ed ucation Board of New York offered to contribute one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this mount If the College would raise the balance. Eight hundred and fifty thousand dol lars hare already been pledged on condition that the College obtain by December 31st of this year subscrip tions for the remaining hundred and fiftv thousand dollars. District com- mittees are being organized in thej chief centers of population and the campaign is on throughout the State. KITCIIIX WANTS DEFINITION. ' Asks Chairman Webb to Call Corn - mit tee Together IUght Away to Ie-j cide on What Is a Ieraocrat. riorri. vitrhin nnt nf tht nm- cratlc" candidates for the Senate. wants the question of what is a Dem-j ocrat decided right away, and wants j (the State Committee to say just how ! murh of a Democrat a voter must be n order to participate in the Senator- ial primary. The following is a copy of a leter that Governor Kitchin wrote Chairman Webb Tuesday after noon: "In view of the fact that The Char lotte Observer has editorially declar ed that a voter who declines to vote for the Democratic national ticket j seeking health, this fall, is entitled to vote in thej senatorial primary, thus encouraging Victor Morris, Jr., holder of the the view that men who oppose the ! world's amateeur record for aero Democratic party in national matters Plane speed, was killed at Palo Alto, may take part in naming a Demo cratic Senator and taking the start ling position that the Democratic ticket doe not include the national ticket. I urgently request you, in the interest of sound Democracy and for ' the good of the Democratic party, call the State Democratic executive Committee together without delay for the purpose of giving a plain and de finite construction of the words "Democratic ticket" as used in our convention senatorial primary reso lutions. Trusting that the commit tee will give them their plain mean ing, directing that they include the national ticket as well as the State, Congressional and county tickets, and thus repudiate so dangerous a con struction as The Observer gives." Governor Kitchin will speak in Windsor, Bertie County, Thursday evening and says he will go into this matter most fully in that speech. Later It was announced yester day afternoon that Webb had con sented to call the committee together in the near future. 81,058 People Treated for Hook worm Disease in the State $10, 000 Raised for Local Expenses. The last quarterly report of the State Director of the campaign against hookworm diseasfy shows that the names, post-office addresses, ages, etc., of 4 7,906 persons who have been treated for hookworm disease by the State Board of Health's repre-1 forty years, in the southern district sentatives are en file in Raleigh. In ! of Florida, has tendered his resigna addition more than 1,300 general j tion to President Taft. He was the practitioners representing every coun-! oldest Judge in point of service in ty in the State have sent in written j the country, reports which are also on file ofj treating 33,752 persons for the dis- Reports are that the residents of ease, making a total to July 1, 1912, Findlay, O., state that frogs were of 81,658 treated persons. . rained during a recent heavy storm Forty-three counties have made small appropriations providing for the local express of free treatment for all infected applicants, the sum total of which is $10,100. The coun ty free dispensary campaigns are now in progress in Wilkes, Catawba, Jones and Gaston Counties. The work in Burke, Caldwell and Surry Counties is to open soon. Lincoln and Lee are the last two counties to provide for ment. The "Holy Rollers.' Catawba County News. The Holy Rollers have established themselyes in the northern part of town and nightly hold services which attract numbers of people curious to observe these strangely acting per sons. Cunday night a large crowd was present an dthe curious ones well rewarded. Prayer was engaged in by a number of the sect, who prayed all at one time and at the top of their voices. Soon, under the influ-; ence of the spirit, if you call it that, they began to jerk and twitch, and before long the "unknown tongue" feature was added to the ceremonies, strange words falling from the lips, of which none knew the meaning, if The Boone Democrat tells of the T,7Q Q mOT, r, , . . grave or a man who was buried near rao j . . , .v i - jGuio tifow auu tvr-viajr mc grave is as bare and hard as the earth in a public highway. The story runs like this: The man buried there was an extremely profane man. During his last illness he became fearfully rebellious and during his frightful ravings cursed his Creator and died. From that day to this not alsprig of grass or, flower has grown upon the clay that covers him, while all the other mounds in the burying ground are covered with a carpet of green. This Is truly a very singular coinci dence, and we leave its solution' for our readers." General Netfs. The Louisiana General Assembly has passed a bill providing for the recall of all public officials except judges. Col. Richard W. Simpson, head of Clemson College, in South Carolina, died in Atlanta a few days ago at the age of seventy-two. ""A flash of lightning struck Camp Petus at Anniston, Ala., one day last week and killed two soldiers and in - , jurej geveral others. j Four person were drowned at Al - ton. 111., a lew aays ago in a cioua - J burst which destroyed property to tne amount oi ia.uuu. j Government reports from all over the country are most encouraging. The crrip reporting board estimates that crops are 5.9 better than last year. Hubert Latham, the famous Anglo French airman, was killed by a buffa lo during a hunt in the French Con- I go, June 7th, where he had gone Cal.. when his macnine tell Irom a height of fifty feet. Miss Ellen Hayes, of Wellesley Col lege, a professor in astronomy and applied mathematics, is candidate for Secretary of State in Massachu setts on the Socialist ticket. W. W. Oliver, a well-to-do farmer living near Norfolk, Va., was bathing in the stream near his home, when i he was seized with cramps and was j drowned before aid could reach him. ! Montreal had ninety-five funerals j in one day last week, as a result of the recent hot spell. Eighty of the j dead were children. A horse attach- : ed to the hearse in one of the fun ; eral processions fell dead. ! . .The Presidential elections which ! were held in Panama, July 14th, re ! suited in the unanimous election of i Dr. Relisario Poras. Pedro Dias be came convinced of defeat and with drew at the last moment. A gas explosion at the Panama Mine of the Ben Franklin Coal Com pany of West Virginia, said to have been caused by an open lamp carried by one of the victims, killed eight men and injured three others last week. .v Judge James W. Locke, Judge of the United States District Court for in that section. They say that thous- ands of frogs, many of them as large as half a dollar, fell to the earth, but that few of them lived. Dr. R. O. Seay, a prominent phy sician, of Louisiana, was lured from his home a few nights ago on a fake call for his professional services and shot. The- crime followed an at tempt on his part to segregate school children of mixed blood. An investigation of the recent wreck at Corning, N. Y., in -which forty persons were killed, brought testimony that Wm. Schroeder, the engineer on the train which crashed into another train was intoxicated before starting on his run. The importation of absinthe into the United States, and its sale in in terstate commerce has been prohibit ed after October 1 by the pure food decision. It is recognized . as being dangerous to health. A number of other countries have passed laws for bidding its manufacture and sale, and importation. Miss Sallie Owens, of Spartanburg, S. C, died in a fit of violent cough ing after eating a saucer of ice cream a few days ago. She had been at work in an overheated kitchen, and the physicians decided that death re sulted from hemorrhage caused by sudden contact with the cold sub stance with the young lady's over heated condition. A bill, said to be the most strin gent of its nature ever thought of, was introduced before the Georgia Senate a few days ago. The meas ure would prohibit the marriage of all persons Vho are habitual users of intoxicating liquors, or stimulating drugs. It also prohibits the mar riage of persons afflicted with an in heritable disease. The jury in the trial of Claude Al len, which has been in progress for several days past, at Wytheville, Ga., for participation in the Hillsville tragedy, were .unable to agree and were discharged. The jury stood four for acquittal and eight for mur der, in the first degree. " The court entered a new order summoning a new venire for the 16th of July, when the case is to be retried. THinTKEX KIIXKP IN WHIXJC Several Who Wert? Pinioned Beneath the Cars Uegse to lie Killni for Iletfef. A Chicago dispatch of July 14th says: "Thirteen persona were killed and gfteea to twenty were injured In a wreck on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad at Western Springs, a suburb of Chicago, at 6:30 ia. m. to-day. j "Coming through a fog with sup- .posedly clear track ahead, train No. j S. a fast mail, fan at full speed into 1 the rear o? train No 2. known as the ) Overland Express from Denver which j was standing still on the track, tele- ; scoping two of the Overland Pull- :man cars. "Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, who was in charge of the tower from which the block signals were controlled, said she was certain the block was thrown against both trains. She collapsed after the accident and still is in a nervous condition. Passengers Crushed to Death. "All of the dead Bronson were taken except George from the rear coach of the Denver train. The en gine of No. 8 plowed through this car halving it nad crushing out the lives of helpless passengers, many of whom were still in their berths, on to the second coach the engine then sped. Half-way through the car it veered to the left, derailing the sleeper. The engine was entire stripped when it stopped. "Fire starting from the gas lights! in the sleepers, then broke out. Many victims, pinioned dowi by heavy tim bers and iron pleaded for death. Members of the fire department of Western Springs and LaGrange were on the scene within a few minutes after the wreck occurred and they put out the fire with lines of hose. "Ghouls are believe to have robbed the dead before they reached the morgue in LaGrange. More than a dozen large diamond sets are missing from jewelry and although most of the dead appeared to have been per sons in comfortbale circumstances, a dime was the largest sum of money found on any of the bodies." DEEDS AWAY ALL HIS PROPERTY Chaloner, the Millionaire, Thinks He Has Outwitted New York Relatives Some Money for This State. A Richmond, Va., dispatch of July 14th says: "In order to forestall efforts of his relatives in New York, who charge that he is insane, John Armstrong Chaloner has deeded his entire prop erty amoutning to $1,500,000 to the Virginia Trust Company in trust to be diyided at his death between the University of North Carodina and the University of Virginia. Specific be quests of $10,000 each are made as follows: To Columbia University, New York, to increase the Chandler historical prize fund; to the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Poly technic Institute, the College of Ag riculture and Mechanics Arts of North Carolina, the University of South Carolina, the South Carolina Military College, the Clemson Agri cultural College, the College of Charleston, S. C, and $10,000 is giv en to the town of Roanoke Rapis, N. C, the income from which is to be aplied to the annual purchase of a Christmas tree for public school chil dren. "Mr. Chaloner reserves a life in terest in all property and the right to vote all stock, but agrees not to hypothecate the stock or encumber the real estate save for improvement of the property and then only with the consent of the two first-named universities." Ex-Congressman Simpson's Widow Running for Office. A Wichita, Kansas, dispatch of July 14th says: "Mrs. Jerry Simpson, widow of 'Sockless Jerry' Simpson, has follow ed the admonition of her late hus band from the spirit world and has become a candidate for County Su perintendent of Schools of Sedgwick County. "Since the death of her husband several years ago Mrs. Simpson has professed to have received numerous spirit messages from him. "Mrs. Simpson is a great believer in these spirit mesages from her husband, and she regulates her daily life according to the advice she re ceives from him. In one of his mes sages he directed the sale of his bi ography. Mrs. Simpson has worked industriously at this and has lived upon the proceeds of the sale of the book." WOMEN AND CHILD REX KILLED. Horrible Atrocities Mark Capture of City of Li tang, China. Shanghai, July 11 Horrible atro cities marked the recent capture of the city of Litang, in the province of Sze-Chuen, by Tibetans. Many women and children were burned alive or otherwise slaughter ed. The garrison defended the city for an hour and then fled, leaving seventy dead in the streets. The new national flag, bearing forty-eight stars, emblematic of all the States, including the recently admit ted Arizona and New Mexico, was ex hibited from Federal structures and from the American Navy on the 4th. Thirteen stars only will be admitted J in the blue square of the flags. Ho jinx Koll UVrriU in Mi4Ippi. Natchex, Mis-. Jf The mar ket for lite boU weevils closed to day, with a total of 47,00. real or alleged, bought Saturday, Jane 21. July th and July 13tb. at 50 cents a hundred. The prices were paid at the Natches cotton oil mill for wee vils caught ia Adams County. The oil mills, local wholesale merchant and banks contributed money for the purpose. To-nifht It was reported that most of the insects purchased were not the genuine article, many of them having bven taken from cockle-burs. The Australian Ballot Of Champ Clark it was said that he was so progressive that he was the leader in the movement which re sulted in the adoption of the secret ballot twenty-five years ago in Mis souri. Twenty-five years! And yet North Carolina is still See! c. c. Mcdonald Real Estate and Loan Office for STOCKS AND BONDS RALEIGH, N. C. He will buy, sell or lend you money on Real Estate or other good Collateral. SHONINGER PIANOS Musicians saya good piano is half the teacher. Give the teacher half a chance and your children a whole one. The Shoninger Piano is the best whole-chance. The wonderfully clear trible full, round bass and perfect mid dle virgister improved with use. We have some real bargains i used Upright Pianos. One nickering Ebony case - - $150.00 One Mehlin Walnut case - - - $190.00 One Wheelock Ebony case - - $140.00 One Cooper Walnut case - - $140.00 anc many others that range in price from $125 up to $250. 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