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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
BRICK MACHINE!

A SIMPLE AND DURABLE
"A Machine, all right in every
particular, not liable to get out of
repair, will make 10000 brick per
day, and nicer and better brick than
many Of the high-priced machines
in the market, including five sets of
Cherry Moulds, iron lined.
/ will sell the above machine,
which is i'm excellent condition, AT
the low price of $1,000.
Call on me at my acme in Piney
Grove township, or write me at Fai-
son, NC. Respectfully,
sep12.EIm ID. s. AMAN.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
IEWELRY And CLOCKS.

have just resolved a large 10; o.
Elegant Jewclry. This will guaraa.
tee TO tbs purchaser 10 b. ia.G a. rrp-
resented. sch no cheap. ''llrc guild"
goods but carry a STANDARD LINZ az
aot-n FRONT 'sooiss. The attention of
The ladies j. called - the latesi slylrs
Of BREAST rtSs--tt.ey are things Of
beauty ~
The old rvllabls anil standard SETH
THOMAS CLOCkS always in stock.
IN various styles and sizes.
Bar departing Of Watches snsi clock.
aaa nseudins jewelry j. speciality.
Al, work ! dc Is guaranteed TO give Gu
tjrc est.sfietion.
Respectfully,
scp5 4 L.. I. kAwi.S,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
NEWTON GROVE.

Late cotton is doing well. Our
farmers are done pulling fodder.
Misses Vara Benton. and Bette
West, each, have a hourishing
school.
Me8Srs. Walter Bizzell and Samp-
sOE Warren are erecting new dwell
ings.
Miss Mary Sweeney, of Whining
ton, IL visiting friends of Newton
Grove.
One Of Cumberiand's highly es-
teemed young ladies, Miss Roe Ella
Bolton, is visiting relatives and
friends of this section.
This writer had the pleasure of
visiting friends near Fayetteville a
few days ago. He was much pleas
ed to find so many readers of THE
CAUCASIAN. He likes that people
and country very much.
We would like to say TO the Glen
wood writer that Gus" and "We''
belong to Newton Grove items.
.sWE.n
GlenWood High School is in q
fiOurishing condition. Strict disci.
pline and thorough practical work is
| its motto.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
NOTICE.

Do you take THE CAUcAsAIN ? II
not, then It il your duty to do 50,
and heAp u make the paper better
and lnore Influential.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE

"AVING QUALIFIED AS
LII Administrator of the es-
tate Of Wiley Marley, deceased, no.
tice is hereby given to all persons
holding claims against said estate to
come Harvard and present the same,
duly proven, within one year from
the date hereof, or this notice will
be plead in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to come forward and
make immediate payment
W. S.. THOMSON, Admir-.
This 9TH day Of Aug. 15S9.-it
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Use Browns Iron Bitters.
Physicians recommend it.
All dealers keepit el00 per bottle. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
MEDIA NIEIS.

During the month of August the
G.. F. & Y. V. Railroad distributed
81, 100 in cash in the proposed town
of Parkersburg to the citizens around
for timber, lumber and crOss-tieS fur
nished. This was very Opportune,
coming as it did when money was
the scarceSt. The good effects has
been felt already by almost every
man in the township.
Our farmers have commenced
picking out their cotton.
Mr.. r. G. Lewis has just returned
from visit to Mount Olive. He
says that the crops through that sec
ton are injured very much by exces'
sive rains.
Mrs. M. G. Richardson, of Clinton,
is visiting Mrs. f. Langdon Cooper
| III this section.
Messrs w. J. Parker d Sons fine
store at Parkersburg, on the c. +. 4
Y. V. raill cad, is nearing compile
ton.
Messrs. Melvin d Smith, tormerl.
of Bladen county, have opened ;
mercantile business at NJ elvin Bridg
in this township. c.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
NORTH CLINTON.

Mr.. r. J. Pearsall while out with
a party on deer hunt in~Turkey,
last Thursday, was thrown from his
road-cart and, falling upon a stump,
received several painful cuts and
bruises about the face. He was i'm
mediately brought to Clinton, where
his wounds were dressed by DR.. Lee
and at this time he is rapidly inn
proving.
Protracted meeting is going OF
in the colored Baptist Church in
Clinton, conducted by Revs. O.. Mil
Ter and A. Shepard.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12

Rev. f. r.. Underwood is conduct
ing a protracted meeting atoat Salem
Church this week.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Tew is quite sick. Her
condition at this time is quite criti-
cal.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12

A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Mr.. G.. H. Williams resi-
dence, with Mis-. jamie Williams
postmaster. The new office IS Call
ed Chance and many of our people
now have better chance of getting
their mail.
Revs. Joel Fisher and +. ID, Ed
wards held a protracted meeting at
Long Branch during the latter part
of August, adding ten members to
the church. The meeting will pro-
baby be continued again on the
next third Sunday.
Mr.. B. Hall is superintendent of a
good Sabbath School, and M. Joel
Faircloth has charge of the singing
class at the same place.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12
SOUTH CLINTON.

The Second Epistle Of Simon Pc
ter, "a servant and apostle Of Jesus
Christ, to them that have obtained
like precious faith" etc., is one of
the finest passages in the New Tes-
lament. AT Red Hill, on last Sab
bath, Rev. d. B. Clayton, of Column
bia, S. c.. took his text from the LIST
chapter, 4th-12th verses of this let
ter. He discussed the Exceeding
great and precious promises" which
will be surely realized to us if we
follow the injunction to add to oul
faith, virtue, knowledge, temper
ance, patience. godliness, brotherly
kindness and charity. He followed
the example of the Apostle Peter by
putting US in remembrance of:these
and besides, discussed each one o
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-17
EEP-LAID PLOT,

It was remarkable crime both in its concep.
lion and In it's execution. The conception
showed great shrewdness and forethought
Every detail was carefully planned and exc
cuted with remorseless precision. Still more
machinery set in motion to cover up the crime
man.
That it was the work OF conspiracy directed
by men OF brains and having great financial re-
sources at their back has been made perfectly
plain by the evidence SO far secured. They had
q strong following among the membership Of
Irish societies, were able to command the serv-
ices of a portion of the press, and had resolute
and INSCRIPTIONS adherents on the Chicago
police force.
The plot has as yet been scarcely half laid
bare, and yet it reveals more intrigue, moro
clashing of personal interests more cold, calcu-
lating vilainy cloaked under the guise Of patri-
otism, more human passion and frailty, except
In one particular, than can be found in any ro-
nance Of modern times.
The one thing lacking to make It Guido the
widest conception Of the novelist is the pres
ence Of q woman. In spite Of very determined
efforts on the part Of the murderers' friends the
woman in the case" is missing The crime was
purely political
What was the motive of this most extraordi-
nary murder and what is the inner history Of
the conspiracy which led up to it?
The answers to these questions can only be
given under oath at the trial of the murderers.
At present they are largely subject of conjec-
ture, or Of conflicting partisan opinion. But the
facts of the murder and the events which imme-
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animation was made
The evidence Of the teeth was suggested as
valuable, and John F. Seaman pried open the
mouth Of the corpse with q lead pencil. Cronin
had gold-illed teeth, and it was declared by
those familiar with his appearance that the
teeth in the mouth Of the deceased exactly
matched with his.
1T is Enthusiastically DIR. Cronin's body" said
John F. Seaman. Il knew it the minute / en-
tered the room, and was certain of it then rs
am now, after making more careful examine
ton. If had nothing else to go by, I could
identify him by the teeth Cronin had two
large front teeth remaining on the upper jaw
and the left eye-tooth was gone.
His lower teeth were dark in color placed
quite apart, and rounded In shape. / can
identify the body also by the shape Of the fore
head, by the expression Of the mouth, and even
by the hair which remains, and the mustache
and goatee. believe that he was the victim of
the foulest of murders. believe that the fact
that the Agnus Del was untouched was most
significant"
DR.. Lewis, the dentist who last worked on
Cronins teeth, reached the station late in the
evening and also positively identified the body
as did A. c. O'Keefe, who for many years was
Cronin's tailor. T. T. Conklin, the Clark street
liquor merchant, in whose house Cronin lived
pronounced emphatical1y that the body was that
Of his missing friend.
Mr.. COnklin looked long and earnestly at the
bloated corpse. 1T is the body of DR.. Cronin,
said Conklin, his eyes filling with tears. Il
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that old Hepsy Trotwood was cruel and
unjust.
DAYS, weeks, months, years rolled
by without bringing reconciliation;
Hetty was the mother OF . SECOND
baby. The young woman frequentiy
passed her aunt's house, and the little
one. who was beginning to talk, would
ask her who lived in @the pretty house,
referring to the deacon's. On learning
IL was Serandma's," she would laugh
with delight.
One day in early June, Hetty, busy
with her household cares, forgot to
closely watch baby, who wandered
down the road in the direction OF the
deacon's house. Mrs. Trotwood sat by
the open window. It was her slxtleth
birthday.
Dear mel" she sighed. @How old 1
am getting-sixty-and the deacon
is five years older; time to be-
gin to think of passing away.
If the Lord calls the deacon
first, I shall be left alone-alone"
And the woman bent her head In sor-
row. @H Hetty had only married to
suit me-and yet Dick seems to be q
clever fellow, after all. How cruel l
have been, after all these years! Will
Hetty forgive me now? Yet she
blghted my fondest hopes" she MUIR
INJURED, while the old stern look stole
over her face.
Suddenly the patter of little feet was
heard, and Mrs. Trotwood saw stand
ing in the open doorway little child,
q lovely, laughing baby, with hair like
spun gold and eyes as blue as blue
hyacinths-eyes that she had seen the
counterpart of many time, and which
left no room for doubling that before
her stood Hetty's baby.
as you grandma asked the child
in sweet, isping tone.
"Grandma. The word was like
magic to the childless heart. Then
Hepsy Trotwood did what she had not
done for years-cried as if her heart
would break. One cannot close the
doorway of his heart against the plead
ings of q little child. Hepsy Trotwood
had heart, after all.
Five years have passed. The dea-
cons family and Hetty are reunited.
Prosperity has come to the young folks
Dicks hopes are realized. On the front
door of one of the most substantial
dwellings, of the town is glistening
loor-plate bearing the name, Richard
Barry, NJ. D.
Mrs. Trotwood has made new will,
oy which she will leave her entire for.
:npe to Hetty's baby.
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AvalancheS.

Only a moderate amount of snow fell
in the autumn and early winter of 1887
SO in the canton of Grubunden; about
New Year there was considerably less
than the average quantity. On the
heights of the mountains this coating
of scanty snow hardened, Under the ac-
ton of the sun, wind, and intense frost.
into a smooth, solid, and icy crust,
Therefore, when heavy snowfall be-
gan in February, which lasted without
intermission for six days and nights,
accommodating an average of five or six
feet on the crust of earlier snow I have
described, this new deposit was every
where insecure. 1t slipped in immense
masses from the polished surface of the
old snow, having no support, no rough
ness to which it could adhere, and
rushed by its own weight into the val
leys at points where ordinary and more
slowly acting causes are not wont to
launch the thunderbolts of winter.
For the same reason successive ava
lanches descended upon the same
tracks. As soon as one deposit had
glided from its slippery ice foundation
and another snowfall happened, the
phenomenon was repeated, the crust
of old snow still remaining treacher-
ously firm and smooth upon the steep
declivities. A position, who drove the
post all this winter over the Fluela
Pass (the highest in Grubunden, and
the highest which is open for regular
winter traffic in Europe), told me that
he had counted between fifty and sixty
avalanches, which traversed the actual
post road, and some of these were re-
peated half dozen times. As the same
conditions affected all the other passes
of Grubunden, Bernina, Albula, Jul
Ter. Splugen, and Bernhardin, it will
readily be conceived that traffic was
occasionally suspended for several days
together, that the arrivals and depart
ures of the post were irregular, and
that many lives were sacrificed. Sim
gularly enough, no fatal accidents hap
pened to the Swiss post service. Those
who suffered were men employed to
mend the roads, carriers, and peasants
engaged in telling wood. Few valleys
In the canton escaped without the loss
of some lives, and the tale is still in
complete; for the most remote regions
were entirely shut off for months to-
gether from the outer world by enor-
nous avalanches, which interrupted
all communications. We do not yet
know, and unless an official report be
published on the subject we shall
probably never know how many human
beings fell victims to the fury of the
elements this winter. -CormhiN Maya.
zine.
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HE NETWORK OF MURDER.

WEAVING THE NETWORK OF MURDER.
DR.. Cronin was an unmarried man, having no
relatives in Chicago. He lived with q native
American family, named Conklin, in large fat
in the Windsor Theater Building, on North
Clark street. There he had his Office and re-
ceived his patients morning and evening.
In the large Opera House Building, corner Of
South Clark and Washington streets, he had
another Office on the fifth floor. 1t consisted OF
two small rooms, Nos. sol and sos. These he
used between II Of clock and p. m. for patients.
They vera also used evenings as sort OF club
room or headquarters by his Irish friends.
The window of room sol and that of the hall
way looked out on q narrow alley running from
Clark to La Sale street. At the other side Of
this alley was house fronting on Clark street,
which was let in Offices and apartments. The
windows on one floor commanded view Of one
Of DR.. Cronin's rooms and of the hall outside.
One j. B. Simonds rented the floor of this
house, No. lit Clark street, the window OF
which gave view of DIR. Cronins Office, the
blinds on which were seldom drawn down. This
was Feb. 10.
Simonds is described by Thockmorton, the
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have known him for twenty years and cannot
be mistaken. I have been in swimming with
him and know him better than any man living.
THERE'S no chance for q mistake"
Capt. Villfers, formerly Of the Lake View
police who saw the body before the loose hairs
Of the mustache had been wiped away, was
certain the body was Cronin's. Mayor Bolden-
week viewed the body and gave Q similar opin-
ion. John Sullivan, James Sullivan of the
Tribune, Dr.. Siebert Of Lake View, Patrick Nc
Garry, Frank Scanlan, Joseph Byrne. Maurice
Norris, and more than twenty other intimates,
also positively identified the body - that of Dr..
Cronin.
John Buck, the barber who has shaved Cronin
for nearly year, was positive that the corpse
was that of DIR. Cronin. he carefully examined
the shape Of the head and the texture of the
hair: and declared that they compared exactly.
DR.. Brandt. of the Cook County Hospital, who
examined the hair found in the trunk, DECLARED
that 1t was the same rs that on the head of the
murdered man. Dr.. Ruthford Was Of the same
opinion.
A few day. later the brother Of the murdered
man came on from Arkansas and fully identi-
fed the body.
THE WOUNDS THAT KILLED.
DR.. Gray, who made the first examination Of
the body after it's arrival ct the station, de-
scribes the wounds IS follows:
There are I'VE wounds. No. I Is on the front
parietal suture, Just here and he took mp .
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-17
The Weight Of Individuals.

The average weight of boy at birth
in seven and that of girl little more
than six pounds. When they have at
tanned the full development of man or
womanhoOd they should weigh 20 times
as much as they did at birth. This
would make q mans average weight
140 and q woman's about lbs. The
height of male at birth is l foot 8
inches, and that of female 1 foot 6
inches. Fully grown, q mans height
should be about three and q half times
greater than at birth, or feet inches,
while u woman should be feet 8
inches. The weight of individuals
who are fully developed and we'll
formed. however, varies within ex-
tremes, which are as nearly one to two,
while their height varies within limits
which at most are as one to one-third.
Taking 200 pounds as tie maximum of
mans weight and IS as the minimum,
we would have the average of 1921
pounds. Placing the maximum weight
OF woman at 1856 pounds and the mini
mum at 70 pounds, and we get a
average of 1871 pounds. Philadelphia
Record.
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ton, called on Captain Setback, at the Chicago
avenue police station, and informed him that
his detective, Daniel Coughlin, had hired them.
After hearing this the Captain put Coughlin in
charge of the case.
Coughlin's efforts were confined to two things.
He endeavored to brighten Mrs. Conklin into
giving up to him DR.. Cronin's papers, to enable
the police to .fnd out a motive for murder, and
he circulated the report that the Doctor was
alive. On the Lake View end of the ease Cap
tain Setback put Detective Whalen, . brother
in-law Of Iceman OSulhvan.
Naturally no progress was made in the
search for the body, and the public began to be-
lieve that the outcry of Cronins friends
throughout the country was the result Of pref
udice or malice. It is notable fact that all the
Irishmen since indicted for the murder, and all
those reasonably suspected of completely, be-
long to the faction of the Clan nat Gael accused
of the crime by Cronin's friends from the start
The friends Of Cronin were growing disheart-
ened and the public tired Of the whole Cronin
mystery, when an accident led to the discov-
cry Of the body. This in turn stirred up the
police
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Slightly Strained Relations.

A novel and quite singular marriage
has just been brought to light.
which was celebrated in New York city
recently. The groom is q wealthy old
bachelor who has seen not less than
seventy-6ve summers, while the bride is
q handsome blonde of twenty-five,
The gallant lover is the great uncle Of
the youthful spouse, and his marriage
to her makes his wife the aunt of her
father, the great aunt of her sisters,
and the daughter-in-law of her fathers
grandfather. She Is her own aunt by
marriage, the aunt of her mother, and
her first cousins great aunt.
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u Desesr - go "a 49, - 4, c,c,s,,.
dsstA akan1ens1 IN cssos n.t;set. @ e. ~
~ up hls caao az instxumomts,
~. ON son 1T hat and started on With The
nie1d fnak Soanlan. came mn snd vSs3fs ~ ~.
mo.neot's conversation With him got .
oo9 g ~ st.anU man. Crunin "a his hurry
n;gSt - revolver which hs always carried 1t
- Oocect was mover seem alive again. It 10
nov NOW that tho message about the injured
N.I.sa ~ decoy, shat he Was driven to the
x xo1 cOstage and there murdered. The de-
T SaD q thai murder have yet to be Learned.
anss tnere was abort, sharp struggle between
Sne Gnafmed man, who was probably stunned
aoor, and three or four armed towards who left
me marks OF their hideous butchery behind
. mem - shown by circumstantial evidence
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Preaching q Sermon He Hadn't Pre-
pared.

pared.
A tall man in butternut clothes and
blue flannel shirt, with his hair
"squigety," came up the aisle and made
for the platform. Mr.. woodward APP
ped me on the shin, saying, THAT'S
our minister"
The good man tossed his sompbrero
hat on the floor to one side of the desk
and opened his sermon.
Brethren and sisters, on account
of sickness in the parish the past week
have not prepared a sermon, but on
my way here through Brother Lanes
field I picked up this rock and also this
nut"-both of which he produced from
the side pocket of his coat-"and now I
will give you 'uns parable from these.
take the rock and break the rind Of
the nut, which represents the Metho-
dist Church. and the rind is unfit for
use. Next break the shell, and this
represents the Hard-shell Baptists;
this also is no good and only fit to put
under the heels of men. Next abstract
the vitality and life, the kernel of the
nut, which represents our church, the
old Presbyterian. and break the
she'll"
Here he stopped, and the kernel fell
out as rotten as sin. The congregation
whooped and yelled like Kansas cow
boys, became boisterous and were dis
missed. The deacon took the writer's
arm, walked up and down the street,
saying, why didn't he take q gimlet
nd bore that nut before he gave that
parable? Say, brother. let's take .
drink" And if the writer had minded
him he would have been slightly ailing
by eight o'clock-Trinidad Daily
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real estate agents clerk, as a man about feet
inches in height, stoutly built, with dark brown
hair, brown mustache q nose that was almost
Roman. tlue or gray eyes, pleasant address and
. slightly English accent.
Two days later Simonds bought some furni-
ture OF Reven & Co., and ordered it delivered at
the rooms at No. lit Clark street. He told Hat
field, the salesman, be wanted the cheapest
things he had, for temporary use only. he paid
other visits to Revelrs, buying large trunk and
q leather strap.
Simonds' room was found to be vacant March
IS. and the occupants of the house could give no
coyery of DR.. Cronin's bodya Swedish express
man named Maytinsen was found who had been
hired to take that furniture from No. NJ Clark
street to the Carlson cottage in Lake View
where the murder was committed.
few days before this q man giving his name
as Frank Williams, and having an alleged
brother, rented the Carlson cottage in Lake
View. The furniture from No. III Clark street
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CHATTER III.
THE DOCTOR LuRKD TO HIS DOOM.

TIE DOCTOR LURED 10 HIs doom.
Dr.. Cronin was engaged with patient in his
tie after y. m. man m o covered buggy
drawn by . ~ hite horse drove up to the door And
rsng the bell Violently. Ms. Conkling opened
the door and let him in She got . good look 1t
oer, took particular notice Of him
Hswss strongly built man Of i've fest eight
inches, with sa1low face. flushed with excite.
msnt. dark mustachs, and pair of mail,
furave eyes. BE funb1ed nervously ct his hak
q b sae waiting for the Doctor, and SPOKE
llt&ls. =
Mrs. Oonhlin SUMMONED Dr.. Cropin ana 49,
and heaEd What took place between tho tvo
Tho nan told Ctonin that one Of Ieoman euulr
vo1'o men va hurt, that e Was caao a ~
an4 1eath, end he wanted him to oomo VI
him IN tho buggy ct once. Sullivan, h - -
owo1, but b had told him Of tho oon1xoof ~
ehAS IL card Wa 70 - tho token. 70 hnI1od