The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-09-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The WORLDS EVENTS GATHERED
m SMALL COMPASS.
The !stost Happenings at Home and ABROAD
Collected and Presented in Terse
and Readable Form
Domestic Summary.


Baltimore banks complain OF scar
c.ty,f one dollar notes
Dion Boucicault, the actor and play
wright died last week ia New York Of
pneumonia.
Seven hundred Licyclist5 took part on
their machines in a parade of whcclmcn
it, P.;iair}p.il
I@.v -. Eurtsril has made his peace
vi It Ge Catholic church authorities and
Vii 20 10 Ror ,...
y. Gardner C..uaa 81 Co. bankers AMI
lro c-s III Boston, have failed with la
IhiI", OF 20 100000
General John c. New, consul general
of TIE United States at London arrived
in E"w York last week.
The fire that started in the Western
Unio telegraph Office at Lynchburg,
Va. caused loss Of $175, 900
Henry S. Ives, tine last Of the Napo.-
cons of finance, is out Of prison and
Specializing successfully in Wall street.
r. C English brewery buying syndicate
has made its first payment Of $3.50, OOJon
its purchase of the Philadelphia brewery
at SAN francisco.
f. L. Thomas, "A miller and elevator
naii ut Newman, H., has failed for 500,
600. His ruin was brought about by
sp"cUiatinI in oats.
The Penn Dredging Company has
taken the first contract on the work sf
removing the island from the Delaware
River at PHILADELPHIA.
b. +. Pcjxiotto, the well known
II brew, is dead in New York. He was
consul at Bucharest under General
Grant, and later at Lyons, France
An cXplDGion Of gas took place in the
Murray shaft Of the Lchigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company ut Wilkesbarre, Pa,
Saturday. Five men in the mine
persisted.
Captain Holmes, of Mystic, Conn,
who has just returned from his sixtieth
voyage around Cape Horn, believes he
ha, rrado the trip oftcncr than any other
living person
Tie gre ter part of the insane asylum
ut Austin, Tex, was destroyed by fire.
Thirty female patients 'who were asleep
in the part burned were rescued with
great difficulty.
The Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
Pittsburg Railroad Company proposes to
issue s., 0OO, 600 five per cent bonds to
pay for the construction of tire Harris
burg terminal.
Lightning caused fire in the New
York and New Jersey Telephone Com
pany's Office at Jersey City. Nearly
1000 wire were destroyed and the tele-
phone system crippled.
Hog cholera has begun its ravages
near jefferson City. No. John Ritter
has lost 40 heal of heavy no $, and john
Stone reports the loss Of p more Tho
disease is spreading rapidly
The public schools of New York are
inadequate 10 accommodate the pupils
APPLYING -, 0o0 children having been
turned away for lack Of room, and the
instruction is unsat:s acjDry.
Continuous rains for ten DAYS have
caused a great rise in the Pcn1b3cot
River i'll Maine. Reports say that inn
mense quantities OF logs are in danger
and the lumberm are anxious.
A lledg' of 1,CG0, 0O3 to the new uni
versity of Chicago has been conveyed to
the trustees of the institution in letter
from John ID. Rockef,lcr who has
already given to the university :G00, 900
The city of Galveston. Tex, is enlhu-
siastic over the receipt OF the news that
the President has si.gned the deep water
bill, which practically gives Galveston
So, geo, 900 for the Improvement of her
harbOr
A considerable portion Of the village
of South Haven. Mich, was destroyed
by an incendiary fire, which was DIS
covered about midnight. Eleven Luild-
ings We're burned. The loss is about
SIC, COO
1t is learned thatt'le Atchison, Topeka,
and Santa Fe Railroad has not "only
bought the Midland, but has also secured
an option on the Rio Grande Western.
The sum involved in the deal is $685.
900, 900.
Miss Margery McCarrolrs father set
out feast on the occasion of her mar.
riage to w. G. Berryhill, near Mononga-
hela City, Pa, and 40 of the guest, were
poisoned, it is supposed By canned fruit.
All recovered
Mayor Grant has ordered a p lice
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
city of New York. The board of health
of that city has arraigned the Federal
census, claiming it to be at least 30, 900
below the actual population.
The bronze statue of Horace Greeley,
in Printing House Square, New York,
was unveiled Saturday last BY Miss
Gabrielle Greeley in the presence of a
vast crowd of people. Chauncey ~ De.
pew made tbe Chief speech
The marine corps are very iubilant
over the news that Secretary Tracy has
rendered an opinion by which their daily
rations are TO be increased one-fifth, and
at the end Of 80 years they are to be re-
tired with IS per cent. of their pay and
allowances.
Rev. Mr.. Freund, pastor of the German
Lutheran Independent church in Hobo
ken, N. j., awoie early IL few mornings
ago and found his son searching his room
for valuables. The boy had left home
and led wild life. He ESCAPED with
$500 worth of jewelry
An all steel plate, and a ncl,le steel
plate made by French manufacturers,
and compound plate of steel and iron
made by English manufacturers for the
armorlng of war vessels were tested by
the United States Government at the
naval ordnance proving grounds opposite
Annapolis The two French plates stood
the test, but the English rlates were
perforated and cracked
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