The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-08-28
NEWS W THE WEEK
The WORLDS EVENTS GATHERED
IN SMALL COMPASS.
The Latest Happenings at Home and ABROAD
Collected and Presented in Terse
and Readable Form.
Domestic summary.

domestic summary.
Malignant small pox prevails at Waco,
Texas.
AcycIono ut Wilkcsbarre. Pa. wrecked
400 buildings and killed 12 person.
Next October Spokane Falls. Wash.
Is to hold n big industrial cxposition.
The supmer resorts about Now York
are deserted on account of cold weather.
Frost, ice, and snow were seen on the
Catskill Mountains on Saturday night
last
The Boston Knights of Labor passed
resolutions against strike on the Cen
ira. Railroad
.ho business portion Of Pembroke,
ky.. was entirely destroyed on Monday
o4 This week
a syndicate of American capitalists
lis to spend 80, 600, 600 in railway build
ing in jamaica.
The cruiser BALTIMORE, conveying tho
remains of John Ericsson, left for Swe-
den last Saturday.
In spite If al unfavorabie bank state-
ment, the tone of the market in New
York is reaSSuring
ii. n. johnson. the champion sprinter
and all round athlete, die: in San Fran
cisco on tho 26th inst
Kansas brewers propose to get up u
test suit against the Wilson bill which
recently passed Congress.
Hon. s. B. Elkina hos positively de-
clined to be a Republican candidate for
Congress from West Virginia.
James Gordon Bennett has leased for
500 coo :! year a lot at Broadway and
35th street for new Herald office
The members OF variety troupe were
mobbcd at Ceredo, w Va, on Friday
night, and many were seriously injured.
Counterfeit silver dollars have been
found in bags stored in the United
States sub-treasury vaults at Philadel-
phia.
Cliftosi Rodes Barrett, q private banker
Of Louisville, made an assignment, with
assets and liabilities amounting to nearly
$40, 600
BY the defeat of Hon. w. Fl. Martin,
of Texas, for denomination Congress
will lose one Of its most picturesque
members.
Chicago newspapers are severely crit
icising the delay IN locating and con-
structing the buildings for the great
Columbus Fair
The Union Stock Yards men, in Chi
caSo, whohave struck for an advance in
wages, threaten to tie up the united
railroads of Chicago.
Peter Brennan, a junk dealer, and Ed
ward Cassidy were arrested in New
York for throwing stones at new en-
ployees of the New York Central.
The New York health authorities fear
| that there is "A slight return of la grippe
in that city. and it is said Southern vis-
itors are especially susceptible to It
The executive committee of the Grant
protest against the removal of General
U. 8. Grants remains from New York.
The celebrated Russian agitator and
nihilist, Stepniak, has made arrange
ments to undertake q lecturing tour in
America during the autumn and winter.
were dispatched Monday from St Louis
to take the place of strikers Oh the New
York Central Railroad Others will
follow.
The subcommittee on appOrtionment
and franchise in the Mississippi consti.
tutional convention have agreed on
plans which it is thought will be ac.
cepted.
At Newport News, Va. Saturday, the
~ Il, 1.
frs: American steamship built there and
hoisting over her the American flag was
performed
A tt4'riblo accident on the gravity road
at Recalling, Pa, resulted in five persons
losing their lives and eighteen other:
being seriously injured Five others are
expected to die
The United States cruiser Charleston
has arrived at Newport, Oregon Hel
presence there creates some surprise, anC
it is surmised she Is bound for the Alask;
sealing grounda
Andrew Bolton, a sailor on the cruise
Boston, was stabbed fatally in Brooklyn
D while going after more beer for tn,
= mourners at q wake. and John Parking
ton was arrested for the murder
The Central Labor Union In New Yorl
adopted resoiut ions urging Congress t.
8 authorize the Secretary of War to seiz
II the Vanderbilt system of railroads, an'
n operate it at the cost Of the service
: 1t is reported III Philadelphia tina
. there Is movement among employees O
. the New York division of the Pennsyl
. vania Railroad to secure a restoration o
% the 10 per cent. taken off their wages il
- 1877.
William Hanlop, of HanIon Brothers
o the acrobats, while performing fyin
. trarcze act in the Academy of Music
I New York, fell 40 feet to the orchestra
/ smashing two chairs, but was nc
/. severely hurt
Mr.. John Jay Knox, ex-United State
comptroller, who arrived in New Yor
@ from France, said that tho America
silver legislation, which has caused O
= advance in the price of silver. waslooke
upon with favor in Europe
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng
neers threaten q strike on the Souther
;. Pacific, unless the company pays Il
P wages of four engineers, who were di
/ charged, but afterward reinstated, dul
5, ing the time they were laid Off
" On Wednesday the grand jury {
+ Dover, n. H. began ali investigation c
d, the charge against Isaac Sawtelle {
y numbering his brother, Hiram, and II
j. State expects to prove that the GRIN
). was committed In New Hampshire.
!, y nan named Quinn, becoming Graz
- - from hunger, killed his wife and fl,
70 children, at his ranch near Livingston
y Mont. He was afterward killed by
20 po 'se who tried to capture him. He W:
eating lis dead boy when discovered
N Henry Z. Abbey has offered Ante
- Isubenstein, the composer and pianis
S1M 600 for q tour thronnh mncif