The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-09-04
news OF THE WEEK
The WORLDS EVENTS CAT HERtO
IN SMALL COMPASS.
The Latest Happenings a. Home and Abroad
Collected and Presented in 1e'se
and Readable form.
DomsstIc SUM aTy.

DonsstIc Summary.
Tho hop crop il reported to be ~ per
cent below the average
Icctcrgs have disappeared from the ,
tranjatIantic steamer routes.
The Virginia PTohibitionisto will make !
nominations in every Congressional dis.
triCt
| The grain yield ia Manitoba aud the
nor western part of Canada Is reported
~ be unusually large.
: The ocean promenade aud bathing
pavilion at Asbury Park have been swept
away by heavy surf.
: Two hundred thousand people attended
the Changers National Exhibition, which
lust closed at Carlisle, Pa
The real estate sales In Norfolk and
vicinity since the beginning OF the year
aggregate about ~, Oo0, 900.
Ira ID. Sankey has concluded not to
accompany George +. Pentecost on his
,Vangelistic mission to India.
Special kilograms to BrddstreetS re-
port the September outlook favorable for
IN active distribution Of staples.
The Worlds Fair Committee will COM
mence balloting for IA site for tho great
tair ut Chicago on September 9th
Mayor George w. Peck. proprietor OF
Pecks Sun, has been nominated by the
Democrats for Governor OF Wisconsin.
Atasccond trial of the Justin dynamite
she'll at Syracuse, n. ", the shell again
exploded in the gun and blow IL To frag-
'mcnts.
\ six inch rihed Jun has bceu set up
at Annapolis Md. to- bc used in tests OF
l,amplcs Of English and French armor
Iplates.
The total trade of Charleston, S. c.,
amounted 10 $50, GL9, III last year, an in.
,rcase on the business OF the preceding
year Of 1865 293
I Sculptor Ward has finished the statue
If Horace Greeley and it will be erected
the latter part Of this month in Printing
House Square, New York.
II Is said the United States steamer
Enterprise leaks 80 badly that she will be
detached from the > uth Atlantic squad.
ron and locked for ropairs.
The fire that destroyed McVicker's
Cheater in Chicago Lust week Is believed
10 be Of incendiary origin. a new fire.
proof theater will BIZ erected in It's place.
George Ebert, miser, died at Youngs-
town. Ohio, leaving an estate valuad at
kls5, 900. It WAS his boast that his liv-
ing the year round did not cost him over
three cents day.
The now steel cruiser San Francisco
lassed successfully through an ocean
q n a
. was 10 TO knots. aud her builders will
receive nearly tl5O,OOO premium.
Secretary Blaine made n speech ut
Watervillc, Mo. in ,upport Of rcciproc-
ty with the West Indian and South
American nations, to which he said we
csc $l42. OO0, 900 year under our pres
snC tariff.
Uaue who was arrested at the New York
oargo office on suspicion of being the
murderer OF Meyer, whose body WA,
'ound in barrel Of cement, has sued
the officials who held him for 500, O0(
damages
The Census O0icr has nounccd tho
result Of the count Of tile population il
the following named cities: ST. Louis
l6O, 3j7, an increase during the cenSu:
period Of 1903. 839, or 81. "a per cent
Boston, 446, 507; increase &, 668, or 90 81
per cent.
\ charter has been granted AT Harris
burg, Pa, to the New York. Philadel
phis and Chicago Railroad Company L
construct and operate road in VenangO
Clarion, Jefferson, and Clearfield coun
lies, Pa. 1t is to be 90 miles in lengtl
and the capital stock is $3.50, 900.
United States District Jr ,go Seymou
nas rendered decision in t., case of th
American Fertilizing Company sgains
The Board of Agriculture OF NORTH Cal
Dina, in which opinion the State tax o
fertilizers is declared void. Judge Bont
II Baltimore, concurred in the opinion
George Cranstiold. of Greene, K l. ,
farm hand, who has been working f
the past three months Tor S mont
md board, has received news of Il
Heath Of an uncle In Melbourne, Au
tralia, the sad tidings being somewhi
tempered by the information that he
heir to more than 81, 000, 900 worth
property.
improvements. especially railroad col
struction, in Colraho is greatly retarde
through tire inability Of the compani
to secure labor. The Denver and II
Lirande officials say Ia y can give CT
ployment to from 5,00V to 5000 mon
new works at 81 per day. The work
80 located as to admit of working {;
winter. The several ditch compani
and smaller corporations are equally
not greater sufferers.