The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-31
No. AZ.
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There Is feeling of depression on the
London Stock Exchange.
Fifteen hundred German bakers have
gone on a strike in Chicago.
The population of the new State OF
Washington Is about $40, 900.
The Earl of Jersey has been appointed
governor of New South Wakes
London dispatches declare thai rcvts-
luton is imminent in Zanzibar.
Continued rains have assured the
crops in all parts of the country.
The crop report for last week is favor
able. especially for the cotton States.
Mrs. Susana Peck. aged io2 years. died
suddenly Friday at Mount Pleasant. Pa.
Thousands of Persons are visiting the
wreck of the cyclone at Lawrence. Mass. >.
this week.
Charles Coomhs Tennant, brother in
law Of Henry NJ. Stanley. has arrived in
New York.
Reports by the way of San Francisco
state that poaching sealers in Behring
Sea are doing well.
The total popula ion of the country as
determined by the new census will be
known in about two weeks.
Z Owing to movement to form al ice
pool in Maine the price of ice will prob
ably he advanced for August
1t is reported that the reciprocity meas
ure proposed by Mr.. Blaine will bc added
i'll committee To the Senate tariff bill
The Senate committee on elections has
stricken out what is known as the bay
onet clause" of the House elections bill.
The Chicago Worlds Fair managers
have finally decided To divide the great
exhibition and hold it in two different
parks.
The Department of State is in receipt
of dispatches from Buenos Ayres stating
that the revolution is making successful
headway.
John Wesley Myers, colored hostler,
was found murdered Monday in n piece
of woods near his stables at Highland
town, Md
Jack Williams and other life guards
saved three Philadelphians, including
two ladies. from drowning at Atlantic
City on Sunday.
The Richmond and Petersburg Rail
road has been mortgaged for 81 900, 900,
borrowed to double track it from Rich
mOnd to Petersburg.
The German soldiers are collecting a
fund with which to defray the expenses
of a celebration i'll honor Of Count Won
Moltke's Goth birthday
A stock company composed of Phila-
delphia, New York, and Richmond cap
italists have commenced the erection Of
large woolen mil. at Richland, n. J.
The steamer d. III. Miller, of Balti-
more, was run down 10y schooner in
Boston harbor. All hands got away in
Uuito. IL IS DpIIeSeu unp sCnooncr Sunk
with all on board.
Mr. Clarkson, assistant postmaster
tour of the West, and will make an elab-
crate report on the postal needs of the
West before rcsigning.
John ID. Fiske, the speculator aud
| theatrical manager, was shot and in
stantly killed in Fresno, Cal. by Joseph
T. Stiltman, who alleges that Fiske at
tempted to blackmail him.
The Russian minister Of the interior
has ordered the local authorities to pre-
vent foreign missionaries from carrying
on their religious propaganda among the
Hebrews i'll Russia to the detriment Of
the exclusive rig.t of conversion pos
sessed by the orthodox church.
| 1t has leaked out that Right Hon. w.
II. Smith, first lord of the treasury and
leader of the government forces in tho
house of commons, tainted at a dinner
party on Saturday. His health has been
poor for some time, and he recently an
nounced that he would very shortly re-
tire from active public life.
a sensation is reported from Landshut,
in lower Bavaria, over the discovery
that the cemetery keepers have been rob,
bing the bodies of the rich dead during
the past two years. Clothes, ornaments,
and even hair have been stolen, while
the costly caskets have been replaced by
plain pine coffins. General examinations
have been ordered, and the ghouls have
been arrested.
A special from Grafton. w. Va, say:
that frightful railroad accident occurred
there Sunday morning, resulting in tho
death of five people, members of one
family. Just about the time the wes
bound accommodation train vas due
William Golden, his wife, and three chill
dren started to cross the main line of tht
Baltimore and Ohio Road, near the Rail
road Hotel, but seeing yard engine
coming up the road they stopped to lie
it pass. Mr.. Golden was holding his 2
year-old boy in his arms, and his wife
3-months-old baby. When watching tn
engine the passenger train struck TIN
family, instantly killing the husband
wife, and two children, and fatally in
juring the boy, who was in his father