The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-08-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE WORLDS EVENTS GATHERED
IN SMALL COMPASS.
The .atest Happenings at Homo and Abroad
Collected and Presented 10 Terse
and Readable Form.
domestic Summary.

from alI overdose OF CIliOfli
The wheat crop of Minnesota and ne
Dal,otas is estimated at 81, ,0Oo, 900 bushels.
Tie Arnold Block in Chicago was
burned on Saturday night Loss, $685.
000
n explosion in stone quarry ut
men.
Richard Stiles, co, fined in Jail at Cam
den, n j., committed suicide by cutting
bis throat
Mrs. Rebecca Cable. mother of George
w. Gable, died at her home in North
ampton on Thursday last.
Ahram ). Hewitt and ex-Secretary of
War Eadicott returned to America in
the Etrur.a Sunday morning.
~ Rodcrigo Vallintier, a resident of
Canada, reported to have died On Sat
urday, after n compulsory fast of IS
days.
The United States warship Baltimore
arrived off Nantucket bar early Sunday
morning. with President Harrison ON
board.
Sarah Althea Hill, by decision of the
court will have to pay So 267 costs in
her latest suit to recover portion Of the
S aaron estate.
."Grv MctzdOrf confessed to putting
arsenic in the coffee of a baltimore fam.
ily, two members Of which have died
from the poison.
Henan r. Baldwin, vice consul for
thn ~
Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and Uruguay,
died in Richmond
Ten acres of lumber were consumed,
together with 30 freight cars, in the fire
of Fitz-;,, mons 6 CoDnell Chicago, last
week. Loss, S300.G00.
Andrew Eo~Rescn cut the throat and
horribly man2.cd tie body Of Emma
Anderson. ut Worthwhile, Conn, because
she refused 10 marry hiih.
Three women sn!ugglerS, passengers
on the ALASKA, We're arrested III New
York. 4 large quantity of silk was
found concealed in their bustles
Reynolds. the al salisbury candi-
date for the Democratic gubernatoyial
nomination in Delaware, carried Kent
county at Saturdays primary elections.
The census returns 2...a Arizona - pop
ulation. ot inciu ling Indians, Of ST.
O00: tho ,hrcc largest towns being Tucson,
5,1SJ; Phoenix, 3 115, and Prescott, ,S43.
In riot at Shaiter, Tex, State Ranger
j. T. Graves was instantly killed by
Mexican outlaws. Deputy Sheriff Lee
returned the fire, killing one of the
Mexicans.
The Bodrey family. of Suuman, Ind
of whom there are five, have fallen heirs
to 81 900, ,0D0 apiece, after years of litiga-
ton over property left by their great
grandmother.
A wharf at Portsmouth, N. H., on
which o. F. Phiibrick & Co. S coal pock-
| cts were located, gave way, carrying the
| buildings and over $4,000 tons of coal
| into the river.
| The Boston police have arrested Fred.
o. Simonds, aged ID, son of officer ST.
monds, of Chelsea, on the charge of hav-
Ing attempted to derail the Flying Yam
kee rain last Wednesday.
| GEORGE L. Schuyler. of New York, a
guest of Commodore Gerry, on the flag
ship Electra, of the New York Yacht
Squadron, off the Pequot House, New
London, was found dead in his cabin.
Captain II. T. Coffee, Chicago cap
italist. sent challenge to II. G. Allis, a
prominent railroad man of Little Rock,
Ark. The latter declined to fight duel
The affair grew out of railroad deal.
a circular was recently sent by Gov
crnor Albeit, of New Jersey, to Grand
Army posts offering State aid in prov
ing veterans pensions under the recent
law, without expense to the applicants
During \ severe tempest at North Alb
ington. Mass. lightning struck the dwell
ing of Thomas Sheridan. and Mary Quig
ley was instantly killed and Sheridan
his wife, and young son were badly in
jurcd.
a small riot occurred in New Yorl
CITY on S inlay between striking cloak
makers and some unsympathetic stable
men enga gel in business near their meet
ing hall. Several men were badly in
jur, d
The strike at the rolling mill OF the
Catasauqua Manufacturing Company
begun five weeks ago. has ended, the
men ACCEPTING the company's PROPOSE
ton to pay the Philadelphia scale O
wages.
Governor Campbell has challenged th'
editor of the Philadelphia Press to Civ
his authority for saying that he proposed
to dispcrsp Federal officers with militi;
il there WAS any attempt to inforce thu
: force bill. He denies the report.
While workmen were digging trencl
! q, 50 El,zahesh street, New York, the,
came acros two human skulls and a 10
) of human bones. The place where the,
were found is just back of a notoriou
live which was once kept by Billy Nc
Glory.
) There has been filed at the State De
I,artment, in Washington, copy of tn
: demand made by the Pacific Mail Steam
1 hip Company on Guatemala for an in
denani.y OF $500, 900 for the seizure O
munitions Of war from the steamshi
J Coiinia.
Genera! Merritt, commanding the DE
Q rartn,cnt of Missouri, has been in
r structcd to prepare for probable oui
: break among the Indians of the Chicb
asaw Nation, in the Indian Territory
: He has accordingly ordered two comps
mes from Little Rock to Fort Gibson, an
r two troop of cavalry and two of infar
q try are held at Fort Leavenworth await
q ing orders to move.
One thousand Iie.:,. y. cattle are sal
to lnv, died in Butler and Elk counties
Kul sas, from Texas fever, and the di
oa:a i; spreading. II is claimed tina
so COO cattle recently imported and rel
i resented to be from Arizona really cam
- from Texas