The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-02-03
GENERAL kEWS-

1.ooo tons displacement, has been or
aered 90 visi: American ports
Iii. stated tia, the Letter el'qas."
Of Chicago, have coraeS.t ali available
wheat, amounting To lS, 900 0co ha.hels.
Rev. T. Dewitt Tslmag-, the noted
divine, was married last week Ia s wild
ow. Mrs. Eienor Collier. making bis
third wife
The Hiehmond papers arc demand
ing better streets. They say tL- condi- |
tion of Richmond's streets are wretch /
ed and would discourage outsiders
from settling there
An Investigation Of alleged cruelty
in the Virginia reformatory il b-ing
had. Ii is reported thatA l..year-old
small boy was given ll5 lashes. while |
another was shackled while sick sbed.
The investigation has not yet been
concluded.
Hyman Gluckenstein. = dwarf, was
arrested in New York city on the
charge Of Illicit distiiling. At his home
in the heart of the East side OF the city
there was found . still, with q daily
capacity OF seventy gallons, construc-
ted on the most improved plans.
SEATTLE, Washington, Jan. 2s.-A
we'll authorized report has reached
here that the steamer Corona, which
left here Jan. 25th, with passengers for
Iyea and Skaguay, Alaska, has been
sunk. All her Passengers and crew
were saved.
The Indian Head Cotton Mills, just
opened at Condova, Ala, began opera
| tions, employing 1000 persons. The
mills are the largest in the state, con-
tanning 1000 spindles and 10, 600 looms
and consuming 10000 bales Of cotton
annually. They were built and are
! owned by Boston capitalists.
A gale of wind that reached the
highest velocity of any experienced in
| st. Louis since the tornado of May "a,
| 1896, when the destruction Of life and
property was SO great, prevailed last
| week. Its velocity was sixty-six miles
an hour, fourteen miles less than du-
ring the tornado. Two deaths, one IA
| tai injury and several minor casualties
were reported, as we'll as considerable
destruction of property.
The entire family of Edward Bolt, Of
Deep Greek, Va, consisting of his wife'
| son and daughter, were stricken with
| violent illness Immediately after sup
per one night last week. The son was
| seized with convulsioDs, and died in
terrible agony within an hour after
| the meal. Medical assistance was sum-
moned, and by hard work the lives Of
the wife and daughter were saved. The
coffee is supposed TO have contained
arsenic. No clue to the perpetrators
| of the deed have been discovered.
A red granite sarcophagus for the
widow of the late Ulysses 5. Grant has
been placed in the tomb on Riverside
Drive. 1t weighs eight tons, and is the
exact counterpart of the one in which
the dead soldier reposes. 1t was cut
at the quarries at MONTICELLO, Wis,
and has all its exposed faces highly
polished. The color is dark red
lyariegated in spots. On the sarcop'
hagus intended for Mrs. Grant there il
1.-THE name in bronze, "Julia ID. Grant
The sarcOphagus of the General merely
has his name, Ulysses 5. Grant" The
gas radiators to heat the tomb and
prevent the walls from sweating are
in successful operation
Demand. . sentence.
: MADRID, Jan. 27.-The public Prose
: cutor demands sentence upon Lieut..
: General Weyler of two months impris
/ Onment.
: Ewart to Be Judge.
WAsHINGToN, &c, January 21.-Th
1 President to-day appointed Hamilton
4 Glover Ewart, OF North Carolina, to b
Q District Judge for the Western Distric
of North Carolina.
4 Crowds on for the Yukon.
SEATTLE, Wash, January 21.-Thre
crowded steamers sailed for the Iuko
within three hours of each other yesteI
. day. Five hundred persons left th
s city for the North, and twice as man
d again are booked for three steamer
# making their departure for A'ask
from Puget Sound.
q Nick emma Sworn In.
IS The solemn ceremony Of installir
10 joseph Mckenna as Associate Justi
10 of the august tribunal of the Supren
is Court of the United States were pc
n formed at noon Wednesday in the hi
~ toric court chamber at Washington.
distinguished array OF counsel we
20 present.
70 Call ON Lindsay to Resign.
I'd LOUISVILLE, KY, January 27.-A SO
"A cial to the Post from Frankfort, h
or says: After hot debate this mornIl
the lower House of the Kentuc
, Legislature adopted a substitute, Off
eo ed by Representative Nelson, OF Hs
u din, calling upon United States ser
a tor William Lindsay to resign II
or cannot support the Chicago piatfor
ty Terrible Treatment Of Girl. ~
81 JACKSON, O., Jan. 27.-Last night
's- Lulu Friend, fifteen-yeay-Old z
'e, was going to her home accOmpan
ry by friends of the family. they were
nd tackled by a crowd of rufiiars who ov
he powered the two men and carr
off the girl. The Two men resisted q
Cd one was struck with rock, fractnrl
his skull so tina. he il not expected
we live. After gaining possession of
u girl the rutiians carried her into one
put mines, where she was most shamefI
in treated by twenty of them after VIII
nd they fed, leaving her half dead in
nee mine, where she was found soon afi
to wards by searching party. No arr
bin have yet been made.
. to Tho Most Gigantic CounterfsitiOg Sch
OF Eugene Mills Charles Deshazo
iis- J..O. King were arraigned last "
=, before United States Commissioner
ews T.. Barksdale, a. Danviile, Va, char
aw- with counterfeiting and circulat
h tn spurious ten-dollar gold pieces.
mis-. estimony taken shows that King
-aa the master spirit in one of the n
red, EI ssrs II ;s alleged thai one time
ard ran counterfeiting foundry at Cl
the lotte, n. c., in which nearly one
!; in dred men were employed. it's thot
ates that one OF the most dangerous n
inns of counterfeiters in this country
said now oeen oroAe' up
arei =
d. Word comes from all quarters
by the nearest and most satisfactory
neg for coloring the beard a brown
mort black il Ruckinpham Dye for