The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-01-27
GENERAL NEWS.

Union Pacific Railroad Company
ilied articles Of incorporation in Ne.
bra ska Monday. Capital stock $780,
900, 900.
Five hundred employees Of the
W heeling steel plant at Benwood were
notified of the second reduction within
twelve months I'd take effect February
LIST. It effects all the employees from
IL to % per cent.
1t now stated that a railr0a will be
in operation from Stickeen river Ia
Ieslin lake before next Fall for klon-
dyke traffic. Seven steamers are now
being built to ply the Stikeen river
The Monetary Convention is in
session at indianapolis. over $50 dele
gates are in attendance. From what
can be learned of this body it is COM
posed Of bankers and the Convention
was gotten up in the interest of the
gold standard advocates.
The colony Of Italians started two
years ago by the late Austin Corbin, of
New York, in Chicot county, Ark, is
rapidly going to pieces. Many of the
colOnists have already quit and others
are preparing to do so.
Ex-Prisident Cleveland has purchas-
ed farm of 50 acres, near Princeton,
and it is said that he will make q game
preserve of it, stocking it with quail
and pheasants and other birds for the
pleasure of himself and friends.
August NickersOn, sailor at Port
Townsend, Wash, died after living
eleven days with a broken neck.
NIckersOn fell from the main-yard of
his VESSEL through hatch to the hold
distance of 4S feet.
- hurricane leveled hundreds of der
ricks in the oil field near Lima, Ohio,
last Friday, and blew down telegraph
2nd telephone poles in many localities.
4 tremendous rain accompanied the
wind, and streams are overlooking
their banks.
Train No. 81, of the Atlantic Coast
Line, from New Ork to Florida, and
train No. 81, local from Charleston, COL
lided eighty miles west of Charleston
Friday morning. Two men were killed
and number were injured.
While cage containing fifteen
miners was being hoisted in the shaft
of the Bonnie Esperance mine, at
Washes, in Hainaut, the cable broke
and the occupants of the cage were
dashed to pieces.
One hundred fishermen huts on the
ice in Lake Erie. off Put-in-Bay, were
swept away in Friday nights gale.
Two hundred men, women and children
narrowly escape death by the ice break
ing up and carrying them out into the
lake, and by the huts catching fire.
They were rescued after a long and
terrible fight with the elements.
Policeman j. j. Harrington, of New
York who was found guilty of assault
ia the second degree for shooting young
Charles McNally, on THANKSGIVING
Day, was sentenced to two years. i'm
prisOnment at Sing Sing. McNally
who had been playing foot ball in the
street, ran to escape arrest, when
Hanningan shot him in the leg.
Edward Shannon, of Belvidere, Ill,
a wife-murderer, was sentenced to be
hanged February 18th. He is over 20
years old. When asked if he had any
thing to say, he tremblingly rose and
feebly told how he had once saved
the life of Satisfactorily Wright
when the latter was a boy. This was
his only plea for mercy.
Eugene V. Debs spoke in Knoxville
Tenn. Friday night in favor of the
Social Democracy movement.
In an interview he said the scheme
to purchase 100000 acres of land in
East and Middle Tennessee for coloniz-
alton was certainty, and definite
action would soon b. taken.
A special from Birmingham, Ala, of
| the 25th says: An English syndicate
whose agents first visited the Birm-
| ingham district last spring and made
| careful inspection of its coal and
iron resources, has, it is said, practi-
cally con- pleted arrangements for the
erection here of a million dollar steel
plant. The details of the deal have
not yet been disclosed, but it is known
that extensive options on mineral
| lands near here have been secured by
the foreigners, and that negotiations
for the building of the steel plant have
been practically concluded.
The Union Elevator in East St
Louis, and owned by the United Eleva.
tor Company, at St. Louis, was totally
burned Tuesday night with the con.
| CenGs, ABOUT 5,OOO,UUO Dusnel5 OF grain
A great part of this was coru
Eighty-five cars loaded with corn des
tined for Newport News, and owned
by f. B. White and Company, were al
so consumed as we'll as the Chicago
Burlington and Quincy freight hous'
adjoining the elevator. Numerous
cottages to the east of the elevato
were also burned. The total loss, it i
estimated, will not be far from tw'
million dollars,