The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-02-10
CURRENT EVENTS OF TIVE DAY.
EPirOMe OF THE TELEGRAPH NEWS
OF THE WORLD AND TERSe TICKS
FROM the WIRES.

An Interesting Collection OF Items In =
Condensed and 'Compreh-nsi~~ Form
and Matters Of General Interest to Our
Readers.
A Michigan Central train last Fri
day ran into q sleigh containing four
people and killed three and badly
iDjuring the fourth occupant near
Saginaw.
Two Christian Scientists, who al
die without medical attention, have
been arrested at Kokomo, Ind, on the
charge of manslanghter.
NANGATUcK, Conn, Feb. 1.-The re-
claiming plant Of the nited States
Rubber Company was Quilted by fire
tonight, causing loss Of more than
100000; partly insured.
The American Press Association
will send special correspondent 10
the klOndike regions To supply il with
| true and graphic account of that
country for publication.
| Senator McNulty introduced a bill
in the New York Legislature proyid-
ing for q worlds fair in New York in
/
municipal stock to the amount of two
million dollars.
Cashier Qlinnlon has resigned from
the Chemical National Bank after
cOnfessing that he had loaned $393, 900
without the directors sanction. lie
says that he got no benefit personally
but cancelled the loans improperly.
He says that he hopes the bank will
recover some Of the money.
! Thousands of sheep are reported to
have perished from cold and starvation
in western Wyoming. The cold has
been intense for sixty days, and old
timers say that il is the hardest win-
ter they have seen for the past nine.
teen years.
Mallory Bros. Il Barnesdall struck
oil in the Big Injun sand in the Wild
cat territory near the Whiskey Run
field w. Va. The we'll spouted a solid
stream of Oil seven inches in diameter
eighty feet high at one bit in the
sand, and will be good for 100 barrels
an hour, or an output of nearly $5 00t
q day at the present low price of oil.
While temporarily insane, Mis-
Lucy Taylor, q pretty twenty > ear-Old
girl, the daughter of Walter Taylor, Z
} treasury department clerk, leapet
through q window last week. Sh,
alighted on an iron fence and then rau
nude and bleeding through the bittel
night until she fell uncOn scious on q
snow bank. Five minutes after heI
awful fate, her father, maddened with
grief and thinking that his daughter
was dead hanged himself in hi
: kitchen.
George =. Tucker, q coal miner a
!. Crescent. Fayette county, w. Va
went home at noon Saturday an,
found his wife with VIM. McAllisteI
He fred four shots, killing both hi
wife and Nc Allister instantly. Ill
then walked two miles to Montgomer.
and gave himself up to the officer:
q Mrs. Tucker was the mother of tbre
D grown children, who lived at home.
I The employees Of the whittento
: Mills have been notified of seven pc
= cent reduction in wages to take effeC
r Monday. More than eight hundre
0 hands are employed, and the cOncer
d is the largest manufacturer of cOttO
tclOth in Taunton, Mass. Keen CON
8 petition and the condition of the maj
e ket are given as the causes of the RI
4 ductiOn. There will be no strike an
o the cut will be accepted. Congress
!; man William G. Lowering is presiden
J of this corporation. .
: Admirable - . Non Partis sn.
q Nebraska will send q ship load {
n corn to the starving Cubans, and Brl
an will pay for one hundred dollar
Y worth of ii. Whenever MIR. Brya
;. acts in nOn-partIsan and non-politici
n ways his behavior is invariably genel
q, Gus, sympathetic, and admirable.
Lingering Barbarian.
That there are relics of legal barb
- rism still existent in this country
:, evidenced by the fact that q bill h'
= been introduced in the New York le
~ isIature to abolish fine and imprisO
ment for nOn-payment Of taxes.
D. Wanamaker For Govsrsor.
q, PH1LADKLPHIA, Feb. "A confe
IL ence Of business men from all over Il
Estate met here this afternoon und
the auspicies of the Business Mel
League, and resolved to request JOt
Wanam4ker to become q candidate
ot the Republican nomination for Go
ernor, against the candidate favor
by United States Senator Quay. Vi
. OfOus anti-Quay resolutions we