The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-10-12
The North.


terrible suffering among the passen-
gers.
The North.
John r. Mclean opened his cam
paign in Ohio Saturday.
The World confirms the report thai
the will OF Henry B. Plant. the rail-
way king, is to be contested by his
widow.
Secretary Root has announced his
intention to make promotions in the
volunteer regiments from the officers
and enlisted men in these regiments.
This plan will deprive politicians of
considerable patronage.
Ex-senator Harlan, the only sur
viving member Of Lincoln's cabinet, is
dying at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Rev. J. T. Boyd, of La Porte, Ind
who says it is not possible for him 10
be mistaken, declares that the world
will come to an end on November II.
The Peoples Gas Light and Coke
Company is building big gas tank rs
| the opening OF a campaign against the
Ogden Gas Company to illuminate
Chicago
The NEST interesting subject up for.
discussion at Saturdays session O
the Mazet Investigating Committee
| was the Dewey Parade stands. Dr..
Charles F. Roberts, chief sanitary sg
| perintendent of the Board of Health
submitted documents showing that
the Dewey stands were not construct
| ed in sanitary fashion. Stephen +.
Barry, owner of one of the Dewey
parade stands, testified that his part
ner settled matters by giving one IL
sDector IS and another one $25.
Foreign.
| Cardinal Vaughan, preaching in
London on the Transvaal crisis, said
that an unjust or unnecessary war
would be a crime.
The mayer OF Havana has issued an
order directing that no Spanish flag
shall be displayed in the city Of Ha-
vana, except at the Spanish consulate.
by the Spanish council of war for his
conduct in surrendering Manila to the
| Americans.
Boer troops are rushing to the Natal
border, and it is predicted that clash
will occur this week.
Gen. Alejandrino, representing Agu-
inaldo, held fruitless conference vita
Gen. Otis at Manila yesterday in an
effort to obtain peace.
The Filipinos have returned to Gen.
Otis IA enlisted soldiers, whom they
had held as prisoners.
The German government has paid
into the Spanish treasury the SUM of
$5,0C0,O00, the price Of the Caroline
Islands.
The Haytien Government steamer
Defense, used as an armed transport
has gone ashore near Fortune Island
in the Bahamas, and will prove a tota
wreck. All on board were saved.
Numerous chiefs of various group.
of revolutionists in Peru are asking
amnesty for themselves and their fol
lowers, Offering to submit to the gov
ernment if their requests are granted
Miscellaneous.
The Nile is now at the lowest point
of which there is any record.
A native of Hawaii named Amarr
was recently tortured and eaten b,
the natives of the New Hebrides.
There is likely to be split in the
Junior Order of United American Me.
chanics unless pending difficulties are
settled.
One Of the departments of Cornell
University kept record OF the des
struction caused by lightning in New
York State last month. 1t killed si1
men, eighteen horses, twenty cows ant
one sheep, and struck fifty-nine barns
twelve residences, two churches ant
one mill. In proportion the churche!
seemed to fare worse than any othel
kind of property.
President Mckinley approved thu
sentence of Capt o. M. Carter, Corp
of Engineers. United States Army, t,
Imprisonment for five years, the pay
! ment of a fine of $1,000 and dismissa
g from the service. Captain Carter wa
!. placed under arrest and Is now con
fined in the prison at Governors Isl
and, N. Y.
Senator Hanna is said to have pai'
for his suite of apartments at Clar
idge's Hotel, where he stopped whil
in London, 175 guineas week. Thi
is about 1925.
Sir Thomas Lipton's offer for tn
Muckross estate and the Lakes of Kill
0 larney, in Ireland. has not been accept
{ ed, and the property will be put up a
public sale.
President McKinley's acceptance {
honorary membership in the Bricl
: layers and Masons' Union of Chicag
e has just been made public in lette
4 written by his secretary at his reques
: to the president Of the union. The al
ceptance is based on the assumptio
that it will impose no obligation or n
2 straint inconsistent with the duty {
). the Chief Executive to all TIE peopl