The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-11-16

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prospects that Taylor. Republican. IS
elected governor are increasing.
Cotton bolls from Mississippi will
be exhibited by plantation negroes at
the Paris exposition.
The North.
Recorder Golf says he will not try
the case against Roland b. Molineux
unless counsel on both sides should
request that he do So
Charley Bias. colcred, better known
as Race Horse Charley" was killed
by Joseph w. Smith. colored at Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Harry Hammond, who shot at John
7. Shayne, 4 furrier. at Chicago, who
was with Hammond's divorced wife.
has been acquitted as insane.
Mrs. Jane III. Sennatt, aged 65 years,
and Mrs Elizabeth Ssrsfeld. aged 70.
were suffocated by escaping gas at
Roxbury, Mass.
The school beard Of Hanover, Pa,
has suspended the pupils of the High
School who left in body Thursday.
Carter Harrison. Of Chicago. Is be-
Ing talked of as a Democratic PreSi-
Dental candidate in 1908.
August Becker, the Chicago butcher
who murdered his wife, was hanged in
that city Friday.
John c. Lan1merts. ex-county
treasurer, charged with embezzling
$4,000 of the public funds, was con-
victed of grand larceny in the first de-
gree, at Lockport, n. Y.
Foreign.
ed to the establishment there Of an
ottoman legation.
Gold bullion to the amount of ST.
775,0O0 was withdrawn from the Bank
Of England, most Of it for South
America.
General Joubert, the Boer COM
mander in Natal, has taken steps 10
head off the expected British rein
forcement.
Ambassador Joseph Ii. Choate. in a
speech at Edinburg, said that iron
clad friendship" prevailed between
Great Britain and the United States.
Witnesses at the trial of NJ. Deroul-
EIDE and other alleged conspirators
| against the Republic caused riotous
scenes in the French Senate.
Il new levy of troops has been made
| in the Department of Cauca, Colon
| bia, by which all persons from Is to
| 60 years of age are called to the sup
port of the government against the
| revolution.
Gen. Wheaton at last accounts, was
accommodating near Dugapan, Luzon.
with view of starting out to seize the
| terminus of the Manila Dugupan
| railroad.
The military operations in the
| neighborhood of Angeles, Luzon,
which General Lawton is conducting
are greatly impeded by heavy rains.
Recent meetings in Santa Clara
| Province, Cuba, are said to have
shown that the natives are much dis
satisfied with American rule in the
| island.
The Forty-sixth Volunteer Infantry
sailed from San Francisco, Cal, for
Manila Saturday.
Many daring burglaries committed
in the City of Mexico are believed to
be the work of American professional
| operators.
Miscellaneous.
The Treasury Department will send
invitations this week to prominent ar
chitects to submit competitive plans
for the new custom house in Baltf
more. The architect whose plans are
accepted will receive $4,000.
1t is said irregularities in the court
martial proceedings will save the lives
of four soldiers under sentence Of
death at Manila.
Rear-Admiral Schley at Washington
received the orders which made him 8
knight Templar and a knight OF
Malta.
MBurial services were held at Airing
ton over the remains of Lieutenant
NJ. C. Krayenbuhl, Third Artillery
killed in the Philippines.
| It is said the Administration for Do
litical reasons, will not ask congress.
to enact legislation at the coming ses
sion for the permanent increase of tn,
army. Secretary Roots report, it il
believed, will contain no recommended
| f;o,, inoroaco
In the past fiscal year 1864 post
masters were appointed, 2,935 postof
fees were established and 1905 dis
continued,
Il Japan's new tariff has caused a de
crease of 81 per cent. in imports viii!
. exports have increased Is per cent
, Imports from the United States hav
) decreased about Is per cent.
Il EN-Representative James Hamilto
. Lewis, of Washington, who has bee
travelling abroad, says Europe is hos
! tile to the United States because of tn
latter's Philippine policy.
Col. James Moore, assistant quar-
n termaster general of the United State
army has been ordered to Governor
! Island, N. Y, as chief quartermaste
of the Department Of the East.
Prince Augustus of Coburg. who 6
the age of Is was married to th
youngest daughter of the late En-
: peror of Brazil, and who no
makes his home in Austria. has ju'
shot his three thousandth chamoi
. thus maintaining his claim to tt
position Of Europe's foremost min
!. | rod