The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-09-14
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The Scuth.

Three miners were killed In an ex-
p!osion In Hie\,and Mines, in West
Virginia Saturday
J. F. Buriey. a cabin passenger On
the Lampassas from Key West TO N,N
York. has been removed 10 Swinburnc
Island Hospital for observation, II BE-
ing feared that he has yellow fever.
The fever has been declared epidemic
at hey West The type Of the disease
seems 70 be very mild. Owing TO strict
quarantine very little fear Is felt At
Jacksonville and other Southern ports.
Colonel Davidson. ex-Congressman
from the Eleventh Kentucky district, IS
In critical condition from paralysis.
Mayor r. E. Boyle, of Atlanta. Tex.
Is In Jail charged with murder. for
shooting his brother-in-law, Albert
Culberson. on the street.
Three hundred miners OF the Soddy
Coal Company. at Soddy, Tenn, who
demanded 10 per cent. increase in
wages, have compromised on a five per
cent. advance.
For the third time within a rew
months the toll gate On the Eminence
|, and Clear Creek pike, in Shelby Coun-
ty. Ky, was Saturday night destroyed
by dynamite
Former Senator J. c. s. Blackburn
has broken down, and will have to 60
home to Vermont and rest. He mas
eaten scarcely anything for a week and
his condition is serious. He is not able
to help in Goebel's campaign.
|
| z. D. Free, who was appointed Treas
ureT Of Barnwell county, South Carroll
ma, on the death OF his father. the
former Treasurer, reports to the Gov
| effor that he finds a shortage in his
fathers accounts of $500. The short
age, he says, was over $4,000, but
there were funds to his fathers credit
to reduce 1t. The son tells the Cover
nor that his father left him property
enough to wipe out the shortage and
this will be done.
| At Dallas, Texas. ARRANGEMENTS are
rapidly being completed for a Demo-
| cratic national carnival which will take
| place October 2 and 3. concludin
on the night of the Sd with dollar
| dinner" covers for from ], 500 to ? ,0DO
being arranged for. The dollar diu-
ner" will take place at the new Audi
tOrium. at the State Fair Grounds
William J. Bryan will speak at the Far
Grounds October 2 and g. Other
speakers who have been invited 10
make addresses include all the promi-
nent silver leaders in the country.
| The North.
Haber J.Grant has been convicted CT
| n01yponov n Salt
$1OO.
At the meeting of tn Amrican bar as
sociation at Buffalo, N. Y, Senator
William Lindsay, of Kentucky, de-
livered the address of the day. Sir
VIM. r. Kennedy, justice of the High
Court of Justice Of England, delivered
an address on "State Punishment ol
Crime"
James B. Eustis, former Ambassador
to France, is dangerously i'll with pneu.
monia at Newport.
Preparations are being made for the
great conference on trusts to take place
in Chicago September 18th to 10th.
Te first meeting Of the New England
timetable League was held at Provi
dence Sunday. Judge Tarvin, of Ken
| euSAJ, SoASA SoSluuA l%cutZ, vi OnlD, "a
Governor Altgeld and Senator Tillma,
spoke and were cheered.
The vanguard of the Grand Army O
the Republic reached Philadelphia Sun
day, and the thirty-third national en-
campment opened Monday Admira
Sampson with the North Atlanti
squadron arrived off the city Sunday
; The veterans paraded Tuesday and tn
naval parade is scheduled for Friday.
New York firemen will be allowe,
time off duty for three meals a day, in
, stead of two, as heretofore.
| The American Tobacco Com pan,
will hereafter buy leaf direct from
Wisconsin farmers and will erect BIZ
depot in Madison for sorting and stor
: ing it's purchases.
1t is stated that Hon. William J
Bryan will stump Ohio with John +
Mclean.
A carpenter, named Vandiver, a
: Salt Lake, Utah, gave his children,
boy and a girl, heavy doses Of NOR
thine, shot the girl, killing her, she
3 the boy, probably fatally, and kilic
himself.
Tuesday was the hottest in Chicag
since the establishment of the weathe
bureau there, in 1871. At 3 p. M, tn
government thermometer registered 9
9 degrees. Two deaths and nine cases {
t prostration were reported. The ho,
q test weather known since the record
: Of the Weather Bureau began was re
4 ported from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa an
Nebraska.