The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-29

y. Z. Haskell, of Atlanta, was elected
secretary and treasurer of the National
Association of Car Service Managers,
at Niagara Falls, Tuesday. The next
meeting will be held at Atlantic
City.
Baron and "Baroness" de Barrs,
who were convicted several days ago
on charge of using the mails in con-
ducting fraudulent business, have
! been sentenced. Baron" de Barra
| was given three years in the peuiten.
year in Jail.
| The Train Dispatchers' convention
adjourned in Milwaukee Thursday
night, to meet in Atlanta next year.
| The official list of the dead by the
New Richmond tornado, last week,
| now numbers 122 persons.
The salvagers have deserted the
wreck of the Steamer City of Paris, and
abandoned all hope of saving her.
Capt. William A. Andrews has start
ed from Atlantic City on a voyage to
England in twelve foot sailboat.
In a collision off Friedrichshaven be-
tween the German steamer Artushof
and the British steamer Mauritius Mon
day the Artushof sunk, 10 of her crew
being drowned.
President Mckinley listened to the
baccalaureate sermon at Mount Holy
oke College, where his niece, Miss
Grace Mckinley, Is member of the
graduating class.
The New York city council has
adopted a resolution making July 3rd
holiday, in commemoration of the
anniversary of the battle of Santi.
ago.
The bill authorizing the acquisition
of the Caroline, Lodrone and Pelew
Islands by Germany, was submitted
to the Reichstag, in Berlin, Tues
day.
The Cape Town correspondent of The
London Daily Mail SAYS: "The Natal
volunteers have been officially ordered
to hold themselves in readiness for &C.
tive service"
At a meeting held at the Cuban Club,
at Santiago. resolution was adopted
recomm ending that the soldiers should
accept the American gratuity and sru-
render their arms.
Another serious riot in connection
with the street car strike at Cleveland,
Ohio, took place on Monday between
the union an nOn-union men. In
consequence q number of non union
, men are in the hospital.
Articles of incorporation of the Fed
| eral Printing Ink Company have been
, filed in Trenton, N. J. The com pan y
is formed for the purpose of manufact
uring printing inks, and has an author
a lied capital Of $40, 900, 600.
John Kennedy, the glorious "Crack
Y erneck," has been fully convicted o1
: completely in the train robbery on the
+ Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis
Railroad, at Macomb, No., on January
Sd, last, uud his punishment is fixed q
II years in the penitentiary.
The administration paper at Havau'
publishes statement showing tha
3 from January to May, inclusive, the re
II ceipts were $763, 1914 and the expense
n $17S, 22S, the balance being cash OF
c hand. This causes general astonish
ment among the Cubans, aod is un
precedented in the history of Havana
70 Never before have the figures bee.
published openly.
A dispatch from the Cape Verde Is
lands announces that the French sec
ond- class cruiser Sfax, carrying Cap,
'r Dreyfus, has passed en- route for Brest
% where she is expected before Saturda
N next.
es The 123d anniversary of the battle {
at Bunker Hill was celebrated with pa
=, rades, banquets, reunions of patriot
IA societies and general festivities, inter
W est being added by the presence of ma
c. rines and sailors from the North A
9 lantic squadron.
A mail train on the Baltimore an
Ohio Railroad ran into an open switc
10 near Guffey't Station, 25 miles east ,
m Pittsbur2, derailing the engine, bas
ne gage, and postal cars. The passenger
th escaped with good shaking up.
rs AS result of four days conferent
of between representatives of the manr
" facturers and the Amalgamated Assoc
% alton of Iron and Steel Workers tt
IN wages of %, 900 iron and steel worker
le throughout the country will be advan
n ed after July for one year.
d. The strike at the Rockport Mass
he Granite Company's Quarries at Roc
"a port has ended in favor of the striker
.h and the men will return to work with
y, , nine hour work. day for five days
eu the week--eight hours work on Satu
er day, and time and one-haif to be pa
for all overtime.
Johnson's Island, Lake Erie. whit
was famous as prison for Confedera
ve soldiers during the civil war, has be,
d, sold at auction for $45, 600. The islal
No lies in Sanduskv bay q few miles fro
of the city of that name.
ed Foreign.
ed The steamer Ethelwold, has probab
ak gone down near Kingstown, Jamaica
its A native diver, while getting met
ht from the wrek of the sunken Spani
y. cruiser Almirante Oqusndo, Tuesda
.,st found bag containing IS, 600, hi
coin and the other halfin Spanish pap
money of little value.
The Cape Town correspondent
A The Daily Mail says: ''The governme
~ has forwarded battery of heavy art
NJ, lery to Kimberly for the defense of t
nd diamond fields. There is great activi
OF in the Cape Imperial command, q
munitions of war are being sent mort
ward in large quantities.
Enochs Eavanoski's young wi
of Emma, and his infant daughter, Emn
.ga of Pittsburg, Pa. were burned to des
q as the result of the explosion of an {
can. with which the woman attempt
no to start fire at their home, No.
In South Thirt:eth street. South Sit
,n- The husband was SO badly burned
trying to save his family that he v
! bo confined to the hospital tor so