The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-07-26
Late Nesvs ;
In BRIEF
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST

Alfred Belt. the well-kuowu Sonsh
African faaneier aud diamond ard
gold king, died in London, aged D
years.
The spirit of mutiny spread TO the
regiment in the fortress Of 81. Peter
and 81. Paul, St Petersburg.
French Foreign Minister Bourgeois
gave a dinner in honor OF Mr. and
Mrs. Longworth In Paris
The Wabash Railroad is offering
s6,1S0,000 equipment bonds In Par
is.
The United States is well repre-
| sented at the international Congress
| of Architects III London.
DR.. W. Starr Jordan in a lecture
predicted more earthquakes for Cali
| fornia.
4 Wisconsin milliner named Nellie
Ellison was found murdered III a Min
neapolis hotel.
Miss Rose NJ Satterfeld and }. W.
| Gordon were drowned i'll the James
river at Richmond.
Ambassador Wright presented
letter from President Roosevelt 10 the
Emperor OF Japan.
The State Department is using ali
its influence to avert war between
J Guatemala and San Salvador.
John II. Chapman was elected pre-
ident Of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union for the sixteenth time.
According to report the walls OF
the Vactician are .unsafe and the
Pope has changed his apartments.
A Young woman who registered at
Goshen. Va. as Minnie Jones and ask
ed for the best room in the house
committed suicide.
A sweeping inquiry into the grain
trade and the alleged combination has
been begun by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The trial Of the Hariie divorce suit
which may begin in PittSburg is eN-
pected to be a battle between hand
| "Iitlll5 EXPERTS
Judge Alton B. Parker replied to
the speech Of Secretary Taft at
Greensboro, n C., criticisins some
statements as incorrect.
Curt Jet, when put on the witness
stand in the Har2is-CalIahan case, ex-
onerated White and said he alone had
killed Marcum.
Several important witnesses have
been located in the Thaw ease, and
the SLAYER Of Stanford White made
a statement to reporters.
Divinity students in Persia have re-
vived in violent form the agitation
for a constitutional system Of govern
ment.
Vice-Admiral Chounknin was shot
by an assassin at Sevastopol and, it is
thought, will die, the assailant escap-
ING.
Three cases of armed men attack
ing officials with money and robbing
them uf large sums are reported from
Russia
The bow OF the Hamburg American
Line steamship Deutschland was bad
ly damaged by collision with a pier
at Dover, England.
"Tom'' Jones and Charles A.
Woodruff were hanged from the same
scaffold at Independence, Va, and
Andrew L. Davenport was hanged at
Newport News. All three were ne
groes.
The need of trade schools and spe-
cial care for backward and deficient
children were discussed before the
American Institute of instruction,
meeting in New Haven.
Secretary Bonaparte gives half the
armor-plate contract to the Midvale
Company, the lawest bidders, and the
other half to the Carnegie aud Beth
lehem Companies, the so-called Gar
mor-plate trust.'
The Virginia Farmers Institute at
Roanoke was attended by nearly l.
; 900 farmers, who declared their oppo-
sition to the International Harvester
Company.
A sweeping inquiry into the grain
trade and the alleged combinations
has been begun by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Amid tumultuous scenes the French
Chamber of Deputies made Alfred
Dreyfus major Of artillery and Col
onel Picquart brigadier-general.
At the suggestion of Russia the
proposed visit of the British feet to
Cronstadt has been indeftely post
poned.
The will of Stanford White filed
in New York, leaves his estate, the
value Of which is not revealed, to his
widow, mother and brother
Alice Whiteman testified at Park
ersburg, W. Va, against her mother,
who is on trial for the killing of
Alice Whitman s lover, Edward Deev-
err.
{ Esther Mitchell, the 17-year-old girl
F who kelled her brother because he had
slain the man charged with accom-
plishing her ruin, declares she has no
regrets, and that her act was commit
, | ted as the result of an agreement with