The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-10-18
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MINOR MATTERS or INTEREST !
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The League Of Virginia Muneipali-
ties, III session at Newport News,
elected officers.
Tweniy-nine bodies have thus far
been found Iii pocahontas mine. The
total dead i thought 10 be 70.
The Christian Church Convention
at Vienna, Va, adjourned.
Three torraroes caused much dam
age in New Orleans and vicinity, four
persons being reported killed
An internal machine addressed to
Governor rennypacker was held up at
Harrisburg.
\ committee Of North Carolinans
wen. 10 New Ior. 10 submit 10 the
Mutual and New Yori. Life Insur-
anee Companies arrangements and
committees a cerles of questions.
Fifteen men are believed to have
been killed Ey an explosion in a coal
mine il New Mexico.
Eight men were killed and some 10
persons were injured by an explosion
Of gas in tie Philadelphia subway,
under construction.
The United States ard Great Brit
ain have adopted Il modus viyendi
that will ara:.le United States firsher-
men to fish with profit IN Newfound-
land waters.
A severe shock Of earthquake, sup
posed to have occurred in the Indian
Ocean, was rct Grcsd by the Weather
Bureau seismoera
American mills. the Census Bureau
states, consumer 4,S7l ,16S bales Of
cotton during the year ended August
81, 1906.
The first American soldiers were
landed at Havana and taken to Camp
Columbia
The report that Princess Patricia
Of Connaught has been betrothed to
Grand Duke Micheal of Russia, only
brother of the Gar, is denied in Lon
don and St. Petersburg.
Sir Robert Hart has sent circu-
lar to the foreign colony in Shanghi
expressing confidence that his status
with regard to the Chinese Customs
will not be changed
Cotton mill agents in Rhode Island
complain of scarcity Of help in some
departments and assert that in this
respect the increase of wages granted
early last summer did not have the
beneficial result hoped for. The in
crease has not thus far drawn back
sufficient number Of those who left
the mills when wages were lower and
when there was dissatisfaction among
the worlkmen for other reasons. In
some Of the mills, at the present time,
more looms are stopped than has been
the case heretofore in the history of
the industry III that State. In one
large mill there are said to be 600
looms idle, where a few years ago the
number Of applicants for work ex-
eeeded the demand. 4 fifth of the
looms in another large mill are said
to be stopped for want Of operatives.
The Congress Of Constitutional De-
mocrats, in session at Helsingfors,
Finland, approved the Viborg mani
festo, but declared its enforcement at
the present time inexpedient.
Peaceful conditions in Cuba led to
rumor that the sending Of the army
thither mi ght be stopped.
Further details were received at
Hongkong Of the laundering in a ty-
phoon of the emigrant steamer Char
ter House, with a loss Of over 60
lives, Is persons being taken from Il
raft after they had been anoat 43
hours.
The suit Of Virginia against West
Virginia on the old debt settlement
will come up in the United States
Supreme Court.
Commissioner Yearkes issued a set
of 1872 regulations regarding the de-
naturizing of alcohol.
During the last fiscal year 1896
trials by court-marshall were held; AZ
officers were convicted.
Submarine boats are to be submit
ted to severe tests by naval experts
The transport Panama, with troops
left Newport News for Cuba, and two
more transports vii sail soon.
Judge r. J. Lea of the Pulaski
county, Ark, circuit court, specif-
cally instructed the grand jury as t.
its inquiry into the lynching of II. G.
Blackman, a negro, Sunday night in
Argenta. Argenta is in Pulaski coun.
ty and is just across the Arkansas
river from Little Rock. Judge Lea
told the jurors that every member OF
| the mob was a murderer and should
be hunted down.
The annual meeting of the Contra,
of Georgia railway was held Monday
No change was made in the directors
or officials. The financial statement
of the road for the fiscal year issued
several weeks ago was adopted.
Doctors Britton D. Evans and Chas
E. Wagner of the Morris Plains in
sane asylum spent several hours will
| Harry K. Thaw in his cell in the
Tombs. The alienists declined to per
NIT DR.. Mcclure, the Tombs physi
clan, to be present during the exami
nation as a representative Of the dis
trict attorneys Office.
Senator Bailey made an address a
Houston, Texas, attempting to justif,