The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-12-13
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England. was announced IL - stat
cd also that Mfs. Wyinau j. in .
critical condition Mr.. Wy1nan's ser
vice a Russian vice-consui extended
over - years.
Edmund ID. Fixke, a travelling sales
man Of Chicago. was fcund dead In
his room at a local hotel. and II Is
believed that he corsnittsd suicide.
kilograms in his pockets would seem
TO indicate that Fiske look his life
because of family enlargement.
The railroad commission has re-
fused the application of the Hoehlng
Valley Railway Company for an ex-
tension OF time within which IL COM
ply with the provisions of the act re-
curing all railroads in Ohio 10 So
equip their cars that - per cent OF
The ears in all trains shall be operat-
ed and controlled by airbrakes.
A traction car on the Dayton and
Xenia line, filled with suburbanites
and persons from Xenia, was struck
by n Cleveland, CINCINNATI, Chicago
and St. Louis (Bi. Four freight en-
CINE which was backing out Of the
Union station about midnight, and Is
passengers were badly injured. None
Of them will die.
The subtrcasury transferred ST.
$4,000 to San Francisco.
William ID. Carver, aged 30 years,
local manager of Makcever Bros,
mine owners and developers, OF New
York and Chicago, shot and killed
himself at his home, 30 Melwood
street, East End.
William e. Tillotson, aged "a years,
a wooden manufacturer and one Of
the wealthiest men III Pntslield, died
following stroke Of apoplexy. He
was unmarried aud is a large prop.
crty owner in Chicago.
Sir Edward j. Reed, formerly chief
constructor of the British Navy, is
dead. He was born i'll 1880.
William Geer, Of New London, fire
man on 0 Central Vermont freight
train, was killed in headon coils
ion between his train and north
bound passenger train, near the
Montyille station, and several passen-
gers were shaken up and bruised, but
none fatally injured.
A training squadron Of three cruis-
ers. under command of Rear Admir-
al Tomeoka, late president of the Ma
val Cadets School, will start from
Yokohama January ., and, it is en-
pected, will arrive at San Francisco
on February Is.
On the appeal of the Goldsmith's
Company the Appeal Act decided that
gold or oliver cases Of all foreign
made watches, whether with OF with
out works, must be assayed and hall
marked before they can be sold in
Great Britain. The jewelers. intend
to appeal to the House Of Lords.
Three steamers which arrived from
the Mediterranean brought 1870
steerage passengers. The Slavonia
brought zoos, the Konigin Luise
1924 and the Moltke 1888.
J. Pierront Morgan and many 9th
er noted fnanciers will attend the
funeral Of Samuel Spencer, which
will take place in Washington Sun
day. Officials are making a search
ing investigation into the wreck at
Lawyer, Va, in which seven persons
lost their lives.
President Roosevelt heard the
views of Senator Flint, Of Californ-
To-, and DR.. Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
on the japanese problem.
The death of President Spencer, Of
the Southern Railway, has postponed
an important case in the Court OF APP
psals.
Judge Linebarger. who has just AZ
turned from the Philippines, favors
free trade with the islands and re-
CARDS war with Japan as inevitable.
In the course of hearing in New
York before the Interstate Commerce
Commission the charge was made that
The prosecution in the case of Cor
nelius P Shea, of the Chicago Team
sters' Union, on the charge of con-
spiracy, sprung a surprise on the de-
Tense by having three of the defend
ants turn State s evidence
a Kentucky woman left over $50,
600 to relatives in Hardy county,
West Virginia.
Mayor Schmitz, Of San Francisco
was arrested on his way home after
crossing the California border.
William R. Hearst modified the
statement that he would never again
be candidate.
Ten prisoners escaped from a Long
Island Jail. having cut the bars. 1t
is believed with saws concealed in a
baby VISITORS clothes.
A fine of $4,000 was imposed up
on the American Sugar Refining Co.
for rebating.
Rear Admiral Converse recon-
nends that no marines be assigned
TO service aboard ships of the navy.
A Norfolk negro preacher defends
President Roosevelt's dismissal of ne,
gro troops.
President Roosevelt is to sendspec;
la! messages to Congress urging cit
lzenship for the Porto Ricans and
praislng the administration Of the
Panama canal
Tn edireetors of the Pelgram & Ny
ers Six Company at Paterson n I