The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-07-19
Late Nes4s
In Brief
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST
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The President signed 1OU comHl>-
SION at Sycamore Hill.
il J. stated Demitri Shipoff has de-
cligcd the Russian Premiership.
Ex-r,mprcss Eugene was welcomed
at Ischl by Emperor Francis Joseph.
Five American officers have been
nameI to attend the German maneuv-
ers.
Rush work was ordered on the
government buildings for the James
town Fair.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad
was fined $4,000 for granting re-
bates.
DR.. W. Starr Jordan in lecture
predicted more earthquakes for Cali
fornia.
A Wisconsin milliner named Nellie
Ellison was found murdered in a Min
neapolis hotel
Miss Rose NJ. Satterfeld and J. W.
Gordon were drowned III the James
river at Richmond.
Ambassador Wright presented
letter from President Roosevelt to the
Emperor Of Japan.
The State Department is using all
It's influence to avert war between
Guatemala and San Salvador.
John H. Chapman was elected pre-
ident Of :he Baptist Young Peoples
Union for the sixteenth time.
According to report the walls of
the Vactician are unbafe 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 Harjie divorce suit
which may begin in Pittsburg is ex-
pected to be a battle between hand
writing experts.
Judge Alton b. Parker replied to
the speech of Secretary Taft at
Greensboro, n. c., criticising some
statements as incorrect.
Curt Jett, when put on the witness
stand in the Hargis-C Callahan case, eX-
onerated White and said he alone had
killed Marcum.
Several important witnesses have
been located in the Thaw case, 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
3 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 Of large sums are reported from
Russia
The bow of the Hambure-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 and Beth
lehem Companies, the so-called ear
mor-plate trust
The Virginia Farmers Institute al
Roanoke was attended by nearly l.,
600 farmers, who declared their oppo
sltion 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 fleet tC
Cronstadt has been indeftely post
poned
The will of Stanford White file,
in New York, leaves his estate, tn
value OF which is not revealed, to hi
widow, mother and brother.
Alice Whiteman testified at Park
ersburg, W. Va, against her mother
who is on trial for the killing O
Alice Whitman s lover, Edward Deev
er
Esther Mitchell, the 17-year-old cir
who kelled her brother because he ha
slain the man charged with accom-
pllshlng her ruin, declares she has n
regrets, and that her act was commit
ted as the result of an agreement wit
Ine widow of the man killed by th
brother.