The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-03-28
Lofe Neses
In Brief
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST
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Francisco are to have immunity.
Plundering Of Jewish houses vas
resumed by Roumanian peasants
The dam at Assuan is TO be raised
20 feet to irriga,e 100000 acres
more land.
Important plans Of the battleship
Nebraska have been stolen from q
Seattle .hipyard.
J. ]. Hill declines 10 discuss re-
port that he will retire from the Great
Northern presidency July l.
Henry Siegel's summer home on
Long Island was robbed OF paintings,
bric-a-brae and silver said TO be worth
over $4,000.
After three days fighting the
troops of Niearauga are said 10 have
DEBATED those of Honduras and Saliva
| dor.
4 witness testified at the trial OF
the murderers of Professor Hertzen-
stein in Finland that the League Of
the Russian People hired assassins to
| terrorizc The Douma.
The British armored cruiser Duke
Of Edinburgh went aground in Dover
harbor, but was pulled off by tugs.
President Roosevelt is believed to
have made an alliance with the De-
neen factory of 1llionis Fiat Will IN
crease his chances Of control OF the
next national convention.
The department of agriculture has
issued a special bulletin on peach
growing in Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey.
Government reports indicate that
Maryland-farmer still have on hand
AZ per cent of their corn crop, q per
cent of wheat and 80 per cent of oats.
Two members of Newport fam
lily are dead and another will prob
ably die as the result of ptomaina
poisoning.
The United Brethren Conferenc,
decided to bar divorce except on
Scriptural grounds. The ministers
were assigned.
Asby Tresohn was killed near Park
ersburg in leaping from moving
train.
Parkersburg, in the midst of food
is threatened with water famine.
Robert Chew, one Of Mosby 8
rangers, is dead at Charlestown, w.
Va.
The recovery in the New York
stock market at the close of business
Saturday amounted to about half the
LOSSES of the preceding days.
A confession in explanation Of the
Brownsville riot is alleged to have
been made by one Of the discharged
negro soldiers.
The Thaw trial, it is estimated, will
cost the defense quarter Of a NIL
lion and the state 100000.
Pittsburg is apprehensite of an
other flood, as there is 80 miles Of ice
in the Allegheny river.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
spend $53,000,000 in building new
lines.
The Millners' Union of Chicago de
mands that Easter hats must bear the
union label.
In a will case in New York the
disposal of 100000 depended upon &
single word.
Prof. Francis II. Smith, for 81
years professor Of natural philosophy
at the University Of Virginia, re-
signed.
Senator Foraker acknowledged
that he had sent secret agent TO
take testimony regarding the Browns
vile affair.
Abraham Hummel was allowed to
tell Of the visit of EVELYN Nesbitt
Thaw to him and Of her signing the
the alleged affidavit.
Four persons Of Newport News may
die as a result Of ptomaine poisoning
from eating canned goods.
The Harriman-Standard Oil inter-
ests are credited with coup in I'm
ion Pacific and with checking the de-
noralization of the New York stock
market.
The four railroad presidents who
we're expected to confer with Presi.
dent Roosevelt have decided not to
DO so.
The food stage along the upper
Ohio and tributaries has been passed
and the waters are rapidly falling.
William J. Bryan made a speech
and had a reception in Boston and de-
livere a leisure in Providence, R. I.
r Two negroes were lynched in Louis
lana for numbering and robbing two
Italians, one of the negroes having
also confessed to entering a girl s
room.
Western railroad men decide on
slower trains, believing this will re.
ili-ce the number Of accidents.
Pope Plus received the members OF
the Sacred College and other higl
dignitaries of the church.
Mrs. Annie Hoyt, Ga years old, was
burned to death and her son, Thomas
aged SO. was so severely burned thai
he probably will die, when a lamp
exploded in their home in Jersey
City. Both Mrs. Hoyt and her sol
were asleep and the blazing OF
spread the fire so quickly that the,
were overcome.
Joseph Richardson, of Atlanta, was
reelected chairman of the Southeast
ern Passenger Association at meet