The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-10-31
Late NetOs
In BRIEF Il
MINOR MATTFRS or INTFRfST

4 heroic aud, j. il believed. sEe-
ses<fal 6ght was made in Wall street
against the spread Of dixsrust sno
contracting Of credit.
Two men triad to rob bank run
Ter in the Philadelphia Subway Of
package Of 5000. bni were ar
rested
Judge Alton r. Parker ridieulel
Bryan or bis alleged advocacy Of
measure to prevent financial panics.
4 plea for citizenship for the Porto
gieans vas made at the Mohonk con-
ference.
The Civic Federation League
adopted a report of the committee on
the trust problem
Lieutenant Governor CHAMBER. of
New York, told the Georgia State
Fair Association at Atlanta of his
tariff plan
4 tremendous demonstration was
made at the jamestown Exposition al
the mention of the name of Gen. L.
s. Grant at the Confederate reunion.
Ex-Chaplain II. W. Jones, of the
navy, was acquitted in Norfolk of
the charge of larceny
The election to choose a successor
TO the late Congressman Slemp viii
be held III the Ninth Virginia dis
trict on December 18th.
Ward Lewis was arrested in Mar
tinsburg. ". Va, on the charge of
abducting Mary Jenkins, 8 years old.
Representative Burleson, of Texas,
demands a share of United States
treasury deposits to prevent South
ern planters being forced to sell the
cotton crop at loss of probably
$50, 100000.
Many important questions were
considered at the first regular Cabi
net meeting held since last June.
After an interview with President
Roosevelt Senator Long declared that
Kansas is for Taft.
The death from the earthquake in
Italy will, it is feared, reach 600.
France has a new Dreyfus affair
in the arrest of Charles b. Ulimo on
a charge of treason.
The health Of King Alfonso of
Spain is reported to be bad, and con-
sumption Is feared.
The new Cunarder Mauretania has
arrived in the Mersey and will short
ly be sent on her speed trial.
4 pool formed by J. P. Morgan, of
100000 the $25,000,000 deposit
ed by Secretary Of the Treasury
Cortelyou; $10,000,O00 given by John
D. Rockefeller and $50,000,000 more
promised by him served to stem the
stock panic on the New York stock
exchange.
Receivers were appointed for the
westinghouse Company il various
cites and the Pittsburg Stock FIX
change remained closed.
The German balloon won the dis
tance race, with the French airship
second.
Efforts are being made to get En-
peror William to testify in the Har-
din libel suit in Berlin.
Earthquakes in Italy made thous-
ands homeless and are estimated to
have killed from 20 to 120 persons.
The Lusitania broke her eastbound
record by moking the voyage III 4
days % hours and 46 minutes.
After travelling through IL states
and hunting in the canebrakes fol
two weeks President Roosevelt re-
turned to Washington.
Seattle has declared war on rats, az
the result of tie discovery of case
of bubonic plague.
Contractors paid 100000 to the
postaoflice department for failure tc
maintain the standard of paper re
quired in stamped envelopes and
wrappers.
Enrique c. Creel is to retire soor
as Mexican Ambassador to the
United States.
A French accommodating column
was narrowly saved from annihila.
ton in Morocco.
Samuel Gompers and Judge Gross,
cup, of Chicago, were among the
speakers at the National Civic FEEDER
alton trust conference.
The German balloon Pommern
which descended at Asbury Park, n
J., is believed to have won the great
race Two balloons landed in Mary.
land
Confidence was largely restored il
Wall street as the result of actor
taken by J, Pierpont Morgan, See
rotary Cortelyeu and others.
Work ON a big copper smelter at
Coram, Cal, has been stopped unit
the price of copper goes up.
The Evangelical General Confer.
ence resolved to appoint a committe;
to arrange details for union WHY
the United Evangelical church
Policeman Eugene F. Sheehan OF
the Lower Bowery, New York. wai
shot and killed by William Morley
member of a notorious gang, wht