The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-06-20

~. t., WHO ~ itHItu the boHitutIdtS
reunion in Richmond is missing.
Howard Gould appeared i'll court I"
have some Of the charges In his wife
bill for partial divorce stricken out.
American Society of Red Cross
women entertained delegates to the
international conference in London.
The strike Of the wincgrowers i'll
France has begun and the Govern
ment views the situation with mIch
apprehension.
Harry Orchard testifies that in IT,!
ing to poison Fred Bradley he was
Indifferent to the fate of the rest 81
the household.
A determined fight is being made
against the merger of the New York
New Haven and Hartford and Boston
and Maine roads.
John Henley Smith leaves TO the
Library Of Congress his large collcc~
ton of manuscripts and letters of Inc
early Presidents.
1t was decided in the suit against
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy to appoint Il
master and have her examined as to
her mental competency.
The navy yeomen who sued for
damages after beng barred from 3
Newport dance hail, Because Of III:
uniform, was awarded 25 cents.
Elder bingham. II. Roberts, Of the
Mormon Church, in an address de-
clared his adherence to polygamy, re-
gardiess Of all prohibitive laws.
TIE retrenchment committee Of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com
pany cut salaries of other officers and
fixed things so their own would te
increased.
President Roosevelt has appointed
a special commission to inquire INFO
the cor1se Of instruction Of the mid
shipmen at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
Harry Orchard continued his con-
fession of plottin9s on the witness
stand in the Haywood case and told
of the murder Of Governor Steunen-
berg.
The Council Of the Pro2essives al
Toxic adopted a resolution calling
upon the Government to demand rep
aration and assurances of future gold
behavior from the United States.
An important conference was
held at the White House last week
to determine the policy Of the Gov
eminent in regard to prosecution OF
the trusts and railroads, especially the
Hartman lines.
Stuyvesant Fish, talking to Column
bia College men, expressed the opin.
ion that ratefxing by Federal au.
thority would tend to arrest the ex.
tension of railroads into undevelop.
ed country.
The Federal grand jury at Char.
lesion, ". Va, brought in more in.
,!ictments against the Ritter Lumber
Company, OF Wyoming county, and
Its officials on the charge Of hold
ing laborers in peonage.
At Selma, Ala, the charred body OF
Will Skinner was found in the ruins
of his store near Sardis. 1t is said
shots were heard just before the +lu
which gives rise to the theory of muir.
der and arson for the purpose Of rob.
berry.
President Roosevelt attended til.
opening Of the Georgia Building ~
jamestown where he made an address
and also made an address before the
National Editorial Association.
Public opinion in Japan in very
iineoistic, but has not yet reached
the point of appealing for hostile
demonstration against the United
States.
The examination Of Major Penrose
III command Of the negro troops sta
tined at Brownsville, Tex, on August
18th when that town was ''shot up
and Captain Macklin, Of Company c,
Twenty-ifth Infantry, consumed
nearly the entire time Of the Senate
committee on military affairs Tuesday
| They denied several important state
ments of witnesses tending to fix tie
| blame of the shooting up Of the town
upon the negro soldiers. Major Pen
| rose reasserted his belief that the SOL
', dlers did not do the shooting.
| Governor Hughes Of New York
vetoed The bill institutinS a fat PAS
senser rate of ? cents mile on every
railroad system in The State more
than $50 miles long. The Governor
points out that tie "passage CT lie
bill was not preceded by tie ceis!a.
| tive investigation or suitable inquiry
under the authority of the Sia;e.
Hostilities have broken out in Cea.
trail America. A force of Nicaraeu-
ans, assited by Salvadorean revo!u-
tionists captured the port Of a.eaili.
tla Salvador Waduosdau ,axn;n