The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-10-24
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In Brief
MINOR MATTERS or INTEREST
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the entire canal question
Governor Hughes recen, speeches
are regarded as aimed directly az
President Roosevelt most vulnerable
points.
Chairman II. s. New calls the Re-
publican National Committee 10 meet
in Washington December G.
Tle New York Clearing House
committee made n determined afIort
to prevent any crisis in banking cir
cles.
President Roosevelt has concluded
his hunt and was received Monday
in Vicksburg on his way back to
Washington.
Great preparations have been com
pietcd for the aerial contests in st.
Loais, beginning Monday.
Mrs. Wong Sun Yue, sister Of Mrs.
Howard Could. complained to the San
Francisco chief Of police that she was
Ling logged by Gould detectives.
+. II. Sothern, the actor, injured
lis hand during the production of
'Hamlet" III Cleveland, Ohio.
Thirty-tive hundred men have been
laid Of in the Pittsburg district.
The Disciples of Christ reported
their collections Of last year to have
been $9,2G0,305.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is work
ing nigth and day to complete repairs
Oh the battleships which are to go
TO the Pacific.
p A. B. Wildener is said to have
parted company with Thomas +. Ryan
as the result Of the PETERBOROUGH
Metropolitan scandal.
\ violent earthquake was recorded
OF the seismographs at Washington,
Albany and elsewhere but it was
probably submarine disturbance.
The death list in the Fontanet
Nnd) powder nil disaster numbers
SO.
Charles H. Dickey, of aBlitimore,
in an address to the National Gas
Institute, presented the duty Of pub
iic-scrvice corporations to the peo-
pie.
Admiral Evans vii command the
| feet on its voyage to the Pacific, but
some other commander will succeed
: him before It's return.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
ion concluded its hearing on the uni
form bill Of lading.
The local option fight in Delaware
/ has become very hot.
Six members of one family were
suifocated By smoke in Gloversville
\. Y, their home having caught fire
1t is rumored that Mrs. Cornelia
| Vanderbilt. whose daughter is to wed
Count Szechenlyi of Hungary will
also marry a foreign nobleman.
The sponsors of American war.
ships are to form an organization.
10 Gen. Webb Syck, a Civil War vet
eran is believed to have killed his
third wife young woman Will
whom he had just returned from {
bridal trip and committed suicide
rear Pikeville, Ky.
A number of coal operators o.
West Virginia will 90 to Charleston
this week and consult with Governo
Dawson regarding the shortage of la
Dor, and means Of relief will be sug
gested and discussed.
Charles E. Hanson, who sued tn
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com
panv for $1,000 for personal injuries
lost his case before the Federal Cour
in Martinsburg.
The House Of Deputies of the Epis
copal Convention, spent the entir
dav in discussion of the neSr
problem.
| Col. Richard Ladnelot Maury die
in Richmond.
Justice William J. Gaynor deliver
ed an eloquent address at Brookly
Day exercises at the jamestown ES
position.
A professor at Western Theologica
Seminary has figured out when til
food and other Old Testament event
occurred.
The Bishop Of London preached
, Wall street.
There were further declines i
stocks. but Wall street assumed
more hopeful attitude.
The president succeeded in KILN
bear.
Governor Hughes declared that
was not seeking the presidency.
Twenty-four more persons henef
I by the Carnegie Hero Fund.
Three persons were killed and 3
injured when Southern Railway PAL
songer train ran into a freight 6
Rudd, N. c., on a siding.
One Chinese was killed and half
dozen were woundede in a war {
longs at Philadelphia.
Forty-fve additional coal con
panles were made defendants in tt
government suit against the allege
. | Anthracite Coal Trust.
The grave of President Kruger,
the Transvaal, at Pretoria, has bee
= | desecrated.
The Danish steamer Alfred Erlan,
; son was wrecked on the Scotch Goa
and 20 of her crew were drowned.
! Four persons were killed and ov4
I 80 injured in collision of troiit
cars In Chattanooga. Tenn.
, \ pet dog let in Columbus. Obi
, 1t March turned up in Chicago, 81
, niles awav and located its mistre