The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-10-17
Late NetUS
II, BRIEF Il
MINOR MATTERS or INTEREST

| Mrs. Cassie l. chadwick's son hai
come forward and she viii not b
buried IN Po,ter's Field.
| The York Fair closed with q iargS
attendance.
Though DR. Joseph Archibald Rob
ertson who owns a fine Virginia e.
tate. Is being sued for divorce be and
wife continue 10 live together in ap.
parent happiness.
The Lusitania i expected to make
still better record.
| The State Railroad Commissioners
set forth that the only reductions in
railroad rates have been made BY the
Federal Government
Army and navy officers are esiti-
cising each other In regard to the
records made in the target practice
OF the fleet and coast artillery.
Commissioner Capers says new pro-
hibition laws compel the rearrange-
ment of revenue districts in the
South and West.
The Episcopal General Convention
III Richmond considered a number of
important measures.
Mr.. William J. Bryan spoke on
1.-THE Average Man" to great
crowd in Richmond.
Governors Hughes. of New York.
and Swanson of Virginia made ad-
dresses before the convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tlon at jamestown.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant and eight
other army officers took the Presi-
dent s dose-a 15-mile horseback ride
The international Missionary Con-
Ventlon of the Disciples of Christ be-
gan i'll Norfolk.
The Wellman North Pole expedi-
ton steamer Frithjof was lost in q
storm with the captain and Is of the
crew.
Sixty thousand workmen paraded
IN Budapest, Hungary, as demon
Stratlon IN favor of universal suffrage
Miss Anna Breese was married to
Lord Alastair Robert Innes-Ker.
Emperor Francis Joseph was re-
ported to be much improved.
The condition of Emper + or Francis
Joseph causes alarm.
An American automobilist who had
run down and killed a boy, narrowly |
escaped death at the hands of y
French mob.
Only the engineer of the Arctic
steamer Frithjof survived, all others |
beng lost with the vessel
State railroad commissioners in
at Washington declared
strongly against yielding to the Fed
raj Government any of the rights
u the States to regulate railroads.
Secretary Metcalf ordered the navy
ards to concentrate all their forces
m repairs to the battleship fleet.
Acknowledgement Charles J. Bona
'arte decides that foreign ships car
ylng United States Government car
.oes exclusively are exempt from port
Iues.
The turbine steamer Lusitania ar
wed at Sandy Hook early this week
reaklng all records for liners.
An oil buyer for a Standard Oil
uosld1ary company testified that he
new nothing about S2O.OOO.O 900 in
onas charged to him and that the
rust fixed prices.
John Mitchell president Of the
jnlted Mine Workers announced that
wing to i'll health he would not he
candidate for reelection.
The President shot fine buck but
0 bear was sighted.
The Austrian steamship Giplia
lth |63 passengers had a thrillinr
at sea when fire broke ont
u1ng storm.
There was great throng at the
ork fair 'e
An aged woman and three children
erlshed IN burning house near New
olland, Ohio. 1'0"
Four out of seven persons lost their
yes when a burning skiff was over
Irhed IN the Delaware river to put
1t the fire.
The cholera has attained ALARMING
'oportlons in Toxic.
An aged wat4man had a fight with |
10 burglars on the nineteenth Aoor c
New York skyscraper and nre. /
nteo tnem from making q rich haul q
shanghi Chinese and Euronean, !
corded Secretary Taft an enthrs;aS I
welcome. ' 0'4''' ">iaS-
A Frienchman named Anto;no !
iomas tells a remarkable story of .
wing stolen the famous cane ~ >
TN and many other church treasur- :
IN France.
M. Regnault, the new French Min Il
,er to Morocco, presented bis cred a
tlals to the Sultan. - t
There was sharp decline in tho il
w York Stock Exchange. 6
The Cuban labor organization bsvo :
solved upon general strike if the y
liroads employ strikebreakers. !
Persian brigands are reported 10 J., d
'pplng the movement of Russian
DDS i'''Si"ii 9
ne steamer Lusitania broke all re- Il
rds Tor days run, making 617 Il
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