The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-09-19
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MINOR MATTERS or INTEREST


Mrs Mary Lawiess korsnAch VA
buried in Portsmouth.
Serious demonstrations Of sedition
ssts have occurred in Calcutta
The probability Of Lieutenant
Governor Chambers nomination fo
President Is doubted In Washington
Gen Luke Wright said Japs view
able nonsense.
After an unsuccessful aitemp
Walter Wellman has given up tryine
to reach the North Pole BY balloon
this year.
Russian newspapers denounee th'
lack Of seamanship which Is blamed
for the grounding Of the Imperia
yacht Standard.
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, started on his evangelizlne
tour 10 Canada and she United
States.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf ex-
planned that Secretary Leob denied
the Pacific fleet story probably be-
cause he didn't know of the decision.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's report for 1906 shows passen-
gers were carried for an average Of
2002 cents mile.
The Merchants and Miners steam
er Dorchester, ran down and sank the
schooner Fannie S. Groyesman near
Norfolk
The negro rioters Burton and Con-
quest were convicted in the Accomac
county court and sentenced to the
penitentiary for 10 years
The great Government pier at
jamestown will be turned over to the
Exposition management.
Robert Newton Wildbore, driver OF
an express wagon in Richmond, will,
on November 8, come into possession
of an English fortune the value of
which is estimated at upward of So
100000.
The new Cunard liner Lusitania
made the voyage in five days and "a
minutes, but did not beat the speed
record of her German competitors.
D. Willis James, senior member Of
Phelps, Dodge & Co., of New York,
and a philanthropist, is dead.
The San Francisco Health Board
offered a bounty for rats in the hope
Of stamping out bubonic plague
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
have a combined population of 1,40S.-
1872 persons.
Forty persons were injured, 30 of
them seriously, by a coal-dust explo-
sion in Wyoming mine
A Northern Central Railway enel-
neer's belief in dream enabled him
to save his train from a landslide.
The Grand Army of the Republic:
adopted a resolution recommending |
legislation by Congress to establish |
a hospital for soldiers in the South.
Artist Frederick Pinney Earle ha.
Joined his "af1inity" in Bethlehem.
n. II.
Coast defenses at Portland, Bos-
ton, New York, San Francisco and on
Puget Sound will be completed soon
If Congress gives the money.
Negro troops returning from the
Philippines will be sent to New York
State posts.
The coal for the Pacific journey OF
he big fleet will be bought by bids,
giving Welsh mines an opportunity.
The great Council of Red Men adj.
its session at Norfolk to meet
1t Bridgeport, Conn.
W. B. Patterson a sailor on the re-
ewing ship Franklin confessed that
lie murdered Agrippa Jones
AS result of the deadlock between
producers and consumers over the
'rice the copper mines may close.
Secretary Taft sailed from Seattle
n his voyage around the world.
Charles G. Burton of Nevada, No,
7as elected eommander-in-chief OF
be Grand Army Of the Republic at
'aratoga:
Hartman and President Harahan
f the Illinois Central are hunting
or proxies.
Randolph Guggenheimer native ,
f Lynchburg, Va, and well-known :
Jew York lawyer is dead.
Colonel Gaynor says he is glad to
ct back into prison as the curiosity 4
people at the summer resorts was
DO much for him.
The international theatre trust il 4
nd to be assured. Z
Rear-Admiral Cowles said the Pa
tic coast has enogh docks to care
II the big battleship fleet going
lere.
The new turbine steamer Lusitania
reported to have passed the Luz
inia
The armistice ordered by General,
rude iii command at Casablanea was
ruthless as the Moorish tribesmer
llled to send delegates
4 new Persian Cabinet has beer B
,rmed.
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