The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-01-02
Lafe NetOs
In Brief x
MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST


low the federal troops TO remain at
Goldfeld unless the governor will
call a special session of the Nevada
legislature.
The higher officers of the big Am
erican squadron were the guests OF
the Governor of Trinidad and attend
ed the races.
Mrs. Kira Heyl, who inherited
SIS ,OO0,0 from her mother, Mrs.
Schandlein, of Milwaukee, will mar
ry Berlin artistic
The japanese Consul to Canada is
going home, evidently as the result
of differences over the immigration
question.
Rear-Admiral Brownson friends
think the President Is doing him an
injustice by keeping secret his let
ter explaining his resignation, while
at the same time he allows Surgeon
General Rixey to present his side OF
the case to the public.
! Admiral Dewey received congrat-
ulations and many gifts on his sew
entieth birthday.
| It is proposed to convert the beau
tiful Government piers at jamestown
into a coal wharf for naval vessels.
Mr.. James Scott Moore, veteran
editor of Virginia, died in Lexington.
DR.. L. B. Stewart, of Sardis, W.
Va, walked off ferry float into the
Ohio river at Stonytown and was
drowned.
| Col. Uriel L. Boyce, former presi-
dent Of the Old Shenandoah Valley
Railroad, died near Staunton, Del.
New England mill managers agreed
to curtail production Is per cent un-
til March 1.
Indiana Republicans launched
Fairbanks boom at their lovefeast.
The nude body Of a woman who
had been strangled was found in a
pond not far from Newark, n. ].
Rev W. H. Shaffer was put on trial
before a Methodist Episcopal court
in Philadelphia on charges of con-
duct unbecoming a minister.
A motion to take the John r. Walsh
trial from the jury was denied.
New York State banks and trust
companies made a special report
showing bow they withstood the
financial storm.
Archbishop Glennon, Of St. Louil,
said. in sermon, sending out the
Pacific feet was a mistake.
! Oscar w. Reid, soldier concern
ed in the Brownsville riot, sued Gov
crnment for wages due since his dis
charge.
Raleigh, N. c., voted to abolish the
dispensarv, which gave $4,000 a
year revenue.
2ear-Admiral Willard Fl. Brown
scz caused a surprise by resigning as
chief Of the Bureau of Navigation.
The Interstate Comerce Commits
sion issued an order to prevent rail-
rcaGs from evading its rulings by dis
continuing rate at short notice.
Surgeon-General Rixey defended
the policy Of placing surgeons in
Command Of hospital ships and assert
ed that Rear-Admiral Brownson had
"interfered'' with the medical bu-
reau.
Line officers to a man uphold Ad-
miral Brownson in his protest against
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President Roosevelt and his family
spent quiet Christmas in the White
House.
The men of the battleship fleet
had a gala day at Trinidad.
The Dutch Cabinet resigned and
the dissolution Of Parliament may
follow.
A new conspiracy to overthrow the
Ecusdorean government was discov-
, cred.
} Lee J. Spangler, the York (Pa.)
prophet, predicted the end Of the
world in 1908.
The Japanese-Canadian emigration
! problem is thought to be solved.
Christmas was generally observed
with the usual holiday spirit, but a
number of murders and other TRACE
dies were reported.
William James Bryan was appoint
ed United States Senator from Ffori-
da to succeed the late Senator NAL
Tory.
, The award of the Ashekau dan
contract has caused a scandal in New
York.
The ship Atlas, 275 days out from
Baltimore, ended an ill-starred voy
age at San Francisco.
George A. Green, married, perhaps
fatally wounded Miss Edith Wonder
ly and himself in Philadelphia, leav.
ing a letter saying they died fol
love.
: The Sultan of Morocco won two
5 battles against the forces of Mula
Hafid.
The American Federation of Labor
contends that Justice Gould's anti
boycott order is in violation of the
constitutional guarantee of free