The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-06-11
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Roosevelt had on June End a narrow
escape from death. A young horse
he was trying for Sergeant McDer-
mott, his orderly, reared and fell
backwards with him from the top of
the bank of Rock Creek. But from
the fact that the President threw
himself to one side as the animal
fell he would have been crushed. He
fell on the boulders in the stream
and received a number of bruises.
When he waded out of the creek he
helped catch the horse, remounted
him and rode for an hour. Mrs.
Roosevelt was with him at the time
of the accident.
President Alderman Sick.-An ex-
change says CDR. Alderman, presi
dent of the University of Virginia,
has recently declined the presidency
of the University of New York at
salary of $4,000, feeling himself
physically unable to perform the du-
ties of that position. He is suffering
from a general break down in con-
sequence of his strenuous duties and
his physicians have ordered him to
drop out for awhile, go to Europe
and take a long rest. 1t is to be
hoped that his retirement from edu-
cational work in the South is not
permanent, and that he will once
more be found applying his active
energies in behalf of that section for
which he has done so much good.
He is a man the educational inter-
ests of the South can i'll afford to
lose"
Dreyfus Wounded.-Just at the
close of the ceremonies attending the
canonization of Emile lola in the
Pantheon to-day, when the President
of France, the premier and a hest of
ministers Of state were taking their
departure, Louis Gregori, a military
writer Of note, drew a revolver and
fred two shots point blank at Maj.
Alfred Dreyfus, for whose liberty
lola fought and won.
Soldiers speedily surrounded Gre
gori and he was taken to Jail, bruised
and bleeding, with his clothes almost
torn from his back.
Major Dreyfus was not seriously
injured. A bullet entered his fore
arm. but did not injure the bone.
The official statement was made that
his condition was very favorable, and
that no complications were feared
Paris, June 4.
Death of General Buller.-General
Sir Redvers Henry Butler, who had
been i'll for some weeks past, is dead.
He was born in 1889.
| General Butler entered the army in
1858, and in 1891 he had risen to
the rank of Lieutenant General. He
served in China in 1860, in the Ash
anti war in 1874, in the Kafir war
and the Zu Lu war In 1878-O9; He
was in South Africa. in 1881 and in
Egypt in 1882 and was present al
the battle of Tel-El-Kebir; he also
fought in the Soudan war in 1884
and was under Secretary Forecland
in 1887.
He went out to South Africa dur.
ing the Boer war In 1899, first as
General, commanding the forces in
South Africa and afterwards as gen.
eral officer commanding in Natal. He
conducted the operations for the re.
lief of Lady Smith, which was sue.
cessfully accomplished after an in.
vestiment of the 118 days and sub.
sequently he conducted the opera.
tons that resulted in the expulsion
of the Boer army from Natal. In
April General Butler contracted 9
chill in London, and this indisposi
ton was followed by a severe attack
of jaundice and other complications
General Butler married Lady Au
drey Jane Charlotte, daughter of the
fourth Marquis Townshend.-Lon
don, June 2.