The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-01-30
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MINOR MATTERS or RTtRtsT

Ex-senator Henry Davis - Ill
The defense ia the Thsw ease
closed en Monday.
North Carolina w.ll vote on State
prohibition on April 18th
The terpcdo-boat hotills arrived
at Buenos Ayr~s.
The man known as the castor
tramp j. dead in New York
Democrats in the House discussed
Mr.. Bryan's candidacy.
Labor leaders plan a si,oco.oOO
temple at Washington.
Prominent Chicagoans will raise
fund o1 100000 for the unemployed.
In the United State Senate Mon
day Secretary Taft was directly ac-
cused of having knowledge Of the ex-
istenee OF slavery in the Philippines.
w. J. Bryan refused 10 be adj
vised 10 work in the interest Of bar
mony in the Democratic party.
4 special committee has made
lengthy aud exhaustive report on
railroads TO the South Carolina leg
islaiure.
Mexico is 10 have so ,oo0, 900 bar
iron plant, promoted by American
capitalists.
Baron Takahira, at an audience
with King Victor Emmanuel in Rome,
elucidated the Japanese emigration
problem.
Mrs. Mary q. Baker Eddy, head of
the Christian Scientists, unexpectedly
changed her residence to Brookline.
Mass, making the trip on special
train.
National political affairs are over
shadowing the Legislative work at
Albany, n. Y.
Miss Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook,
Cornell coed. has been declared eli
gible TO represent that institution M
the Triangular Debate League.
The Empire State Sons of the Rev
olution are opposing the location of
a prison on the former site Of Forts
Montgomery and Clinton as an his
torie spot.
Comptroller Ridgeway ordered the
Bank of North America, New York,
close for liquidation.
The new Governor-General Of
Odessa ordered that bomb found IN
n restaurant be exploded there, with
the result that the building was
wrecked.
The missing boatload of passengers
and crew from tho steamer Amgier-
dam was picked up and brought into
port.
Dir. Farmano Lopez, who was con-
neeted with the conspiracy against
Premier Franco, of Portugal, eseap-
ed from prison.
Taft's letter TO Representative Par
sons, of New York, against dividing
the Empire State delegation, IL re-
garded as a master political stroke,
President Gompers, of the Fedora
ton Of Labor, defed an injunction OF
the District court.
The Virginia House of Delegates
defeated the bill passed by the SEN
ate TO elect Corporation Commission
ers by popular vote.
Norfolk and Tidcyater Virginia
were in the grasp of the worst storm
of the winter
The Benwood wv. ya.) plant OF
the Wheeling Steel and Iron Com
pany will start up early in February
employing about 1000 men.
Mayor Dahlman, of Omaha, was led
from the hall at the Waterways Con-
gress because, in the opinion of the
chairman, he wa. injecting politics
into the proceedings.
The city and the police buildings a!
Portland, Maine, were destroyed by
FIRE, the loss beiag placed at $1,000
900.
A Cleveland (Ohio) court dissoly-
ed the Amalganated Window-Glass
Workers as an illegal organization or
labor trust.
Andrew jackson Detseb, who shot
a fellow-boarder in Philadelphia in
mistake for burglar, as be said, was
acquitted.
J. ID. Marsteller, bookkeeper in the
EIkins National Bank and L. ID. Col.
lett, farmer. living near Elkins, w.
Va, have received ostensible Black.
hand letters notifying them TO leave
the State In. 90 days or die.
Important changes were maze
among the staff of the Coal and Coke
Railroad.
The home Of Sheriff Cromwell, 0:
Norfolk county, Virginia, was burned
Loss $4,000. r
The Model Liquor License League
in session 10 Louisville. passed reso
lutions in favor OF temperance, but
against the degtruction Of the liquor
industry,
The storm was severe on the NORTH
Atlantic coast and caused much salfs
fering in New York
Judson Harmon urged the neces,
sity Of tariff reform IN an address af
Nashville
jackson nets.h was put on
trial in Philadelphia for the Staying