The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-10
General News.

in the nelghborhood OF twenty inches
or greater than has been known in
that section this early in the season
DR.. Frederick 4. Cook, IN a letter
from London, TO q friend In New
York. received recently. says he will
start at once to prove his claims az
the first TO discover the North Pole.
He says he has just completed data
for submission TO scientifis bodies.
James ". Mock. member Of the
senior class at Roanoke College,
Roanoke, Va, died Saturday as a re-
suit OF injuryies received a week ago
while playing football in practice
game on the college field. He was
twenty years old and a native Of Da-
mascus, Ga.
The execution of DR.. II. Fl. Grip
pen, the American dentist convicted
of wife murder in England, has been
postponed until November %. The
execution was TO have taken place on
Tuesday, but has been put of by the
home secretary, who will make a
thorough investigation of the case.
Mrs. Harriet Turner, 40 years old,
shot and killed her 17-year-old,
daughter, Margerie, at Scranton, Pa,
last Friday, and then sent a bullet
into her own breast, inf1icting what
physicians believe to >be a fatal
wound. The tragedy was discovered
by a milkman who found Mrs. Turner
half buried in Is inches of snow on
her front porch.
A gas explosion occurred in the
mines of the Yoland Coal and Coke
Company early Saturday morning
and five men were killed. The mines
are located at Tuscaloosa County,
Ala, 80 miles south of Birmingham.
Chief State Mine Inspector James
Hillhouse and his two assistants are
on the scene. The bodies Of the vic
tins have been taken out of the
mine.
In the event of a hostile attack
on foreigners at Ampala, Honduras,
it is not anticipated in Washington,
that the United States gunboat
Princeton will find it necessary to
shell the town. Instead, Commander
Hayes probably will send marines
ashore to take Jose Valladares, the
revolutionary leader, into custody,
which act, it is believed would end
the revolution.
President Taft's Panama trip will
occupy only twelve days, according to
present plans. Returning from the
Isthmus the President will come
ashore at Charleston the night of
November %. He will proceed to
Richmond, Va, by train and make an
address before the Virginia School
Teachers Association in that city
November %. The President will be
back in Washington the evening of
the 23rd.
Bronzed by the suns of many lands,
Jacob M. Dickinson, Secretary of
War, reached Washington Monday
night after a globe-girdling journey
extending over more than three
months. His party, which included
Mrs. Dickinson, were met at the sta
ton by Major-General Leonard
Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army,
and other attaches of the War De-
partment. The Secretary declined to
discuss his trip around the world.
Postal receipts for the fiscal year
ended on June 80, were S224,128.-
over last year. More than one-half
that enormous sum was collected in
six states-New York, Illinois, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, and
Missouri, the total collections of each
state ranging in the order named.
The New York postofice collected
ten per cent Of all the receipts and
Chicago came next with eight per
cent.
Retirement with pay for old gov
eminent clerks is recommended to
the Secretary of the, Treasury by M.
o. Chance, auditor of the Postofice
Department, in his annual report.
He declares an unusually large
proportion Of the employees Of his Of
and that the average of efficiency
among them is below the standard.
Both they and the service, he de-
clares, would be better off il their
places were filled by younger men.