The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-29

West Point cadets, being insubordi-
nate, are being disciplined by having
all their privileges taken away. An
unpopular officer is the cause OF the
trouble.
DR.. Crippen has been formally in
dicted with the murder OF his actress
wife, Belle Gilmore, whose body. burn
ed with lime, was found in his resi-
dence at London.
Nick Myers, a prominent citizen Of
Ocala, Fla, was assassinated near his
home by unknown peISons. Blood
hounds have been secured and placed
on the trail of the assissins.
Governor Haskell. OF Oklahoma,
who was treasurer of the National
Democratic Committee, is on trial.
charged with fraud in the sale OF
Muskogee, Okla, town lots.
For the fourth time, William
Downs, former city clerk of Baltimore
charged with embeZzlement, faces
Jury that is dead-locked. Three times
a mistrial was caused by hung jury.
A case very similar to the famous
Crippen murder mystery, is on trial
in San Francisco, where DR.. Grant
is charged with numbering a girl and
endeayoring to burn the body with
acids.
The first recorded accident to re-
suit fatally in the famous Mammoth
Cave occurred last week when a
Pennsylvania woman, one of a party
Of sight-seers, fell from cliff and
was killed.
Bobby Leach, a noted swimmer,
went through the Niagara Rapids in
a barrel and, beyond a few scratches,
escaped unhurt. The feat has been
attempted by others, and generally
ended in death.
Judge J. B. Scott, a prominent pol
itician and planter of Georgia, was
shot and killed by tenant in a dis
pute over a division of crops. The
murderer claims that the judge was
advancing on him with an open
knife.
Application has been made to Gov
ernor Hughes Of New York for par
don for Captain Haines, the army
officer, who shot and killed w. E.
Annis, whom he accused of running
his wife. Haines' brother, who was
tried with him, was acquitted.
Bunk Sherard, a Greenville IS.
c. negro will be hanged tomorrow
for killing a police officer. When
sentenced Sherard fell into a dead
faint and remained so for days. He
says that he had a presentment while
in this state which made him confess
his crime.
Four masked robbers, all believed
to be white men, entered the home of
Stuart Southers, at Wytheville, Va,
beat his wife, tied her to bed, stole
and escaped. Southers was absent
from home. Southers does not be-
lieve in banks.
The New York trade reports say
that there is keen demand for cot
ton on foreign markets and this not
withstanding large crop, will prob
ably keep the price up on that sta
pie. The mills that have stopped for
lower cotton, not getting it, will like
| ly start up again on full time.
| The National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in ses-
sion at Atlantic City, by vote of 1873
! to 102, laid On the table the entire
matter with reference to the Lee
statue in the National Capitol. The
Encampment also voted down the
dollar-a-day pension proposition.
DR.. Cook came into the lime-light
again last week when reports reach
ed Copenhagen that he is returning
from Etah with documentary proofs
of his having reached the North Pole.
He is aboard the yacht Beauty .
which is owned by John r. Bradley
the New Yorker, who financed Cooks
North Pole venture.
Auto PluHges Into Canal.
New Orleans, La. Sept. 24.-Foul