The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-04

M1*@ ASA a tai 4A company a. Ia Il
= Francisco az a salesman. He SAYS
, be wants to be known Just - a plain
. ciiizen-
Striking street car men in CoIuu-
bus. Ohio. forced the Governor Ia
call out the State troops. Unless
quiet is speedily restored. he wiII pro-
claim martial law.
Nine young men and stx girls we're
drowned at Munich. Germany. when
boat in which they were taking a
pleasure ride was upset BY a storm
that came up suddenly on the Ia Ike
Former Speaker and Secretary Of
the Treasury, John G.. Carlisle, Is at
deaths door, due TO an attack OF in
digestion. He is seventy-five years of
age and has been in falling health.
The gossip is that Janitor Wend-
ling, arrested az San Francisco Sat
urday charged with the murder OF
Alma Kellner, Of Louisville, KY, will
be taken there tomorrow. He still
claims that he never saw the girl.
The Minnesota Democratic conyen-
ton nominated John Lind for Cover
nor. after he had repeatedly refused
1t. After the convention adjourned
he persisted in his refusal and the
Democrats are now at sea as TO what
to de.
The presidents of Brazil and Chile
are expected to visit Washington this
month at different dates and Presi- |
dent Taft will leave his summer
home to be on hand to greet them. |
The visits are entirely personal and |
have no political significance
Charged with keeping their ten
year-old son in cage, Ora Lewis and |
wife, of Frankfort, Ind, are locked |
in jail. They claim the boy was bad |
and given to evil companions and
they took this means to prevent him.
They were nearly lynched.
More than sixteen thousand deaths
have been reported in Russia from
the cholera, out of a total of thirty
seven thousand cases and the plague
is still spreading. The government
is taking drastic means to stop the
epidemic, but with little success.
DR.. Cook, the explorer, whose
claims to have discovered the North
Pole were found to be false, and who
has been in hiding for months. has
been discovered living quietly in
Brookly. He made thousands of dol
lars before his fraud was disclosed.
One negro has been hanged and
two others are awaiting death in De- .
catur, Ca, for holding up a street 7
car and killing the motorman, at the
same time seriously wounding the
conductor, whom they robbed The ,
conductor witnessed the ex- :
ecution.
The Spanish Government. repre-
Catholic, has broken with the Vatican
and has recalled her minister. The
tact that Spain has granted religious
freedom and permitted the establish
ment of Protestant schools is respon-
sible for the break.
President Taft has approved, with
out comment, an opinion by Attor-I
1ey-General Wickersham to the ef-I
ect that there is no provision of law
by which the statue of General Rob-
srt E. Lee, in Confederate uniform,
IAN be removed from Statuary HALL
n the Capitol at Washington.
Ira q. Rhawn, whose death was
exported last week, and stated to !.
lave been the result of a burglars
mot, is now found to have suicided.
because of his being involved in the =
zig steals from the Illinois Central
Railroad, amounting to millions
thaWn was president of the Monon ! i
Railroad
seeking revenge because he had
'een discharged from the fire de-
'artment. Bert S. Duncan, at San
'lego, Cal, killed one fireman, NOR
ally 1nJuring two others, and beat
is VIE and child to death. Brought
bay after man-hunt through the
cart of the city, he shot himself
ead IN the Plaza. Duncan sent in
false alarm Of fire and shot formerl
ompanions wheT they responded.
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