The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-17
General NeNs.


The suprsme Court q tie uals~4
States adjourned CO Aoaday for =.
Tnankagivlng RECESS u wEIi rs-eoa-
xene 90 Sose1ser sskh.
~ Lexington. Va. Harry stilllnx-
ton. a negro yonth. has ee~a convict
I'd 81 the murder of Mssa Fannie
Brown. In Rock Bridge County. O.
tober zznd. The negro confessed sA<
crime. lie all De eisetroeuted-
As the result 81 . shooting afsray
engaged IN b. William Jet. wealthy
farmer and stoek-raIser. and als to
sons, Scott lett and Clarence Jet. in
the family home. near Mendota. Va.
Saturday. Scott lett II dying. while
hIs brother. Clarence Jeti, and the
father are dangerously wounded.
Susan McKenna. a dIsh-washer. ar
rested in New York 1t the instance Of
Anthony Comstoek for writing sour
rfIous postcards TO President Taft.
vas committed TO Bellevue Hospital
for observation by a magistrate Ives
day. When arraigned she announced
dramatically that she was the God
dess Of Liberty.
Three thousand boys and 1900
girls, orphan inmates OF the Catho-
lie protectory In the upper part of
New York City, were routed from
their beds by fire shortly before mid
night Friday night The children
were put through the fire drill az II
nothing had happened and all were
marched out to safety while a Ave
story wing OF the main building was
destroyed.
+ Jesse Odum, a well-known man Of
Bond, Miss. was shot and killed in
his yard Sunday night. His wife,
hearing the cries of her wounded hus-
band, went to him and as she bent
over him she was also shot and IA
tally wounded. Odum went into the
yard when his dog began barking.
taking ais gum with him. hut had
hardly stepped into the yard when ne
was killed.
High explosive tests on the Monitor
Puritan, anchored in Hampton Roads,
Tuesday dtmaged the vessel so seri
ously that 1t was necessary to send
hurry call to the Norfolk Navy Yard
to have tugs sent up at once to tow
the battered warship to the dry-dock.
The tests made were required by
provision in the last ordinance appro
priation bill which held up the bal
ance of the appropriations for the
/ year until the tests were completed.
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With his arm uplifted in appeal,
Rev. Dr.. Ferdinand o. Zech, of the
/ German Presbyterian Church, was
| stricken in the pulpit at Jamaica, L.
l., Sunday night, and died before he
could be taken from the church. His
face became convulsed as he reached
the climax Of a, spirited sentence, his
raised hand fell on the open Bible
and he toppled backward in the pull
pit. Pensioners carried him to a
cushioned pew, but he only motioned
/ feebly to his heart and died before
further aid could be summoned.
Aerial navigation has proved, at
| Fort Monroe, Va, that it is a factor
which must be dealt with in the naval
tactics of the worlds future, If the
successful flight made by Eugene B.
Ely in a Curtiss biplane from the
deck of the cruiser Birmingham can
ton Roads, the scene As years ago of
another epoch in the history of naval
warfare, when an ironclad proved its
superiority over the former type of
fighting vessel, the aviator flew
across the lower end or Chesapeake
Bay, landing on the opposite side
from the fort.
The inquest held by Coroner w. w.
Rogers Monday night into the cause
of the death Of Capt. Rudolph Munk,
of the West Virginia University
eleven, during the game at Wheeling,
w. Va, Saturday with the Bethany
College team, resulted in verdict by
the jury that Munk came to his death
| accidentally. The warrant for the
arrest Of Thomas Mccoy. of Canton,
Ohio, the Bethany player, charged
with causing the injuries that caused
death, will be withdrawn at the in
4 stance of the coroner Mccoy was
not present at the inquest, nor was
his father. but they were represented
by attorneys from Canton.
i AshoUiII0 Church Rurns