The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-04-28
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
BY the capsizlng OF fishing boat,
hree men were drowned and four
,are rescued near Angelsea. n. J..
IN Friday.
The Spartan Inn. at Spartanburg,
J. c., one of the best known hostel
les in the South. was totally de-
,troy by fire On Saturday last.
In a hotel fire at Cincinnati, Ohio,
six persons were burned TO death. |
Two others were found suffocated In
he cellar after the fire was put out. |
While getting medicine in the
dark, Mrs. Efde Mitchell, wife of the
flre chief of Spartanburg. s. c., took
a. dose of laudanum by mistake and
nearly died.
Samuel L. Clements Mark Twain)
the veteran humorist, died at his
home in Connecticut last week. He
was seventy-six years of age, and for
years an invalid.
Heavy floods in SerVia are respon-
sibIe for the loss of millions or dol
lars OF property and over twenty
lives. Several villages were COM
pletely submerged.
Experts at work on the books Of
the Illinois Central Railroad has dis
covered thefts by checks amounting
to over one million dollars. A num-
ber of arrests will be made.
Col. Machen, who murdered King
Alexander and Queen Draga, OF Ser
via, died recently. He was highly
honored by King Peter, who succeed
ed on the throne.
In a novel suit, Judge Dugro, OF
the New York Courts. gave a client
s2,5OO damages against A. Schepper
a lawyer, on the grounds that the
lawyer neglected the interest of his
client.
Mrs. Melvina Smith, aged seventy,
two of Ventnor, N. j., Is the mother
of twenty children, seventeen o.
whom are living. She has over one
hundred lineal descendants and
works daily for her living.
| Superstitutious to an extreme
Stanly Hill, aged nineteen, of Ber
wick. Pa. shot and killed himself
He was born on a Friday, the thir
teenth of the month. and his life wa
one long chapter Of accidents.
Councilman John Klein. who e>
posed the bribery and grating cour
. cilmen in Pittsburg, asked to b
transferred from the Riverside pen
tentiary because the prisoners ther
: tried to kill him because he squeale'
Declaring that 1.-The Lord told hi
to do it," VIM. G. Moore, Pennsy
l yania Railroad engineer sent his el
2 CINE crashing into train of car
:, He has been declared insane. +
was badly injured.
While drunk and without any a
y parent reason, K. c. Medlin, wh1
J. man, shot and instantly killed Cha
e Crosland, a negro, at Mccall, 5.
h No words had passed between t
men. Medlin defied arrest and wal
ed away.
In a pitched battle between the
lies and strikers at the plant or {
1t Pressed Steel Car Works at Pitsbul
D. Pa, six men were killed and nu
Der wounded Ona Of the policem
was seriously wounded. The str
T. ers were all foreigners.
The Transatlantic steamer M
Ill nehaha, which was wrecked OF
DIS Scilly Islands. had to have her ent
cargo thrown overheard in an
tempt to tighten it. Thousands
ly dollars worth of goods of all sc
~ were washed ashore to be salval
by the peasants on the islands.
lis A holy war" in China is caus
to thousands of white people and Oh
tianized Chinese to fee to the s
port cities for protection. Hundr
of thousands of the Chinese are j
7"' ing it. The determination OF
III foreign devils is the object OF
gh uprising.
rO-
The celebrated Pink" Fran
murder case is being argued be
the United States Supreme co
The case involves the alleged
ses elimination against negroes by
lst. South Carolina laws. Franklin
lals an officer who was trying to al
the him for violation Of one of the
legged discriminating laws.
A young Englishman, known
lAlh John Carter" who had served
ling of a 1O-year sentence in the Mini
was to State Prison for burglary,