The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-22

Il Ii estimated that the strike OF
the $1,000 coal miners in Illinois
cost them s12 .0o0. 900 in wages and
cost the operators SIS. 200 600.
The estate Of the late Chief Justice
Melville ". Fuller has been appa-
raised at ss50.e00, which was left
10 his children and grandchildren.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook. IL Is said, IL
in the Far North looking for the
records that be thinks will prove
him the discovery OF the North Pole
Officials OF the Rockefeller commits
sion announce that the dreaded hook
worm disease Is decreasing not only
the United States. but throughout
the world.
It is announced that a party OF
Englishmen will attempt to ride in
a motorcar from Cape Colony TO
Cairo, a distance Of more than
5000 miles
Chicago now has a population OF
over two millions, making 1t the
second city in population in this
country, New York leading with over
four millions.
A scourge of grass-hoppers has in
vaded the Argentine Republic and
the crops are all but ruined. The
government is taking hand but the
damage is almost incalculable.
The alarming report is issued by
the Pennsylvania Board of Health
that there are 658 cases of infantile
paralysis in that state. The disease
is becoming generally epidemic.
Complying with an imperial edict
of the Chinese government China
men in this country are having their
queues shorn off,, One with a queue
is a rarity in New York's Chinatown.
The bodies of the two young
Americans, Groce and Cannon, who
were shot by order of President Ze-
laya of Nicaragua, will be brought to
this country and buried at the ex-
pense Of Nicarauga.
George W. Fitzgerald, former as
sorting telled in the Chicago Sub
treasury, was arrested, charged with
the theft on February 10, 1907, of
$4,000 from the United States Sub
treasury. He had been indicted Sc
cretly last December.
While purchasing a ticket at a
Columbus, Ohio, depot, Mrs. Hawley,
a wealthy woman of Washington
City, was robbed of a bag containing
several thousand dollars worth of
| jewelry and large sum of money.
! There is no clue to the thief.
Mayor Gaynor of New York, who
was recently shot by discharged
/ city employee, has resumed reading
! the papers. Since he was shot he
has not read paper and he now
says that he never proposes to read a
line concerning the assault On him.
From BaGen-Baden, Germany,
comes news of the destruction of
I Count Zepnelin's latest dirigible, the
Zeppelin VI, which took fire after an
explosion while being warped into
her shed. This is the fifth serious
accident that has befallen Zeppe1ins
dirigibles.
Representative Of manufacturing
interests met in New York and form
ed the American Manufacturers Elk.
port Association, to promote exports
to American products to South Amer.
lea. It is said that 100 leading cor.
porations, with an aggregate capita
Of s300,000,0O, were represented.
Events are moving with grea
justment of relations between the
United States and Nicarauga 1t wa:
admitted at the State Department
that the Estrada government is tt
be recognized Immediately, as far a,
it is possible to do so at this stage.
DR.. H. H. Crippen, accused of tn,
murder of his wife, Belle Gilmore, tbs
actress, has been undergoing his pre-
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