The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-05-12


chance to win with the old crowd In
charge.
GENERAL NEWS.
Over one thousand Chinese SOL
diers were killed by rebels In Lamas,
western China.
Owing to the need OF money, Italy
at last proposes to tax church build
ings, the value of which run into mill
lions OF dollars
Atlanta had musical carnival
that broke all records for financial
receipts. The worlds greatest sing
ers were present
Many fights and small battles in
Turkey indicate movement to re-
store Abdul Hamid, who was de-
posed as Sultan a year ago.
Col w. T. Brock. the Assistant
Adjutant Of South Carolina, has been
suspended from office under charges
of having misused State funds.
Four men were killed and several
severely injured by the explosion of
steam valve on the United States
Navy tug Cape Charles at Philadel-
phia.
P. F. Byrnes, for years the head
of New York City police, died on
Sunday last He was perhaps the
most famous criminal catcher in the
country.
After forty-six years of service c..
B. North, of Selinsgrove, Pa, retires
as cashier OF al ocal bank, the longest
period known in this country for the
same service.
Nord-Alexis, for years dictator of
Haiti. and a cruel and dopestic ruler
of that country for years. died re-
Gently over ninety years old. He
was a full-blooded negro.
The four negroes charged with
having held up a street car and kill
riously wounding the motorman, have
confessed A speedy trial is expected.
An insane elephant having run
amuck at circus in Ohio, was cap
tured and put to death by chains
placed around its neck, being pulled
by two of it's mates. 1t was valued
at $4,000. 1t injured number OF
people before being caught.
one hundred packages to as many of
his fellow officers containing deadly
poison, but labeled as medicine. One
took 1t and died. He confessed, stat
ing that it was his intention to thus
pave the way to his rapid promotion.
The County Commissioners of Ne
braska county refused to allow VIM.
J. Bryan to make a speech In the
courthouse, on the ground that he
was speaking on factional question
on which the county was divided.
Mr.. Bryan took the refusal good ma
turedly.
Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for
years as the richest and shrewdest
in hn mi
soon retire from active business life
and will turn over the handling OF
| her immense fortune, estimated al
$4,000, 200, to her daughter, Sylvia
now Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes.
Leonard Vice, a young man of New
York, has just been released from q
| Brazilian Jail after confinement o1
three years. He was for long time
under death sentence for engaging In
an expedition to overthrow the
Brazilian government. The pleading
of his mother aroused this nation tt
ask for clemency.
| Mrs. C. B. Morse, wife of the con
victed New York banker, now doin,
fifteen years in the Atlanta peniten
tiary, stood at the entrance to Con
gress and importuned members t,
sign the petition for her husband
pardon Many did so, few refusing
The petition already has some hun
dreds of thousands Of signers.
District Attorney Whitman issue
more warrants for alleged white slay
ers, which is based upon the signe
confession made after Harry Lever
son was questioned by Whitman
Levenson is under bond as a slavel
Levenson told Whitman that th
Cleary house Of white slavery existe
} here to furnish girls to resort
throughout the United States.
Just in proportion as q man bs
comes good, divine, Christ-like.
passes out OF the region OF theori.