The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-30

vember 2sih-
Irving Bedeli Dudley. United States /
Ambassador Of Brazil. died at the
John Hopkins Hospital. November
z7th, OF heart failure. he wAs born /
10 Jefferson. Ohio. November 30th.
1861.
In a collision OF an automobile and /
q trolley car al Atlanta, Ca, Noyem- |
Der 23rd, Charles Grifzan. Of Atlanta, /
and Ars. A. E. Nelson. OF Btrming-
ham, Ala. were killed and several
other members or the party were In
iured.
John F. Dryden, founder OF the
Prudential Insurance Company OF
America, a former member of the
United States Senate, and a multi
millionaire, died at his home at New
ark, y. J., November cath. He was
seventy-two years old.
Elmer w. Moore, treasurer OF the
Federal Oil and Gas Company. was
arrested a few days ago on a capias
issued by Judge Orr, of the United
States Circuit Court. 1t Is alleged
that there is a shortage OF 100000
in the accounts of the company.
Charles w. Morse, the New York
banker, has been transferred from
the Federal Prison in Atlanta, Ga,
to the army hospital at Fort McPher-
son, W here he will be kept under the
survei' ance Of physicians for an in
definite period.
Illinois newspaper men have adopt
ed resolutions Of protest against the
law advocated by Postmaster-General
Hitchcock, that news papers carrying
more than SO per cent of advertising
matter, be refused admission to the
mails as second-class matter.
Lafayette Choate, a white man Of
Liberty, Mo-, was sentenced to thirty
days Imprisonment a few days ago
for hitching his wife to a pair of
mules and dragging her over the
field. He had just served term of
four months in Jail for cruelty to
her.
A passenger train at Samur,
France, plunged through a bridge on
the State Railway at Montieuil- Bellay
and sank in the Thouet River No
vember 4th. Thirty Or more passen-
gers were drowned, it being impossi-
BILE to rescue them on account of the
floods.
The jury in the case of P. G. Cox,
charged with the murder of Miss Mat
| tie Parcel, at Miami, Fla, returned a
verdict of guilty as accessory in at
tempting to conceal the crime by
throwing the girls body in the river.
A motion for a new trial was made
by the counsel for Cox.
In wreck, November oath, near
Scotland, Ga, caused by two passen-
ger trains on the Southern Railway
running together. Engineer Brantley,
of Macon, Ca, and Express Messen-
ger Meyers, of Tampa, Fla, were
killed and Engineer Raby, of Macon,
Ca, and Fireman Robert Gleason
were injured.
With but one dissenting vote the
American Bankers Association in
New Orleans, last week, gave it's ap-
prevail to the Aldrich plan for the
reform of the monetary scheme of
the United States. Congress is urged
to deal with the proposition as an
economic question outside the domain
OF politics.
Friday night last a masked man
robbed the mail car of the Atlantic
Coast Line train No. 55, near Column
bia, s. G. He took the registered
mail, stopped the train and jumped
off before the train reached the city
limits of Columbia. There was said
to have been several thousand dollars
in the stolen mail
! At the annual meeting of the Unit
ed Sons Of Confederate Veterans, in
Memphis, Tenn, plans were discuss
ed to raise two hundred thousand
dollars to erect monuments to the
memory of Southern soldiers and to
the memory of Southern women who
were active in the cause of the South
during the Civil War.
The Richmond Circuit Court of
Appeals has decided in favor of the
Government in the bath-tub trust
case. The decree Of the court says
, the men indicted entered into a COM
bination in restraint of trade and
J commerce among the several States,
and are attempting to monopolize