The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-09-14
General NeWs.

At Crand Rapids. Mich. sepieaao Der
fsh. nineteen people weFs nurs and
sxxeral seriously injured ia . head
on collision between IntsrTaroan cars
naar Grand Haven Junction IN q fog
Tn. exhibition Of pictsres Of the
gea.t.e murder trial all not be per
xui,ted in the city OF New York. on
the grounds that they were UNFIT 10
~ shown .n places OF public anuzs-
meut.
u Leforrestler. an aviator, while
making a flight al Huelva. Spain.
September 5th. was burned 10 death
In mid-air b. the explosion Of the
motor of his aeroplane. His body
plunged from a height Of ESQ feet
The body of Capt. Arthur James
Matthews, senior captain OF the L. ).
States Marine Corp, who disappeared
en- mvsteriously from the Mare Island
Navy Yard some time ago, Is believed
to have been found at San Pablo. near
Jacksonville, Florida.
The body of Frank White. civil
engineer of Atlanta, Ga, was found
in an elevator shaft in an incom-
plete uptown building on September
18th. The body was terribly man
gled. Police are advancing a suicide
theory.
Morris KATE, of BaltimoreIMd.. fell
dead a few days ago after drinking
thirty-two glasses Of beer. Katy had
greatly over-estimated his capacity as
he had leaned up to the counter with
the avowed intention of dfsposlng OF
one hundred glasses OF the fluid.
A dispatch from Hankow, China
saws that 100000 persons have beer
drowned by the floods caused by the
water flowing over the Yangtze XIV
| er. The floods are the worst in years
and 1t is estimated that SO per CEN
of the crops have been destroyed
Representative James B. Latta, o.
Tekamah, Neb., who served In the
Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congress
and for many years president OF the
First National Bank of Tekamah
died at st. Mary's Hospital, Roches-
ter, Mimi, on the night of Septembel
18th.
John Jacob Aston, millionaire. ant
Miss Madalne Force, whose proposed
marriage has been much discussed
were married at Newport, R. l., Sat
urday last. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Joseph Lambert,
minister of the Congregations
! Church.
In Augusta, Ark, September 9Th
after he had slashed the throat o
Mrs. Albert Vaughan, daughter OF
white farmer, shot and killed one o
! his own race, and assaulted an age
negress, Arthur Dean was taken i
hand by a posse of white men an
negroes and .lynched.
The Cokeville National Bank, a
Cokeville, Wyoming, was entered b
two masked men on the afternoon c
September 18th and robbed OF ST, so
in money They locked the officer
of the bank in the vault and escaped
The robbery is attributed to Hug
Whitney, the Idaho bandit, and h
brother.
The National Board of Censorshi
of moving pictures have notified tn
police of all the large cities of til
country that they had condemne
the films posed for by Beulah Bill
> ford, one of the figures in the Beatt
, trial at Chesterfield, Va, and r
quested the authorities to forb
their exhibition.
After reading a story in a new
n paper that the Binford girl wou
probably be prosecuted in connectit
with the Beattie murder, Mrs. Lau
Sullivan, of Pensacola, Florida,
came respondent and swallowed la
danum, with suicidal intent, Septel
n Der Sth. The poison failing to Ia
r. effect, she tried both a pistol al
" knife, but both failed.
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