The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-14


Prison at San QuienlaI. California
! woman In s.. Louis. No. . few
DAYS ago. became temporarily derang-
ed and strangied her i3-nonths-oId
baby with her apron and then ended
her own life by carboiic acid.
In Libertyville. No. q man named
Harris started Are In = stump
where four sticks OF dynamite were
placed. and was blown two hundred
feet by the dynamite one day last
week.
A one-hundred-thous fire
occurred In Philadelphia, Pa, few
days ago. destroying the fashionable
Marie apartment house, at Sixteenth
Street, and burning three persons 20
death.
United States Deputy Marshall Vic
tor c. Benner was killed and two
other men injured one day last week
by a mob In the Nonconah yards OF
the Illinois Central Railroad in Mem
phis, Tenn.
After comparative tests on a num-
Der of the navy vessels, the Navy De-
partment has decided to abandon the
turbine type of engines for battle
ships and to substitute the recipro-
eating engines.
Seven hundred delegates and en-
ployes, representing the Anti-Saloon
Leagues of every State in the Union,
are in Washington attending the BIZ
ennial convention of the Anti-Saloon
League of America.
Sam Pruett, a 14-year-old whiet
lad of Danville, Va, was convicted in
the Corporation Court few days ago
of the murder Of Frank Mahan, an
other boy of about the same age, and
sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment.
Engineer Laurence Maddox, of Co.
lumbia, S. c., and a negro fireman of
a local freight train on the Southern
Railway between Columbia and
Greenville, were instantly killed De-
cember II at PETER, by their engine
falling twenty feet off a coal chute.
The trial of the ten Chicago meat
packers, indicted for violation of the
criminal provisions of the Sherman
antitrust law, was adjourned before
the usual hour Tuesday on account
of the absence of further venire-
men, but fifty more were expected
yesterday when court convened.
Judge Alexander Buchanan, for
seventeen years a member of the
Court of Appeals of Virginia, will re-
tire on account of his health at the
conclusion of his present term, which
will be January 81, 1914. He is a
Confederate Veteran, and served in
the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Con-
crosses.
The University of Virginia has re-
ceived $4,000 from the Phelps
! Stokes fund as a permanent founda-
ton for the endowment Of fellow
ship in sociology for the study of the
negro. This fund was established by
the late Miss Caroline Phelps-Stokes
to assist in improving the condition
of the negro.
The British steamer Baron Pol
warth, which sailed from Manila
November 8 for Marseilles, France
arrived there December 18th and re
ported that she had been fired upoI
by an Italian cruiser while passing
through the Red Sea on Novembe
80. Her bows were damaged yer.
badly.
In triple wreck of two freight
} and fast express train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad at DEVILS Bend
near Manor, Pa, six men were kille,
and five injured. There were ais
) twenty horses being transporte
West on the express train and al
were killed.
Henry A. Ulrich, who was acquit
ted on a charge Of having assaulte
Booker T. Washington in New York
and who surrendered himself in New
ark, N. J., to answer to a charge Q
desertion, has been placed under
$1,000 bond to pay $40 a week fo
the support of his wife and her tw
small children.
The Panama inspection trip of tn
= House Committee on Interstate an
. Foreign Commerce started Sunda,
when sixteen members of the CON
mittee, headed by Chairman Adam
| SON sailed from Nou varl- RI