The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-06

The committee which has been
Investigating the bribery charge
against Senator Lortmer has adjourn.
ed until the 18th.
Eight lives were lost in the col
lapse Of one Of the main buiidingz
Of. the new 100000 waterworks a.
Buffalo. y. Y, Friday.
Secretary OF the Navy Stimson sails
to-day for the Canal Zone 10 inspect
the work on the Panama Canal and
surrounding conditions.
Commander Alfred A. Pratt. Unit
ed States Navy, died at the Mare ISL
and Hospital yesterday just three
days after retirement
i Concord, New Hampshire, right In
the heart Of New England's summer
| resorts was the hottest place on the
map yesterday morning.
Hoke Smith was inaugurated Gov
ernor OF Georgia Friday. He Is also
a candidate for The United States,
which contest will come of in a fsw
weeks.
Both Houses of Congress adjourn
ed last~Saturday to meet again yes
terday, so the politicians could go
home to make Fourth of July
speeches.
DR.. John w. Abercrombie, Presi-
dent of the University of Alabama,
has been removed by the trustees of
the University. No reasons were Civ
en- for the removal.
The price of corn in Kansas and
Illinois has advanced materially dur
ing the past few days. On account
of the hot dry weather the dealers
fear short crop this year.
From this on all the railroad must
Commission by telegraph, "any coils
ion, derailment, or other accident
resulting in the death of one or more
persons.
Five persons were killed and two
injured in "a grade crossing accident
at Ozone Park, near New York City,
Sunday. The victims were in a horse
drawn vehicle which was struck by a
Long Island train.
Mrs. Maud McCrary, of Los An
geles, Cal, killed her three small
children and then hanged herself
Friday while visiting friends at Lock
ney, Texas. The excessive heat had
unbalanced her mind.
In Louisiana a married woman's
property is subject to her husbands
debts. Only few days ago an auto
mobile belonging to married woman
in that State was sold to satisfy
claim against her husband.
Robt. 81. Goode and his wife, who .
lived near Petersburg, Va, lost their
minds few days ago at the same
time and were arrested while trying
to tie their children to the railroad .
track Statesville Landmark.
Capt. Eugene F. Ware, a Kansas
poet and lawyer, known also as Iron
quill" seventy years old, died Satur-
day night of heart disease at Cascade, /
a mountain retreat in Colorado. He
was Federal Pension Commissioner
under President Roosevelt.
Congressman Private" John AL
len, of Mississippi, has brought suit
against three newspapers in his State
for libel. They charged that the
Congressman broke into a building
and stole jug of whiskey some
years ago.
Michigan girl has written the
Postmaster-General at Washington
for a reward because she was born
on the Fourth of July. Of course
it was very patriotic in the girl to be
porn on That day, but the Govern
ment gives no reward.
w. S. Williams, an employe of the
mint at San Francisco, was wheeling
a truck in the vaults of the mint
when sacks containing 100000 in
gold toppled over on him and buried
him, injuring him SO that he NAV
not Statesville Landmark.
The general board of the navy has
submitted to the Secretary of the
Navy at Washington its proposed
building program for the navy for
the fiscal year of 1913 in which it
recommends the construction of four
hrst-class battleships, sixteen or eigh-
teen destroyers, repair ship, a hos
pital ship and a number of Golfers.