The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-10-26
General News.

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"a cholera epidemic Is raging among
the LILLIAN army q, TripoIi- Adviecs
from there state that seventy cases
Of cholera have broken out since the
italians took possession OF the city.
Alfred Peter Hitler. rnIonlst
mexber OF Parliament for the North
Division Of Hertfordshire. England,
committed suicide October 24th By
cutting his throat
President Taft's trip. which ~as 10
have ended about November LIST. has
been extended to embrace . number
of new points and will not close until
about November 12th.
Former Congressman Sydney E
Mud, OF Maryland. died in SAM
tarium In Philadelphia. October 2lst,
from a paralytic stroke caused by
nervous breakdown.
Mrs. Booth Harrington. wife OF
the novelist and playwright. has filed
suit for divorce in Indiana She
charges the defendant with cruelty
and asks fer the custody Of their five
year-old child.
Eight miners were killed and eight
others temporarily overcome by an
explosion of powder In OGara mine
No. 9, near Harrisburg. Pa, October
card The cause of the explosion is
not definitely known.
President Purvis of the Southern
! Loan and Trust Company was in
dicted by the Federal grand jury in
/ Atlanta, Ga, October goth. charged
| with defrauding the mails whereby
| he secured nearly a half million dol
| lars.
| Miss Hosana Baker was instantly
electrocuted on October 18th in front
! of her home, in Primers Avenue, Pin
ners Point, by stepping on heavily
| charged telephone wire which was
! down, and it being dark, she could
no see.
! Will Wilkins, a prominent citizen
Of Cowpens, S. c., was shot, and Sc
riously wounded, though not fatally,
by w. F. Johnson, ticket collector
of the Southern Railway, October 10.
The trouble arose over the amount Of
mileage to be pulled.
DR.. Cook is to arrive in Copenha-
gen within a few days to give a lee
ture. He will lecture in the same
hall where two years ago he received
the gold medal OF the Danish Geo
graphic Society for his alleged dis
covery of the North Pole.
Twelve men were drowned in a
| mine shaft at Hibernia, N. Y, Octo-
Der goth by the destruction of wall
| dividing a new and old shaft in the
iron mines of the Wharton Steel
Company. All were foreigners except
David Slaight, the foreman, who lost
his life in trying to save his men.
The Wright brothers, Orville and
of a device for the automatic con-
trolling of gilders and power driven
aeroplanes to keep them in proper
| balance in the air, which is expected
to add vastly to the safety or avia-
ton.
Capon Springs Hotel, one of the
most noted summer resorts in West
Virginia, near Winchester, Va, was
destroyed by fire on the night of Oc-
tober goth. The post-of1ce and a
large store was also burned. The
loss will exceed 100000 with insur-
ance of about $4,000
Romanus Farmer, young man
twenty-six years of age, was drowned
in crossing the river at Capon Bridge,
Hampshire County, Virginia, October
10th. He had wagon loaded with
1876 bushels Of apples and attempted
to cross the stream which was badly
swollen from the recent heavy rains.
Several thousand bales of long sta
pie cotton have been sold for the
farmers of South Carolina by the
State Department of Agriculture. The
Department is in position to put the
farmers in touch with a ready mar
ket for the staple. The prices being
paid for upland long staple cotton in
South Carolina runs from II cents
to "a cents.
Forty-seven bronze and twelve sill
yer medals were awarded by the Car
negie Hero Fund Commission at its
fall meeting at Pittsburg, Pa, Octo-
Der 18th, as recognition of heroism
in having human life. In addition to
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