The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-16
General Nens.

General News.
The Rev. C1arence =. r. Rieheson.
charged wtth the murder Of Miss Avss
IanneII. vas arraigned In Richmond.
Va, November 18th. and tae date OF .
his trial set for January Is. 1912.
The town Of Dayton, four niles !
we~t OF Harrisburg. Va. suffered y
sg0. 900 FIRE Sunday morning last
The entire town was saved from de-
struction by the aid Of automobiles.
Throwing nitro-giycerine blasting
cartridges into n bonfire caused the
death of three boys At Rochester, ~.
" November I3th. Their bodies
were hurled into the air several hun
dred feet.
Mrs. Alexander b. White, OF Ten
nessee. was elected President-General
of the United Daughters OF the Con-
federacy, at the meeting in Richmond
last week. defeating Mrs. Schuyler. OF
New York.
Aviator Robert G.. Fowler, on his
trans-continental flight a few days
ago, narrowly avoided collision with
a freight train in the sand near Mas
todon, \. NJ. He grazed the tops Of
the cars but his machine was not
damaged.
The payment of a just sum to de-
pendents of United States prisoners
for labor done while serving SEN
fences is urged by William II. Meyer,
warden of the Federal Prison III At
lanta, Ga, in his annual report, made
! public November 18th.
! Evidence has been produced con-
| elusive that Miss Hattie Parcel, the
| fifteen-year-old girl who was found
dead in the Miami River, near Miami,
| Florida, a few days ago, was killed
before throwing into the water. P. c.
| Cox is charged with the murder.
Severe cyclonic storms swept over
several Western States, including
! Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, last
Friday and Saturday, leaving num-
bers of people dead, and scores in
iured. Homes were demolished and
suffering intense from the cold, hail
and sleet.
Stories alleged to have been cur
rent at Springfield, ILL.,, are that
/ Emanuel A. Abbams, citizen of Chi
cago, refused to vote for Lorimer for
$4,000, but that he did so when Of
fered $4,000, as related before the
Senatorial investigating committee
last week.
A dispatch from Arkansas, dated
Friday, says seven hundred persons
nearly all the population of Gentry
Ark, were looking for c. A. Catron
cashier of the Bank of Century which
failed Thursday with liabilities OF
$4,000 and assets estimated a
$4,000.
Census figures show that the Negro
population of the United States is in
creasing less rapidly than the white
race. The increase .of the whites, o
course, includes immigration, but tn
:, natural increase of the white race i
. about per cent greater than that o
!, the negro.
The Virginia and Southwestern
Railroad has placed orders for sevel
mammoth locomotives, 600 gondol
cars and 65 steel frame box cars. TIL
. new equipment is to be furnished 70
: 640,000-$140,000 cash and the re
mainder 100000 is secured by mort
gage filed in favor of the Banker
= Trust Company, of New York, as trus
tee. \
AS a double-header freight trai
. was passing a section gang on tn
Norfolk and Western Railway, twent
miles west Of Lynchburg Saturda!
the front locomotive exploded an
James Galloway, a colored sectio
man, was killed, William Rose,
white fireman was probably fatal
e injured, and other person received IL
n juries.
70 Eighteen Chinese scholars VIII
4, have been engaged at the task Il
7. thirty years, have completed the ma,
n ma charter OF China, and it will /
n promulgated as the constitution I
x the United Republic Of China, just {
,r soon az the fall of Picking is al
n, | uouncod an aaya Ho Ion proaido1