The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-10-05

MrG- Theo1OrN ROOSEVELT waA very
painfully injured By being thrown
from her saddle horse ~ Sycamore
Hill. October list
The Bologna Butchers Union. OF
New York. are On q strike for q nine
hour working day. Their present
working day In ten hours
Eight men were seriously. probably
fatally, burned October End By the
explosion AZ the Edgar Thompson
steel works. Pittsburgh. Pa.
Eight children were burned 10
death on October list, at Heshbone.
Pa, In the burning OF their home.
Their ages ran from thirteen years TO
three months.
A. grand stand in a park In Able
vilel, La. fell on October 1st. throw
ing several hundred people into pam
lie, and injuring fifty. breaking num-
bers OF arms and legs.
The bursting OF cannon at Spar
ia, Wis. September 2sth, instantly
seriously, il not fatally, injured two
other members OF the company.
The Rev. John Henry Alexander,
fifty years old, and a well known
Presbyterian minister of Southwest
Virginia, was killed Sunday night by
a fall from an apple tree near Taze-
well, Va.
Lewis Cook, young white letter
carrier of Danyille, Va, fell from his
which had become entag-
gled with a rope stretched across
street, fracturing his skull and caus-
ing instant death.
Miss Pearl Matlock and her broth
er, of Paducah, KY, were killed Sep
TENDER 18th, by some one firing into
their home. Their assassin is believed
to be a man named Joe Canady, who
has escaped the authorities.
Secretary Meyer has awarded to
the Electric Boat Company of New
York the contract for building four
submarine torpedo boats. The con-
tract price will be fixed when the de-
partment decides where the boats are
to be built.
Conductor J. c. Johnson, of an
Northern Railroad train
and F. N. Holly, of Quincy, Florida,
were wounded in a fight with a ne
gro named Jack Leigston on Conduc-
tor Johnson's train on then light of
October 1st.
In an operation for appendicitis on
the Connie Maxwell Orphanage,
S. c., a few days ago,
q pin was found in the appendix
which, seemingly, had been imbedded
there for several years.
Cromwell Dixon, the aviator who
crossed the Rocky Mountains last Sat-
urday in his machine, fell one hun
dred feet at the interstate fair
grounds at Spokane, Wash, October
2ni, receiving injuries which caused
his death within an hour.
Mrs. Katie Scales Wylie, daughter
Of the late Governor James P Scales
Of North Carolina, died at her home
In Danville, Va, September 29th at
the age of forty-two. She was for
many years the adopted daughter of
the late Governor A. M. Scales.
Arthur Merton Wilton, one of the
Spanish sailors who cut the Spanish
cables in Malta Bay during the Span
War to enable the en-
trance of Admiral Dewey's fleet, has
naturalization papers in the
United States Court in Norfolk, Va
Oscar Hall, well-to-do farmer liv-
ing near Anderson, s. c., was shot
and killed by his eighteen-year-old
SON September 28th. The boy was
trying to protect his mother who was
being followed by her husband with
a rife. The father was intoxicated.
In an attempt to arrest Mrs. Sirel-
dy Barnett, at Gibson, Lee County,
Virginia, wanted as a material wit
ness against her brother, Chas. Den
ny, on trial for the alleged murder
of Charles Barnett, in Pineville, KY,
three men, relatives of Mrs. Bar
nett's, were killed. The shooting
was done from ambush and the gull
ty parties are as yet unknown.
In the United States Circuit Court
in New York Monday, Abraham
Litchenstein, head OF one Of the old
est and most fashionable millinery
establishments in New York, who
struggled in merchandise for profit,