The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-05-04
General News.

frost caasea souae siIxht damage
10 the fruit crop on Nay Ind in sons
. sections Of Oklahoma. Arkansas. and
: Kansas
The War Department wIii not
. abandon For; Mcpherson In Ca. J. A
: military po8t - was first reported
cry reported fayorably the House res-
olutioa for the direct election o!
United States Senator's.
The bank of RoSemont. in Hast
. ings. W. Va. was visited By robbers
!. Monday night They blew open the
safe and escaped with $500.
The Democratic politicians OF the
Northwest will hold d conference i'm
ST. Paul. MINI, June ist- Bryan and
Parker will be among the speakers on
that occasion.
i The Technical World Magazine for
May contains the astounding state
ment that there Is a dog in Hamburg,
Germany. that can actually talk The
dog speaks in German.
Forty-five additional postal banks
were installed in second-class post
Offices on May 1st and on July ist
the service will be further extended
to other second-class Offices.
The Bath Tub trust case will be
heard by United States Circuit Court
of Appeals in Richmond on May IS.
Judges Goff. Pritchard and Rose will
I Sit
/ Argument of cases have been sus-
| pended in the Supreme Court of the
| United States until next October. The
court, however, adjourned to meet on
the 18th and Goth to announce de-
cision.
Joseph Nash was put to death in
| the electric chair at Auburn, New
York, yesterday for numbering his
son-in-law. Nash was a prominent
citizen of Waterloo, n. Y.
A hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of opium seized at differ
ent times by custom officers was
burned Tuesday under the United
States marshall's direction at Ell
Paso, Texas
Benjamin w. Conoway, young
white man of Wilmington, Delaware,
was arrested Saturday afternoon up
on warrant in which Conoway is
charged with offering to bride voter
at an election in Wilmington.
AS a result of orders issued Sat-
urday to close the steel rail mills of
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany at Ensley, Ala, $500 men were
thrown out Of employment. 1t is be-
lieved that the shutdown will be only
temporary.
Because of a suspected case of
smallpox in the steerage, the steam
er Haverford, from Liverpool for
Philadelphia, was detained at the
government quarantine station, near
Philadelphia, and more than one
thousand persons aboard were vacci- |
mated before the vessel was allowed
to go in port
The $10,0OO,OOO collateral trust 5
per cent bonds issued in 1901 by the |
Seaboard Air Line Railway, and the
81 ,651 900 collateral trust 5 per cent
bonds issued by the same company
in 1904, matured Monday and are
being redeemed in New York. The !
officials of the road say that it is
now in good shape.
The first convictions in Norfolk
Va. under the new statute for pam
dering or defaming- ones own wife
for pecuniary gain, went to trial in
Norfolk Tuesday, when John Ander-
son, after trial, was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary and fined
500. Joe Epstein, who entered a
plea of guilty and threw himself on
the mercy of the court, was given
three years.
Resolutions embodying appropria-
tons aggregating $4,000 for special
religious extension work were adopt
ed at the executive session of the
Board of Church Extension of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
at it's meeting in Richmond. Va. last