The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-12-21

The local prison at Copper Hill.
Team. was burned Thursday nigA,
last and swo prisoners we're burned
10 death Origin OF FIRE ~as no;
state
Nathan Strauss. the wealthy pipe
maker. committed suicide Tuesday In
his apartments IN New Yora Tuesday
By shooting himself through the
mouth Ill health 10 supposed 10 be
the cause
Ulrick Langford and Henry Orig
gers. two white men prominently
connected. at Tampa. Fla. engaged
in i duel some days ago which re-
suited fatally for both They were
drinking.
Charles W. Morse, the banker who
was transferred a few weeks ago TO
the Federal Army Hospital. at Fort
Mcpherson. Is In a very critical con-
dition. and his doctors report his all
ment incurable.
Lee Dick, the proprietor OF the Sun
zee Yon Company, and Chinese
smuggler, vas sentenced to three
years in jail and fine OF $4,000 by
Judge Holland, in the United States
District Court, few days ago.
The Federal Government and State
Mining Inspection Department are
making critical examinations of the
Cross Mountain coal mine with
view to framing a report as to what
caused the disaster Of December 9th.
4 train on the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul road, running as sec
ton 2" of the Columbia Flyer, was
wrecked few days ago, near Odessa.
Mimi, killing three outright and Sc
riously injuring a score or more of
people.
Heavy rains in the section of Au-
gusta, Ga, last Friday and Saturday
so increased the head water in Horse
Creek valley that the big dam of the
Carolina Light and Power Company
was swept away. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000
A male suffragist in London, Eng,
hurled a brass-bound box at David
LlOyd-George, chancellor Of the eX-
chequer, few days ago, as he was on
his way from a mems liberal meet
ing, and the chancellor came very
nearly losing his eye besides sustain
ing other injuries.
After attending a Holy Roller
meeting at Macon, Ga, few nights
ago, Mrs. Eliza Turner became so
imbued with religious ferver that she
concluded that she could walk on the
water, and in attempting to do so,
was drowned.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, |
the girls who shot the millionaire ho-
tel proprietor and sportsman, w. E. |
d. Stokes, in New York, some months
ago, were set free by the jury some
days ago. 1t took only 5S minutes
to reach verdict
George H. and Henry Elchorn.
white men, were arrested in Savan-
nah few days ago by postoffice in
spectors in connection with the rob-
bling Of an Atlantic Coast Line pas
senger train of registered mail, val
ued at $4,000, near Vaudeville, S. C.. |
John Norton Griffith, member of |
the English Parliament, predicts that
Germany and Great Britain will be |
at war within six years. He says the
whole German nation is seeking war
with England at every turn.
A special from Jonesville. Lee
County, Virginia, says that the grand
jury impaneled there two weeks ago
by Circuit Judge A. W. Skeen to con-
slider the alleged wholesale corrup-
ton of the electorate in that county,
is understood to have brought up to
date between 800 and 500 true bills
and has not half finished it's work.
Eighty-four bodies have been re-
covered from the Cross Mountain
mine as result of the explosion of
few days ago. Fifty-two women were
made widows, 149 children left faith
erless, and of the "a men killed. only
one carried life insurance. A fund
for the relief of the widows and or
phans now amounts to more than
$4,000.
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