The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-10-31
General News.

Piracy has broken out In the Phil
fppines again. and the Government
is taxing vigorous steps 10 suppress
IT.
The Supreme Court OF Illinois has
decreed that voting machines shall
not be used in the November elections
in Chicago.
Cholera Is again scourging India.
In Madras alone, 21.306 cases were
reported in one month and 1880 OF
these resulted in death.
According to estimates OF Post
master-General Hitchcock, $2S3, 0s6.-
$50 will be required for the support
of the Postal Service next year.
Leaders of the Progressive party
in New York State have decided to
organize the National Progressive
Club. 1t will be a social political
club.
Col John S. Mosby, the noted Con-
federate leader. is critically Ill at
hospital in Washington, D. c., with
an affection of the kidneys. Colonel
Mosby is seventy-nine years old.
Three medical students were killed
and several wounded at Havana, Gu
ba, Friday, when the police fired into
a mob following a resumption Of riot
ing in Central Park when several
persons were wounded.
Four members of an automobile
party bound for Shawnee, Pa, from
their homes in Noble, Pa, were
drowned in the Delaware River Sun
day when the ferryboat on which they
were crossing was wrecked.
The statement Of contributions and
expenditures of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee as filed with the
chief clerk of the House Friday
shows contributions of $678,364 and
expenditures of 1852, 68221.
Seventy Christians and priest
were massacred by the Turks before
their retreat from the town of Servia
| Thursday, according to an official ca
BILE from the Greek foreign office to
the Creek legation at Washington.
Mrs. Ed. Stansell, of Greenville,
S. c., hanged herself Saturday with a
small rope which had been affixed to
a gas pipe in her home. The body
was discovered by her little daugh-
ter. Mrs. Stansell had been promi-
nent church worker.
solder was ordered to turn on a
tap at Riga, Russia, in order that an
officer might take bath. The officer
was called away, and the whole build
ing was flooded because the soldier
could not turn off the water without
orders.
Last Sunday was observed as Ma
tional Memorial Day by the Junior
| Order United American Mechanics
Sub-councils throughout the country
observed the day with appropriate
ceremonies. Graves of deceased mem
| bers were decorated.
| The United States Government may
send a large force to Cuba to pre-
erve order during the election, as
rioting has already begun to take
place and it is feared there will be a
! serious revolutionary movement start
ed by the defeated party after the
election.
DR.. Basil l.. Gildersleeve, Professor
of Greek at Johns Hopkins, has just
celebrated his eighty-frst birthday
IN addition to lecturing to his classes
every day, Doctor Gildersleeve does
work as editor of The American Jour
nal Of Philology, of which he is the
i founder.
II Several astronomers from Ameri
can universities who made a specia
trip to Rio Janiero to observe tn,
! solar eclipse, are returning home dis
: appointed. A cloud hid the eclips,
| and half a hundred European scien
lists are also returning from a fruit
less journey.
c. G. Fox, aged forty-two years,
rancher living near Paoni, Colorado
Sunday shot and killed his six-year
old daughter, four-year-old son an,
fourteen-months-old baby, and com
mitted suicide. The bodies wer
discovered by Mrs. Fox who returne
home an hour after the shooting.
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