The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-06-06
General News.

Fort Lawderdale. Fla. was swept
by fire Sunday morning in the bust
ness section. resulting III damage es-
timated at 100000.
Blacksburg. S. c.. was swept b.
fire May 81 AL the business district
was practically destroyed The loss
il estimated at 100000.
Immediate legislation 10 prevent
the promiscuous use Of habit forming
drugs was urged BY President Taft in
a message transmitted TO Congress
Saturday.
n. 4. Smith, a stockade guard. was
found in Atlanta, Ga. Tuesday. dead
with n large wound on his head as If
he had been struck with a heavy in
strument.
Mrs. Jane Quinn, accused OF shoot
ing and killing her third husband, IN
Chicago, last December, was acquit-
ted a few days ago by the jury in the
criminal court. She maintained that
her husband was killed by burglar.
Richard Harding Davis, author.
PLAYWRIGHT, and war correspondent,
abs been sued for divorce in the Su-
perior Court of Chicago by Mrs. Ce-
cell Clark Davis, on the grounds OF
desertion.
Thomas f. Watson, who was once
a Populist candidate for the Presl-
dency, was elected a delegate by the
Georgia Democratic State Conven-
ton in Baltimore to the National
Convention.
Wilbur Wright, the aviator, who
had been i'll for some days at his
home in Dayton, Ohio, died May 3Oth.
He attributed his illness to some fish
which he had eaten at a Boston no.
tel. He was forty-six years old.
Gen. William Booth. the head OF
the Salvation Army, who recently I'M
derwent an operation for the re-
moval of a cataract from his left eye,
will be totally blind, from the opinion
of the doctors who performed the OPP
Grafton. ...
A child with one head and three
bodies was born to Mrs. Joseph
Muckenhaupt, of Poughkeepsie, y.
Y, few days ago. Two of the bod
les had arms but no legs. The sur
geons detached the two bodies, saw
ing the body with the head.
The Alabama Supreme Court de-
cided last week that liquor cannot be
transported from a wet county to
dry county of the State. 1t was held
that the provision of the Fuller Pro-
hibition act, prohibiting carriers from
receiving and transporting prohibited
liquors, was not repealed by the To-
cal option law passed by the Legisla-
ture in 1911.
A man named Scarborough, who
lived near Admission, Ala, becoming
respondent over the death of his
wife, took his two children to a lone
ly spot near his home and admins
tered to each a dose of carbolic acid
in soothing syrup, and when he was
sure they we're dead, took a. dose him
self. The three bodies were found a
few hours later.
Mrs. Jesse c. Barnes, of Caney
Fork, Tenn, shot and instantly kill
ed Mrs. w. w. Judd, of Double
Springs, Tenn, while they were
aboard a moving train, ner Double
Springs one day last week. The
shooting was the result of attention
the dead woman is alleged to have
paid to Mrs. Barnes husband. Mrs.
Barnes was rrested. -
J. Clifford Turin, an aviator, dash
ed into a grandstand during the races
at Seattle, Washington, and fatally
injured a man and child and injured
fifteen other persons, six of them be-
ing women. The accident was said
to have been caused by a spectator
running across the track in front of
the aviator, causing him to lose con-
troll of the machine.
Albert Buchstatter, one of the best
known German aviators, and his pas
senger, Lieutenant Stille, of the Ger
man army, were killed Sunday last by
their monoplane plunging to the
ground just after starting on a north
| west avition circuit. The monoplane
fell so heavily that it was half buried
| in the earth and had to be taken
apart before their bodies could be ex-
| tricated.
William L. Bernard, of Columbus,
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