The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-18
General News.

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Headquarters for the Republican
National Committee viii be opened in
Chicago May LIST. II will be in charge
of Victor Rosewater.
Statistics show that for 1911 there
were s72 bull-hghts In Spain and
bulls to the number OF 4,3s4. and s.
612 horses were killed.
Fire OF unknown origin wiped out
large part OF Beckley. W. Va. Tues
day, causing q loss OF more than
$4,000 in a business section OF the
city.
issued a warning to Mexico stipulat-
ing that American combatants must
receive proper treatment when taken
prisoners.
At Harrington Park, n. J., in the
formal exercises of laying the corner
stone of a church a few days ago,
the floor collapsed and two persons
were killed and a score injured.
Fire broke out in the warehouse
district in Butte, Mont, a few days
ago, and destroyed the Olson ware
house and damaged many other ware
houses. The loss is estimated at
100000.
Reports are that the news of the
Titanic disaster had a depressing in
fiuence on the market sentiment.
Mercantile Marine fell a point, the
preferred 2 IL and the 4 per cent
bonds 38.
Red Cross, and one of the most wide
ly known women of America, died at
her home, in Glenn Echo, Maryland,
Friday morning last, at the age of
eighty-six years.
A boat into which the passengers
of the British steamer Seang Chun
were disembarked, capsized near the
coast of Annoy, Tuesday, and nearly
forty persons, mostly women and
children, we're drowned.
Judge Staples, of Roanoke, Va,
has fixed the dates of the trial of the
Hillsville outlaws on April 23rd, at
Wytheville, Va. Aliens and all the
others indicted for the murder of
tried.
Exports of cotton goods from the
United States in February, 1911,
were SO per cent larger than for
February, 1910, the total being about
five million dollars against three and
quarter millions for February a
year ago.
Virginia Christian, the negress con-
victed by jury of the murder Of Mrs.
Ida Y. Belote, in Hampton, Va,
March 18th, and sentenced to the
electric chair June 25th, has confess
ed the crime. She denied that rob-
berry was the motive, but said it was
a result of quarrel.
An act of Congress creating a Bu-
reau of Child Labor in the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, has
been signed by President Taft. The
pen for the Presidents signature was
furnished by DR.. J. A. McKelway,
Secretary for the Southern States of
the Labor Committee.
Thousands of persons have been
killed and entire Indian villages have
been swept away by the eruption of
Chirqui Peak, in Honduras, for the
past few weeks. This is the first time
this mountain has ever known to be
active, and much damages to prop
erty is reported.
At a meeting of the Conference for
Education in the South, which met in
Nashville, Tenn, last week, Robt. C.
Ogden was reelected President; Wal
ter H. Page, of New York, Vice-Presi-
dent, and William A. Blair was re-
elected Treasurer. Clarence Poe is
the member of the Executive Com
| mittee from North Carolina.
w. G.. Earles and Jim Carter,
charged with robbing United States
mails at Rome. Ca, have been re-
moved to Atlanta, Ca, and the bond
of Earles increased to $4,000. The
pouch said to have been robbed con-
tanned between 100000 and 100000