The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-05

The American Red Cross has ca
bled $4,000 TO aid the sufferers OF
the Balkan War, making a total OF
$685. to date.
Jacob Drake, a wealthy farmer Of
Centerville, N. J., was fined $50 for
permitting one Of his cows TO remain
in a swamp for a week.
President-elect Wilson hae written
to William Jennings Bryan inviting
him to q conference after Mr.. VIII
sons return from Bermuda.
The National American Woman
Suffrage Convention in Philadelphia
adopted resolutions demanding an
equal standard OF morality for man
and woman.
Il IL officially announced in Rome
that 1859 Tripolitan tribeSmen
have accepted Italian rule. Most Of
the troops will soon be Withdrawn
from Tripoli.
The piano case factory Of John
Courage at Heboken, ". j., was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday. Several
smaller buildings were damaged,
One hundred thousand settlers from
the United States entered Western
Canada between April l and October
l, according to figures Of the Can
adian Commissioner of immigration.
Colonel Daniel NJ. Ransdell, Ser
geant-at-Arms of the United States
Senate, died in Washington Friday
as the result of an operation per-
formed November 7.
Two f1ocks Of sheep, one from Aus
tralia and the other from China, have
arrived at Chicago to be shown at the
International Live Stock Exposition,
which began Monday.
The Election Board Of Kansas has
declared George H. Hodges, Demo-
crat, the legally elected Governor Of
that State, giving his majority as
twenty-nine votes.
The cotton exporting firm of W. w.
Espey, maintaining Offices at Savan-
nah and Cordele, Ga, and also in
other cities, has failed with Liabilities
S0R0 000
Rev. w. G. Starr, pastor Of Trinity
Methodist Church Of Newport News,
Va, was robbed of a gold watch while
shaking hands with two strangers in
his church last Sunday.
Ex-United States Senator James
Thursday at his home at Oklahoma,
Miss. Senator Gordan was general
in the Confederate Army.
An amendment to the State Con-
stitution of Utah making the teaching
Of patriotism in the public schools
compulsory has been recommended by
the Utah Teachers Association.
Chairman Burnett, of the Public
Building Committee in Congress, has
announced that his committee would
bring in this week, or as shortly as
possible. a $26,O0O,000 public build
ings bill.
The University of Virginia defeat
Ell the University of North Carolina
at Richmond Thursday in their an
nual football game 66 to 0, the larg-
est score ever made in the contests
between the two teams.
Detective Raymond Burns told at
the dynamite conspiracy" trial at
Indianapolis, Ind, Friday how it took
five months and six days to land Nc
Namara and arrest him for the Los
Angeles Times explosion.
Marian Eye, fifteen-year-old niece
of Jacob Doll, the millionaire piano
manufacturer, of New York, was kid
mapped Friday and her uncle has the
police of all the neighboring cities
searching for the girl.
His desire to see the hanging Of q
negro murderer at Tampa, Florida
cost Guillermo Gonzalez his life
Gonzalez gained admittance to the
jail yard, but after taking look al
the gallows, fell dead of heart dis
ease.
Commander White, United State.
naval attache at Rome, has gone tt
Tripoli to Investigate the condition o.
the old war frigate Philadelphia, SUM
in that harbor in 1904. If his repor
is favorable, Congress will raise tn,
bulk.
Orders have been issued by Presi
dent Milton II. Smith of the Louis