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

President-elect Wilson viii return
TO New Jersey, from Bermuda, on
the 18th of this month.
Leander p. Mitchell, for a number
of years Assistant Comptroller o. the
United States Treasury. died sudden
ly of heart trouble In Washington
Friday.
z. L. Cornelius, assistant Sergeant
alarms OF the United States Senate.
was made Sergeant-at-Arms Tuesday
to succeed the late Col. Daniel 81.
Ransdell, of Indianapolis. Ind.
Leonard Lowe, q business man of
Huntsville, Ala, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded at Athens, Ga ,
by Thad Bray. a Waterman at the
State College OF Agriculture. Mrs.
Bray told her husband that Lowe hal
insulted her.
An Official investigation of the fac
tory conditions In New York Ia said
to have revealed the fact that many
are unsanitary and that women and
children work as long as Ill hours
week. Oklahoma Wholesale gro
GERS have declared boycott on many
of the canned goods from New York
because of the report.
Governor Mann, OF Virginia, has
been officially notified by the State
Department at Washington of the
arrest at Buenos Ayres, Argentina. Of
William S. Paylor, absconding city
treasurer of Danville who left here in
July. Investigation developed a
shortage in Paylor's accounts with
the State of Virginia over $4,000.
Despite the efforts of his daughter
to secure possession of the shotgun,
A. R. Davis, aged seventy-five, shot
and killed his son, Hewlett Davis,
near Dalton, Ga, Monday. Since
separating from his wife two months
ago, Davis is said to have ordered
his son to stay away from the faith
er's residence. The murderer Is a
Confederate soldier.
Signatures of the fifty-six signers
of the Declaration of Independence,
part of the collection of autographs
of Elliott Denforth, late Treasurer of
the State of New York, were sold at
Philadelphia Friday night for $751;
100. The highest price paid, $4,000,
was for the signature of Button Gwin-
nett, of Georgia, who was killed in a
duel by General Lochton Mcintosh.
Postmaster-Genera1 Hitchcock has
apportioned 1900 post-off1ces having
city delivery, 100000 of the parcels
post appropriation to be used for
equipment for the delivery of par
cells post business. For the estab-
lishment of the parcels post system,
the Postmaster-General Hitchcock al
ready has authorized the expenditure
Of $4,000 for supplies and equip
ment.
An investigation into the mileage
book regulations of practically all
railroads east of the Mississippi and
south of the Ohio and Potomac Riv-
ers, was ordered Monday by the In
terstate Commerce Commission. Com
plant was made by the South Caro-
lima Railroad Commission that ex-
listing regulations were discrimina-
tory as between interstate and intra-
state traffic.
The old Centerville Inn, at Mer-
rillville, Indiana, built in 1892 by
Michon Pierce and famous stopping
place on the old Chicago-Detroit
stage route, was destroyed by fire
Friday night. Many famous men,
including Daniel Webster, John A.
Logan and Stephen A. Douglas, had
been sheltered in the place. In Civil
War times Northern Indiana troops
were mustered in at the station.
President Taft, accompanied by his
for Panama this month on the battle
ship Arkansas, the largest and fast
est ship in the United States Navy.
The Arkansas will be accompanied by
the battleship Delaware, and the
start will be made from Key West
between the 18th and 18th of this
month. The President and his party
probably will spend Christmas at
Cristobal.
A Washington, D. c., dispatch an
nounces that an extensive system Of
Government supervision over wire
less telegraphy will become effective
tomorrow, four months from the
date of the enactment Of the law.
Plans have been made to carry out
the new system, both as to the shore