The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-11-28

American Federation Of Labor, is Sc
riously i'll.
The estate of Joseph Pulitzer, late
proprietor of the New York World
and the st. Louis Post Dispatch, is
valued at SIS, 525,116.
Mrs. Laura Appold, of Washing
ton, d. c., is suing for divorce. She
says her husband beats her daily af-
ter the family prayers.
Five thousand steel workers are
Homestead, Pa, as result Of the en-
gineers' and firemen's strike.
The Progressive National Commit
tee filed statement Monday showing
that contributions to the Roosevelt
campaign amounted to S688,869.
The Union Sulphur Works Of New
York were swept by fire Monday
morning and eight persons are be-
lieved to have persisted in the flames.
The Farmers Manufacturing Com
pany's plant at Norfolk, Va, one OF
the largest makers of barrels in the
South, was practically destroyed by
fire.
Fifty women and children were
trampled to death in a moving picture
theatre in Bilboa, Spain, Sunday af-
ternoon when one of the picture films
caught fire.
Secretary Wilson's annual report
Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington has mailed 100000 pieces
of mail to farmers.
The American Federation of La
Dor Saturday decided to call on af-
filiated unions to render financial aid
to the defendants in the dynamite
conspiracy" trial at Indianapolis.
The official estimate of the dead
in the hurricane and tidal wave
which swept the western coast of
Jamaica a few days ago places the
number of dead at more than one
hundred.
The American Woman's Suffrage
Association in session at Philadelphia
Monday reelected practically all Of
the present officers and adopted reso
lutions favoring a non-partisan or
ganiZation.
Three subsidiary lines of the New
York Central system and Chicago
coal corporation were indicted Satur-
day by the Federal grand jury in Chi
cago, charged with giving and receiv-
ing rebates.
The Gondorf gang of wire-tappers
and other swindlers of their kind in
New York have fieeced persons out
of over $4,000 during the year,
according to persons in touch with
the situation.
Senator Isador Raynor, senior Unit
ed States Senator from Maryland,
died early Monday morning at his
apartment in Washington. Senator
Raynor had been in failing health for
several months.
An explosion which wrecked the
dry starch plant of the Corn Products
Company at Waukegan, ILL.,, Monday,
killed between three and twelve
workmen and severely injured twen-
ty-seven others.
Richard Sparks, a negro, was shot
and killed at Peak, S. c., Friday by
a posse of men. Sparks and another
negro had robbed magistrate Of $40
and escaped with the magistrates
horse and buggy.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has begun an investigation in
Washington into the rates and prac-
tees of express companies relating
to the transportation of bread and
bakery products.
With the hard coal receipts in Bos-
ton for the month of October, $4,000
tons less than the supply for the same
period last year, that city, according
to local dealers, faces the greatest
coal famine in years.
France has notified the Turkish
Government she would hold Turkey
responsible for any violence against
Christian and asked the Ottoman
Government to adopt rigid measures
to prevent any outbreaks.
Sidna Allen, leader of the Hills
vile outlaw clan, was Saturday found
guilty of murder in the second degrees
and his punishment fixed at fifteer