The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-28
General News.

Az q result OF IN explosion I'm
mine NJ Mccurtain. Okla. March 20.
forty men were killed and others in
jured.
The right Of the State OF Indiana
to prohibit the sale OF foot stufFs con-
tanning benzoits OF soda has been af-
hrmed by the Federal Court
Gen. John w. Noble. who was Sec
Rotary of the Interior in President
Harrison's Cabinet, died in Sc. Louis
last Friday. He was eighty ears OF
age.
Reports from Honolulu are that
Hawaii is solid for Taft and that a
solid delegation will go from Ha-
wall to the Republican National Con-
vention.
News comes from China that three
American teachers were attacked by
pirates while exploring the Yang
Use River a few days ago. One was
killed and the others wounded.
General Henry II. Bingham, Con-
gresham from the First District.
died in Philadelphia, Pa, March %.
He was seventy-one years of age and
had been i'll for some time.
| Two men were killed and several
seriously injured in wreck of the
Central Georgia work train, which
was caused by the train running over
three cows near Oconee, Ga, a few
| days ago.
Homer Bush, negro convict, was
lynched near Cochran, Ga, last week
after he had killed Guard Joseph
Cody. and attempted to shoot down
two other guards, in a convict camp
near that town.
The Atlantic Coast Line freight
station. at Florence, S: c., was burn
ed few days ago, the loss being esti-
mated at $4,000. Besides the sta
ton, ten boX-cars and 23O bales of
cotton and quantity of merchandise
were destroyed.
Efforts are being made by the at
torneys of Clarence V. T. Richeson. /
the convicted murderer of Avis Lin
nell, to get his sentence committed to |
a life sentence. The date of his exc
cution is ct for May 10.
Crazed by humiliation at being /
caught in the act of smuggling Mrs. |
Blanche Carson, of San Francisco. a
very wealthy widow. committed sui
eide in New York a few days ago by
hanging herself from the eighth story
window of a hotel.
Congressman David P. Foster, of
Vermont, died in Washington, March
Il, OF pneumonia. He was fifty
TOUR years of age, and had repre-
sented the First Vermont Congress-
1onal District since the beginning of
A mob broke into the city Jail at
FORT Smith, Ark, March 23rd, and
seized the negro who shot and prob
ably killed Deputy Constable Andrew
Carr, of that place, and dragged him
down one of the most prominent
streets and hanged him to a tele- i
phone pole. II
A man named Newsome( or Price
VINO was arrested in Jacksonville,
Florida, for vagrancy a few days ago.
has confessed that he sent the infer
nal machine received by JUICE Ro-
salsky, In New York, some days ago.
He claims that the package was Civ
en- him to mail. 4
Government scientists have discov-
ered In Lake Searle, San Francisco.
Cai.' enough potash to last the Unit
ed States probably for the next thirty
years. The estimate of the geo. =,
graphical survey and the bureau of !
SOILS was that the deposit NAV
amount to 100000 tons.
John F. O'Malley, State Auditor
eject OF Maryland, is charged with
oqering a member of the MARYLAND
Is charged with offering member of
the Maryland Legislature $500 to I
vote against the State local option
Dill. The proof against O'Malley is v
so strong that his Indictment has l
been recommended.
The President of China has as
sured the missionaries in China that 7
they Will have all the liberty and S
freedom of the new Republic. The .
constitution of the new Chinese Re-