The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-06-13

The Bank OF Cylinder. a. Cylinder.
Iowa. was robbed Of $1,000 By FIVE
men who entered by means OF dyna-
mite and escaped In an automobile
one day last week.
Margaret Z. Sangster, poet and
author. died a few days ago at her
home at Newark. y. J.. Of an attack
OF indigestion. She was seventy-tour
years Of age.
Rear Admiral william Henry Ev-
erett, of the United States Navy,
died at his home in Newport, r. l.,
June 9th He had beer i'll for a long
time with a complication OF diseases.
F. f. Zimmerman, farmer OF
Evans Mills, and his wife and daugh-
ter, were killed in their surrey at
railroad crossing, near Watertown,
\. Y, being struck by train.
Warren Lally, a member Of a jul
nior class and star ball-player, OF
Dixon High School, at Dixon, Illinois,
was drowned in saving party OF
twenty girls from the same fate one
day last week.
Congressman Robert c. Wickliffe,
of Louisiana, was killed by train
on a crossing of the Southern Rail-
way at Potomac Bridge Tuesday,
June 18th.
The mail steamship Dora, plying
to points along the Alaska peninsula
and Kodak Islands, reports that
deafening explosions occur from
Mount Katmaix and the surrounding
country is covered with ashes.
At a conference of the leaders Of
the suffrage movement in Chicago,
June 9Th, it was decided that dele
cation go before the Republican Ma
tional Convention to make a plea in
behalf of the women.
$4,000 acres of land in Fannin,
Union, Lumpkin and Dawson Coun-
ties, in Georgia, is to be condemned
by government officials, and will form
a part of the Appalachian park re-
serve
Local hardware stores in Tampa,
Fla, have been completely cleaned
out by the demand for fire arms and
ammunition by the Americans in
Cuba, who report conditions as un-
safe.
South Florida has suffered half a
million dollars loss from rain within
the past few weeks. Rainfall for
the first nine days of June was 1865
inches. Thousands of acres of land
are under water.
The Cuban Congress has passed a
resolution authorizing President Co
mez to expend 100000 to cover
the cost of the extraordinary mill
tary preparations to suppress the Gu
ban rebellion.
Thirty men were killed and many
more wounded by an explosion of an
ammunition factory at Mollsdorf,
near Vienna, Austria, a few days
ago. Two hundred tons of powder
were blown up.
Kimmerling, one of the best known
aviators Of France, and an engineer,
Tonnell, who was ying with him as
passenger, were instantly killed at
Mourmelon, France, June 9, by a
fall of 800 feet. The cause of the
accident was not ascertained.
Five negroes were burned to death
in the burning OF house ten miles
of Lynchburg, Va, a few days ago
The house belonged to Morris Tur-
ner, a colored man, who, with his
wife, escaped just as the roof was
| falling in.
| A balcony of the Spanish Club in
Tampa, Fla, fell on the night of
June 9Th and fireman and a hors-
man were fatally injured. The build
fngs was on fire and they were at
tempting to put out the flames. The
loss to the building was estimated at
$4,000.
Chas. W. Adams, Of Sharpesburg,
superintendent of the National Gem
etery, was shot and killed on the
avenue between Sharpesburg and
Burnside one day last week by Chas.
W. Benner, a resident of Shapes
burg, who Immediately went to his
home and committed suicide. II was
the result Of an old family fued.
Several hundred gallons of whis-
| key and beer were poured into the