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


Atlanta, Ga, Chamber OF Commerce
thar engagen ents will prevent his
presence at the Panama Canal Con-
+ ference, TO be held in Atlanta Deem
Der 10 and II.
/ Thirty-two prisoners, several OF
whom were serving life terms for
murder. were released from the State
penitentiary and the county iaiIs In
South Carolina Tuesday by order OF
Governor Cole l.. Blease. Three pris-
oners were granted full pardons and
the remainder were paroled.
/ The press was scored by President
Madero OF Mexico a few days ago as
being largely responsible for the ills
OF Mexico It created disrespect for
authority, he said, and encouraged
the Governments enemies. He de-
ciared that a new law was necessary
| 10 curb and punish offenders.
An addition OF 100000 to the
endowment fund OF the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching was announced by Andrew
Carnegie at a meeting of the trustees
OF his foundation in New York. The
endowment now stands at S14 ,000,-
600, with a 100000 surplus.
Fire, the origin unknown, destroy
ed\the Union Envelope plant at Rich
mond, Va, Saturday. The damage
exceeds seventy-five thousand dol
/ lars. An electric meter blew out, ex-
ploding a motor and firing the paper
stock twenty-five girls, working up
stairs, fed down the fire-escapes, but
lost all their belongings in the cloak
room.
Three new counterfeit notes have
been unearthed by the United States
Secret Service, and Chief Wilkie has
issued a warning to the public. The
cOunterfeits are ten dollar Ma
tional bank note on the First Nation
al Bank of Ashley, Pa; a ten-dollar
gold certificate and a twenty-dollar
gold certificate.
The men arrested on five indict-
ments returned by the Federal grand
jury at Cincinnati and alleged by
of a "get-rich-quick" ring of oper-
ators that ogtained from five hundred
to one and a half million dollars from
the public, will face the Federal
Courts in the February term.
The old wooden frigate Indepen-
dence relic of the Mexican and Civil
Wars, and for many years receiving
ship at the Mare Island, Cal, Navy
Yard, has been stricken from the list
of naval vessels. Built in Boston in
1897, she formerly carried a COM
plement of 129 officers and men. The
vessel has been replaced by the cru
User Cleveland. {
After many Cabinet sessions at
Washington it was decided to appor-
ton equally among all the States, the
five hundred thousand dollars Con-
gress appropriated for improving
roads. The amounts will be allotted
among the States on basis of ten
thousand dollars to each State that
agrees to spend twenty thousand OF
it's own funds.
Discharge of a fiagman because he
sent in bill to the Georgia Railroad
for SO cents for two lunches, which
he testified were necessary to make
him a meal, instead of rs cents for
; one, was one of the two indictments
that recently caused the employees OF
: that system to strike, and cost the
State, the railroad and the employees
mbined total of $35O,OOO, accord
ing to testimony in the arbitration
hearing at Atlanta, Ca, Saturday.
Two suffra gettes in London were
sentenced a few days ago to long
terms of imprisonments for window
smashing. Isabella Irving was sem
: up for six months and Ethel Slade fol
four months on the charge of damag
ing shop windows in Bond and Oxford
Streets on November 6, when the.
participated in a raid with other wo
men as a protest against the rejec
, ton by the House of Commons of al
: amendment providing for woman suf
: frage in the Home Rule bill for Ire
4 land
J. A. Wayland, founder and owne
of the appeal to Reason" a Social
list weekly newspaper published a
Girard, Kansas, shot and killed him
self in his home a few days ago. MI
Wayland was to have appeared in tn
:, Federal Court in Fort Scott, Kansas
=. the day of his death, to answer to
! Government charge against the ed
itors and the owners of the "Appea
to Reason" of circulating through