The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-23

washington on the 10th OF May.
Five Indian boys. all under hfteen
years Of age. were burned TO death il
a fire which destroyed the Creek and
Seminole College ~ Boley. Okla. last
Friday.
John and Henry May. brothers, Of
Union, S. G, have been charged with
the murder OF Henry Bocha. a strang-
er in that town. who vas found dead
some time ago
Eugene V. Debbs, OF Terre Haute,
Ind, was nominated last Friday as a
candidate for the Presidency OF the
United States by the National Social
list Convention.
1t is reported that King Victor
Emanuel, of Italy. has offered TO
make Andrew Carnegie an Italian
Count on account of his endowment
of a Carnegian Hero Fund for Italy.
Roosevelt Republicans in Florida
have held a second convention and in
structed for the Colonel. A conven-
ton held in February instructed for
Taft
Prince George William, the eldest
son of the Duke of Cumberland, and
his chamberlain, Won Greve, were in
stantly killed in an automobile acct
dent, near Friesack, Prussia, Mon
day last.
Clifford Bennett, a Baptist minis
ter, was killed and Carey Bennett,
cousin, was injured in a pistol duel
near Waycross, Ca, last Sunday. 1t
is said that the minister resented
some attentions to his wife by Carey
Bennett.
H. H. Gibson, young man sixteen
years of age, of Atlanta, Ga, was shot
and instantly killed by his brother,
w. F. Gibson, aged nineteen years, a
few days ago. 1t is said that the
young men were engaged in friend
ly tussle over the possession of the
gun when it fired.
Reports show that corporate earn
ings in the United States decreased
$115, 100000 during 1911. That fig
ure represents the comparative loss
in net earnings as reported to the
NJ, - to II e.,
making assessment under the corpo-
ration excise tax law.
George Kaul, who was arrested in
Mt. Vernon, n. Y, in connection with
the $4,000 jewelry theft from Sol
Gilsey, of Cincinnati, in Atlanta, Ga,
on March 18th, has just made COM
plete confession. He also implicated
two medical students there who are
now under indictment. Most of the
jewelry has been recovered.
Armour & Co. was indicted by the
Federal grand jury last week for
criminal violation of the United Staes
meat inspection laws for alleged in
terstate shipment of meats without
inspection by Government agents.
The maximum penalty for such viola
lions is imprisonment for two years
and a fine of $4,000, or both.
The wife of B. r. Tillman, Jr., son
Of Senator Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, has filed suit for divorce. Mrs.
Tillman brought suit sometime ago
for the custody of her children, which
her husband had given to his parents,
but the court decided in young Mrs.
Tillman's favor and criticised the Sem
ator and his son.
The Republican members of the
Senate Finance Committee have re-
ported unfavorable the income tax
mend substitute for the free sugar
bill. The substitute leaves the SUI
gar duty as at present, but the Dutch
standard and the differential are re-
moved.
The fifty-seventh annual session of
the Southern Baptist Convention,
i. which was held in Oklahoma City
last week, was composed of 94S mes
sengers from seventeen States. Rev
DR.. E. c. Dargan, of Macon, Ga, was
reelected president, and Prof. E. L.
Middleton, of Raleigh, was secretary
of the Convention.
Walter D. Sutherland, former cash
Ter of the Citizens National Bank of
Clintwood, Va, who has been on trial
in the Federal court at Abindon, Va.
for the past week, has received a sent
ence of six years in the penitentiary.
Sutherland took nearly $4,000 of the
banks money and skipped with it, in
July, 1910, but was captured over a
year later working as a cOmon Ia