The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-05

sonal effects OF the students. were
placed to-day at from 317s.ooo tol
$4,000. Perhaps the worst bit Ii |
the student body itself.
The proposal Of Sir edward |
! Gray that the ambassadors of theI
European powers should hold a con-
ference TO bring them into closer |
contact and avert the disposition to
| drift In an alignment Of the tvoI
/ groups 10 understood to have the
support OF Germany. France and
| Russia.
! Jack Johnson, negro pugilist. of
Chicago Tuesday afternoon married
Lucille Cameron. the nineteen-year-
old white girl Of Minneapolis. who re-
Gently appeared as O witness against
him before the Federal grand jury
which returned indictments charging
him with violating the Mann White
Slave Act.
Leaders OF the Republican party
from every State In the Union are to
assemble on December IA for q sell
ries of conferences to devise plans for
rehabilitating the party and to mapt
out q program for the next four years.
President Taft will be the principal
speaker at a banquet on the evening !
Of December IA.
Hunters killed 1850 deer in the !
Adirondacks this year during the /
forty-nve days open season ended No !,
vember Is, the State Conservation
Commission reports. About $500 car
casses, ninety-eight saddles or deer !.
hams, and ffty-four heads were ship !
ped out of the woods. The deer shot |
$50 pounds. ,
! Governor Dix, of New York, stood |
on a soap box in an Albany hospital
as auctioneer at a first sale Of Red |
Cross Christmas seals. The first
stamp was bought for $3.50 by six
prominent residents Of Albany, in
Guiding the Governor. The receipts
from the sale Of these stamps is used
in the crusade against tuberculosis.
Justine Mason, who weighed 1901
pounds and is said to have been the |
largest woman in the world. died at |
Montreal Canada, on Thanksgiving |
Day. Several months ago she be-
came insane and was taken in charge
by the Assistance Publique. A dis
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build a round-house outside the main
building especially for her.
The United States Senate Tuesday !
faced the opening of the ninth trial |
by impeachment, within it's long his |
tory, Of a public officer sworn to up
hold the Constitution and laws Of the
United States. The trial is that of
Judge Robert W. Archibald, of the
United States Commerce Court, for
conduct amounting to a violation Of
his oath. The charge against Judge
Archibald arose in connection with
private and official acts both as a |
judge of the Court of Commerce and
as United States District Judge for
middle Pennsylvania.
The Liberty Bell petition, mounted
on huge rele and containing the
signatures of nearly 100000 school
children of California, has been sent
to the city authorities asking them
to allow the historic Liberty Bell to
be sent to California for exhibition
during the Panama Exposition. When |
the Philadelphia authorities seemed |
unwilling to send the famous bell to |
San Francisco for the Exposition in
1915, it was decided to make an op-
peal to them in the petition form.
The signatures pasted together make |
a string two miles long
The first suit against constituents
Of the dissolved Tobacco Trust for
treble damages under the Sherman
law was begun Monday before Judge
Mayer and a jury in the Federal |
District Court in Brooklyn, n. Y. The
complainant in the action is John A
Locker, a tobacco dealer, who claims
| the Trust refused to sell him goods
| The actual damages asked total $780,
900, but full verdict would entitle
them to 100000. Charles Dushkind
! "By sending in nominations for
Assisting him are John S. Wise, Jr.,
and c. c. Daniels, of Wilson, N. C.
! The new gyro-compass will enable
a submarine to take observations of a
81 ni oh
submerged, accurately to run that
distance. Naval experts declare that
the compass will work wonders in q
naval engagement as q consequence
of the ability of a submarine to get
within close range of the enemy to
} discharge torpedoes. They say that
J the peril of operations in a naval bat
tie will ho zainirnixod ho Araxrz