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


ginned prior to November 14th
amounted to 10,2s1,431 bales. North
Cardinals ginning Is 627, 045.
Sixty barrels Of whiskey and sixty
barrels OF beer consigned TO Tulsa.
Okla, as carload OF bran were seized
few days ago at Kansas City. No,
by officers of the Department OF JUS
tice.
Widespread agitation against the
white slave evil in England has re-
suited In the introduction of a bill
into Parliament to. check the traffic
by enacting a law providing for fog
ging the offenders.
forty-one thousand eight hundred
gobbling turkeys passed through
Washington Saturday on a Thanks
giving Special from East Tennessee
points and were bound for Baltimore
and New York.
Mrs. John Layman, aged forty, and
her three boys, aged one, two, and
three, respectively, were burned to
death Tuesday in fire that destroy
ed their farm home in Warwick
County, Virginia. Several others were
injured severely.
Oscar King Davis, former Wash
ington correspondent, who was iden-
tilted with Colonel Roosevelt's cam
paign, will have charge of the new
permanent headquarters Of the Pro-
gressive party to be opened in Wash
ington at the beginning of the new
year.
Two plants of the Corn Products
Company, owned and controlled by
Standard Oil interests, were Destroy
ed by an explosion and fire Monday
One was in Brooklyn, n. Y, and one
in Waukan, ILL.,, but the blasts that
wrecked them came within a single
hour.
A primary is to be held at Marion,
KY, January 18th to determine the
community choice among several as
pirants for the postmastership. Sen
ator-elect Ollie James, whose home is
there, agreed to endorse the candi-
date receiving the greatest number of
votes.
A rule compelling all the elemen-
tary and high schools of Greater New
York to establish savings banks for
the pupils will go into effect next
week if the Board of Education ac-
cepts the report on this subject of
the joint committee on finance and
elementary schools.
The issue of peace and war in Eu-
rope hangs on a slender thread and
hostilities are likely to break out be-
tween some of the powers at any
time. The peace ENJOYS of Turkey
and Balkan allies met Monday, but
it has not been learned whether an
armistice was arranged.
That more than 1000 persons are
killed at grade crossings and over
1000 trespassers on railroad proper
ty lose their lives annually, was the
statement of John A. Jones, railway
commissioner of Maine, before the
National Association of Railway Com
missioners at Washington.
Ortie E. McManigal testified at the
dynamite trial that he was commits
stoned to destroy the Los Angeles
Times auxiliary plant, the second ex-
plosion being planned to avert sus-
picion from Mcnamara, but the build
ing was too well guarded, and he
blew up steel plant instead.
Dragged from her horse, her head
and legs cut off and the body cut in
two by persons as yet unidentified
was the fate of seventeen-year-old
Mary Barnham, the daughter of a
prominent farmer residing near
Pleasant Ridge, Ark, whose dismem.
bered body was found near her home
| Saturday.
Pick-pockets posing as delegates tt
the North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
at Carrollton, Georgia, robbed sew
eral ministers attending the Confer
ence. DR.. J. Magath, of Oxford, {
missionary to the Hebrews, was re
lieved of wallet containing $40, anc
several other thefts have been report
ed.
Will Thomas, a negro accused o
killing Spurgeon Johnson, a whit,
farmer, near Newberry, S. c., severa
weeks ago, was lynched by a mob o
masked men near that place Frida,
night. The negro was being takel
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