The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-19

night in the Gulf of Mexico OF tn
| Texas coast when a heavy storm tor
the barge from its tow and 1t turne
| turtle.
! Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards
under long penitentiary sentences 10
their part in the HiIlsville, Va, trag
| edy, were taken to Richmond Satur
| day by a guard. They were man
acled together, both hands and fee
! being chained.
| The Federal Government Frida
| filed a civil antitrust suit at Detroit
Mich, against the Horse Shoers
Trust. Attorney-General Wicker
sham seeks injunctions against til
Master Horse Shoers' National Pre-
tective Association.
The cotton consumed in the Unite
States during November amounted t
| 475,240 running bales, countin
round as half bales, compared, witt
511,285 bales for October, according
to the Census Bureaus monthly re
port, issued Saturday.
Bodies of sixty rebels hanging fron
trees were counted by persons trav
cling by road from Lascruces to TEN
ascaltepec, in the State of Mexico
Friday. This is one of the results
of the campaign conducted agains
the rebels in that distrist.
Henry F. Gotten, the only Demo
crat that ever represented Wyom
ing in Congress, died few days age
in Sheridan, Wyoming, aged seventy.
one. Mr.. Coffen's doctor while at
tending him was stricken with pa
ralysis and is dangerously i'll.
A womans law class at New York
University is probably unique in that
it is not intended to prepare women
for the practice Of law, but to give
them sufficient legal knowledge to
conduct the administration of trust
estates and other forms of business.
Three persons were killed and eight
injured, several probably mortally,
when an express train known as the
Atlantic City Flyer, on the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, ran into an
automobile stage at a grade cross
ing near Perth Amboy, N. J., Satur-
day.
Nevada's new divorce law provides
that service by publication instead
of in person may result in the setting
aside of a decree within six months.
This has caused much alarm among
those who have recently gone to
Reno for the purpose of securing a
divorce.
The post-office appropriation bill,
aggregating $278,489,781, including
$3.50, 100000 for parcels post equip
ment, and $4,000 for the Parcels
Post Commission, was reported to
Congress Thursday. The total is a de-
crease of $3,3O1,727 from last year s
estimates.
J. W. Griffin, president, and r. H.
McCrary, cashier, of the Athens
Banking & Trust Company of Athens,
Ga, pleaded guilty Friday in the Su-
perior Court to charges of violating
the State banking laws. They were
sentenced to serve five years each
on the chain-gang.
City Marshal Jack Guthrie was bad
ly wounded and Charles Keen, we'll
known farmer, was killed in a pistol
duel between the two men at Haw-
thorn, Va, Saturday. The marshal
attempted to serve warrant on the
farmer charging the latter with car
rying concealed weapons.
Little five-year-old Jasper Golf, of
Bessemer, Ala, was strangled TO
death Sunday by a vicious bulldog
which had seized the child by the
throat and slowly strangled the child
to death before the dog was killed.
When the dogs hold was released the
child fell to the ground dead.
William J. Flynn, of New York,
was Tuesday appointed chief of the
United States secret service by Sec
rotary of the Treasury MacVeigh sue
ceeding John E. Wilkie, now chief
supervising agent of the customs ser
vice. Flynn was former deputy po-
lice commissioner of New York
A revival of the days of the Ku
Klux Khan occurred at Dalton, Ca,
Friday, when band of masked and
robed men took John Watkins from
his home to the center of the town,
where he was given a severe whip
ping with hickory switches. Wat
kins then was given three days to