The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-01-25

The N2f80CaI convention OF the
Prohibition party will meet In Allan
tic City. July 10th. 10 nominate can
didates for President and Viee-Presi-
dent.
General John G. Mcdonald, friend
OF Lincoln. Grant. and Sherman, and
brigade commander In the Civil
War. died In Chicago. January 2oth.
aged eighty.
An anonymous letter, threatening
the life OF the Governor and his
Council IL Clarence V. T. Richeson
is pardoned, Is In the hands OF the
police in Boston.
A small girl In Atlanta, Ga. was
killed by a SNOWFALL during the last
snow. The ball was thrown and &C
cidentally hit her just over the tenn
pie, killing her instantly.
Rev. Clarence T. V. Richeson, STAY
er of Avis Linnell, Is aid to be In a
dying condition, although 1t is
thought he will survive the day set
for execution, which Is May 10Th.
Mt. Vernon, a suburb of Los Ange-
les, Cal, believed to be the only in
corporated city in the United States
that has not a single church, has
voted to allow saloons to run on Sun
day. There are three saloons.
Richmond suffered from a $780,
600 fire few days ago. The plant of
Riswanger & Co., glass manufac-
turing and wholesale dealers in
paints and oils, was totally destroyed.
1t was all covered by insurance.
Two men were killed and six other
fatally injured, when limited inter-
urban car, on the Indianapolis and
Martinsville line, ran head-on into
work train, four miles out from
Martinsville, Ind, a few days ago.
An estimate for 100000 addi-
tional sheets of currency paper,
from which 1859, 100000 worth of
paper money is to be printed, has
been submitted to the House by Sec
rotary McVeaugh, to meet a shortage
of small bills and "clean money"
Four persons were killed in an ex-I
plosion of mine in the Central City,
Coal and Iron Company, Central City,
KY, January 18th. The explosion
occurred just after the day men had
left the mine, and those killed were
doing extra work.
Capt. Julius A. Sitgreaves, Con-
federate veteran, aged seventy-four,
who is credited by some with having
been the man who fred the first gun
at Fort Sumter, in 1861 died sudden
ly in his ONCE in New York, January
23rd. Apople1y is given as tho cause
OF his death.
A horrible butchery took place In
China. few days ago. The Scanda-
navian school was surrounded BY d
mob. and the missionary, Rev. r.
Beckman. was severely injured but
managed to escape. His wife was
killed and several children were
killed as they ran.
Reports from the Bureau Of Inter
nal Revenue indicate that the Amer
lean people consumed considerably
less whiskey during December, 1911
as compared with the closing month
of the previous year, but more beer
The income from fermented liquors
including beer, malts, etc, increased
s22s,775.
1t is said there is a probability that
the famous suit of the Ware-Krame1
Company VS.. the American Tobacco
Company will effect a compromise
without the termination of the appea
| that the American Tobacco COMPANY
took from the verdict rendered
against the company in the United
States District Court.
/ A young man, seventeen years old
was found locked in freight car In
Cincinnati, a few days ago. Bott
hands and feet were frozen, he wa:
half-starved. and semi-insane from
his physical condition. His name
was James Fry, and he had beer
locked in by practical jokers Ply
sicians entertain very little hope fol
his recovery.
The President has committed the
fifteen year sentence, for violation o.
the national banking laws, under
which Chas w. Morse, the New York
banker, served two years in the Fed
eral penitentiary. The Communication
OF the sentence gives Morse his free
dom, but does not restore his civil
rights. According to the Surgeon