The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-01-04

v.nslons By state primaries
To arws IN Norfolk Tuesday re,
suited Ia > ioss Of about 81. zoe
partially covered By insurance. Tas
ans started IN Tabs saloon.
~. a Patterson. = policeman. waa
allied .; Alabama City January fst
lay Smith. = whi;e man. has beer
arrested. charged with the crime
Columbus. Ohio. was a@ept BY fire
Saturday 4 number Of the main
buildings were destroyed and the ioss
ia roughly estimated at 81 500. 600
Six lives were lost in . wreck on :
Great Northern Railway train known
as the 'Oregonian" Saturday Tn
wre.k was said 10 be due 10 . broken
rail.
: J II. Martin surrendered TO the
police In Baltimore a few days ago
declaring that he was the murder oil
William Fl. MickIe. who was killed In
his store In Washington. Novembs.r
18th, last.
Forty-eight men are decd, with the
possibility OF six or eight further
deaths, In Berlin. from the eating OF
putrid fish in the various lodging
houses in the city a few days ago.
A negro who shot and killed a
white man at Fairfield, Md, Satur-
day, December 23rd, was taken from
the lookup at Brooklyn, a suburb of
Baltimore, early Christmas morning
and shot TO death.
Washington Halliday, aged ninety
four, who claimed TO be the oldest
bank president in active service in
the United Ctates, died in Los An
geles, Cal, last week. He was born
in Guilford County, North Carolina.
More than a million gallons of mo-
lasses were destroyed in a fire in
Boston, few days ago among the
wharves and buildings of the Boston
Molasses Company. The loss is esti-
mated at from $250,O0O to 100000
On Sunday, the oath Of December
a double-header freight train on the
Virginia and Southwestern Railroad
ran into a boulder in the Natural
Tunnel, Virginia, killing three men
instantly and fatally wounding the
fourth.
The bulk Of the property of the
late John w. Hunt, millionaire own
er of hotels in various parts of the
United States, will go to charity.
Among the beneficiaries in the will
are four Charlotte men. His estate
amounted to 81, 100000.
A woman was found dead in the
during the Christmas holidays with
wound in her head from a 38 cali
bre pistol. She was Mrs. Wiley
Jones, and was connected with some
Of the most prominent people in that
part of the State.
Texas was visited by the worst
blizzard known there for nine years
a few days ago. Snow is piled high
in the northwest portions; also
through Oklahoma, in the railroad
cuts, in some places, it is placed to
a depth of forty feet Cattle and
sheep are starving on account of in
ability to obtain forage.
A mammoth Christmas tree for the
two hundred Or more children made
fatherless by the Cross Mountain ex-
plosion of December 9th, was given
at Briceville December card. The
gifts consisted of toys, clothing and
other useful articles, contributed
especially for this purpose by the
people of several States
John Boehman, man of Brook
lyn, Il. Y, who had served sixteen
years in Sing Sing prison, was vindi-
Gated by the Supreme Court, Decem-
Der 23rd, and released. The testi-
moGy necessary was supplied by two
men who kept silent at a time when
he needed them to prove an alibi.
Frederick Wasserlaben was shot
to death in his home near Mobile,
Ala, January 1st by his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Mary T. Godau, who con-
fessed to the crime, saying that
Wasserlaben had insulted her daugh-
ter. This is said to be the fourth
sudden death" in this family. Mrs.
Godau having been charged with
the murder each time.
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