The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-26

Cotton ginned In the United States
prior to December IL amounted to
12,424,S53 bales, counting round as
half bales, according to the Census
Bureaus seventh ginning report, Is
sued Friday.
John S. Huyler, young son OF the
late John E Huyler. the candy man
ufacturer, had both legs crushed to
the knee by falling beneath a Lacka-
awanna train at Hackensack. =. j.
He failed to rally from the necessary
amputation, and died IN Morrisville
hospital.
Colorado's electoral vote of Wood
row Wilson will be cast by Mrs. Ger
trude A. Lee, OF Denver, Vice-Chair-
man Of the Democratic State Central
Committee. This will be the first
time In the history of the United
States that a woman has performed
such duties.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has refused to order lower fur
niture rates from North Carolina to
points west of the Mississippi River.
The Commission declared in a decis-
ion made public recently that it has
not been shown that existing rates
are unreasonable.
Secretary Meyer Friday signed the
contract plans for the biggest battle
ship in the world, the super-dread-
nought Pennsylvania, authorized in
the late session of Congress. The
Pennsylvania will cost, exclusive of
armor and armament, s7,425,000,
and completed, 100000.
Former Magistrate Charles Wal
len, of New York, Friday served no.
tice on District Attorney Whitman
of an appeal on the part of the four
gun men," who were sentenced to
die early in January for the murder
of Herman Rosenthal. The notice
will automatically stay the execution
till the appeal is disposed of.
The bodies of Horace Kearney, an
aviator, and Chester Lawrence, a
man, who started to fly
from Los Angeseles to San Francisco
a few days ago, were found Friday.
One body was found a mile out at
sea, while the other body was found
on the beach near Los Angeles.
Virginia officials have been re-
quested to arrest Rev. w. J. Hub
bard, of Charleston, W. Va, charged
with criminal relations with an
eleven-year-old inmate of the Davis
Childs Shelter, of Charleston, of
which institution Hubbard was SUI
perintendent until a few days ago.
Four auto bandits attacked the two
of the Silk Manufacture
ing Company of America in New
York Saturday, beat them into I'M
consciousness, robbed them of ST.
200, the weekly payroll, then jump
ed into an automobile and escaped.
A dozen pedestrians saw the robbery
twenty-five billion two hundred
and forty-five million dollars are con-
trolled directly by J. Pierpont Nor
gan, according to information that
leaked out at the money trust inves-
tigation in Washington a few days
ago. He controls twenty-five times
the amount of the annual revenue
of the United States.
Most of the standing army officers
in the United States have been order
ed to be in Washington, January 8,
for an important conference to ar
range the details of the extensive
plan of reorganization of the army.
This will be the last important act
concerning the army, the hetiring ad-
ministration will undertake.
Lima, Peru, cables that an attempt
was made Sunday by the populace of
the Putumayo to lynch the two jul
dicial commissioners, Senior Valcar-
eel and DR.. Romulo Paroles, appoint
ed by the Peruvian Government to
investigate the atrocities in the rub
Der fields made public by Sir Roger
Easement, British Consul-General.
Work of settling up the big pop
ular Christmas tree in the Madison
Square, New York, which will be an
outdoor novelty during the holidays,
was begun several days ago. The
tree is SO big that it tok a four-horse
steel girder truck to haul it to the
square. 1t is so feet high, IS inches
in diameter, and it's lower branches
have sweep Of 20 feet.
Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist