The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-01-18


j make labor day q legal holiday
I Reports ar. that Governor Eos
i wii not commute the death sensenc,
Z Of {. V. T. Richeson. slayer of Ayii
Z Llnneli.
: Three deaths and three new case.
n Of meningitis In twenty-four hour
b has been reported from Dallas. Texas
4; Physicians think. however. that th,
epidemic Is fairly under control
' Fifty passengers on Big Four train
) No !. from Detroit TO Cincinnati, are
= reported 10 have been hurt IN . wreck
r on January 14th. which occurred
four miles south Of Carey. Ohio.
, Five children. sisters. were burn
) ed 10 death in a fire which DESTROYED
their home. at Motley. Mimi. a few
days ago. Their name was CARLYLE.
The mother and one daughter were
saved
Robbers entered the safe of Frank
Vattery & Company, wholesale liz
uor dealers of New Orleans, a few
nights ago. and took from the safe
$1,000 in cash and securities valued
at $4,000.
/ Edward n Dennis, formerly o.
Morehead City, and an employe OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company
for fifteen years, dropped dead in the
/ Office at Richmond, Va, a few nights
ago, just as he was preparing to send
a message.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature Of Virginia to forbid the
marriage of drunkards, drug fends
and diseased people. Another bill in
troduced has for it's purpose the pre-
vention of procreation by confirmed
criminals, idiots, and rapists.
At the request of Senator Over
man, the Secretary of War has order |
ed an inspector to Bingham School. |
Asheville, to ascertain whether the |
school is sufficiently advanced in
military tactics to require the SER
vice of an army officer as instructor.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster, of Ore
gon, Ill, who confessed to the MUIR
der of his wife last fall, will be SEN
fenced in the Ogle County Circuit
Court by Judge Farrand on January
22nd. 1t is generally believed that
the sentenced will be life imprison-
ment.
A man in Hammond, Ind, began
a hundred day jail sentence few :
days ago for whipping his sixteen
wife. He told the trial
Judge that he was under the impress
sion that this was a free country
and he could spank his wife if he
wanted to.
Charles w. Morse, the noted con- I
Wet banker, who was transferred !
to Fort Mcpherson from the Federal .
Prison, at Atlanta, Ga, on account of 6
his physical condition, has now been
transferred to the Army General Hos ,
pital at Hot Springs, Ark. His con-
dition is very critical. .
The State Department at Washing
ton, has become sufficiently alarmed
at the spread of the revolution in
Ecuador, that nrst-class battleship
has been sent to help the Yorktown {
IN protecting American interests l
Reports are that there are threatened q
revolts in Brazil also. t
!
Charges that the Postofice Depart 7
nent officials illegally expended 81 l
100000 in payments to railroads for q
railway cars that did not come ND to g
The legal standard were made be- r
lore the House Committee Tuesday. y
On reform in the Civil Service, by q
Erben A. Walters, of Denver.
Alfred Mosely, the English philan- p
.hropist Is trying to arrange with i'm
officials plan to bring the I
5000 poverty-stricken residents of
st. Helena to California Since the
withdraw Of the British military sta 8
ion some years ago. the residents
lave had a hard struggle for exist +.
,nce.
Birmingham, Ala, suffered from a p
disastrous fire on the morning of JAN
larry 14th. The Bell Telephone Com RI
'any's building and that of the Cable
PIANO Company were destroyed, en- n
ailing a. loss of from $780, 900 to T
100000. One man was killed dur b
ng the fire by being struck by an au- 81
omobile.
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