The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-08-15
General News.

II Benton, Wis, few days ago. They
were overcome by foul air and fell in,
10 the water.
Mrs. Maggie Norment has been ap-
succeeding her husband, DIR. r. VI.
Norment, who died a short time ago.
President Taft on last Saturday
sent to the Senate the nomination of
Cyrus G. Engle TO the Collector Of
Customs at Natchez. Miss.
A steamship worth $4,000, 900 coal
laden, in Lake Michigan few days
fago, after colliding with a steel steam
er also laden with ore. was sunk
A bale OF new crop cotton was re-
ceived at Savannah, Ga, last week
from Dodge County, Ga, and sold at
aunction, bringing 80 1-2 cents a
pound.
Reports from the Department of
Agriculture in Washington are that
the crops in the South were injured
by the army worm during the month
of July to the extent of 100000.
The body of Miss Sinnie Carlson,
a music teacher, of Denver, Colorado,
was found not very far from her3
home in the city few days ago. She
had been criminally assaulted and
then murdered.
The biggest bull moose in the
world is said to be in the possession |
of John F. Bible, of Hopkinsville, KY. |
1t is a trophy of one of his hunts in
Michigan, and weighs 1880 pounds |
and stands Z 1-2 feet high.
Two train officers and passenger
were killed by the derailing of an
train on the Plymouth di-
vision of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, in Dorches-
ter, Mass, August Sth.
One hundred and three miners
were killed in an explosion in a mine
at Gerthe, Germany, August Sth.
Many others were injured. 1t is
thought that a blast reached a big
pocket of gas causing the explosion.
Little Estelle Drake, the four-year-
old child who was hurt by an automo-
bile, in the vicinity of Hendersonville
last week, died Tuesday as result of
her injuries. The car was driven by
Matthison, of Anderson, S. C.
In the district between CONSTANT
nople and Adrianople, Turkey, an
last week wrought much
havoc to life and property. Whole
towns have been destroyed by fire
by earthquake, and two viii
lagos were engulfed.
An engine on the Virginia and
Southwestern Railroad at St. Charles,
Va, last week, turned turtle, ran
down an embankment, and killed the
engineer, Frank l.. Barb, of Bristol,
Va, and Oscar l.. Wagner, also of
Bristol, who is a weighmaster. The
fireman was also injured.
Col. Gibson Gray Cornwell, a
prominent lawyer and society man of
West Chester, Pa, committed suicide
On the train few nights ago on his
way from New York to his home town
to face charges of Incorporating
bonds belonging to a trust estate.
Eugene w. Chain, a resident of
Arizona, was officially notified Satur-
day of his nomination for the Presi-
dency of the National Prohibition par
ty. The ceremony took place in a
Methodist church, and Rev. DR.. Mead,
of New York, made the notification
speech.
Bernard Murray, SON of a former
fire commissioner of Hartford, Conn,
has confessed to the firing of thirty
hotels within the last four months in
and Western Massachu-
sets. He is twenty-four years old,
and says he could not resist the i'm
pulse to do it, although he realized
the consequences.
The Panama Canal administration
bill, providing. free passage to Amer
lean ships, prohibiting railroad own
ed vessels from using the waterway
and authorizing the establishment of
8 one-man government when the ca
nal was completed, was passed by the
Senate last Friday night.
Bubonic plague, which has four
times swept the world, again threat
ems the United States, from South
America. 1t is said to be raging
along the west coast Of that couti-