The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-05


berlain, New York, was found guilty
Friday of bribery In connection with
the performance OF his duties az a
city official He was remanded TO
Jail and will be sentenced December
4th.
Chesley Williams. a negro who
shot the wife OF a white planter near
Rhine, Ga, and assaulted her young
daughter. was dragged from the court
house at McRea, early Saturday by
a mob and riddled with bullets.
The body of ". D. Watson, of Nix
onville, s. c.. a student at Furman
University at Greensville. was found
In Q patch of woods near the univer-
sity Saturday morning. His friends
believe that he committed suicide.
The Peoples Bank OF Leesville. s.
c., has closed It's doors and DR.. E. ].
Ethridge. president OF the bank. is re-
ported missing. It's liabilities are said
to be about $50. 200. while the capital
stock Of the institution Is only s2s.-
900.
Governor Goldsborough, of Mary
land. has appointed VIM. P. Jackson,
Republican National Committeeman.
for that State to serve in the United
States Senate till the Legislature OF
1914 selects a successor to the late
Senator Rayner.
! The plenipotentiaries representing
Turkey and the Balkan allies have
agreed on most of the important
points of the armistice. The Ger
man chancellor announced Monday
that Germany and England were CO.
operating in behalf Of peace
chest containing $4,000 Is in the
possession OF United States marshals
at Jersey City, n. j., and the seizure
is alleged to be part of $4,000
which several petty officers Of the bat
| tleship Louisiana stole while the yes
sci was in New York harbor.
| George Robinson, a well-known
Southern Railway locomotive engi-
neer, was horribly and fatally scald-
ed and his fireman, George Crawford,
white, sustained several injuries near
Danville, Va, Monday morning when
the bank-head Of the engine blew out
Charles P. Taft, brother Of the
President, led the contributors to the
Republican campaign fund with
$4,000, according to the final state
ment of the National Committee, filed
with the Clerk Of the House Monday.
The entire fund amounted to S9O4,-
828.
Word reaches the State Depart
ment at Washington that all political
prisoners in San Domingo have been
released. Peace having been restored
with $50 marines, probably will be
withdrawn from the island soon and
replaced by a gunboat.
| William Bell, until few weeks ago
trusted young clerk in the First Ma
tional Bank of Pensacola, Florida,
pleaded guilty in the United States
Court to the theft of $4,000 from
the bank on September IS. The
Judge sentenced him to two years in
the Federal Reform School at Wash
ington.
Women exercised their newly &C
Quired right to vote in dozen Ore
gon cities Monday and everywhere
played a conspicuous part in the re-
suits. Newport, through the wom-
ems vote, went dry" Oregon City's
woman candidate for mayor was ov-
erwhelmingly defeated.
| The Panama Canal Conference
will be held in Atlanta next Tues
day. The meeting will be opened
by John Barrett, Of Washington,
President of the Pan-American Union
Representatives of nearly all of the
large business interests Of the coun-
try will be represented.
At Buffalo, N. Y, Friday, J.
Frank Hickey made complete con-
fession of the murder Of Joseph 10
sephs, OF Lakawanna, N. Y, and also
admitted he killed Michael Kruck, a
New York newsboy, ten years ago
and that he assaulted many others
The details of the two murders are
OTTO revolving to print.
Acknowledgement Wickersham has
announced that he is contemplating
a trip around the world when he re.
tires from public life. The Attorney.
General has spent four strenuous
years in President Taft's Cabinet and
has been almost continuously engag
ed in directing the legal machinery
\ Of the Government