The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-07-25

Chas. F. HilIes, chairman OF the
Republican Committee. formally
opened headquarters IN the Times
Building, III New York City, las,
! Tuesday.
Hundreds Of people are missing
and are thought TO be drowned in the
! fods prevailing in the northern coast
OF Japan Much damage is also done
/ TO crops.
Seven girls were killed and many
! others injured in London July % in
/ the burning OF Christmas card fac
escapes.
| A dispatch from Mexico City says
more than sixty persons were killed
in an attack on a passenger train by
rebels in Mexico last week. The train
was wrecked and the passengers
slaughtered.
Major L. J. Hawley, a veteran of
the Tenth Virginia Cavalry of the
Confederate army, died in Washing
ton last Saturday, and was buried in
Richmond, Va, Tuesday.
The farmers in Anderson, 8. c.,
have become alarmed over the ap-
pearance in Anderson County of the
army worm. Campaigns to prevent
the spread of the worm have been
launched
General Pedro Ivonet, the negro
rebel leader IN Cuba, for whom the
Government was searching for sew
eral weeks, was killed July 18th at
Neuva Escocia, near Santiago, by
troops under Lieutenant Ortiz.
Senator Lorimer, recently deprived .
of his seat by the United States Sen
ate, was very seriously hurt in an
auto wreck a few days gao. His car,
in endeavoring to avoid a collision
with a farmers wagon, crashed into
a telegraph pole.
The detectives who have been
searching for Sidna Allen and Wes
ley Edwards since the Hillsville
court house tragedy, have demanded
and received a settlement for their
services. 1t is reported that they
received $1,000.
Mrs. Rena B. Morrow, of Chicago,
who was charged with the killing of
her husband, who was found dead on
their back porch last December, hav-
ing been shot through the heart, was
found not guilty by the jury last
week, after celebrating for three
hours.
The House Committee on Fisheries
and Merchant Marine last week vot-
ed to report bill for appropriating
$25, 900 for the establishment of a
fish hatchery in Western
North Carolina. 1t has been predict
ed that the same will be established
on the. Southern Railway between
and Murphy.
The body of Nathan Swartz, said
to be the slayer of Julia Corners in
New York some days ago, has been
found on the fourth floor of a tene-
ment house. He had committed sui
eide by inhaling gas. He had writ
ten a letter to his mother adm .tting
his guilt, saying he was sorry for the
crime.
Robert Kinzel was drowned on the
York few days ago. He had gone
on the roof to release a foot and a
half of water which had collected
there, and in running his arwn down
into the drain pipe, his was drawn in
up to his shoulder by the suction of
the rushing water, and he became
wedged in the pipe and drowned be-
fore help could be secured.
A measure to prevent the exhibit
ton of prize-fight moving pictures
passed both the Senate and House
last week. Heavy fines for violation
of the law are fixed by the bill. South
ern members Of Congress are said to
have been especially interested be-
cause of the race feeling stirred up
by the exhibition of the Jeffries-John-
son moving pictures in their section
of the country.
The remain of Clarence V. T. Rich
eson, who was electrocuted in Bos-
ton lyast May for the murder of Miss
Avis Linnell, have at last been placed |
in the cemetery at Lynchburg, Va,
where his mother is buried. The
father had his remains placed beside
those OF his grandparents, but Miss
Russell Richeson, a sister of young
Richeson, living in Philadelphia, fin