The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-27

of property is valued at $1,000, 900.
The exports from the Southern /
States in 1900 amounted to $4S4,-
$4,000, and In 1912 they reached
$769,679, 900.
The Naval Appropriation bill. car
rying $146,000,O00 and providing for
two battleships. was reported to the
House Friday.
Among the new bills in the Penn
sy:vania House OF Representatives, is
one which prohibits the working OF
horses more than twelve hours day.
In outlining the program OF the
new Mexican administration, Gen HUI
erta declared that peace would be re-
stored in Mexico regardless of the
cost.
Mexico City dealers In automobiles
are wide awake, for they perfected
while the war lasted a bullet-proof
machine and advertised it in all parts
of the city.
J. A. Applebaum, Chicago travel
ing man, was found dead in an At
lanta hotel Tuesday morning and
his wife was held on the charge of
shooting him.
dnxy nd n
civil antitrust suit against the Nc
Caskey Register Company of ALI
ance, Ohio, sensational charges be-
ing made against the defendants.
Thirty-fiVe indictments were re-
turned Friday against officials of the
defunct Citizens Trust Co., of Au-
gusta, Ga, charging violation Of
State banking laws, forgery and en-
beZZlement.
The first of the troops ordered to
assemble at Galveston, Texas, began
arriving at their destination Tuesday.
The aviation corps stationed at Au-
gusta, Ga, was ordered to proceed
to Galveston.
The new nickel of Indian head and
buffalo design will be put into gen
eral circulation on Saturday. AL
ready the Treasury Department has
received applications from banks for
more than 100000 of the new coin
The stock distribution plan for dis
solution of the Union Pacific-South-
ern Pacific merger was criticised in
arguments Friday before the Federal
judges who will pass on the scheme.
A jury at Seattle, Wash, awarded
$4,000 to Mrs. Anna l.. Valentine of
Chicago, because the door of a rail-
road car was slammed on her little
finger, compelling amputation at the
middle joint.
Carrying a total appropriation of
$118, 525,726, the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill reported from the
United States Senate Committee on
Appropriations Tuesday by it's chair
man, Senator Warren. This is an in
crease of $500, 10000 over the
amount the bill carried when it pass
ed the House.
The English Textilose Manufacture
ing Company has erected large works
in Trafford Park, Manchester, Eng
land, for the production of textilose
the new jute substitute. So far az
can be ascertained from published de
scriptions, the material seems to be
practically a paper. Irvine coated with
mucilage, then drawn through cotto1
waste and spun.
The United States Senate has rati
fed a supplementary treaty will
France, extending to 1918, the oper
alton of the present arbitration treat,
between that nation and the United
States. A general treaty with for
eign nations, covering sanitary reg
ulations for the handling of epidem
les, such as plague, yellow fever an,
cholera was also ratified.
The superintendent OF the Matte
wan Insane Asylum testified Frida
before a commission of inquiry tina
he was offered $4,000 during tn
latter part of 1912 to release Harr
K. Thaw, and following a bitter at
tack on the New York prison author
tiles at Governor Suffers committee
hearing Saturday, it was decided t
summon Harry X. Thaw to tell wha
he knows about the recent attempt t
secure his release from Mattewan.
Speaker of Indiana Senate Stops Min
lister in Midst of His Prayer.