The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-05-01
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
when the Aontenegrin army en-
tered Scutari last week they found
the Turkish troops and population
starving
Representative Bartlett, of Geor-
gia, introduced in Congress Satur-
day bill to reduce letter postage to
one cent.
Memorial service of the Confeder-
ate soldiers of the Civil War were
held in many cities throughout the
South Saturday.
American recognition OF the new
Chinese Republic will be delayed be-
cause of the disorgan!zation OF the
Chinese Parliament.
Rev. X ID. Holmes, pastor of the
Steele Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Sanford. died suddenly
early Thursday morning
DR.. W. ID. Bigelow, Assistant
Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry
az Washington, resigned from the
Government service Saturday.
One hundred and twenty persons
perished in a mine explosion at Fin
leyville, Pa, Thursday. Some OF
the bodies were horribly burned.
Simon Hicks, a negro of Lenoir
County, was killed few days ago by
Jacob Dove, another negro. The
killing was without provocation.
President Wilson will speak in
New Jersey to-day and tomorrow in
behalf of jury reform and a propo-
sition to call a constitutional amend
ment.
A bill was introduced in Congress
Saturday to create a Bureau of Pub
lie Highways, carrying an appropri-
alton of $24,OOO,0OO for use in the
States.
Posmaster-General Burleson says
that all postmasters must work eight
hours a day. They will not be al
lowed to leave their duties for 9TH
ers to perform.
The Chief Inspector of the Inter
state Commerce Commission reports
that 10000 persons had been killed
in wrecks in the United States dur
ing the past year.
Miss Annie King, trained nurse,
was run down and fatally injured by
an automobile in Charlotte a few
days ago. Miss King went to Char
lotte from Statesville.
Nebraska has notified the State
Department at Washington of it's ra-
tification of the seventeenth amend
ment to the Constitution providing
for the direct election of Senator's
Secretary of State W. J. Bryan
went to California Thursday to try
to persuade the California Legisla
ture to reconsider the proposed alien
land law, which is obnoxious to ia
pan.
BY direction of Secretary of War
Garrison, the Panama Canal Zone
will be without saloons during the
coming fiscal year. At the present
time there are thirty-five saloons in
zone towns.
Three million six hundred and ten
thousand dollars was what foods in
the Middle West cost the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, according
to a statement issued by the COM
pany Saturday.
Joe Sutton, seventeen-year-old
boy, of Waynesville, n. c., is in jail
awaiting trial on the charge of at
tempting criminal assault On his
eight-year-old niece, who lives in a
remote section of Haywood County.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Stephen A. Douglas,
Democratic candidate for President
against Lincoln, was observed all
over Vermont last Wednesday. He
was the father of Judge r. NJ. Doug
las, of Greensboro.
James Bryce, for six years Ambas-
sador to the United States from
Great Britain, said his farewell to
the American people in New York
Friday night and has returned to
England. Mr. Bryce made fine rec
ord as ambassador.
Suffragists, for the second time in