The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
General News.

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Every child born in Orange, Conn,
will get a bank account of 81 from
the local savings institution.
During his administration Presi- g
dent Taft has travelled 1889 miles E
which was enough to take him !
around the world four times. {
Wool manufacturers presented a {
solid front against reduction in that
schedule at the Ways and Means
Committee in Washington Monday.
Italian, British and other warships
have been ordered to proceed imme-
diately to Turkish waters, according
to dispatches from Mediterranean
ports.
Joseph H. Choate, who has been
called the successor to the late John
Bige1ow as the Senior American
celebrated his eighty-frst birthday
in New York Friday. !
Nazim Pasha, the commander or
the Turkish army, received his death
wound while expostulating with a
crowd of demonstrators for having
become embroiled in conflict at the
Grand ViZierate.
A live ten-months-old baby was
washed ashore from the wreck OF the
steamship Veronese off Portugal.
More than forty-four people are be-
Iieved to have been lost when the
steamer was wrecked.
Professor Emory r. Johnson, spe-
cial Panama Canal Commissioner, IN
an address Monday night at Ph1ladel-
phia declared the owners and not the
shippers would benefit from free
toll provision in the canal act.
One man was killed and thirteen
injured in a spectacular rear-end
collision between two elevated trains
in New York Saturday. Both trains
took fire, and for time it was feared
they would topple into the street.
An appropriation to assist private
experimenters in Germany to pro-
duce artificial rain was asked for in
a resolution adopted by the lemperlal
Parliament and addressed to the Ger
man Government a few days ago.
An armistice of five days to permit
the informal discussion of Mexican
peace terms, became effective FRIDAY.
Peace commissioners from Chihuahua
City are waiting at Villa Ahumada for
the arrival of rebel representatives.
Governor Wilson Monday received
greetings from the King Of Spain
through a representative of the lat
ter's country who came to the united
States to make arrangements for
Spanish exhibit at the Panama Elk,
position.
Colonel Alzono G. Sharp, former
Mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn, anc
father of Robert S. Sharp, chief in
spector of the United States Depart
ment, died suddenly of heart failure
in Atlanta, Ca, Friday. He was Z;
years of age.
Electrocution is substituted 70
hanging as the punishment OF hrs
degree murder in the District OF 60
Iumbia by a bill the House passe'
Monday. The measure already ha
nassed the Senate and now goes t
the President for his signature.
There are $4,000 children in tn
public schools of New York City wit
defective eyes, and the Board c
Health has been asked to discharg
the physicians who are employed I
examine the children attend1n
school, but who are really incompt
tent to examine any one
Two French airmen were kille
near Etampes, France, Friday. Cha
Nieuport and his mechanician bot
we're instantly killed, when the MOI
oplane, in which they were hylng, Re
to the earth from a high altltud
Nieuport had achieved great succe
as a manufacturer of monoplanes.
The Women's Recall League OF 81
Francisco, Cal, which is seeking Il
removal of Police Judge Charles
Weller, has $4,000 names on the
call petitions, 5000 more than a
necessary to compel recall electio
The campaign against Judge Well
was begun after he had reduced Il
bail of a man accused of an often
against a woman.