The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-05-08

Reports from Mexico City indi-
cate that from 1900 TO 1900 lives
have been lost in engagements out
side of Sonora during the past week.
A dispatch to London news
agency says that the Montenegrin
cabinet has resigned as a protest
against the policy of evacuation OF
Scutari.
The eleventh annual meeting of
the North Carolina Federation OF
Woman's Clubs convened in New
bern Tuesday. The meeting will
last four days.
Albert Highsmith shot and killed
Julius Sumpter in Wilmington Sat-
urday. The police captured High
smith Sunday about three miles
from Wilmington.
London suffragettes set fire to the
residence of the editor Of the Light
at Finchley Saturday night. The
fire was extinguished before serious
damage was done.
DR.. Lyman H. Abbott was deposed
ciety at ST. Louis Saturday because
he signed the Navy Leagues petition
for increased armament.
La Grange, in Lenoir County, had
severe fire Friday night. A num-
ber of stores in the business section
of the town were burned. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
Fire Monday destroyed the big
plant of the American Fertilizer
Company at Buffalo, N. Y. The loss
will reach almost a million dollars.
Twenty buildings were burned.
In fit of mental depression, Mrs
Newt Leatherwood, wife of a promi-
nent farmer living near Waynesville,
Haywood County, committed suicide
Tuesday morning by drowning.
Edward B. Slater, a lawyer of
Warrenton, Va, died in Washington,
D. c., Monday from infection of the
brain due to an liberated tooth. The
case has baffled the Washington doc
tors.
The Mocksville Record says that
within two weeks 10000 empty tin
cans were unloaded at Mocksville
and hauled out to points in Yadkin
County, where they will be filled
with various fruits.
A large copper still of ninety gal
Ions capacity was captured in Sum-
ner Township, Guilford County,
Monday morning. Charles Rayle, al
legged owner of the still, Is in Gull
ford's jail In default of bond.
The North Carolina Press Asso-
citation will. hold it's next session at
Asheville, July 1924. Mr.. James
H. Caine, editor of the Asheville
Citizen, Is President and Mr.. ]. B.
Sheriff., of Concord, is Secretary.
Lawrence Yerger, clerk of the
board of prison trustees at Jackson,
Miss, was arrested Sunday charged
with being a defaulter in the sum
of $14,627. Yerger Is said to have
acknowledged to Governor Brewer
that he was short in his accounts.
The English suffragettes are still
getting in their work. The freight
depot of the Midland Railroad at
Bradford, England, was totally de-
stroyed by fire Monday, entailing
loss of FIVE hundred thousand dol
lars. Suffragettes literature was
scattered about the premises.
Haitien Congress Saturday elected
Michel Oreste President of the Re
public to succeed Gen. Tancrede Au
guste, who died Friday night. Oreste
was a senator Both before and af-
ter election serious disorders occur
red. Many women and children
were trampled and seriously injured.
The Eastern railroads have decid-
ed to ask permission of the Inter
state Commerce Commission to make
a horizontal increase of about per
cent in freight rates throughout the
territory east of the Mississippi as a
result of the decisions of the arbi-
tration committees granting increas-
ed wages to their engineers and fire.
men.