the caucasian. (clinton, n.c.) 1912-12-19 [p page two]

THE CAUCASIAN. Thursday. IV- - ,Tage Two.

Ml&s Gaxnette Williams, daughterof Capt and Mrs. Branch Williams.General Netfs. State Netfs.

Twelve of the wealthiest and mostprominent women of Independence,Kan., have been summoned to serveon a jury in ?. shooting case. Amongthe women bummoned are the wivesof two millionaire oil operators, twobankers' wives, and Vtwo suffragistleaders.

Representative Bartholdt, of Mis-souri, -- Republican, has introduced ajoint resolution in Congress to pro-vide for a Constitutional Amend-ment to restrict Presidential tenureto two terms of four years each, "orapproximately two terms,' with in-

eligibility for re-eelcti- on thereafter.

Judge Allan McCormick, presidiogJudge of Montgomery County, Ken-tucky, was probably fatally injuredand his daughter, Miss Florence Mc-

Cormick, was killed, when the bug-gy in which they were driving wasstruck by a Chesapeake & Ohio pas-senger train near Mount Sterling,Ky., Friday.

An evident reluctance among so-

ciety women to respond to calls forjury service brought an announce-ment by Justice Clark of Independ-ence, Kansas, Friday, that he "in-tended to have a woman jury in every

The master of the Standard Oilbarge No. 87, and the nine membersof his crew were drowned Tnursdaynight in the Gulf of Mexico off theTexas coast when a heavy storm torethe barge from its tow and it turnedturtle.

Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards,under long penitentiary sentences fortheir part in the Hillsvllle, Va., trag-edy, were taken to Richmond Satur-day by a guard. They were man-

acled together, both hands and feetbeing chained.

The Federal Government Fridayfiled a civil anti-tru- st suit at Detroit,Mich., against the Horse Shoers'Trust. Attorney-Gener- al Wickei-sha- m

seeks injunctions against theMaster Horse Shoers National Protectlve Association.

The cotton consumed in the UnitedStates during November amounted to475,240 running bales, countinground as half bales, compared, with511,285 bales for October, accordingto the Census Bureau's monthly re-

port, issued Saturday.

Bodies of sixty rebels hanging fromtrees were counted by persons trav

of Asheville, and Mr. Junius BUkeGoslin, editor of the Union Republi-can, of Winston, were married laAsheville Thursday night.

Several stores in the heart of thebusiness section of Elkln. SurryCounty, were paritially destroyed byfire Tuesday. The damage la esti-

mated at $50,000 and most of theloss is covered by insurance.

A committee of Wilmington busi-

ness men appeared before Chief ofEngineers Bixby at WashingtonTuesday and appealed for a reconsid-eration of the proposed inland water-way Tom Beaufort to Key West, Fla.

William Finley Blair, former chiefclerk in the division freight office ofthe Southern Railway at Greensboro,was placed on trial in Guilford CourtTuesday for the murder of his formeroffice chief, George G. Thompson.One hundred and forty-si- x veniremenwere examined before a Jury was secured. The rase is still In progress,and It is believed that Blair will pleadself-defens- e.

Charlotte reported three tragicdeaths last Thursday. Charles Jackson, a negro, was shot by JesseJames, a section foreman. Allen Bustle, of Cornelius, who was Injuredin a furniture plant, died soon afterreaching Charlotte. The third deathwas that of Mr. W. W. Davidson, ofPatrick, S. C, who died while underthe influence of an annesthetic whichhad been administered by a Charlottephysician so an operation could beperformed.

The Ripple says that Isaac Shore,of Yadkin County, thirty-fiv- e yearsold, was found dead in his barn, 12miles southeast of Yadklnville, Sun- -

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death rcnuUfvj froa x "flicted thr- - wk, ' "Y't.says the lUpol. a. , V- l-

Iur with rtrrr tKvth lots of a d- -til the de4Ms1 t:4 tnally. As a rtili n

tion. (tstes Shore - tv,were held for trial. '

The identity of the lKr,who shot sad kl!l Th4l ;cJ- -Johnson, a well-u-xi- o V.L '

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ty, while working cu t:.'

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death by wounds rna! lj:

a pistol, rifle, or pur, ta Vof a party or parties cak- - tTU'4

! jury.

A dispatch from Nwtcs UTrants charging abandon-- -.amy have been issued ai!-,.-j 4'

Bryant at the initar.c cf'V, vof a week. Miss lettc Hter of Mr. William H.;;'t ,

ton. Bryant, who is said to uwell County man, marred V ?M"

itt December 4 at Newtcs. rw''Maaner me marriage he ar.co-- -.

intention of poing away for 4 1a ?two and vanished. It is chi-t- 'i

he has a wife and four chi;i.some Tennessee town. 5

Makes the Nation (ip.The awful list of lnjsriei Cj

Fourth of July stAKKeri hau-- ,

Set over agaiast it, however ,wonderful healing, by Buckles 1 anlca Salve, of thousands who 1:;ed from burns, cuts, bruiwi,wounds or explosions. It's the ;trthealer of boils, ulcers. eczei.lips or piles. Twenty-fiT- e ct:u uall druggists.

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A. M O YETthey are sold at the lowest possible prices, concur.

Twenty-on- e States in the Unionhave abolished the common drinkingcup in schools.

For the six consecutive days thismonth the New York subway carriedmore than 1,000.000 passengers aday.

Five persons were killed and seveninjured in a wreck on the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad near Hyndman, Pa.,Thursday.

Miss Mary H. Bartelme, eighteenyears public guardian of Cook Coun-ty, Illinois, will be Chicago's first wo-

man Judge.

The bill to bond New York Statefor an additional $50,000 000 forhighways, was carried by a 2 to 1

vote, in the November election.

Four Annapolis midshipmen havebeen recommended for dismissal bythe superintendent for alleged mal-treatment of a fellow "middle."

Two severe earthquake shockswere felt at Oxnard, California, Fri-day. Desks and chairs were over-turned in some of the buildings.

The city council of Los Angele3voted against establishing a muni-cipal dance hall, and also againstregulating the length of hat-pin- s.

One person was killed and twentyinjured Monday when two passengertrains on the Chicago and Rock Isl-

and Railroad collided near Chicasaw,Okla.

Ocle Davis, ten years old of Tif-to-n,

Ga., eloped Monday with a boysixteen years old. The girl's fatherIs making every effort to locate thecouple.

J. A. Carney, a Democrat of Okla-homa, Tuesday, filed with Congress anotice of contest of election of Con-gressman Morgan, Republican, ofthat State.

Seven persons were killed and sev-en injured at Astabula, Ohio, Mon-day night when the Lake Shore andMichigan coal train dashed into astreet-ca- r.

The new nickel, with an artisticIndian head on the face, will be incirculation, according to the expecta-tions of the Treasury Department, byFebruary 1.

The House of Lords in Englandhas passed the anti-whi- te slave billadopted some time ago by the Houseof Commons. The bill provides forflogging for first offenders.

The messengers wko are carryingto Washington the returns of theElectoral College will receive 25cents a mile one way under decisionof Comptroller of the TreasuryTracewell.

Three negro houses several blocksapart were blown up by dynamite atBirmingham, Ala., Saturday night.The explosions all occurred withinthirty minutes. One negro womanwas killed.

The Government Saturday filed ananti-tru- st suit against the ElginBoard of Trade, the so-call- ed "But-ter Trust," alleging the organizationformed a conspiracy to arbitrarily fixthe price of butter.

Representative Rodenburg, ofGeorgia, has introduced a bill inCongress to prohibit the marriage ofpersons of negro descent to whitepersons. The bill applies to everyState in the Union.

Nearly half of the enrolled mid-shipmen at the Naval Academy weresentenced to seven days' absolute re-striction to their rooms a few daysago for raising a pool to bet on theArmy-Nav- y football game.

Neils Neilson, a steeplejack, braveda sixty-mil- e wind and climbed theflag-pol- e of a Broadway, New York,building, 780 feet from the grounda few days ago. This is only furtherevidence that they are not all deadyet.

President-elec-t Wilson returned toNew Jersey Monday from Bermudaand brought with him the message hewill send to the New Jersey Legisla-ture which convenes January 1. Hewould not discuss his plans for theextra session.

A church theater to present amodel standard of theatricals for theadult members of the congregationand instructive moving pictures forthe children, will be opened at Den-ver, Colorado, December 20. It willbe operated under the auspices ol theCatholics.

Claud Swanson Allen and FloydAllen, under sentence of death forparticipating in the shooting up ofthe Hillsvllle, Va., court, have beengranted a, respite by Governor Mannuntil January 17. The defendants'attorneys stated they had some newevidence and will now make application to the Supreme Court of Virginia for a rehearing on the petitionfor a writ of error.

Mr. T. H. Moore, a prominent millman of Gastonia. died Tuesday xaorn- -

Charlie Leatherman, of Catawbaj County was killed a few days ago by! a falling tree,

Need ham Ball, a negro of John-ston County, was brought to the pen-

itentiary Friday to serve thirty yearsfor shooting his wife.

Mr. S. C. Welch, of Waynes7ille, aprominent member of the HaywoodCounty bar, died Monday morning after a short illness of pneumonia.

Joe Cooper, a negro of Goldsboro,was shot and killed by two other ne-groes from Kinston Tuesday nightwhile the trio were engaged in a crapgame

The Union Republican states thatMr. H. H. Labberton, a well-know- n

citizen and merchant of Winston, diedsuddenly last Wednesday from heartfailure.

Richard McGee, of Scotland Neck,drank carbolic acid a few days agothinking it was whiskey, and diedin great agony a few hours after-wards.

Miss Sadie Harkey, who lived atj the home of John Watson in Union; County, was fatally burned a fewj days ago while starting a fire withkerosene oil.

Henry Wilkerson, colored, wasbrought to the penitentiary Fridayevening by a Deputy Sheriff of MartinCounty to serve i.en years for the accidental killing of a white boy.

Governor Thomas R. Marshall, ofIndiana, Vice-President-el- ect, will deliver the principal address at thecommencement exercises of the University of North Carolina next June.

The six-months-- old daughter ofMr. and Mrs. W. H. Dingle, of Trout-ma- n,

N. C, died Monday of measles.There are seven other cases ofmeasles in the Dingle family.

Charles G. Walker, alia3 J. N.Dowsing, wanted in connection witnthe wire-tappin- g swindle of two Wil-mingtoni- ans

by a New York confi-dence gang, was arrested in New Or-leans Friday.

The Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad has reached Fayetteville withits line and the management expectsto be operating trains through fromAberdeen to Fayetteville by nextMonday.

Two store buildings and a resi-dence belonging to Joe Wods, a mer-chant of Durham, were destroyed byfire Monday morning. The Durhamauthorities believe the fire was in-- of

incindiary origin.

Miss Oma Beaver, of Rowan Coun-ty, was accidentally shot a few daysago by her brother, George Beaver,who was trying to shoot a hog. Thelady was taken to Salisbury for treat-ment. She will recover.

A five-year-o- ld child of Mr. andMrs. John Young, who live on thefarm near Troutman, Iredell Coun-ty, was burned in the house Mondayafternoon while its mother was at aspring engaged with the family wash-i- n.

The North Carolina BaseballLeague was organized at CharlotteThursday and succeeds the CarolinaAssociation, and Charlotte, Raleigh,Asheville, Greensboro, Winston-Sale- m

and Durham compose the league.

Clinton Boyette, aged fifteen, wholives near Smithfleld, JohnstonCounty, was out hunting Saturdayand accidentally shot himself throughthe arm. He was hurried to Smith-fiel- d

where it was found necessary toamputate the arm.

While feeding a corn shredder onthe farm of W. A. Tillinghast, a sonof D. L. McComb, of the EurekaSprings neighborhood, CumberlandCounty, had his left hand caught inthe machine and torn off with thearm up to the elbow.

Tuesday afternoon W. E. Penning-ton, a young man twenty-on- e yearsof age, was lodged in Wilson Coun-ty jail on the charge of seducingLeora Rose, of Lucama. His bondwas fixed at $1,000, which he failedto give. The bond was later reducedto $400, which he gave.

One man was killed and a womanfatally wounded in a shooting affrayin Folkstone Township, in OnslowCounty. The killing occurred duringa negro frolic. Os Barber is the deadman, and Bertie Goss died from herinjuries. Two men and a woman arein Jacksonville jail charged with theshooting.

An attempt was made a few nightsago to dynamite the Lutheran Churchnear Gibsonville, in Alamance Coun-ty. , This was the second attempt thisyear to dynamite the same church.There is a story that money Is hurledunder the foundation of the church,and it is supposed the dynamitershoped to secure the money after thechurch was blown up.

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in the State of MexicoFriday. This is one of the resultsof the campaign conducted againsithe rebels in that distrist.

Henry F. Coffen, the only Demo-crat that ever represented Wyom-ing in Congress, died a few days agoin Sheridan, Wyoming, aged seventy-on- e.

Mr. Coffen's doctor while at-

tending him was stricken with pa-

ralysis and is dangerously ill.

A woman's law class at New YorkUniversity is probably uniquo in thatit is not Intended to prepare womenfor the practice of law, but to givethem sufficient legal knowledge toconduct the administration of trustestates and other forms of business.

Three persons were killed and eightinjured, several probably mortally,when an express train known as theAtlantic City Flyer, on the CentralRailroad of New Jersey, ran into anautomobile stage at a grade cross-ing near Perth Amboy, N. J., Satur-day.

Nevada's new divorce law providesthat service by publication insteadof in person may result in the settingaside of a decree within six months.This has caused much alarm amongthose who have recently gone toReno for the purpose of securing adivorce.

The post-offi- ce apropriation bill,aggregating $278,489,781, including$750,000,000 for parcels post equip-ment, and $25,000 for the ParcelsPost Commission, was reported toCongress Thursday. The total is a de-

crease of $3,301,727 from last year sestimates.

J. W. Griffin, president, and R. H.McCrary, cashier, of the AthensBanking & Trust Company of Athens,Ga., pleaded guilty Friday in the Su-

perior Court to charges of violatingthe State banking laws. They weresentenced to serve five years eachon the chain-gan- g.

City Marshal Jack Guthrie was bad-ly wounded and Charles Keen, a well-kno- wn

farmer, was killed in a pistolduel between the two men at Haw-thorn, Va., Saturday. The marshalattempted to serve a warrant on thefarmer charging the latter with car-rying concealed weapons.

Little five-year-o- ld Jasper Goff, ofBessemer, Ala., was strangled todeath Sunday by a vicious bull-do- g

which had seized the child by thethroat and slowly strangled the childto death before the dog was killed.When the dog's hold was released thechild fell to the ground dead.

William J. Flynn, of New York,was Tuesday appointed chief of theUnited States secret service by Sec-retary of the Treasury MacVeigh suc-ceeding John E. Wilkie, now chiefsupervising agent of the customs ser-vice. Flynn was former deputy po-

lice commissioner of New York.

A revival of the days of the KuKlux Klan occurred at Dalton, Ga.,Friday, when a band of masked androbed men took John Watkins fromhis home to the center of the town,where he was given a severe whip-ping with hickory switches. Wat-ki- ns

then was given three days toleave town.

Samuel A. Montgomery, registerof voters of the city of New Orleans,was Friday adjudged guilty of con-tempt and sentenced to ten days injail for having violated an injunctionforbidding the erasure of names fromthe registration roll just prior to therecent general election. Montgom-ery was a member of the "good government" league. ,

. Pellagra is spreading in the UnitedStates, and in the six years it hasclaimed not less than 30,000 victimswith a fatality rate in excess of 40per cent, according to a report of thePublic Health Service at Washing-ton, D. C. The report gives thesefigures by States for the period of1907-191- 1: North Carolina reportscases 2,412; deaths, 1,067; rate, 44per cent.

case in his court where the testimonyis not likely to be of an embarrassingnature. He said that women hadmore time for jury duty than men.

In commemoration of the one hun-dred and twenty-fift- h anniversary ofthe framing of the Constitution ofthe United States, the PennsylvaniaSociety of New York held its four--

teenth annual dinner Saturday to-

night, with James Bryce, the retiringBritish Ambassador, as the guest ofhonor. A feature of the dinner wasthe presentation of gold medal toMr. Bryce.

A Nation-wid- e campaign is to bewaged by the Junior Order of Unit-ed American Mechanics for free text-books in the public schools, compul-sory education laws and laws com-pelling the raising of the flag overall school-house- s. Councilors of theorganization from praetically everyState who were in session in Wash-ington a few days ago will map outthe plan of campaign.

Women suffragists in New Yorkheld a rally Tuesday at suffragetteheadquarters in preparation for thoproposed 140-mi- le walk to Albany tostorm the capital in favor of votesfor women. The women marchersleave New York Monday and willwalk by easy stages. They will de-

liver a message demanding womansuffrage when Governor-elec- t Sulzertakes the office January 1.

Alleging that her husband, JamesM. Langley, one of the wealthiestcitizens in Greenville County, SouthCarolina, had whipped and otherwisemistreated her, Mrs. Lizzie Cox Lang-le- y

several days ago brought actionagainst him for legal separation andalimony. At the date set for thehearing Monday Langley decided topay his wife $6,000 for the whippingand stop the case in court.

What is declared by literary ex-perts to be one of the most remark-able documents ever published by theGovernment has just been issued bythe Government Printing Office. Thepublication, known as the "checklist," records every publication of theGovernment from its foundationdown to and including 190b. Thework contains more than 1,800 pages.Approximately fifteen years was re-quired in its preparation. The "checklist" will be placed in every import-ant library in the United States.

A decision of great importance tothe Royal Arcanum, involving thematter of increases in insurancerates, has been handed down by theCourt of Appeals of New York. Thecourt holds that the Royal Arcanumhad not acted legally in raising theinsurance assessment of SamuelGreen, a lawyer, in Brooklyn. Theoriginal assessment must stand, saysthe court. This decision will no doubtcause thousands of other members ofthe Order to demand rebates on theincreased assessments they havepaid.

Sidna Allen, leader of the moun-tain clan who shot up Judge Massie'scourt room at Hillsville, Va., lastspring, was found guilty on a secondcharge in connection with his partin the murders and was sentenced tofive years' imprisonment. A compro-mise in the further prosecution ofSidna Allen and of Wesley Edwards,who has not yet been tried, was af-fected. Sidna agreed to accept fif-teen years for the killing of SheriffWebb, making his total imprison-ment thitry-fiv-e years, and Edwardsaccepted an aggregate of twenty-seve- n

years. This closes the cases.

Repeal of the last of the Civil War"disability" statutes was endorsed bythe United States Senate Saturday,when an amendment offered by Sen-ator Johnston, of Alabama, to theomnibus claims bill was adopted, re-pealing the section of the revisedstatutes which prohibits the auditingof the claims of regular army officerswho resigned to enter the Confeder-ate Army. There are about 150 ofsuch claims which are generally forlongevity pay. Among those represented are the heirs of Generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jo-seph E. Johnston, Eitzhugh Lee, andJoseph B. Wheeler.

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