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THE CAUCASIAN. Tharsdar, NW. , Pago Two. General Nen?s. Three persons were killed and twenty Injured In a fire at a hotel in Los Angeles, California, Monday. John W. Bulla, of North Carolina, has been transferred from the office of post-office inspector to the office of Postmaster-General. An agreement between the United States and Russia to take the place of the commercial treaty recently ab rogated, virtually has been reached. Former United States Senator Jo seph M. Terrell, twice Governor of the State of Georgia, died at his home In Atlanta Sunday after an extended illness. Governor McDonald, of New Mexi co, is critically ill on his ranch at Carrlzozo. He was inaugurated in January as New Mexico's first State Executive. James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania Railway System, has handed his resignation to the direc tors of the company to take effect January 1. A storm struck Jamacia Friday do ing considerable damage to the truck ing industry and banana planters. Railways and telegraph property also suffered heavily. President Taft has intimated to friends that he would like to enter tain President-elect and Mrs. Wilson at the White House at some time be fore March 4. In one town in this country there is no courting. Panther, W. Va., has no marriageable woman between the ages of 13 and 40. The population is said to be 800. A fight against the administration of President Gompers, of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, will be tak en up this week by Socialist dele gates to the convention. As a sequel to the recent students' strike at the Mississippi Agricultural College at Jackson, the board of trus tees announced that hereafter no wo men will be admitted as students. Fancy brands of fresh eggs made a new high fall record in New York Thursday when they sold for 72 cents a dozen. They will go still higher before the month is over, dealers say. Postal savings banks are now es tablished in 12,812 post-offices, with approximately $28,000,000 of depos its, according to a statement of the Post-office Department at Washing ton. Governor Mann, of Virginia, Tues day, granted Floyd and Claude Allen a respite until December 13th. They were sentenced to death November 22 for their part in the Hillsville court murders. The United Daughters of Confed eracy at their convention in Washing ton awarded their annual "prize mer it" for the best work done for the or ganization during the past year to the State of Virginia. The Van Camp Packing Company plant at Indianapolis, Ind., was par tially destroyed by fire Saturday morning. The owners estimated the loss at four hundred thousand dollars, covered by ins ranee. The ninth annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Con gress will meet in Washington City December 4 and continue in session three days. President Taft will de liver the opening address. Larse Anderson, of Washington, now United States Minister to Bel gium, has been promoted to the post of Ambassador to Japan to succeed Charles Page Bryan, whose resigna tion was announced a few days ago. Representative Pujo, of Louisiana, will call the House money trust inves tigating committee for a meeting this week. This Is intended, it is said, to j be a preliminary gathering to make plans for the prosecution of the com mittee's Inquiries. Carmi Thompson, President Taft's secretary, will be appointed United States Treasurer within a few days to succeed Lee McClung, resigned. Charles D. Hilles has returned to Washington and will resume his place as the President's secretary. Former Sheriff William Bowen was shot and killed, and Henry Skidmore was shot and fatally wounded in a street fight at Filson, Powell Coun ty, Kentucky, Sunday. Skidmore is said to have fired the bullet that kill ed Bowen. Rees Bowen, brother of the former sheriff, was charged with shooting Skidmore. Hereafter the Governor of New Hampshire will be elected by plural ity vote instead of majority vote, as at present. An amendment providing for tkls change in the Constitution was adopted by the voters at the elec tion in New Hampshire November 5. Under the old rule the Legislature this year will choose a Governor, none of the candidates having re ceived a majority at the recent election. Governor Hawley, of Idaho, decld-j A plan to admit ex-President, ex ed not to resign his office to accept j Vice-Presidents, and ex-Speakers of the appointment of United State Uhe Houre of Representatives to the Senator at the hands of the Lleuten- j floors of the two Houses of Congress. ant-Governor and appointed J. I. Per-j with the privilege of debate, but not ky, of Boise, to succeed the late Sen- j of voUng upon pending measures, U ator Heyburn. 1 advocated by Hon. W. J. Bryan. State Netfs, Cumberland County Superior Court convened Monday with a heavy docket- There are two criminal cases to ! """"" j te tried. Maor George R. Lunn, of Schen- $ President Taft has Issued a procla- j nectady, N. Y., will spend fifty days In mation fixing the rates the foreign; Tbe Metho(ilst Episcopal Church Jail because he refused to pay a fine shipping of the world shall pay for?at Graham was destroyed by fire of $50 imposed upon him b? the city j passage through the Panama Canal. Monday Xhe loss ig approximately court for violating a city ordinance j The proclamation establishes a mer-j$3500t w!ta fi.goo insurance. The; in regard to holding a Socialist meet- j chant vessel rate of $1.20 per ton net j origin "of the fire is unknown. 1 ing in the "strikers'" district. jof actual carrying capacity and pro-! (Tides for a reduction of 40 per cent Her5ert HowIet a thirteen-year-old ou snips. colored youth of Wilmington, was j shot with a "toy" pistol and almost lajur huubiuu ouiuu, awiBiam intantlv Vl!!rf Snnda hv Jam r.unn. & member of & Drotal- - arid rrA . cent family In Asheville. wan arrest- maintain that ;u 'i5. t e4 Saturday afternoon charged with j and Ut !:, the w ' N an attempted criminal U on Mrs. f Cora t. Walton, the wife of an array I v officer, who has been residing in J'a ,0- :.u itnariii tot- wut 5 " i ai 1 cat i. vjiv.au . - furnished ball la the sum of $1,000. V. S. Cheshire, editor of the An derson, S. C, Intelligencer, was shot and seriously wounded; J. A. Mulll nax was shot and W. J. Muldrow nar rowly escaped death In an altercation last week over the publication of an article in the Intelligencer. J. T. Burges, an aged farmer liv ing near Ocala, Florida, and his fifteen-year-old adopted daughter, were murdered near their home a few days ago by a negro. The girl was as saulted and her throat cut. The ne gro was captured and lynched. postmaster of Anniston, Alabama, Monday, was charged with the em bezzlement of money order funds. The Henry, another negro youth. John Shaw, of Pinehurst, N. C, waa Crime on the Incrrsw. Statesvflle landmark. J Judge Coke remarked from the Su perior Court bench last week that crime seems to be increasing in Ire dell; that he bad held four courts In this county and found more criminal cases last term than ever before. That Isn't pleasant to hear. Iredell has a fine reputation for law enforce ment and for the observance of law there's another ozr caiz txro .Nfwi Help a JuU in U J j Justice nil Cherry A Hi Term., was plainly orr sore on his lrc h doctors and lose r nv ' dies "I thoaRht M .it p he wrote. "At last . n Am If valr mrA . . 'S . . . - . i cured. Cure burr.t , cuts, bruises and pn al drasgtsts. alleged misappropriation is estimated badly Injured in a wreck at Putnam, at more than $6,000. Maj. Smith was Coan., Monday. He was taken to the removed from office last Friday hospital. Shaw was on his way to charged with misconduct in office. New Hampshire with a car-load of Postmaster B. D. Smith, brother of horse. Major Smith, recently was arrested on a charge of embezzlement. The Western North Carolina Con ference of the M. E. Church. South. Amendments alleging that Chris- convene jn Hieh Point November tian Science Is not a religion but a 20. BlshoD Collins Dennv. of Rich- Thrown into the air from the ton- J privately owned business conducted mond 'a will Dreslde over the ses- neau of an automobile and hurled j for money profit, were filed at Con- sfon. under the trucks' of a trolley car; cord, N. H., Friday in the case of, which collided with the machine, j George A. Glover, of Lead, S. D., who Mrs. Bessie Lyle and her two-year-j seeks to have set aside the residuary old daughter, Margaret, were killed ! bequest made by his mother, Mrs. at Atlanta, Ga., Sunday afternoon. jMary Baker-Eddy, founder of the de- I nomination, to the First Church of Phillip M. Henry, of Louisville, j Christ, Scientist, of Boston. While Mr. H. L. Worth and family, of Greensboro, were at church Sun-da$- morning, some one cut a hole In a wire fence and led off a cow and calf. No neighbor could give the po lice any clue. Ky., a freshman at Georgetown Unl- versity, Washington, D. C, was killed ! Senator Martin and Representative ! Monday night while playing pranks Carlin, from Virginia, have urged Testimony will be offered before on his fellow-students. He was President Taft to use his influence a New York aldermanic committee in- climbing on a narrow ledge of the to expend the $500,000 granted by estigating graft conditions that the building peeping in windows when he Congress for experimental postal Condorf gang, which fleeced Wll- slipped and fell. His neck was brok-, roads on a highway from Washing- mingtonians, gave up part of their en. I ton to Mount Vernon. The first idea Profits to the police. I was to expend this sum throughout The United States Supreme Court all the States. The Virginians said Mr- ; c- Wilkerson, a prominent Monday decided against the Bath Tub the President promised to give his tobacconist of LaGrange, died at Rex Trust, hnldine- thf 'MSoptisp nsxPfv aid to a Mount Vernon hiehwav. Hospital, Raleigh, last Thursday fol- ment" of enamel ware manufacturers ' illegal. The court laid down the prin ciple that there can be no monopoly in the unpatented product of a pat ented machine without violation of law. HOUSE OF CO.M3IOXS RIOTOUS. OUS. lowing an operation for appendicitis. His remains were shipped to La Grange for interment. The Masonic Temple Company, of Cross & Liiefeai Company "23 Years Raleigh's Leading Clothiers." FALL-WINTER' STYLES READY. Our Store is full to the brim with Clothing and Fi:n :M. for gentlemen, their sons and little brothers. We inviu y ur inspection. WE ARE SHOWING THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF JOHN B. STETSON HATS EVER SHOWN IN RALEIGH. MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATTEST10S. Daniel O'Reilly, of New York City, once a prominent lawyer and person al counsel of Harry Thaw in his trials, delivered himself to the au Members of English Parliament Call Asheville, was chartered Saturday Brother Members "Traitors" and with $100,000 capital authorized and "Apes" Winston Churchill Hit in $1,000 subscribed for the purpose of Face With Books. j erecting a Masonic Temple for the London, Nov. 13. The House of i Masonic lodges of Asheville. Commons, the DODular house of the thorities of the penitentiary on : Mother of Parliament, was the scene I While engaged in unloading a light- Blackwell's Island Saturday to serve : tonight of a riot over Premier As-1 er or cross-es t riday evening with a term of seven months' imprison- : quith's proposal to rescind the action a gang of rivermen in Wilmington, ment. He was convicted of receiving of Monday, when the Unionists car- 1 William Starkey, colored, fell from stolen property in connection with a ried by a "majority of 22 Sir Freder-:the "gate1 and was drowned. His TOhherV. i irl- PnnVin tit 'a n mon H m tn t ofnotinff . 1011161 UOmO WdS in WGW Xem. ' the most important financial feature That all postmasters should dis- : of the Home Rule Bill, pose of their own dead letters and j The Unionists refused to permit that lpttpr rrrir shnnlrl Via uanrt tn the debate and the sneaker was carry the lighter parcels post articles, forced to adjourn the session On ac- plant a large beam dropped mashing ovon if thor h tn iv Mo . roiint nf the disorder This 1 nn py. j his head on another piece of timber. Santa Claus, was advocated by First I tremely rare necessity and the situa Assistant Postmaster-General C. P. ! tion is considered a critical one. The Unionists almost unanimouslv threatened that they will continue toi0xf6rd was destroyed by fire Friday make business in the House impos- mornmg- Ane saies ror tne morning sible unless the prime minister ac- nad just been completed and much cepts the amendment or drons the of the tobacco was still on the floor. supplant the five cent coin now in cir- ! Home Rule bill. They declare that The loes amounts to several thousand culation will be perfected by Secre- his action is unprecedented and willta01iars tary of the Treasury MacVeagh with- ; be obstructed by unprecedented in a few weeks. An Indian head will i measures. Their object is to force adorn the face of the coin and the the government to resign. figure of a buffalo the reverse. The t The uproar far exceeded that ted suicide a few days ago at the Sa design is intended to honor the dis- j which stifled Premier Asquith's luda passenger station near Ashe appearing Indian and buffalo, linked j speech when he introduced the Home ville y shooting himself in the heart together in American history. ! Rule bill and has not been equalled wth a 38-calibre pistol. Before the since the free fight over Gladstone's occurrence he went into the agent's Vilhjalmur Stefansson, of the ! first home rule measure. The mem- office and secured a piece of paper, American Museum of Natural His- ' bers were taunted with such epithets upon which he wrote a note to Sam- Crandfield in a talk to the Postmas ters' Association of New England at Boston Friday night. The design of the new nickel to Mr. Ed. Linn, of Kannapolis, Row an County, met sudden death Friday. ; While working at a manufacturing He leaves a wife and six children. The Banner tobacco warehouse at Mark H. Smith, a traveling shoe salesman of Lynchburg, Va., commit- tory, has discovered a new tribe of j as "traitors" and "apes." j uel S. Smith, of Whitesburg, Tenn., blond Esquimos, and announced that ' Sir William Bull, Unionist for asking the latter to come for his he will head an exploring expedition which will start from either Seattle or San Francisco in May, 1913, to set tle the quetsion of whether or not there is, as many scientists believe, another continent in the Arctic. Secretary Knox and Ambassador Nat Strickland was accidentally Hammersmith, was ordered from the, body floor for repeatedly calling Mr. As quith a "traitor." After adjournment the Unionists ! shot and killed by his brother, W. H. doubled up programmes and threw Strickland, in Sampson County, Sat them across the floor at the prime , urday afternoon. They were out tur minister. Winston Spencer .Church- key hunting. Both had whistles and ill, first lord of the admiralty, was were calling wild turkeys. Each took Bryce Friday exchange ratifications j hit with a heavy book hurled from the other for a turkey by their calls of the treaty signed July 7th, last, j the camp of the enemy. A fight ap- until they came very close together, providing for an adjustment between ! peared imminent until Will Crooks, when the deceased was shot, his Great Britain and the United States! the labor member, poured oil on the brother thinking he was shooting a 01 tne xsortn Atlantic fisheries con-l troubled waters by starting the sing-.turkey troversy. It precrlbed the boundary! ing of "Auld Lang Syne." waters and provides a commission to pass upon reasonableness of the local Canadian ?and New Foundland fish eries regulations. j Confident that they have establish ed the identity of the man who, in a series of postcards and letters con fessed to the murder of Joseph Jo sephs, the seven-year-old Lackawan na boy, Michael Krock, the New York newsboy, find other similar crimes, the police of Lackawanna and Buffalo, New York, have laid their evidence before the grand jury and ask for an indictment. Four additional companies of State militia were rushed Monday into the coal strike district of West Virginia to reinforce four companies already in the field. Armed miners are march ing toward Paint Creek to "clean it up.'-' Militiamen now in the field have been ordered to halt the miners and shoot to kill If necessary. Min ers shot up two small villages Mon day but there were no fatalities. Blackened pieces of infernal ma chines which figured in the explosion at Los Angeles, Cal., October 1, 1910, when twenty-one persons were killed in the wreck of The Times building were identified at the "dynamite con spiracy 'trial at Indianapolis Mon day. Events involving the handling of the nitro-gelatine with which James B. SlcNamara caused the ex plosion were first described by witnesses. You Can Mos! Always Get a dependable piano from any reliable pi ano dealer in any section, but you can undoubtedly obtain a little better instru ment HERE for the same money than elsewhere. We have a special proposition that will be of interest to intending piano pur chasers. Mailed upon request to DARNELL & THOMAS N. C. WHEN YOU READ THIS ADVERTISEMENT in your agricultural paper this month, remember that we have the agency for Menz Lr "Ease and "American Boy shoes. THL-SE LETTERS prove they arc worth invesUgatin H. K. Buie, a white man, aged Georgia Negro Would Like to Feed about sixty years, was found dead in the Hungry Democrats. s bis bed at Danville, Va., early Sun- .... , ' ... N day morning. The coroner declared (Atlanta Constitution.) Ithat death was due tQ apoplexy f'I sho would lak' ter git de job er when the dead man's effects were butler in dat White House," said searched, it was found that he was Brother Williams, "ef fer nuthin' else due to appear before the Federal than ter feed my hongry Dimmycrat Court at Littleton, N. C, Monday white frien's who been so long away morning under a $1,000 bond on a f'um de Feal dey'll smack dey moufs charge of blockading whiskey. Buie so loud It'll be lak' hallelula an' hap- was a native of Fayetteville, N. C.t py lan ter hear urn!" jand his remains were shipped there. PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS ARID WURIDERQ0SE Plenty ot.Blankets, Comforts, Quilts, and Sweaters for the cool weather. Shoes for the family. Ladies', men's, boys' and children's Union Suits. Vests and pants in Cotton and Wool. ' YOURS TO PLEASE HUNTER-RAND CO. C C. Phone 274, - Raleiflli, N. C TOUR FEET WHX. nit r nvrprwr a tjt v i a pair of Mens "Ease-. YouH also find after several months e very-day service, that a beb ter thoe cant be nnt trMk Anj ir t. the same experience as thousands of men wow ditc worn mem the past IX years, they'll c jruu money on your erery-day shoe bula. , Send for Catalog Ho. 12 Describes the Mens "Ease" from to 1 8 inch heights; lao the" American Boy" an honest hoe made espec ially for the red blooded, out door hoy. f I SSyVS Find m ii mm I sZZyy Th i rs I I sole and TtUow labeL and von will know that the Xper eatner Is 41tni Ease- Special Elk. I only Boner lnther have used for 12 years. leather tanned far 7fT-Iy service, Toojrh as tw-hide. matt mm m rliMtiul wtll alwSVa retain its nriinn.l mmm if properly cared for. UpzlaShoiCo..tUkrt. Detroit, Bleb. " " c ASK FOR CAT AT .Oft w tir . nave a. dealer near vnn t t 1 t TOatahim. If nrr mm. I Z. . w - - " " ' u iuuwuww iuc suw CireCt tO VOO Cram that tmrnm prices, delivery prepaid, cooes JESSIE FON ."55 "fif?" ad "AMERICAN BOY" dx mr not t"tS i'S' IHIcsiplbxsirH Kosemfiln I bonsht a pair of yur and after 5 month trial as thry vrrrf the day I bout a 1 1- ' , recommend tbrm to any Ui"i eood heavy workihor tLt J,'t , service and tM cunifort 'American Boy thoMi ar- w w bouiht that ore lore vo - f I ever hal-olrd. I have had tVr. ha.. and the tops are as seod j - . .A jj "Since wesrm MffJ 'F-TrriS a Hiksrriaf for ar.v other." w -I have a pair of rcr a they have rjW " rf recoiamead them as a .,T L of ' i fuvp u a n thm tn be the t"t , -tf ever wore. I am bu f. t7K-ct -The Men 'Ease' short 1 havernudr. '1 all kind of farm w J comfortable and 1 l.yrur raendint them to the qhsX1 most comfortawe sa never set hard or SUS- J- tv- Vmi 'Ease are my favorite shoes." 129 FAYIOTEVTIIE. STRUT ndciaha North Carolina-
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