The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-01-05
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ECream of News.
Brief Summary Of MosG
important Events
Of Each Day.

Ing set hre to the Hotel Edgerton, in
Macon. A room which she occupied
was found in flames after sne left, oil
being scattered everywhere.
-Quitman, Ga, was visited by q
$4,000 FIRE early Sunday morning
Two hundred and fifty bales Of cotton
were also consumed at senioa
Charles helms, the North Carroll
ma man charged with numbering his
wife and with having had a hand In
the abduction of Millionaire wentz,
may be carried to Kentucky, requlsi
ton having been made for him.
Russell and DriScoll, the alleged
safe blowers, wanted in many cities,
were carried from Mobile to Montgom.
cry Ala, Sunday night anu will be
turned over to Jacksonville. Fla. Off
GERS.
"A decision has been reached by
the Flint Glass Manufacturers to close
all bottle factories shortly after the
first OF the year for a period Of four
weeks, in order to curtall production
and better enable the trade to main
tain prices.
AT Salt Lake City Frank Rose
murdered his wife Christmas after
noon. The police found the body Sun.
day. Inc womans neck was clasped
by the arms of her baby boy.
Ten thousand men, women and
children engaged in rush at Chicago
to get at the Christmas dinner provl1-
ed by the Volunteers of America and
several were injured.
The cruiser Dixie sailed from the
League Island navy yard for Panama
Monday. She carries 900 marines and
General Elliott commanding the ma
rine corps
More hearses were used In con.
Quoting funerals In Chicago Sunday
than at any time since the strike, but
in every case pAlicemen rode with the
driver.
Preparatory to leaving for Austria
liza Dowie Sunday night babe his fol-
lowers farewell and prayed that Presl-
dent Roosevelt's enemies be circum
vented.
Revised figures of the casualties
in the railroad wreck near Grand Rap.
ids, Mich, show 22 dead and 20 injur.
ed, some or the latter fatally.
Certain diplomats at Washington
believe that the Panama affair will
weaken the influence OF the United
States Is the Far East.
Robbers wreck a bank at Kiowa,
Ind. T., securing and destroying about
$4,000.
The opinion entertained by dlplo-
mats in the Far East that war be.
tween Russia and japan is inevitable
is unchanged
The election for members Of the
constitutional convention took place
on the Isthmus Of Panama Sunday.
The returns indicate tho triumph of
the Junta candidates.
"A large party Of prominent Column
bus, Ca, people will see the launching
OF the Ocean Steamship Companys
new liner, City Of Columbus, at Ches.
ter, Pa, in January.
--Thomasville, Ca, now has a hot
municipal campaign on, the chief ques-
ton at issue being whether or not
cows shall be allowed to roam the
citys streets at their will
The steamer ocklawaha, OF the Lu.
cas- line, was burned at Palatka, Fla.,-
having been fired by incendlaries.
Nine negroes. accused of murder,
have been spirited away to Hopkins.
vile, KY, to save them from mob
violence.
because George Kaufman, Of Chi.
cago, thought his Christmas presents
we're too few, he shot his cousin and
aunt.
The Salvation Army distributed
Christmas dinners to $4,000 OF New
York's poor.
Colon is in state Of joyful ex-
element over the news that Great
Britain has recognized the republic.
Three boys, one white and two
colored, were killed at Wilmington, N.
c., Christmas day by toy guns during |
the most noisy celebration the city has
ever known.
1t is reported that the insurgents,
headed by General Jiminez, are march.
ing on San Domingo.
Although 10000 bakers are on
strike at Paris, the soldiers have pre-.
vented disorder.
-Bolognes most singular structure,
the famous leaning tower, has been
sold.
All children of Dowieites will be
excluded from the public schools Of
Chicago because they have not been
vaccinated.
Former Governor Russell, OF North
Carolina, is charged by Miss Mary
Darby, OF Wilmington, now postmis.
tress, with having secured The plum
for his wife while representing Miss
Darby at Washington, all his expenses
belrg paid by her
"A big cotton mill is 10 be located
on the French Broad river in North
Carolina, which is to be operated by
labor imported from the crowded tene.
ment districts OF New York city.
The oglethorpe ball at Savannah
netted the oglethorpe Monument As.
ISOLATION $500 clear OF all exnepsas