The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-05-03
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Brief Summary Of Most
Imports Mt Events
OF Each Day.

OF tho grand chapter of Royal Arch
Masons began at Macon, Ca, Wednes.
day, ..
AT Marietta, saluda county, South
Carolina, Is. b. Burton shot and killed
by M. w. Thrailkill and his son.
clarence The tragedy grew out OF
pistol loaned by ThralllSill to a negro,
who pawned the weapon to Burton.
body Of G. A. MCGEE, Of Hogans.
VILE Ca, found on the track Of the
Louisville and Nashville road, near
Bryan station. While riding on plat.
form he shot hmself
IN. II. McDavld, of Jefferson coun
ty Ala, has been appointed secretary
OF state to succeed j. Thomas Henin,
who resigned
In the Smoot hearing Wednesday
l.. q. Davis, sheriff of Davis county,
Utah, testified that Apostle Taylor
married maids employed by his two
wives and that they are now only "a
years old.
'v-Jeter G. Prltchard, former fusion
senator from North Carolina, has
been named by the president as Uni
ted States judge Of the fourth circuit
to succeed the late Judge Simonton.
There was a slight break in tho
leyeo on the Illinois side of the Mis-
sissippi, north of East st, Louis, We'd.
nesday There is also a great food
In the Missouri valley.
The Georgia state democratic OK.
ecutlve committee is called by Chair.
man Brown TO meet in Atlanta May 4.
at the Piedmont hotel.
Judge Newman decides TO hold
peonage cases in allegiance until the
United States supreme court passes
on the question,
Georgia lodges Odd Fellows cele.
brated the S5th anniversary of the
founding of the great order Tuesday.
-Masons Of Georgia have chosen
their officers for next year, and ]. c,
Greenfield Of Atlanta, is grand mas
ter.
Memorial day was httingly cele.
brated Tuesday throughout the South.
Courts Of North Carolina are en-.
deayorlng to force Atlantic Coast Line
and Southern Railway to make a spec.
fled connection
The vagrancy law recently passed
by the Mississippi legislature takes
effect Saturday.
Mississippi veteran of civil war
finds lost daughter after a search last.
ing forty years,
Moses Thatcher was put on the
stand for the defense in the snoot
hearing at Washington Tuesday. He
denied knowledge of Mormon control
of candidate,
The collapse Of cage In the Rob.
inson mine in the Transvaal sent forty.
six miners 1000 feet down shaft
to instant death.
The federal grand jury at Athens,
Ca, will investigate four cases of al.
legged peonage
The Georgia chautauqua was open.
ed at Albany Sunday
Governor Jelks, of Alabama, of,
fers rewards for conviction Of men
who lynohed negro.
The house was in session oyer
five hours Sunday for the purpose OF
paying tribute to tho memory of the
late Senator Marcus A. Hanna, tho
late Representative G. w. Thomp.
son, OF Alabama, and the late Repre-.
sentative W. w. Skllls, OF Ohio.
Judge George Gray will preside at
the international arbitration confer.
ence to be held in June,
AT Elesd, an Italian market town,
a gendarme commander was killed by
D socialist, whereupon the gendarmes
fred on the crowd, killing twenty.
three
The contract transferring the Pan.
ANA canal route TO the United States
was signed Friday at Paris, On Sat.
lrday the stockholders ratified the &C.
ton. N'faNb ~
Five people were killed at Potts
Camp, Miss, by collision Of trains
on the Frisco.
--Neidermeier Marx and Van Dine,
the notorious "car barn bandits" w5re
hanged at Chicago Friday,
Fruit is said to be killed In North
Carolina, this being the severest April
over known there.
William r. Hearst made his first
speech Friday. appearing before the
house judiciary committee in support
If his resolution for action in the case
against tho coal trust,
1t is believed that Senator Smoot,
If Utah. will lose his seat as result
II the investigation now in progress.
king Victor Emmanuel OF Italy,
declares that emigrants from his coun.
ny are benefited in America, and
wishes some OF them would return to
tally. +,
Norway, Sweden and Denmark arc ,
aid to have reached an agreement for
! conjoint declaration of neutrality.
Mississippi takes steps to suppress
'whitecapping" in certain localities,
knights Of Honor OF South Caro- :
ina decide to admit women as mer.,
'ers.
The house Friday gave evidence OF I
approaching adjournment by passing h
arge number Of bills, among them he. n
ng one to provide a Temporary govern. y