The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-05-03
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Observation-Disclosures
Brief Summary Of Most
Imports Mt Events
Of Each Dey.
Captain R. P. Hobson accepts in.

-BlBhty-second annual convention
of the grand chapter of Royal Arch
Masons began at Macon, Ga, Wednes.
day.
AT Marietta, Saluda county, South
Carolina, b. p. Burton shot and killed
by M. w. Thralkill and his son.
clarence, The tragedy grew out Of a
pistol loaned by Thrallllll to 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 himself.
IN. r. McDavid, OF Jefferson coun,
ty, Ala, has been appointed secretary
Of state to succeed j. Thomas Helm,
who resigned,
In the Smoot hearing Wednesday
l.. r. 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.
---Jeter G. Pritchard, 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 Slmonton.
There was a slight break in tho
leyee on the Illinois side OF the Mis-.
slsslppi, north of East st. Louis, We'd.
nesday. There is also great flood
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 j. C.
Greenfield OF Atlanta, Is grand mas
ter
Memorial day was fttingly cele.
brated Tuesday throughout the South.
Courts Of North Carolina are en-.
deayoring 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 Snioot
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 a shaft
to instant death.
The federal grand Jury at Athens
Ga, 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 lynched negro,
The house was In session over
FIVE hours Sunday for the purpose OF
paying tribute to tho memory of the
late Senator Marcus A. Hanna, the
late Representative c. 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
a socialist, whereupon the gendarmes
fred on the crowd, killing twenty
three.
The contract transferring the Pan.
anna canal route to the United States |
was signed Friday at Paris On Sat.
urday the stockholders ratified the &C.
ton.
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" wsre
hanged at Chicago Friday,
Fruit is said to be killed In North
Carolina, this being the severest April
ever known there.
William h. Hearst made his frst
speech Friday appearing before the
house Judiciary committee in support
of his resolution for action In the case
against the coal trust.
1T is believed that Senator Smoot,
of Utah, will lose his seat as result
of the investigation now in progress.
e king Victor Emmanuel OF Italy,
declares that emigrants from his coun-
try are benefited in America, and
wishes some OF them would return to
Italy.
Norway, Sweden and Denmark arc
said to have reached an agreement for
a conjoint declaration of neutrality,
Mississippi takes steps to supp, oss
"whitecapping" In certain localities,
knights OF Honor of South Caro-.
lima decide to admit women as moE.
bers.
The house Friday gave evidence OF
approaching adjournment by passing a
large number Of bills, among them be-