Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-03-04

A denial comes from Toxic OF the :
report that Japan had ordered four bat
tleships built in England. Japan In
tends, in the future, unlPss urgent CIR
umstances should dictate otherwise
to construct all her own warshlJs.
Because a girl refused to dance win
an unbidden guest at wedding cele
bration among the coke workers neal
Greensburg, Pa, the angry man gain
cred a party of his friends and started
a riot, in which two men we're kllleo
and six others stabbed or shot one OF
whom will die. Twenty-seyen arrests
were made.
President Roosevelt has been asked
to appoint as second lieutenants in the
army five West Point cadets who were
dismissed for unbecoming conduct
May q. 1901, on the eve of their grad
uation.
Edward O'Toole was killed by fall
ing elevator in the Rock Island (lll)
arsenal. Two other men were IN
jured.
Sir Henry Irving continues quite Ill
at Wolverhampton England. HIS phy-
sicians attribute his condition to over
work. combined with the continuous
round of entertainments, public ana
private. incident to his farewell tour.
Mrs. Mccormick. wife of the Ameri'
can ambassador to Russia. has re-
turned to St. Petersburg from her WISH
to the United States.
At an auction sale in London an
Elizabethan ever of rock CRYSTAL
mounted on silver, belonging TO the
marquis of Anglesea, was sold FOR $2o''
900.
/ BY the breaking of heavy ice gorge
in the Ohio river at Maysville, Ky, the
steamer Big Kanawha was torn IRON.
her moorings, carried down stream and
sunk. Her crew escaped,
r. Grove Walter, former assistant
states attorney of Chicago, who dis
appeared mysteriously from Los
Angeles. Cal, recently, has been To-
Gated at San Diego.
The president has called the senate
TO meet in extra session at noon on
March 4.
The Missouri Pacific auditor having
discovered shortage in the accounts
of Agent Homer Seybold, at Hickman
Neb.. Seybold committed suicide
The coachman who was driving the
carriage when Grand Duke Sergius wa
assassinated is dead. He had 16 dis
tirct wounds.
Representative Baker created a sen
salion in the Indiana house of repre-
sentatives when he produced a lette
which he said had been sent him b,
the Cigarette trust with 500 bin in
closed. as a bid for his vote agains
the anti-cigarette bill The bill wa
promptly passed.
The George Washington university
formerly the Columbia university /
Washington. was formally dedicate
under its new name on Washington
birthday.
Bubonic plague is reported to hav
made its appearance at Pisagua,
miles north of Iquique, Chill.
A plant for the manufacture of coun
terfeit nickes, dimes and quarters ha
pecn discovered in the Virginia pen
Tertiary at Richmond together with
peck of spurious coins.
AS a result of the Virginia mine cf
T. lamity in Alabama 100 families. il
Guiding 300 children, are left destitut
In addition to the Standard Oil CO
a Kansas is preparing to probe the met
l DDS of the beef, grain, implement, mil
u inc and lumber combines.
= Fire at Sabetha. Kas,, destroyed Il
+ building occupied by the Citizen
e state bank and two others adjoining
y loss, 0,00O
William McGee. said to be the la
y white survivor of the Custer massacr
: who stabbed Frank Mitchell fatally
t. New York, after a quarrel, has be-
II convicted of manslaughter in the fiji
&c degree.
i United States Minister Dawson
San Domingo City has notified t
o state department of an attempt to
/. sassinate President Morales. Five
S, his assailants were captured,
The United States grand jury
s. Montgomery, Ala, has returned 26
N dictments for peonage and conspira'
p Both whites and blacks are involved
I'd Mai. James c. Carlton, president
is the National Mexican War Vetera
association, died at Bedford, Ind, +
A. lowing a stroke of paralysis, aged
n years.
rs William b. Clarke, prominent ca
talist of Kansas City, Mo-, died
Santa Barbara Cal, aged 81 years
was stricken with nervous prostrat
shortly after New Years, and went
ry California in search OF health.
The Colorado desert has been liDei
ed ly soaked by the recent storm, and
ie' Imperial valley is flooded. The av
ed age rainfall there is usually less I'll
q an inch,
The Iroquois theater fire cases hs
'e- been again laid before the grand j
in Chicago, in an effort to secure r
W. indictments in place of those recer
ny quashed.
mt Science hall of the Virginia pt
technic institute at Blacksburg,
ed, was destroyed by fire; loss, $75,OOC
OF Washington birthday was celeb
10 ed by Americans with banquets
WI speech making in Paris and Rome
The jury at Butler Mo, after
ne liberating one hour and forty minu
rls returned verdict of not guilty in
an case Of Former Councilman Cha
not KratZ, of st. Louis, charged with
is berry in connection with the Subur
railway franchise bill.
nal John Henry Vier deputy Un
rye States marshal, was shot and kille'
ant Indian territory, while hunting
ors thieves, by Charley Wickley, Oh
of kee Indian, who was wanted for sh
asst ing another deputy a year ago
nay The Porto Rican battalion of in
try, 1926 strong, will be in the IL
|, guration parade in Washington
TED A man who persisted in an atte
to reach the presidents carriage
are ing drive through Philadelphia
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