Macon beacon., 1905-08-12

dictments, including one against Chas,
f. Pfster one of the city's most prom.
inent citizens, charging larceny by
bailee.
What promises to be one of the
most disastrous cavelns ever known in
| that district is occurring at Duenweg,
a mining camp near Webb City, Mo-,
due to defective timbering. The King
William Mining Co. will be a heavy
loser.
NJ Witte, the principal Russian
peace plenipotentiary, after his first
visit to President Roosevelt at Oyster
| Bay, said he had conceived the high.
est opinion of Mr.. Roosevelt, and was
particularly struck with his energy
and broadmindedness
Acting on the request of Gov Blan-
chard of Louisiana, President Roose-
welt directed Surgeon General Wyman
OF the Marine hospital service to take
every step in his power to meet the
situation in New Orleans.
Ed Lewis and kid" George, ne
groes were lynched at Hattiesburg
Miss, by mob. They were charged
with being accessory to the murder OF
convict guard ]. s. Smith
Between twenty and thirty men sre
reported TO have been killed by an ex-
plosion at the dynamite factory Of the
| Nitro Powder Co. at Mingo Hollow,
near Esopus, n. Y.
\ report is current in Berlin which
is regarded by the press as probably
true, that a meeting has been arranged
between Emperor William and his un'
Gle, King Edward of Great Britain
Coy. Mickey of Nebraska has surren-
dered to the state of Colorado Frank
Buster. alias Frank Martin, charged
with the murder of Martin O'C0nnor,
miner, on April last
After killing two persons, seriously
aud probably fatally shooting two 9th
ers, one a woman, and less seriously
woundlng two more, Ike Kinney, des-
perate negro, was killed at Doella, Ark.
Kinney had previously killed negro
at Stamps and was being pursued.
The city council of Mena, Ark, re-
fused to quarantine against yellow fe-
yer infected points, but invited refugees
to 20 there Mena is in the Ozarks,
! 300 feet above sea level, where yellow
fever germs can not exist.
Portsmouth, N. H., during the ses-
slons of the peace conference, will en-
tertain one of the most notable gath
erings of special newspaper correspon-
dents that has got together in many
day. George Smalley, of the London
Times, aged 72, but still active and
alert, will be dean of the gathering.
Percy Pembroke aged 16 years, one
of three boys charged with the murder
of T. w. Cook, at Oakland, Cal, has
made a full confess sion He says the
crime was deliberately planned, but
that the other two, John Snyder and
George Bloker, did the work.
Gov. Masoons report for July shows
an Improvement in the yellow fever sit
uation on the Isthmus of Panama over
tho preceding month.
W, II. Hartman expects to spend
$40 900 600 in railroad building in Ore
gon Washington and Idaho within the
next year.
Thomas A. Edison announces that nc
has at last perfected his electric motor
1t is not designed for scorching but for
pleasure vehicle, under most favor
able conditions it will give a 2O-mile an
hour speed for $50 miles.
The assets of the defunct German
bank of Buffalo, N Y, which had
face value of sG,799,176, are shown by
the appraisers report to be actually
worth about $3,93O,707.
If NJ. Wittes words are to be taken
literally he has not come over here to
make peace, but merely to ascertain
if Japan's demands are such as to
form reasonable basis for future
negotiations
The proposed Bennington men,
orial at San Diego, Cal, may take the
form of club house for the use of
sailors If the ideas of the promoters
are carried out. The government will
erect fine shaft in memory of the
dead seamen.
AS II result of meeting of insur.
ance commissioners of several states
in Chicago three large insurance COM
panles of New York are to be investl-
gated, and it is likely that interstate
investigation of all the large com
panies will be instituted.
The Foresters, in national conven-
ton at Atlantic City, n j., decided
to reduce the minimum age to 16
years and the maximum is made 55
years A policy will be issued as low
as $3.50, while before $500 was the
smallest.
Col. Henry Watterson, of Louisville,
Ky, has been observing the aris.
tocracy across the water. He says 1t
is of better grade than the American
article. There it means lineage and
brains Here-well it ranges chiefly
between bad whisky and STANDARD
Oil"
Percy Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, was
awarded the $4,000 trophy offered by
Charles ]. .Glidden for the best show
ing in the recent automobile endurance
test from New York to Mount Wash.
ington and return.
Two wealthy Chinese merchants
have arrived in Washington to discuss
Chinese-American matters with spe.
cial reference to the boycott against
American goods
Luther Gilliham was arrested near
Centresville, H., by Sheriff Connery Of
White county, charged with the murder
of William Jones, whose dead body was
found near Carmi.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
denies the report that employees of the
forestry service have written articles
for magazines prior to the publication
of the results of government work in
public reports
The officers of the Southern Cotton
association are determined that the de-
partment of agriculture shall be reor-
ganized, and they want Secretary Will