Macon beacon., 1905-12-23

States and the Philippines will reach.
for the current calendar year, 100000
00o, against SIS 100000 in 1904.
John A Burbank. former territorial
governor Of Dakota, died at his home in
Richmond, Ind, after brief illness,
aged 7S.
A bomb found on a train on which
President Loubet OF France was trav-
cling with shooting party, proved, on
examination, to be harmless affair.
Some uneasiness has been caused in
France by the Spanish proposal to
change the meeting place Of the con-
ference en- Moroccan reforms from AL
geoiras to Madrid
Prof. S. Stanhope Orris. professor
emeritus Of Princeton university, and
one of the foremost scholars in the
United States, died at Harrisburg, Pa,
of paralysis, aged 10 years
Marquis Ito is said to have accepted
an appointment as resident general in
Korea.
Two men who held up the Colby
state bank at Colby, Wis, were cap
tured in saloon in Wausau, Wis, and
all Of the stolen money recovered. They
claimed to be farm hands, out of wWlt
and desperate.
Mrs. Vim. Marsh and her two cWldrcn
and James Dwyer lost their liyes in a
fire that destroyed the vcrbG@ theatcr
in Lorain. q.
Two of the principal bl@ks in Dallas,
ILL.,. including the Flr/ national bank
ard the Weekly ReviM Office, were de-
stroycd by fire. LoM, $Soooo, with but
little insurance.
DR. W. S. FMbes professor of an
atomy and clMical surgery at Jefferson
medical colTge, Philadelphia, died at
his home I'm that city of angina pee
toris, a4fd "A years.
ChaTes b. Eames. vice-president OF
the ST. Louis creadit-clearinghouse, was
kilhd at his home while burning off
We stock of an old muzzle-loading
army rife which he had bought to add
to his collection of old firearms, bull
let from the gun penetrating his head.
Henry +. Weaver. president of the
Weaver Coal & Coke Co., Chicago,
dropped dead in his home on Drexel
boulevard
Former State Senator W. II. Baron,
president of the defunct Chamberlain
bank, has been bound over to the dis
trict court at Tecumseh, Neb., on a
charge of perjury in connection with
testimony given at the trial of Cashier
Chamberlain.
known in western mining circles, was
overcome by the fumes Of ores he was
testing at Salt Lake City, Utah, aud
died shortly after being found
The jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah
Caldwell, charged with the murder OF
her husband, at Salna, Kas, disagreed
ana was discharged. Two are said to
have held out for acquittal.
The transport Buford sailed from San
Francisco for Manila and way ports
carrying ten troops of the Third caval-
ry, a number of recruits and 1000 tons
of army supplies.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte is
inoensed at the latest act of hazing at
the naval academy, and has declared
that the guilty midshipmen will be
summarly dismissed and that other
dismissals will follow as often as mid
shipmen are found guilty of ha2ing or
countenancing it,
II. ]. Freeman, alias w. II. Norton
wanted at Memphis, Tenn, on charge
of embezzling $4,000 from the Chicka-
saw Bank & Savings Co., was arrested
in the Bad River country In South Da-
kota and taken back to Memphis.
Nebraska is rot yet done with Pat
Grove. therefore Coy. Mickey has de-
cided not to honor-for the present at
east--the requisition of the governor
of Iowa for the removal of Grove to
that state.
Hugh Watt, flnancier and former
member of parliament, was placed on
trial at ,he Old Bailey in London, on
the charge Of melting hired agents to
murder lis divorced wife, Julia Watt,
and Sir Reginald Beauchamp.
Fire, in Portland, Ore, destroyed the
wholesale grocery establishment of
Wadams G Kerr Brothers, causing a
loss of upwards of 100000. Four fire
men were seriously injured.
NJ. NJ. Lofts convicted Of arson and
robbery at Princeton, Kas, and who
escaped in sensational manner some
time ago, Is en- route home from Colon,
Panama, in the custody of two officers.
In her four-hour endurance test
along the New England coast the bat
tleship Louisiana made an average
speed of 1898 knots an hour Her
contract speed was is knots.
The actual number of post offices in
the United States at the close Of the
last fiscal year was; First class, 275;
second class, 125S; third class, APO;
fourth class, 62,47S. Total 6S,131.
The abolition Of the concordat in
France, and the substitution of the new
regime following the separation or
church and state involves an extensive
change in the existing conditions un-
der which the state carried on thou
sands of churches.
The Kansas state board of railroad
commissioners decided to order a re-
duction of five per cent. in freight rates
on all classes of grain.
An effort is being made to secure a
pardon for Long john Dolan, former
chairman of the st. Louis democratic
city committee, who is serving a five
year sentence in the federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kas,, for procuring
fraudulent naturalization of aliens.
James b. Oliver, president of the
Oliver Iron & Stel Co., died in Pitts
burg. Pa, after four days illness
from pneumonia, aged 6l years.
Former Circuit Judge IIoratio Wood
dropped dead at his home in st. Louis
OF apoplexy. He had been i'll for sew
eral weeks and had just returned from
Asheville, N. G.
The gunboat Wasp, for the safety Of
which grave fears were entertained,
arrived at Newport r. l., after a ter
rife battle with a North Atlantic hur-
ricane, during which she sprang Sc
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