Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-04-22

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dor Porter, that in every detail an
swers the description Of John Pau
Jones, the famous American sea fight
er.
New York city has been withdrawn and
truce declared between the Brother
hood of Carpenters and the unions or
ganized by the Employers association
This dissipates fears Of a national
strike of carpenters.
A Salonica dispatch says that the
| Albanians are threatening n general
massacre of Christians at Prizrend
Ipek and Dakora, because they were
thwarted in an attempt 10 lynch pris-
oner suspected Of the murder of an
Albanian.
Frank Lit2o, a young man arrested
! in Chicago for a minor offense, has de-
clared TO the police that he had com
mitted two murders, shot one man,
who recovered and had committed
nine robberies and burgIarios.
Ambassador Choate was the guest Of
honor at a farewell dinner in the great
dining room of the Middle Temple of
the inns of court in London, at which
were present nearly every dlstn-
gukhed jurist and barrlster in Eng
land. It was a remarkable tribute
worthily bestowed.
Santa Fe bolcrmakers in the shops
at Topeka. Kas., have gone on strike.
they object to having TO do over the
botched work Of non-union workmen
employed at western Santa Fe points.
Joseph jefferson is seriously i'll at his
winter residence in Palm Beach, Fla,
and his recovery is hardly expected.
The scope of the alleged beef trust
inquiry by the special federal grand
jury in Chicago is broadening By the
seizure of a number Of trunks filled
with records Of the Aetna Trading Co.,
which are legally impounded, new
lead in the gathering of evidence has
been struck
The houses of William Cate, col
ored, and Alexander, white man,
both non-union miners, were wrecked
by explosion of dynamite at Bloos-
burg, Ala. A ten-year-od daughter of
Alexander was killed and two other
children injured. A strike has been
on there since last summer.
.Iohan Hoch has been granted a
change of venue from Judge Tuley's
court, in Chicago, to that of Judge
Kersten. where his trial for bigamy
has been set for April 49,
Cerebro spinal meningitis has made
its appearance at Dunbar, Pa, and the
citizens are greatly alarmed.
A story circulated through the press
that Mrs. Craven. who sued the estate
of former Senator Fair had been ad-
judged insane Is denied from Burling-
ton, la, where Mrs. Craven has been
critically i'll for some time.
A terrible and mysterious malady is
sweeping away the population OF To-
nopah, New. The most healthy are
stricken, and as death certainly over
takes them their bodies turn black. A
state investigation is being made.
President Roosevelt has asked the
Colorado newspaper men to let him
alone during his hunt, otherwise he
will be compelled to forego the pleas
uro he has anticipated and return
home.
Rev. Charles S. Mills, d. D., pastor
of Pilgrim Congregational church in
Cleveland, o.. has received a call to
become pastor of Pilgrim Congroga-
tional church in ST. Louis.
Seven hundred democrats attended |
the jefferson day banquet at the Wal
dorf-Astoria New York city, There |
were many present of national reputa-
ton, among them being Judge Alton
r. Parker democratic candidate for |
president last fall
The is wolves killed by tho presi-
dents party during the hunt in Okla
homa were skinned and tho skins
shipped to Washington, where they
will he dressed and kept as mementoes
of the hunt.
Frank Williams, business manager
Of the Gordon theater, Memphis, Tenn,
died at South McAlestor, I. r., imme-
diately after stepping off train, or
which he was a passenger to San An
ionic, Tex, in search of health.
The peasant agitation in the Cau-
casus is said to be spreading quickly
and widely the leaders forcing all
peasants to join them in pillage and
destruction,
Four men, three of whom are en-
,loyes of the Swarzchild e Sulzberger
packers, and the other an at
orney for that corporation, were in
Iicted by the federal grand jury in Chi
ago on charge of obstructing and
impeding a deputy marshal in his eff
orts to serve a subpoena upon a clerk
If the company.
Resolutions have been introduced in
10Th houses Of the Minnesota legisla-
ure appropriating $3.50 as a gift TO
ach reporter representing newspaper
Turing the sessions.
United States Ambassador Meyer
presented his credentials to the car
# Russia in the Alexandra palace at
amid surroundings Of
imperial pomp and splendor. The
eenest interest was manifested in Rus
ia over the event.
Admiral Schwartz who assisted, on
oard the frigate Niagara, in laying the
rst Atlantic cable, in 1857, is dead in
It. Petersburg.
The commanding officer at Ft. Cas-
veil N. c.. is sustained by Secretary
f War Taft in declining to surrender
o the North Carolina authorities a
older alleged to have shot and killed
comrade within the bounds Of the
The unidentified remains OF 50 VIC
inns of the explosion and fire a. the !
irover shoe factory in Brocton, Mass.
ave been finally inferred in a lot pur-
hased by the city in Melrose cemetery
Commissioner of Corporations James
/. Garfield, with three special agents,
as begun the work of investigating
be Standard Oil Co. in Kansas.