Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-03-18
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was found
guilty, al Cleveland, o., on seven
counts of the indictment under which
she was tried, the other nine counts
having been withdrawn from the jury S
consideration by the court
w. J. Clark, formerly lumber sales
man of La Grange, ILL.,. discouraged
over the failure to secure contract
he was figuring on, committed suicide
by asphyxiat!on in a rooming house
at San Francisco,
United Sta.es Ambassador Meyer
transferred from Italy TO Russia, has
leased the famous Kleinmichel palace
in st. Petersburg for his official resi-
dence.
The remains of Senator William B'
Bate were laid in state beneath the
flag of his old regiment, the Second
Tennessee, which he led at Shiloh, in
the Tennessee state capitol at Nash
Vile preceding their interment, and
thousands viewed them.
Sixteen prisoners made a desperate
dash for freedom from the Hot
Springs (Ark,) Jail. One of them
Sllas Love, was shot dead, one escaped
and all the rest We're captured,
Ed. b, Rivers, prominent track
athlete at the Iowa state university
died from appendicitis.
D,a,;Jcnt IInvnpr pf ChipauO IN YER
sity is going to Lakewood N. j., to re-
cuperate, where John d. Rockefeller
has arranged for his stay.
Col Caleb Huse, c, S. A., a graduate
of West Point in 1851. and for many
years an instructor there, is dead at
Highland Falls. N. Y,
Charles A. Forbes, of Petersham
Mass, died suddenly on board the
tourist steamer Halifax off the port OF
Kingston, Jamaica.
The japanese have captured the
British steamer Saxon Prince, bound
for Vladivostok with cargo Of steel
rails.
Bishop A. c. A. Hall of the Episco-
nal diocese of Vermont is critically Ill
at Burlington, Vt. following an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Gen. william r. Walker civil wal
veteran. is dead at Pawtucket, r. l.
Geors,e Schistler, enraged at being
beaten in a lawsuit. at Denver Col, by
X. Fill went cunning for the latter
and killed him and Fill's wife, set fire
to their house, burning up a young
child. In resisting arrest he wounded
three men and was finally shot to
death in his house, where he had bar
ricaded himself.
Fire completely destroyed the plant
of the Connellsville (Pa.) Car & Ma
chine Co. causing loss of $150,O0o
Night Watchman Martin Mullen is be-
lieved to have been burned to death.
The famous hospice Of st, Gothard
in Switzerland, has been destroyed BY
fire.
The Hamburg American Steamship
Co. is said to be remaining and coal
ing the IA steamers recently chartered
to the Russian government.
Russia is said to be steadily rein
forcing her military strength, both IL
men and guns, on the India frontier o
Russian Turkestan.
Twenty or thirty lives were lost al
the result Of terrific explosion il
the Cambrian coliery in the RhonddI
valley liz Wales.
Eliza Allen Ostrander, wife Of Rev
Luther Allen Ostrander, died at Lyons
N. Y, following an operation for ap
peHdicitis.
Vice-President Fairbanks has ap
pointed his son. Fred c. Fairbanks
who graduated from Princeton in tn
class of 1903, as his private secretary
The four senators expelled from tn
California senate after being accuses
Of accepting bribes. will seek reinstate
ment through mandamus proceedings