Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-02-24

a great array of royalty, including EN-
peror William of Germany, who went to
Copenhagen on the German battleship
Preussen. Requiem services were held
[ In all churches throughout the king
dom.
The Updyke Grain Co. has pur-
chased the w. H. Fonguson line of
elevators, Is in number, on the lines
of the Burlington road, and all in Ne
! braska except the one at Fort Morgan,
Col The effect will be to divert grain
that has heretofore gone to Kansas
, City, to Omaha.
The jury in the case of Pat Grove,
at Omaha, Neb.. charged with the rob
berry of Edward A. Cudahy of $25,OOO
in connection with the kidnapping of
the latters son, five years ago, re.
turned verdict of not guilty after IS
hours deliberation
The skeleton of man has been
iouGd in st. Louis county, Missouri,
who was evidently the victim of foul
play during the Worlds fair in st.
LOUIS ~ lltdllo VI lutHlluCdLlOu Is
presented in the fact that the victim
had IS gold teeth, 7 solid and II
capped
A son has been born to Prince Chun
of China, the emperors brother 1t is
believed in Pekin that this child will
be designated as the heir apparent to
the throne.
George w, Beavers, who pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to defraud the
government, has been taken TO the
Moundsville CIV. Va) penientiary to
serve his two years sentence
Judge Waite, in the Minneapolis
(Minn) police court, decided that dra-
matte acting was not common labor,
and dismissed several actors from va.
rious theaters who had been charged
with violating the Sunday closing law
Gov. Hagerman of New Mexico
granted reprieye for one week to
John Conley, who was to have been
hanged at Taos February 16, to per.
init inquiry as to his mental condi-
| ton.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron Co. expect, by running their 34
collieries to their full capacity up to
April /, to have coal enough stored to |
last until next September, in case a |
strike should be ordered
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has refused to |
grant pardon to Arthur E. Ireland, |
a union labor leader convicted of as
saulting a non-union machinist and |
sentenced to six months in the COwley |
county Jail, He says the case will not
be reopened.
Jack Southwel RUSSELL twenty
fifth Baron De Clifford, title created
in 1899, and Miss Eva Carrington an
actress in Blue Bell in Fairyland,"
were married in London under a spe.
cial license. The baron owns about
$4,000 acres in County Mayo, Ireland.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Horace A. Taylor has resigned, to
take effect June 80 next. John H. Ed
wards -qf 0hin- at the suggestion of
be appointed his successor.
Secretary of State Root has started
an investigation to ascertain the cause
of the delay in completing the bronze
statue of Gen Lafayette, in Paris, for
which a large sum of money was
raised in this country.
On the eve of the marriage of Miss
Alice Roosevelt and Mr. Longworth,
Peter Earlsson, Swede, appeared at
the White House and tried to gain ad-
mitance, saying he wanted to see
Miss Alice to whom he was engaged
to be married He was taken into
custody.
Another attack on foreign mission
in China is reported, in the province
Of Nganhwei. on the left bank Of the
Yang-tse. No loss Of life is reported.
In some quarters in Shanghai. Japan
is believed to view the possibility of
armed Intervention in China with
eQuanimity since it would provide her
with occasion to obtain from China
what she failed to exact from Russia.
The American colony in Havana, Gu
ba, observed the eighth anniversary of
the destruction of the Maine. Flags
and wreaths were placed on the masts
of the sunken battleship.
The Bank of America, of Chicago, in
corporated last December with a capital
of $25000O, has been placed in the hands
of a receiver. The bank officials are
charged with responsibility for its in
sOlyency.
The immigration from all countries
to the United States during the month
of January, 1906, was 5l,127, decrease
OF nine per cent over January, 1905, but
an increase of 70 per cent. over 1904
Secretary Hitchcock of the interior
department SAYS that 600 indictments
and 400 convictions have been obtained
by the interior department in 10 states
for land frauds. 1Ie also said that Lou
isiana leads in the number of land |
frauds uncovered
The school inspectors of Peoria, ILL.,,
adopted a resolution releasing from Ii
ability for the shortage caused by the |
forgeries and embezzlement of n. c. |
Dougherty all the treasurers and bonds
men for the past IS years, the Peoria
national bank and other banks involved. |
Every colliery and washery in the |
anthracite field in Pennsylvania is be-
ing operated to full capacity, which
condition will obtain until April |, un
less it becomes evident that there is no
danger Of strike
Herman Reese, aged is, playfully |
pointed a pistol he didn't know was
loaded" at his mother as they sat by |
the fire at Guthrie Center, Ia, pulled |
the trigger and killed her.
Maj. Gen. Weston has sailed for Ma
Mia under sealed orders. 1t is SUR
missed that he may succeed Gen. Leon
ard Wood in case the latter should be |
ordered to China.
An inquiry is to be instituted as to
how Giorgione's painting Christ Bear
ing the Cross" disappeared from the
Loschi palace at Vicenzi, Italy, and |
turned up in the collection Of Mrs, Jack |
Gardner in Boston.
j. Barnett and his two daughters are |
dead at Stockton, Cal, supposedly |
from ptomaine poisoning, and Mrs. |