Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1908-05-16

that attorneys for Richard Smell, dis
inherited son of the aged millionaire,
Col. Thomas Smell, who is fighting
his fathers will for a share OF the
50, 900, 900 estate, have unearthed
host of letters written by women to
the old man, through which they
preyed upon his senile love mania
to wheedle him out of large sums OF
money.
A ban has been placed against rats
and mice on the Panama canal zone
in efforts to prevent bubonic plague
from gaining foothold there.
Unostentatiously and without I'M
usual ceremony, Rear Admiral Robley
D. Evans relinquished command OF
the Atlantic fleet to Rear Admiral
Charles M. Thomas. His flag at the
mast head of the Connecticut was
hauled down with salute OF IL guns.
Announcement was made by the
papal delegate, Rev. Diomete Fal-
COMO, that Auxiliary Bishop Muldoon
of Chicago has been recommended
for appointment as bishop OF the
Rockford Qll) diocese. Bishop Null
doons name has been sent to Rome,
but the pope has not yet made the
appointment
The reforestation Of Ireland on a
vast scale is the latest officirl prob
ect. A commission was recently ap-
pointed which has recommended that
the area of Ireland under forest
should be raised from 100000 acres,
the present figures, to 100000 acres.
In doing an act of human kindness,
Wilmer Sandt violated the state game
laws unconsciously and was arrested
by Deputy Game Warden Acker OF AL
lentown. Sandt was picking stones
from a field at Freemansburg, when
he uncovered nest of three rabbits.
Fearing that they might be harmed,
he took them home. The arrest fol-
lowed, and Sandt was fined $3S.25.
District Attorney Jerome admitted
on witness stand in the hearing OF
the King charges against him, that
he threw dice for dollar apiece and
the drinks with the two sons of Thorn
as F. Rryan, at restaurant near the
criminal courts buildings, while Del
phin H. Delmas was summing up in
the first trial of Harry X. Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White.
War has been declared against east
ern railroads by commercial and man.
ufacturing interests of cities extend
ing from the Mississippi river to
Maine, and preliminary steps toward
gigantic fight against the proposed
freight rate advance have been taken.
An advance in freight rates on the
leading railway systems east of the
Mississippi river was recommended by
the presidents of all the big eastern
railroads at conference in the Of
fees of the Trunk Line association.
Twenty members of the council OF
| the diocese of Texas were poisoned
by the luncheon served by the WON
en- of Christ church at the parish
house in Houston, and for a time
several were in a dangerous condition.
One man was killed and four in
jured in an explosion which wrecked
the 100000 plant of the Western
Glucose Co. at Hammond, Ind. 1t is
feared other victims are in the ruins
of the plant.
Babe" Farris lying at the point OF
death from gunshot wounds, and Ed
Carr In Jail charged with the shoot
ing, is the result Of a eight over a
dividing fence near Lake Prairie, Mo-
Hetty Green has decided to quit the
palatial Plaza hotel and return to the
simple life owing to the notoriety
which her recent move gained for
her.
Senate at Springfield, ILL.,, passed
bill increasing pay of Chicago alder
men from $500 to $4,000, and meas
ure now goes to the governor
Henry Tobey, a senior in Sarles
(Mass.) high school, will be blind as
result of a prank by schoolmatesi
who left sulphuric acid In sink
| When Tobey turned on the water the
acid splashed into his face. The per
petrators had expected the young
women to put their hands in the dilut
ed acid, causing discoloration re
sembling cigarette stains.
John A. Mackenzie, young Ameri
can, has just made his way out of the
frozen north with news of the discov
cry of a diamond field which, he has
told his friends, is richer than Kim
berly. These friends say he brought
with him thousand stones which ex
perts pronounce to be of the first wa
ter.
Express Messenger Chas. H. Wright
was murdered by train robbers, who
looted his car on a Rio Grande train
The bandits got 500, and escaped
The body was found when the train
reached Denver.
Standing on a Bryan radical plat
form, practically dictated by the mer
who sought his defeat, Judson Har
mon OF Cincinnati was nominated fol
governor of Ohio by the Democratic
state convention on the second ballot