Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1908-08-29

Perry, o., arrangements are being per
fected for tournament at Sen Girt
N. j., which in Importance in mill
tary circles compares favorably to the
national contest. 1t will follow the
Camp Perry tourney and will run sew
en- days from Sept. A.
Twenty more indictments, making
80 all told were returned by the spe
cial grand jury of Sangamon county
III. The latest batch Of accusations
includes five indictments against
Thomas Marshall and IL other ne
groes, whom he is accused of having
led In a murderous assault upon W.
liam Bowe, chief clerk of the county
treasurer's office.
The Ohio state board of agriculture
announces that 20 young women from
Philadelphia will stroll around the
state fair grounds during the fair,
dressed in directoire gowns. They
come under the direction Of Miss
Anna Delaney, who, in letter to the
board, says that they will wear the
genuine article, split up to the knee.
A special from Brandon, Miss, an
nounces the death at that place OF
Col. William Walker, editorial writer
of the New Orleans Picayune for the
past 30 years, and at one time editor
in-chief of that paper. He was 65
years old and a native of Alabama.
At meeting of the Orientalist con-
gress Prof. Paul Haupt of Johns Hop
kins university of Baltimore had an
exciting discussion with several of the
Jewish rabbis who were present, Prof
Haupt maintaining that Christ was
not Jew but an Aryan.
Ignorant that the husband, who
braved leprosy for her sake, is dead
of cancer, Mrs. Isabelle Wardwell,
wife Of the late Gen. David C. Ward
well, is raving in the contagious ward
of the county hospital at Los Angeles,
Cal, and crying piteously for him.
Striking printers have closed down
two daily papers, the Monitor and
Messenger, at Mayfield, KY. The
printers recently submitted new
scale, which was rejected by the en-
ployes.
Oklahoma, the youngest state, which
has already given her older sisters
several shocks in the way of new
methods in state administration, is
preparing to set another example in
the establishment of regular adver-
Using department in connection with
the state banking board.
Thomas Denham, wealthy farmer,
and Ralph Scar of Boswell, Ind, were
seriously injured, and William Gotten
berg, Leo Schuessler and Warren
Mankey, also of Boswell, were burned
by the explosion of an automobile 60
ing at 30 miles an hour, causing it to
run into fence.
Miss Flora Draper, reader" in the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, New
York City, is patient in the psyche
pathic ward of Roosevelt hospital,
victim of the hallucination that some
one is trying to hypnotic her.
Smashing the door OF tho state
building at the prison farm at Mil
ledgeville, Ca, Andrew Ford, con-
vict, stole gun and pistol, after
which he ran to the stables, took
horse and fed. A posse started in
pursuit. Ford is a desperate char
acter and a bloody fight is certain
when he is overtaken.
The body of woman about 20 years
old was found hanging to a tree in
the woods at Evanston, ILL.,, by Thorn
as Sweeney, carpenter, about three
blocks from where the body of an in
FAINT child was discovered the day
before. The baby had been killed
by being stabbed in the brain with a
hatpin. "-.- -..-
The American gifts of Peters
pence" received at the vatican amount
to $304,700. The pilgrimage headed
by Archbishop Farley contributed ST.,
600; the Newark pilgrims, $1,100, and
the American college at Washington,
$1,000 1t is probable that the sum
will reach 100000 by the time the
last of the American contributions
were received.
In duel between a negro and Mar
shall M. A. Davis and Lon Davis at
Hiawanee, Miss, Lon Davis was shot
in the face and the negro was killed.
Davis, who was trying to arrest the
negro on warrant, was exonerated.
Within the past sixty days twenty
five negroes have been lynched in diff
ferent parts of the United States for
alleged assaults on white women.
Growing out of sensational charges
made against him in connection with
the Standard Oil suit now pending in
the Supreme Court, Gov. Haskell filed
suit for libel against o. X. Benedict,
publisher of the Oklahoma City
Times.
The rivalry of two working girls for
the affections of young social leader
of Springfield led one to prison cell,
while the other is dying from bullet
wound.
The most simple of services marked
the funeral of Ira D. Sankey, the
evangelist in the Lafayette Ave
nue. Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
HYMNS written by Sankey were sung