Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1908-08-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.


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G. P. ONeal, right-of-way agent fol-
the st. Paul, is authority for the state
ment that the cost of construction o.
the road between Taft and st. Joe
Idaho, sixty miles, will be $11, 100000
There will be 35 tunnels on this piece
of road.
The total amount of Confederate
pensions due claimants in Arkansas
as reported by the state pension
board, is $691, $780, The amount to the
credit of the pension fund in the
state treasury will fall short 100000
OF enough to pay the pension claims
in full, and they will have to be paid
on percentage basis.
Denying that she is a leper, the
widow of Gen. Wardwell announced
that she will bring action to recover
her freedom. Mrs. Wardwelfs con
tention is backed up by the opinion OF
several physicians. She is now more
rational than she has been for
months.
Lightning struck and killed two
miners and injured third so badly
that he will probably die while the
trio were working $50 feet beneath
the earths surface in one of the mines
of the P. and r. Coal and Iron Co.,
at Ranch Gap, near Tower City, Pa.
President Roosevelt approves of dis
missal of two West Point cadets and
suspension of six others found guilty
of hazing and order will be issued by
Secretary of War Wright.
New York detectives, after covering
four cities, arrest gang of safe-blow-
ers and later discover counterfeiting
plant at their headquarters.
Citizens of Brookhaven, Miss, are
aroused over the reported replacing of
white postal clerks by negroes, and
mass meeting resulted in warning the
negroes to stay away.
Messages received from the Yose-
mite park, Cal, say that forest fires
there are the worst in the history of
the state. Under the direction of
Maj. Benson, all the United States
troops and all the park rangers are
fighting desperately to control the
flames, which have burned the homes
and cattle Of many settlers in the
vicinity.
No Newport gayetfes for Hetty
Green this summer. The worlds rich
est woman is in the old family resi-
dence at Bellows Falls, VT, where
she will follow the simple life far
from aristocrats. When Mrs. Green
left New York she went to the de-
pot on a street car and her few nee
essaries she carried in well worn,
imitation alligator bag.
In the belief that a widespread rev.
dictionary plot is brewing in Portugal,
government officials have taken steps
to redouble the reprcssive measures,
which are now even more rigorous
than those preceding the assassina-
ton of King Carlos and Crown Prince
Luiz.
The German war office believes that
It has obtained the exclusive use of
the most powerful explosive known to
science, the invention of Munich me-
chanic. Less than half pound of
The new death dealer" melted hun
dred-pound block ofelead by its explo-
sion and block of stone of three
cubic meters was crumbled to bits
with three pounds of it. The compo-
sition of the new explosive is careful
ly guarded.
The United States will not inter
fere with the Dutch demonstration
against Venezuela, provided the Meth
erlands do not attempt permanently to
hold any Venezuelan territory. This
was the gist Of communication
made to the Dutch government by the
American minister, Arthur Beaupre.
Walker Duncan of Shelby county,
KY, who killed Newton Hazlett, an
alleged night rider, several weeks ago,
received a letter from Gov. Wilson
announcing that he would grant him
a pardon for killing Hazlett, II he pre-
ferred this to vindication In court.
The government said he had looked
into the circumstances and was salts
fled Duncan acted in defense of his
home.
Mrs James Brenton, wife of the
former mayor of Des Moines, Ia, has
determined to fight his petition for
a divorce. In her answer, filed Tues
day, she charges he deserted her to
make his home with an affinity"
Thelma Delay, whom he installed as
hous skeeper. She also charges that
wher she went to see her husband the
Delay woman chased her off the prem
Uses with shotgun.
A charge of dynamite exploded on
the drlllboat belonging to the Sullivan
Dredging Co. of Buffalo, while work
was being done in the Detroit river
and six men we're fatally injured. Ten
Others we're hurt. The boat was
blown to pieces.
Cordoning the entire Braga district
with troops. the Portuguese govern
ment is rigidly maintaining quaran-
tine against the cholera epidemic
which has been raging for weeks, but
on account of the strict censorship,
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