Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

bloom on exhibition in New York.
The flower is 16 inches in diameter,
remarkably full and of delicate yellow
tint. 1t was grown by D. Willis James
at Madison, N. j.
After a contest over the possession
of their one child, a daughter, Samuel
MARITIME, formerly of Tyro, Kas., went
to his wife's apartments, shot her to
death and then shot himself, dying a
half hour later.
Arthur George, who shot and killed
his divorced wife at Brighton Beach
on May 10, was convicted OF murder
in the first degree, and will be sen
fenced to death. The case attracted
attention because 1t was the first in
which a new state law that limits the
use of the insanity plea was applied.
Broken in nealth and spirit and al
most a physical wreck, Is the cOndi
ton of Charles L. Warmer, deposed
treasurer, charged with the shortage
Of $685. 900 in his accounts with the
Big Four railroad, according to the
statement of friends.
Ransom R.. Gable, former president
of the Rock Island, died in Chicago.
He was born in Athens, o., September
%. 1884. In 1870 he was elected pres
ident of the Rockford, Rock Island &
ST. Louis railway and in 1877 went to
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific as
assistant to the president.
The male students of the Kalama-
ZOO tMich.) high school have served
notice on the 'cO-eds' that they will
not maintain social relations or be
seen with any girl who wears a rat
IN her hair. 1t is believed that this
action will be more effective than any
edicts of the faculty.
The federal grand jury in New York
Friday indicted James ~Verdennagel,
former superintendent Of the Williams
burg refinery of the American Sugar
Renning company, charging conspir-
C. to defraud the government by US
ing false weights on sugar imported
into this country.
After having remained in Nashville
for % years, the clerical offices of the
supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias,
will be transferred within he next
few weeks to Minneapolis.
Motion for a new trial was made by
attorneys for the five men convicted
at Omaha Thursday for holding up
the Overland Limited train e that
city May % last.
Three children of Henry Kissner,
aged 8, 4 and 5, were burned to death
in a barn at Leigh, Kan. The child
rem played with matches and set the
building on fire.
The postmastership of Taylorsville,
Ind, is going begging. CASTOR Fulp,
the present postmaster, a resigned.
place was to have been held, but
An examination for applicants for the
there were no candidates.
William j. Bryan is to make a five
months tour of the countries of South
America this winter He will first go
TO Panama, and then to South Ameri-
ca, remaining principally in Brazil.
Boston high school girls Will be re-
QUired to learn to swim in order to
obtain points for graduation. An order
to that effect has just been issued
to the Boston school committee.
Active steps are being axe by
the Texas national guard to defend
the member now in the hands of the
civil dul1OI lllCS Cud ecu Will IL
in the killing of a citizen on the oc-
casion of President Taft's visit to
Dallas in October.
When Mrs. Frank A. Slavin died at
South Norwalk, Conn, a week ago, 1t
was thought she did not nave a cent.
The kitchen carpet was taken up n
two layers of small bills, which al
most covered the entire floor, weer
discovered. There were nearly a
bushel of them when piled up, and
they amounted to $4,000.
Miss Mabel Rayburn. of Champaign.
Ill, is in a serious condition with an
injured back and internal hurts, and
the face Of her sister, Miss Ethel
Rayburn, is fearfully cut and is dis
figured for life as a result of an au-
tomobile accident.
Insane with jealousy when he found
his sweetheart Della Sands, with
John Reising at Peoria, ILL.,, John
Hudson bounced upon the latter and
in the melee received W. bullet
wounds in the stomach from which
he died.
At q meeting of the pastors of fifty
Northern Ohio Baptist churches at
Cleveland, resolutions were adopted
barring professional revivalists from
this field, so far as the Baptists are
concerned.
John J. MacDougald, a cotton
planter living twelev miles east O.:
Little Rock, was shot from ambush
while on his way home and instantly
killed. MacDougald was a deputy
constable and, with Constable j. N
Roberts, had gone to q NJ IghborinS
plantation to raid a negro game
which they failed to locate.