Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-26
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.

Robbers blew the safe at Allemen,
Ia, early Friday, and got away with
$4,000. The two robbers were in a
buggy and were able to keep ahead of
q posse of citizens which gave chase.
Representatives Of the Snake In
dian tribe who are attending the
Chickasaw legislature at Tishomingo,
Tex, are making a hard fight to in
uce the Indians to refuse to recOg-
nize the United States government
Col. D. ]. N. A. Jewett, a veteran Of
the Crimean and civil wars, a famous
duelist in Europe and an Indian fight
er of New Mexico, died Friday morn
ing at Captain, N. NJ, aged II. He
was a native of Boston.
Consuelo, dowager duchess of Man
chester. in London, died early Satur-
day morning of heart failure, follow
ing an attack of neuritis.
Frank F. Ford Of Missouri has been
elected president of the Association Of
Glass Presidents of George Washing
ton University. He defeated w. JEFF
ferson Davis Of Virginia by only two
votes, the latter being unanimously
elected vice-president.
The first real snow of the season
fell in New York when the storm
which has swept from the west hit
Gotham. Buffalo and Pittsburg also
report snow.
Federal Judge De Haven, of San
Francisco, imposed IL fines of 800
each on the Chicago e Northwestern
railroad for violations of the railway
sofety appliance law.
Frank Whitening, a member of a
1ewelry firm of Chicago, spent several
anxious hours M New York until he
found his trunk, containing $4,000
worth of jewels, which disappeared
from in front of the Herald Square
hotel. A porter, who had been eau
toned to watch the trunk left it with
the taxicab chauffeur, and the latter,
when a man and woman appeared as
passengers a few minutes later, took
them as the trunks owners n drove
away. Three hours later the taXicab
returned with the trunk and %valuables
safe.
William H. Thompson, 81 years old,
was arraigned at Rockford, Ill, on a
charge of embezzling $4,681 from the
school fund of RocktOn district, of
which he was treasurer twenty-five
years. He waived hearing, but was
unable to furnish bail of $4,000 and
was committed to Winnebago county
Jail, the oldest prisoner that 1t has
ever received.
Andrew Seseley was shot and killed
by r. f. Pertle, at Steelton, Ok. The
men %quarreled over a game of cards.
Aaron McMurdy, Is years old, shot
a negro man named George Coleman,
who had attempted to hold up himself
and friend at Poplar Bluff, Mo. The
story as told by the boy is that he and
his friend were walking home when
the negro stepped out of an alley and
raised his right hand. The spot was
a lonely one and the boy did not take
q chance of the negro. but pulled a
pistol and fired two shots, one of which
took effect in his assailant's left eye.
The boy was placed under arrest. The
negro was given medical treatment,
but is not in a serious condition.
Mrs. w. T. Halves, OF Hawesville,
KY, was attacked by a negro at
Evansville, Ind. Several women, who
happened to be near, went to Mrs.
Halves rescue. They attacked the ne
gro with hat pins, badly decorating his
face. The negro made his escape.
Rev. DR.. Cashar Wistar Hiatt, pas
tor of the Euclid Avenue Congrega-
tional church at Cleveland, O., for thir-
teen years known as a leader in the
Congregational church in America, has
announced his forthcoming retirement
from the pulpit.
After a search lasting more h
twenty years, Edward Williams of
Vallejo, Cal, found his daughter, Mrs.
Albert NJ. Jackson. at her home in
Chicago. Twenty-three years ago Mrs.
Williams n her 1-year-old daughter
left Williams home and disappeared.
A petition has been filed In the pro-
bate court at Chicago by l.. S. Ows-
ley, executor Oh the estate of Charles
T. Yerkes, asking for the confirmation
OF an agreement entered into between
Mrs. Mary Adelaide Yerkes, widow of
the late Charles T. Yerkes, the execu-
tor of the estate of Yerkes and the
heirs Of the Yerkes estate.
Cards announcing the approaching
marriage Of Congressman Morris
Sheppard of the First Texas district,
whose home is in Texarkana, to Miss
Lucille Sanderson, also of Texarkana,
are out. The marriage will take place
December /.
The Montgomery county grand jury
at Litchfeld, H., has returned an in
dictment on the charge of attack on a
oma against DR.. Algy F. Strange, a
dentist of Litchfield, who is alderman
from the Fifth ward. DR.. Strange was
indicted on complaint Of Sophie Coye.
a domestic