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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
PEARY'S DATA VERIFIED
SCHLEY'S DEMAND AROUSES
BIG PROTEST.
Submission of Peary's Proofs to
Copenhagen Would Reflect on
Geographic Society.

Washington.-Rear Admiral w. S.
Schley's demand that Commander Peary
submit his polar data to the consistory
of the University of Copenhagen for YER
iication, following that body's repudia-
ton of DR.. Cook, has raised a storm
among the membership of the National
Geographic Society, which gave Peary a
clean bill of health. The leading mem
bers claim that the scientists of the
United States would be d~emeaning them
selves if they acknowledged that their
findings needed veriication. There seems
to be no disposition to withhold from
the Copenhagen board the data filed by
Peary, but there is a we'll defined oppo-
sition against turning it over to the
Danish scientists for official action.
Nothing can be gained by submitting
Commander Peary's data to the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen" said Prof. Gannett,
who was chairman of the committee who
passed upon Peary's proofs, "and l do
not see any reason why he should. The
committee which passed upon his papers
is fully qualified to arrive at an I'M
biased conclusion, notwithstanding that
almost every member is acquainted with
Commander Peary. l need not say that
the Investigations were carried on along
scientific lines, without regard to the
personality or standing of either claim
mt -
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
DECREASE OF STOCKHOLDERS
$1,000, 900, 900 Invested in Rail
WAYS and Industrials.

New York.-One hundred and ten of
the biggest industrial and railroad cor
porations in the United States, with an
aggregate of $1,000, OOO, 900, are owned
by 626,984 stockholders. In comparison
with figures furnished by the companies
a year ago, the railroads show a material
decrease in the number of stockholders,
while the industrial stocks are more
widely distributed than in 1908.
This railroad decrease is explained by
Wall street experts as due to liquidation
to take profits on the advance in prices.
Fifty-four railroads reported a capital
of $4,157, 0O8, 136, with a total of 1885,
100 stockholders, a decrease of 1879
from a year ago.
Industrial corporations numbering Sc,
and representing an outstanding capt.
talization of SO, 143,2 99, 1O1, show an in
crease of 5000 individual shareholders.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
LYNCHING IN OLD VIRGINIA
Killed a Neighbor and Attempted to
Kill Wife and Children.

Hurley, Va.-Following the killing
here on Christmas Eve of Samuel Baker,
and the serious %wounding of his wife and
two children by the formers enemy,
Henry Pennington, a mob of n hun
dred citizens took Pennington from an
improvised jail, where he had been in
generated under heavy guard, and
hanged him to a steam pipe.
Pennington shot Baker while the lat
ter was on his way to a Sunday school
Christmas tree with his wife, his two
children and a friend, Wyatt Meadows.
Seeing that he had killed Baker, Pen
nington started to run away. Mrs. Bak-
er called after Pennington and i'm
plored him to help her take the body
home.
The Lruse worked, and Pennington
went pack to the spot where his victim
lay dead. Bent upon avenging%he deed,
Mrs. Baker grabbed ~Pennington's pistol
from his pocket, and shot twice at him.
Her aim was bad, but she succeeded in
wolnding him in the hand and thigh.
Pennington recovered possession of the
pistol and then shot the woman and at
tempted to kill Meadows and the two
children.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Costly Gowns Struggled In.

Chicago-Oficials today took into GUS
tody a number of persons who are al
legged to be implicated in a conspiracy
to smuggle expensive gowns and dry
goods into this country. Arrests were
made simultaneously in different parts
of the country, two women in Chicago
being taken into custody on a charge Of
being parties to a conspiracy to defrard
the government which has already sue
cceded in smuggling across the line more
than $4,000 worth of dutiable goodA
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
STEAMER
Five Million in Property Destroyed in
Vicinity of Boston.

Five Million in Property Destroyed in
Vicinity of Boston.
Boston, Mass.-Masses of wreckage,
apparently from the five-master schooner
Davis Palmer, of Boston, were found on
the beach at Hull Monday, and it is be-
lieved the vessel struck on one of tho
outer lodges of the harbOr during Sun
days storm and went to pieces, with
the loss of all on board, a total of twelve
men.
Five million dollars loss was the esti-
mate made of the havoc wrought in and
around Boston by the blizzard as it
swept New England and drove a record
tide over the coast.
On land no fatalities have been re-
ported besides the four known to have
occurred in Chelsea, where a tidal wave,
bursting through the dyke along Island
End river, flooded eighty acres of homes
and forced $500 persons to flee, ~scantily
clad, into the raging storm.
The storm was the greatest that New
England has experienced in eleven years.
All along the coast phenomenal tides
were reported. In many places sea walls
were battered to pieces, boulevards razed
and curbs and houses along the shore
destroyed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
immigration u

Figures prepared at the bureau of inn
migration and naturalization show that
the inward passenger movement during
November last aggregated 1850, of
which number 5000 were immigrants
who expect to make the United Statee
their home; 1860 were American citi-
zens returning from abroad; 1871 were
aliens residing abroad, making a TEN
porary trip TO the United States. Aliens
who sought admission and were de-
barred for physical and moral causes
numbered 1871.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Renames His a b

New York.-John Henry Thirey, of
Long Island City, philanthropist, scholar
and educator, is trying to settle the ques-
ton of how he will bring about the re-
naming of his latest son, born September
IA, last. The child was named in honor
of DIR. Frederick A. Cook. Since Cooks
exposure Mr.. Thirey has been seeking the
means of relieving the youngest born
from bearing the name. He does not
know whether to appeal to the courts or
simply to have the child rechristened.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
ZELAYA'S ARMY SURRENDERS
Estrada Victory Complete; 600 Dead;
1000 Prisoners.

New York.-(Rama, via wireless to
Bluefelds, via Galveston, Tex.)-
Crushed in defeat and overtaken in an
effort to retreat to a place of refuge, the
entire forces of Gen. Zelaya were cap
tured at 9 o'clock Thursday by the army
under the command of the insurgent
leader, General Estrada.
Six hundred were left dead on the bat
tle4eld at Rama and 1900 were taken as
prisoners. General ZelaYa's army sur
rendered with all munitions of war. Gen.
eral Castrillo and General Gonzales are
the prisoners.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
AMERICANS

Corinto-A great sensation was
caused here Sunday when it was learned
that Zeyala had escaped on the Mexican
gunboat Guerrero. When Zelaya ar
rived here Saturday afternoon he had a
long secret interview with the Mexican
minister at which arrangements were
made for him to take flight on the Mex
lean ship.
Americans here are a~nxiously await
ing word from Washington as to the
stand the Americans will take in Mexico
aiding Zelaya to escape.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Lottery Men Arrested.

Chica go.@Samuel Freudenberg, said to
be an agent of the Royal Saxony lottery
and the Hamburg City lottery, and Her
man Kompel, said to be an agent of the
Royal E;axony lottery, were arrested
here. Advertising matter found in the
Freudenberg house stated that the total
of money to be distributed would be
16, 649, 200 marks, which would be over
S. 100000 in American money. There
were, according to these lottery pam
phlets, to be $4,000 prizes and one pre-
MUM of $500, 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
80 PERISH IN STORM
BLIZZARD GREATEST EXPERT
EECED IN YEARS
Five Million Dollars in Property
Destroyed in and Around Boston.
Hundreds Are Homeless.

New York.-Eighteen persons in and
near New York persisted in the Christ
mas blizzard or from accidents caused
by it. Six of these died from exposure
after being caught in snowdrifts. 9th
ers were drowned and several were killed
by trains.
Blockades on railroads created a short
age of food supplies and a consequent
increase in prices, which contributed to
the hardships of the poor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Runaway Boy Returns Rich.

indianapolis, Ind.-From Nashville,
the seat of Brown county, a capital yet
untoched by a railroad, comes the story
of the return to his parents in the lonely
hill country of John Frenshaw, whom
the old folks had not seen or heard from
for twenty years, and who brought back
to them not only their lost son, but
also a Christmas present of $1,000. John
Frenshaw was IL years old when he
quarreled with his father and ran away
from home.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The United States is not the only
country in he world where the cost
of living has advanced in recent years.
The complaint is so great in Austria
that a demand is being made that the
government take over. through an ag-
rarian bank, the cattle and meat bust.
ness. 1t is also proposed that a cen.
trail agency be established with
branches in foreign countries so as
to facilitate importation and dealing
in cattle and meat products.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Kills His Wife.

New Orleans-Because his wife had
expressed a desire to go to her parents
home to spend Christmas, James K.
Blakely shot her several times and then
killed himself. Responding to the ap-
peals of the little 4-year-old son of the
couple, %neighbors went to the house and
found both Blakely and his wife lying
dead on the floor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

A minister in Chicago wants COM
pulsory marriage by the state Just as
1T enforces compulsory education He
also advocates women's proposing
when the men hesitate. This is a rad.
ical age. but not so radical as to turn
i~conoclastic concerning things too
deeply ~ingrained in the best impulses
of human nature ever to go out of
fashion.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
WANT $1,000 A DAY PENALTY.
Railroads Will be Sued for Violating
Prohibition Law.

Nowata, Okla. = State Enforcement
Attorney John Hays will file a suit
against the Iron Mountain Railway COM
pany for $175,oOo under a provision of
the prohibition law that forbids railroad
companies using their freight depots as
storage houses for liquors. A similar
suit against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas company, and for the same
am9unt, will be filed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The car is having all aviators
closely watched to prevent The posi-
bilfty of bombs being dropped on the
palace from airships. Every step for.
ward In civilization seems to present
new Lerplexities for the head of the
Russian government.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

New York is threatened with a
sh1rt-waist famine, but that does not
necessarily suggest a season of beau
ty u%nadorned, for sealskin weather is
due.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Extremely stout ladies should be ap-
preached with caution when they are
to be invited to attend fat stock
shows.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

A terrible mine disaster Is report
ed from Japan. 1t would be a great
blessing to mankind If necessary heat
and power could be obtained from
something else than coal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

All h history of the past and all
the conditions of the present are elo-
Quent with the argument that a poet
should always have some other occu-
patton on the side.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Because his baby disturbed him, a
college professor committed suicide.
What a selfish, narrow-minded individ-
ual he must have been.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The boy who hanged himself be-
cause he couldn't attend a football
game probably will be listed as an
other victim of the brutal sport"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

A New York widow who possessed
many millions and might have mar
rted some foreigner with a title has
become the wife of an American who
isn't even a colonel On any governors
tam Aren't some women strange
creatures?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The Kansas baby crop numbers
1000 less than last year., but as Kan
a generally has a bumper corn crop,
she can't expect to lead in every
household necessity.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Says a Chicago minister-"They
don't raise big men in flats" Mild
statement-they're not allowed even
to raise little babies there, nowadays.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The crying need of the times is the
invention of an appliance which will
cause an automobile to stop automat-
ically before it hits a telegraph pole.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

In order to get the most satisfactory
thrill out Of a series of football vic
tories it is best to ignore the fatali-
ties altogether.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Whitecappers in Indiana.

Petersburg, Ind.-Whitecaps dragged
LATE Dedman near his home, near Win
ston, beat him with switches and pickets
and ordered him to leave the neigbbor-
hood.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The taxi-balloon is due to arrive and
aviate next season. The rate will,
however, be higher than in the things
that cannot fly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
DICKINSON At SAN JUAN.
Has Been ON an Inspection Trip of Santo
Domingo.

San Juan, P. RI. M. Dickinson, the
American secretary of war, accompanied
by Brig.-Gen. Clarence r. Edwards, chief
of the bureau of insular affairs, and
party, arrived here Sunday on the con-
verted yacht Mayiower. Secretary Dick
inson has been on an inspection of Santo
Domingo, giving special attention to the
revolutionary conditions in that island.
He viii make an inspection of Porto
Rico.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
Mississippt
grws

Ia addition to the splendid services
rendered the farmers of the A. & NJ.
College, through the department OF the
farmers Institutes, organization of corn
clubs and the experiment stations, the
farmers of the state will be delighted to
learn that the college has now arranged
to allow Prof. Archibald Smith, who is
college and secretary of the state live
stock sanitary board, and of the Mi~sis-
sippi Live Stock and Dairy Association,
to devote most of his time to pushing
the work of tick eradication, and in Civ
ing special help to the farmers in the
boil weevil districts, in their efforts to
grow forage crops and live stock.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Aeroplane height flying contests are
all right providing the contestants
come down-of their own accord.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

When a man dies his expenses stop,
but whether or not his experiences
stop is another question.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
700 VESSELS LOST AT SEA.

Damage From the Recent Storms Reaches
100000 900.
London, England.-It is stated that
700 vessels were lost in the recent great
storms. The total damage is placed at
$2O,O0O,O 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The man who wears one weight o
underwear the year round should no
brag about it.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

When aviation becomes general the
repair shops needed will have to De as
spacious as q one-story cotton mill.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

The high cost of living is not re-
duced much, probably, by the unpre-
cedented sales of automobiles.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

November broke a record, but wait
until we get the official returns from
December.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Unless they are prepared to prove
themselves justified, Central Ameri-
can republics should execute Ameri-
can citizens only by the thought-wave
process.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

"S 5 S." the new wireless call for
help, may mean Send five simoleons."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

a man of experience would say that
1t depends on the barber whether he
Is an artist or not.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
FEAR LYNcH1NG OF NEGRO.

Slayer Of Charles Lowery Brought to
Paducah for Safety.
Paducah, Ky.-Being threatened with
lynching, Homer Bridges, a negro, who
shot and killed Charles Lowery, a youns
white man of Murray, KY, was brought
here and lodged in Jail for safekeeping.
While <Lowery was walking along the
railroad track near Halle, KY, Bridges
shot from a coach, stating at the same
time, swatch that fellow jump"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

A load of tobacco slipped on a wag-
on and killed two men in Virginia. A
fatal weed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

King Rameses, the 5000 year old
mummy, ought to create a furore in
Philadelphia society.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Crenshaw furnished a Christmas kill
ing when two boys named Castleberry
shot and instantly killed James Eslinger.
Deputy Constable Montgomery depu-
tiled the two Castleberry boys to assist
him in raiding a negro joint where, it is
claimed, whisky was being sold and
gambling going on. Four or five negroes
were placed unde arrest. just at this
j%uncture James Eslinger, a young white
man, appeared on the scene with a pistol
in his hand and demanded the release Of
the negroes. The officers failed to COM
ply with his request. Eslinger told the
two C%astleberry boys that they would
either release the negroes or walk over
his body, and raised his pistol, when
both officers opened fire and killed him
instantly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

the whispering variety should be cut
out.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Many football players are now
emerging from the arnica stage.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31
MARX TWAIN NOT DYING.
Says He Would Do No Such Thing at
His Time Of Life.

LIS LING VI Liz"
Redding, Conn.-Mark Twain gave out
the following statement as a result of
various reports concerning his condition
OF health, following his recent return
from Bermuda: 81 hear the newspapers
say 1 am dying. The charge is not true.
1 would not do such a thing at my time
of life. / am behaving as good as I can.
MARK Twain"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

In looking into the political future
the blind man is under no handicap.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Kindly tote the few fatalities
among the %biIliardists this season.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Are we to have the crook-worm dis
ease again this winter?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

At a meeting of the board of Missis-
sippi levee commissioners the chief en-
gineer was instructed to advertise for
bids on 100000 cubic yards of levee en-
largement work to be done in Bolivar
@untv ~0Or Gss~~fsN~
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

w. +. Woodruff, president of the For
est City Land and Lumber company, To-
Gated near Hollandale, in Washington
county, and owner of 1000 acres Of
fine timber and plantation land, an
nounces that 100 acres of his land will
be put in rice this year as an expert
ment.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Mr.. and Mrs. n. /. Ball celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at Co
lumbia. Uncle Needham," as he is com
monty called, is an old Confederate vet
eran, having served with Company +,
Thirty-eighth Mississippi. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ball have been married since 1852. and
ave a large number of children, grand
children and great-grandchildren, out Of
which about forty were present at the
celebration.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

DR.. J. S. Montgomery, the health Off
Ger of Oktibbeha county, as the weather
permits, is making the rounds of the
rural schools, making talks on santa
ton. The board of supervisors is paying
him SIS extra for doing this.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

There were over 200 Berkshire and
Poland China hogs killed at Stronga dur
ing the recent cold weather, the aver
age weight being 200 pounds or more.
Mr.. James n. Pulliam killed the two
largest hogs, one weighing 375, and the
other $50 pounds. The farmers have
long since found that they can raise
fine hogs cheaper than they can raise
ssrubby ones.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

At a meeting of the taxpayers Of
Sharkey county, held at Rolling Fork,
the following resolution was adopted
Resolved, that the citizens and taxpay-
ers of Sharkey county are opposed to
the creation of said Black Bayou drain
age district, or any other drainage dis
trict SO as to include Sharkey county,
and desire that section 1927, code 1906,
be not amended so as to affect Sharkey
county"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

Secretary Lawrence Yerger, Of the
prison board, sold $50 tons of cotton
seed from the SunfOwer, Belmont and
Oakley convict farms, to the Brookhaven
Cotton Oil and Fertilizing company, the
price being $36.25 f. o. b. the railroad
stations at the various farms.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-31

With an enrolment of about fifty
boys and girls, the Boys Corn Club and
Girls Home Culture Club were success
fully organized at the Winston county
court house at Louisville. There is much
good to be accomplished by the con-
tinued efforts of the young people.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-12-25
Christmas Editions.

Quite a number of our ex-
changes have issued some hand
some Christmas editions and we
take pleasure in acknowledging
the receipt of the following:
Coalville Times-Colored cover
page and neat Is page edition;
Press-Bulletin, Bingham--Color-
ed cover-page and fine 20-page
edition; Goodwin's Weekly
Handsome color plate cover
page with front cover design
Star Of Bethlehem" and in
side pages bubbling over with
splendid articles from the pen
of G.. G.. Goodwin; Deseret Eve
ming News-Excellent 6-part
edition embracing 104 pages Of
splendid reading matter hand
somely illustrated, with a fine
colored cover-page. This is the
best one out yet. Garland gets
a good write-up in part three,
page 43, with cut of our fine
Sugar factory.