Macon beacon., 1909-11-06
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.

4IOuL O1 Ills O1uC0 Win d OuI1OL Ia LIS
back His watch and revolver were
gone and the key of the Jail was brok.
en- off in the door.
Judge ]. L. Bethshares, 79 years
Cid, was struck by an automobile driV-
en- by G. Smith, a Snowman, at Pa
ducah, KY, and mortally injured.
Judge Bethshares formerly was coun
IS judge and is one Of Paducah's
Wealthiest men.
Information has reached New Ha-
ven that more than $50O,OOO was be-
oueathed for use in the medical de-
partment of Yale university by the
will of the late Dr. Shoemaker of
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Guy Mosser, a farmer, four miles
northeast of Wendelin, Ill, was fatal
ly injured in runaway. He was
husking corn when his team became
frightened. He became entangled in
the reins and was dragged more than
SOC yards.
Officials of the controllers office at
Washington believe the shortage in
the First National Bank of Mineral
Point, Wis, will be between 100000
and $40O, 900. Receiver SchOfield re-
ports that it will be six weeks or more
before he will be able to ascertain the
approximate amount, on account of
the large number of certificates Of de-
posit supposed to be outstanding and
which are not on the books of the
bank.
- Prof. Parker Of Columbia university
'ill not accompany DR.. Frederick A.
Ook on a second expedition to Mount
,cKinley, because he thinks it would
k as if he were indorsing the ex-
rer. He said, however, he would
ke the ascent himself next year
an effort to find the documents DR..
ok claims to have left at the top
the mountain.
Mrs. Sadie Martin, a widow so years
old, living near Louisville, Ill, has
= been arrested and placed in Jail
charged with larceny. Joseph Holts-
hausen, a farmer, had the warrant
issued, charging her with stealing
corn out of his field.
Robert Fincheer, 81 years old, OF
Lyon, Mo, who was found bruised
and unconscious on the Union Pacific
railroad tracks in Kansas City OctO-
Der 9, died at the general hospital.
Death was caused by exhaustion, fol
lowing the amputation of his left leg,
which had been crushed. Fincheer
said he was enticed from the union
depot, slugged, robbed and left on the
tracks.
Physicians who examined the body
of Mrs. Henry Joseph, who died at
Terre Haute, Ind, declare her death
was due to poison, which was alb
sorbed into her system by excessive
application of belladonna, which she
used as a cure for rheuma..sm.
Brig. Gen. John ]. Coppinger, U. S.
A, retired, Son-in-law of the late
James G. Blaine, is seriously i'll with
pneumonia and, owing to his advanced
age, his friends are alarmed.
In a revolver fightbetween police
men and two men caught robbing a
house in Indianapolis, one of the bur-
glars was shot and the other, Samuel
Caldwell of Chicago, was shot in the
leg and arm. None of the policemen
was hit.
Leonard Kohler, an electrician, was
cremated in fire that destroyed the
car OIL IuS L SOI OI IA1IIIcdI INc1A-
road company, Peoria, Ill. The loss
or the barns was 100000.
An understanding has been reached
between counsel for John r. Walsh of
Chicago and United States District
Attorney Sims that no attempt will
be made to send the convicted banker
to prison until the United States su-
preme court has taken jurisdiction Of
his case.
Fred Mikel, the man who shot and
killed young Magruder in the Higbee
(Mo) Jail last June, pleaded guilty in
the circuit court Monday, to murder
in the second degree. He was given
a sentence of ten years in the pent-
tentiary.
Mont Hall. proprietor of the Demont
hotel, at Seneca, Mo-, was tried in the
oircuit court on the charge OF keeping
a gambling house. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty and fixed the pun
tshment at two years in the peniten-
tiary.
mr. Frederick A. Cook closed his
lecture tour in Minneapolis, and from
there will go to Missoula, Mont, to
look into the matter Of the Barrill affi-
davits relating to the ascent OF Mount
Mckinley.
1.he sunreme court of Arkansas af-
err,ed a $4,000 judgment against the
Iron Mountain railroad for the death
Of Murray Conan. brakeman OF
wagner, Okla, in 1907. The court
held the company negligent for fail
~ nre to provide derailing device at
~ ood or a switch and for falling
keep brakes on work cars IN order