Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-07
NEWS Of THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTHLAND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

SCA~A LA-"O
States. was struck down and fatally in.
iured by a street car in San Francisco.
Herburt Turner, son of Eli Turner, a
farmer living near Indianapolis, Ind
was killed Saturday while jumping on
trains.
Winfield Gibson, a resident Of Mum
hall, Pa, shot and killed his wife,
seriously wounded a son, fired three
shots at his fleeing daughter and then
killed himself.
Charles w. Morse, the convicted
banker, was taken to the federal pris-
on at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday, to serve a
10 year sentence.
At Trenton, Mo, the jury
brought in a verdict declaring in a for
NAL way that the California special
wreck near that city was caused by
spreading rails.
Simon Hudson, a convict in the Ne
braska prison, stole a pint Of wood al
cOhOl from the prison broom factory,
drank it, and is now totally blind.
Officers of the American Federation
of Labor have issued a call on its l.
$4,000 members to subscribe to a
lul4O 1 I ~ ~ ""SO HoAN
steel trust. The sum of 1854, 600 is to
be raised at once.
Mrs. Josie Hunter, a young and rich
ly dressed woman, was found dead IN
a stateroOm Of a Southern Pacific train
from Los Angeles Friday. The body
was taken off the train at Cotton,
where an inquest was held, and a YER
dict returned that death vas due to an
overdose of chlOrOfOrm with intent I'M
known.
BY a margin of 2,465 votes over the
accessory twO-thirds majority, voters
of San Francisco have declared for
the municipal ownership and operation
of the Geary street railway and it's ex-
tentions.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at Portland, Ore, Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Sheehan, IS years old,
died at st. Louis from burns suffered
when her dress ignited from a stove
near which she was sitting.
An invitation to address the Royal
Geographical Society of Antwerp, Bel
GUM, was received by Commander R.
Z. Peary.
Count Tolstoi's condition was re-
ported as favorable by the attending
physicians at his HON in Yasnaya,
Poliana. The count has rheumatism
and influenza. He is 81 years old.
Governor Hughes of New York III
thOrized the return to New Jersey of
Caroline B.. Martin and Mrs. Mary
Snead, who are detained in New York
upon the charge of being implicated
in the murder of Mrs. Ocey w. NJ.
Snead in New York on November %.
Scores of New York shirt waist
strikers played the part of 'newsieS."
Garbed in their best, the girls invaded
the residence and business districts
selling copies of newspapers printed
under their editOrship and setting
forth their side of the strike issue.
Fire in the plant of the NJ. Kahn
Glass company, st. Louis, did damage
estimated at S., 900. The blaze was
spectacular and attracted a large
crowd, which watched the fremen
work for several hours, nOtWithstand-
ing the fact that the thermometer
registered zero.
Applicants are not tunbling madly
over themselves in an effort to obtain
jobs as census enumerators and
1AilCu oldJSS SGuSuS DIIGClO1 Jul 1LlO
is considerably perturbed over the
shortage of men willing to earn V
eminent money. The difficulty is in
the West and South and especially in
the cities.
Hans Wagner the PittSburg shOrstop
narrowly escaped death in a blizzard
at Pittsburg while trying to save his
automobile and get it back to his
chicken farm at Carnegie.
Admiral Dewey celebrated his I'D
birthday quietly at his home Sunday.
Death came to Frank Schroeder
while he was beating the bass drum
at the charivari of his friend, William
Koch at St. Louis.
The mysterious sky navigator who
circled about Worcester, Mass, Thurs
day night and raveled to suburbs is
declared to be Wallace z. Tillinghast,
who asserted that he recently made
a trip from Boston to New York and
return in an ~aeroplane of his own in.
vention.
The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Eagles aerie
was Santa Claus to the poor of that
vicinity. At the Elks' theater baskets
of presents were distributed to many
hundred poor children and matinee
show tickets were given to all the poor
children who asked for them.
Allan Blood. aged IA, saved three
lives at GRANVILLE, ILL.,, by quick action
and courage when three boys who
were skating went through the ice. He
broke a limb from a tree and, holding
to another limb, extended the limb to
the boys, who, one after another, were
pulled to the shor0