Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-07
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or embeZzl1ng $l,20O from the office.
Thomas A. Petit, whom Breeland sue
ceeded, recently completed a term OF
six months in prison for a similar Of
Tense.
At Westminster, B. c., work was
begun on the first gyroscope railway
in America to be devoted to Omm
cial transportation purposes. The line
of railroad will encircle Okanagan
lake.
At Mourmelon, LIE Grand, France,
while making an aeroplane flight NJ.
Baeder's biplane fell into the top or a
large tree. The tree probably saved
the aviatOr's life. His machine vas
badly damaged.
Nine of the crew of the Portuguese
bark Fortuna were drowned in the
storms which have been raging on
the Atlantic for the last ten days.
William Anger, % years old, a boiler
makers apprentice, probably will die
as the result of being crushed when
q boiler fell at the Helm boiler works
in st. Louis.
After being pursued by a posse Of
officers for four days, Sonny Smith
and his sons, Tom and Dave, of Tulsa,
Okla, charged with numbering Frank
Miller, 10 years old, son Of a wealthy
farmer, surrendered.
The unusual spectacle of several
boys skating OIL ice in the Gulf OF
Mexico was witnessed at Bay st.
Louis. Three or four hundred feet
Of fairly thick ice had formed around
the sand Jars in the bay.
An Indictment was returned by the
Hamilton county (Ohio) grand jury
against w. Kelsey Schoepf, head Of
the Cincinnati Traction Co., charging
failure to keep the temperature in GER
tain street cars up to the standard Of
60 degrees Fahrenheit, provided by
statute.
Ray Lamphere, SO years old, slayer
of Mrs. Belle Guinness and her hill
dren, died of tuberculosis in the Mich
igan City ~penitentiary, where he was
serving an in~determinate term for
arson. Lamphere, on April %, 1908,
set fire to the Guinness home near
Laporte, Ind, and ~incinerated the
family.
Mrs. George Hanley sought shelter
at the home of a neighbor a mile
from her husbands farm near COlfax,
Iowa, at 3 o'clock Thursday morning.
she was clad only in a night dress
and her arms n feet were frozen,
though the baby she carried was I'M
armed. She said her husband had
driven her from the house when he
returned soon after midnight.
Recognizing the danger of a gen
eraI strike Of unions affiliated with
the railroad department Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, President
Taft has taken a hand in efforts to
bring about a peaceful settlement Of
the troubles in the northwest. An
important conference was held in the
White House between representatives
of the striking switchmen and Chair
mar Knapp of the interstate com
merce commission and Labor Commits
siOner Neill.
Five tTainmen were killed and twO
fatally injured when two freight
trains on the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern collided on a sharp
curve nea StarksvilIe, Ind.
1t is declared that Baron GOffinet,
private secretary to the late King
Leopold and the executor of his will,
has arranged with the lawyers rep
%resenting the kings daughters
Processes S~tephanIe, UIemenJine and
Louise-tO pay the daughters $8.0O0,-
600 instead Of $3,v~v 900, as provided
in the will.
Rev. William Ritter and his aged
wife were found murdered in their
home at Elnora, Ind. While the Of
icers a advanced the theory that
the Ritters were murdered, there is
some evidence to show that Ritter
chOked his wife to death n then
took poison to end his own life.
Believing that his mind was weak
ening and that he would end his days
in a mad house, Raymond Lloyd,
aged 35 years, son of Attorney H. P.
Lloyd, former law partner of Presi-
dent Taft, committed suicide at Sc
attic, Wash, by drinking an ounce
OF carbOlic acid.
Every detective of the Pittsburg
force is working to find a clew to the
murderer Of James Lawrence Friel,
IA, whose frozen body was found in
an abandoned house by a party of his
schoolmates. Young Friel's throat
was hacked, apparently with a small
pocket knife. He had also been cut
near h collarbone and horribly nal
treated.
The common stock of the Rock IS
land company sold up to $50 a share
within five minutes ofthe opening of
the stock exchange Monday morning
after a closing of 1912 last Friday.
Frederick Remington, the artist, is
seriously i'll at his home in Ridgefield.
Conn, with an attack of appendicitis.
j.. G. Cole, a Saskatchewan farmer,
dropped into Detroit and by the time