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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
AWARD CARNEGIE MEDALS
Five Awards Made to Heroes or Their
Benefciaries.

Pittsburg.-The following hero medals
and awards were made by the Carnegie
commission:
Charles V. Swain, bronze medal and
81 900 as needed; saved from drowning
DIR. John Walton, Saratoga, Fla.
Clara Iiogstad, silver medal and 1000
as needed; attempted to save Joseph
Schultz, aged 20, from being run over
by u train at Lafayette, Pa.
Samuel A. Wetton, William ]. Man
nings and John Conlcy, each u bronze
medal and $1,000 as needed; the three
men saved Andrew Anderson from
drowning in Lake Superior, near SUI
perior, Wis.
Oren Buchner, bronze medal and 81, 900
MS needed; saved Sadye Cutterye. aged
2s, from drowning at Middletown, III.
Edward f. Saunders, deceased, silver
medal to his widow and u pension OF
$40 II month, with S. additional for each
of two children until 16; died attempt
ing to save Anna Il. Stone, aged 81
and Hannah G. Coyler, aged 60, from
being run over by a train at Elizabeth
N. j.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
FAVORS PURCHASE
OF THE TELEGRAPH
HITCHCOCK WOULD OPERATE AS
PART OF POSTAL SERVICE.
Would Cheaper Rates-Fifty Countries
Have Operated Lines Successfully
Wants Congress to Act.

Observation-Disclosures of the tele'
graph lines of the United States by the
government and their operation as a part
of the postal service will be recommend
ed to congress by POstmasterGeneral
Hitchcock.
For a year or more Mr.. Hitchcock has
had this recommendation under consld'
GRAFTON. After a thorough study OF the
operation of the governmentcontroiied
telegraph lines and postal telegraph sys-
TENS of foreign countries, he has de-
cided to urge the matter upon congress
Should this recommendation be adopt
ed" said Mr.. Hitchcock in a statement
of his intention, Il am convinced II
would result in important economies and
in very materially lowering telegraph
rates than now are exacted. In aP-
prOximately fifty countries of the world
notably in Great Britain, France, Ger
many, Australia, Italy, Spain, Russia and
Japan-government-controlled telegraphs
now are in 8 uccessfuf and profitable OPP
Grafton. In many of the countries they
are operated in connection with the pos
tai service.
"These telegraphs serve an aggregate
population of s5o,OOO,o 600, and in every
instance they have been found to be OF
immense practical benefit to the people,
in both promptitude and cost OF the
service.
"1n this country postoffces are main.
tanned in numerous places not reached
by the telegraph systems, and the pro
posed consolidation, therefore, would al
ford a favorable opportunity for the
wide extension of telegraph facilities. In
many small towns where the telegraph
companies have Offices the telegraph and
mail business could be handled readily
by the same employees. 1t is evident thai
the separate maintenance OF the two
services under presep. conditions result
in a needless expense.
"Next to tie introduction of a genera
parcel post, for which there is a strong
popular demand, the establishment OF .
government telegraph system offers, ii
my judgment, the best opportunity fol
the profitable extension of the nations
postal service"
The latest census figures available in
dictate that about 100000 people are con
nected with the telegraph companies o.
the United States. The appraised value
of the systems proposed to be acquired
would be purpely conjectured, but it il
said it would approximate $25O,oO0, 900
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
TAFT PLEADS FOR
STRICT ECONOMY
PRESIDENT FAvORS CHANGES FOR
MORE EFFICIENCY.
Asks Congress to Appropriate $25O,Ooo
for Continuance of Work of Econ
omy Commission.

Washington, d. C.-President Taft
Wednesday sent TO congress a message
recommending radical changes in the
governments administration in the ID
terests Of economy and efficiency. lie
shows that he still considers the homely
virtue of economy a cardinal principle
of the Taft policies.
What the government does with near
" 81. 600, 900, 900 each year." he declares,
"is of so much concern to the average
citizen az il the manner Of obtaining the
amount of money for the public USE
President Taft makes these radical
recommendations:
That all administrative officers at
Washington and throughout the country
be put into the civil service and taken
out Of politics.
That the revenue cutter service be
abolished, cGecting a saving of $1,000
annually.
That the lighthouse and life saving
service be consolidated.
That the auditing offices of the de-
partment be consolidated.
That a new correspondence filing sys
TEN be introduced.
That wasteful use Of property and
equipment cease.
The president asks that congress ap
propriatc $250,00O more for continuance
OF the work of the commission Of which
Prof. +. A. Cleveland is head and on
which his recommendations are largely
hasrd.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
ROCK ISLAND SELLS BONDS
Company Will Bridge the Mississippi at
Memphis,

New York.-An issue OF $20,000,0Oo
s per cent gold debenture bonds has
been sold to a New York banking house
by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc Railway Company. The proceeds
will be used for terminal additions and
betterments by the system and for re-
funding purposes.
New terminals and a bridge across the
Mississippi river at Memphis and addi'
lions to the %company's terminal proper
ties at Omaha are among the improve
ments planned, according to the COM
pany's announcement, which further
states that for a period Of two years
the management will not avail itself
of the privilege of selling any OF the
company's first refunding mortgage OIL
other bonds, retaining them in the treas
ury as they become issuable as mar
ketable assets.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
MORE COMMON SENSE LAWS
Our Laws Should Be Boiled Down, Says
Beveridge.

New York.-Thc laws of the United
States should be boiled down to a dcca-
logue, common sense adopted as the mot.
to for all future things political and
every man made to understand that he
is his brothers keeper.
Do these things. according to ex-Sen.
ator Albert j.. B~everidge of Indiana, and
in the resultant era will be none of
the ills of which complaint is now heard
from one end of the country to the
other.
"Our laws are made for the protec-
ton and comfort of the middleman," de.
clarel the Indianan at the Waldorf.
"Thcre arc about 90, 900 900 of human be-
ings in this country whose incomes av.
cragc about $500 n year. We cannot
say with Cain, Am l my brothers
Keeper The modern man with an
awakening civic conscience knows he is
his brothers keeper.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
CITATION NOTICE.

The State of Mississippi:
Ars. Maria N. Stephenson, vs. PAST
Stephenson.
No. 1858.
In the Chancery Court of NSGAOee
County:
To Paul F. Stephenson, 3 AOSfesi-
dent of the State of Mississippi, vAose
place of residence is unknown - som
~plainant, his last address known b her
being Stockton, California:
We command you to be and apFeat
before the Chancellor of our said Chan
oerv Court at a term thereof to Be hOhi-
Ell at the Court House in the Clay OF
Macon, in said county of Noxubee, on
the 4th Monday in April, A. D. 1917,
then and there to plead, answer 0 de-
mur to the original bill in said
wherein you are defendant.
Witness my signature n seal OF
seid Court affixed at my Office N City
of Macon, Miss, this nth day Of JAM
airy, 1912.
(SEAL) JNO. A TYSON, Uerk.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
CHILD AND NURSE KLLE[
Elevator Boy Started Car With Go. Cart
Half Way Inside.

New York.-Frances Ackcpman, II
young nurse girl, and her two aud u
half year old charge. Mitchell Rolgen,
were mortally Injured when the girl
started to wheel the child in its go.cart
into the elevator on the fifth floor of
the Morris apartments and the elevator
shot up when The vehicle was half in
John Reynolds, the colored elevator bov
tried frantically to stop the lift, but it
caught between the steel doorway and
the doorway of the car. crushing the
child terribly, Miss Alderman in at,
tempting to reach the handle of the
ascending cart plunged Ave stories down
the well to the cement pavement below
Neither victim can survive.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
(CopYrtght 1879
We WILL SUPPRESS
CUBAN REBELLION
PRESIDENT TAFT SENDS UULT1'
MATUM INSISTING ON PEACE.
Belief That if United States Intervene
It Will Be to Permanently Occupy
Island.

Observation-Disclosures Taft has
served notice on the Republic OF Cuba
that unless President Gomez can sup
press the threatened rebellion of the vet
eran organization, which is seeking to
overthrow the Gomez government, the
United States, under the terms of the
Platt amendment, will be forced to send
d military force ia preserve order on
Cuban soil.
The presidents ultimatum to this ef-
feet, together with the note of Arthur
N. Beaupre, United States minister to
Cuba, setting forth the seriousness OF
the situation were given out at the
state department today.
A fleet of four army transports is now
in readiness at Newport News to sail
for Guantanamo, and within a few days
10000 troops can be put aboard it with
which to enforce the ultimatum.
In addition to this, the Atlantic fleet
is now at Guantanamo and car be mob.
ilized in any Cuban port very speedily.
From this feet it would be easy to
land a fighting force of 1000 marines
and LJifuejac1cts.' ~
As soon as it was known that the
ultimatum had been issued, men con
versant with Cuban affairs expressed the
belief that if the American flag is agair
raised in Cuba it will remain there
Such an intimation, in fact, was served
on Cuba the last tine occupation Of The
island by American arms became neces
sary.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Rights of Posthumous Child.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-A child un'
born at the time of its fathers death,
but later born alive, is to be consid'
cred under the laws of this state as an
existing person at the time of the
fathers death, and entitled to share in
any damage recovered in IN action
brought for wrongfully causing the
death of the father. The father was
killed while an employee of the road
The widow settled for herself, but aftea
the birth of the child, brought suit OF
it's behalf. The case was decided against
her in the lower courts.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Morse May Not Take Trip.

Washington.-Charles W. Morse, the
convicted New York banker, may not
accept the privileges of treatment at Hot
Springs, Ark, as a prisoner patient, in
accordance with the authority granted
by President Taft. 1t is understood
Morse has declined to leave the army
hospital at Fort Mcpherson, Ca, al This
time, possibly because he believes him
self physically unequal to the trip to
the trip to Arkansas.
Officials here are rets.zA n -AGard to
the matter.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

London.-Thc newspapers here are
making a special feature Of the pro.
jcctcd visit OF the duke and duchess of
of C%onuaught and their daughter, Prin.
cess Patricia, to New York. where Am.
bassador and Mrs. Whitlaw Grid are
to give n dinner in their honor.
Articles referring to the visit Of the
goycrnor.general of Canada emphasize
the significance in cementing the friend
ship existing between Great Britain and
rs likely to assist in the passage Of
the arbitration treaty.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
DOCTOR GETS MANS HEAD
Dying Request of Smith Fouch Will Be
Observed,

Middlcsboro. Ky.-Relatives Of Smith
Fouch say that Fouch's dying request
that his head be delivered to DR.. Blair
of Apache, Okla, will be carried out.
The head will be surrendered to DR..
Blair or his representative without OPP
position from Fouch's family. A local
attorney states that the Kentucky laws
do not inhibit 4 man bequeathing any
part of his body, or his entire remains,
If he so desires. Fouch was shot in one
eye about twenty-five years ago, and
DR.. Blair saved his life, as compensa-
ton for which Fouch agreed to give
DR.. Blair his head.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
FINAL PLEA FOR HUSBAND
Mrs. Morse Calls on Understandable
Nav Be in Sympathy.

Washington.-With the pathetic plea
that her husband will not live more than
thirty days and that he cannot bear to
die q felon, Mrs. Charles w. Morse, wife
of the convicted banker, made a final
call upon Attorney-General Wickersham
Tuesday.
Thomas Fielder and Henry Daugherty,
lawyers for Mr.. Morse, declaring that
the banker is slowly sinking into death,
also visited the encouragement.
1t is reported here that Mr.. Wicker
sham is in favor o ia pardon for Morse,
and that he made such recommendation
to the president. 1t is understood, how
ever, that the attitude of MI. Taft has
not changed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
BOMB THROWN AT YUAN
Two Soldiers and Horses Were Killed
by Explosion.

Two Soldiers and Horses Were Killed
by Explosion.
Peking.-A bomb was thrown at Pre-
mier Yuan Shin Kai's carriage Monday
morning. Two soldiers and the horses
attached to the carriage were killed.
Yuan Shin Kai has been repeatedly
warned that attempts would be made
against his life. Friends have urged the
premier to capitulate and others, fear
ing his assassination, urged him to take
refuge in the foreign concessions at
Tien Tsin.
The revolutionaries have more than
once threatened Yuan with dynamite.
The premier, however, informed Sir John
Jordan, the British minister, that he
did not fear assassination. A guard OF
twenty-five cavalrymen usually escorted
his carriage through the streets OF Pc
king.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Accused Falls Asleep.

Noblesvile, Ind.-While the mother.
in-law told in court her story of how
he had murdered his wife, Harry Hiatt
dropped asleep in the prisoners box.
The witness, Mrs. Albert Voss, said
Hiatt, who had been separated from
his wife, came to the Voss farm, took
his baby in his arms, walked into the
barnyard, where Mrs. Hiatt was, and
fred three bullets into her body. He
then put his child ON the ground, re-
loaded his revolver and walked away.
HATS plea is insanity.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
NOT TALKING PIPE DREAMS
Roosevelt Thus Comments on Alleged
Steel Trust Support.

New York.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt
declared that he was not discussing
pipe Dreams" when he was asked about
a report from Indianapolis to the effect
that he was favored by steel interests
for the presidential nomination.
chat is II depth of tomfoolery to
which | cannot 60" he said.
Have you read Mr.. Carnegie's testi-
mony before the house committee" he
was asked.
81 did not know he testified" Col,
Roosevelt replied smilingly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Big Fire at Cleveland.

Cleveland.-Fire in the heart of the
retail section endangered lives of a score
Of clerks and damaged the five-story
building occupied by Browning, King &
Co., B. R. Baker-Baum & Co. and the
Miller Millinery Company. The loss will
reach $400, 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A medical journal say that women
are justified In using paint and pow.
der. Very graceful Of the medical
Journal, In view Of the fact that they
will continue to use them whether
they are justified or not.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Armor Case Not Reviewed.

Washington.-The supreme court de-
eYined to review the decision of the
third circuit court of appeals which held
that the arlnor plate processes of the
Midyale Steel Company of Pennsylvania
aid not infringe the German patents o.
the Krupps.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A Chicago University professor says
there is more romance In marriages
at seventy than at twenty. The Os.
lerian theory has been t~lercely at,
tackled, but It is hardly necessary to
20 to the other extreme and make gay
Lotharios and ardent Romeos of sep
A~uagenarians.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
CHINA'S BABY RULER QUITS
Decided Upon at a Secret Meeting Of
the Cabinet.

Peking.-At a secret cabinet council
Tuesday afternoon it was decided that
the abdication of Pu-Yi, the infant EN-.
pcror OF China, cannot be longer post
poned. The abdication edict was pre-
pared and promulgated.
The sensational attempt to ~assassi-
nate Yuan Shih Kai, the premier, it is
understood, forced the hands of the i'm
perial princes. who were holding out
against abdication.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Killed ALLEGED Witch.

Montgomery, Ala.-Becsnse he be-
lieved she had practiced witchcraft on
his family, Walter Dryer, a negro, killed
Clora Brown, an old woman, August 1.
For this murder was hanged in the Mont
gomery county Jail.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A divorced woman in Missouri has
q right to be kissed. for a Judge says
90 from the bench, This We should
regard as one Of the lnallenabls rights
Of any unmarried woman. no matter
by what method unmarried.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Signs OF an ancient race have been
discovered on an island In the mid
Pacific. a skeleton with a necklace of
human teeth being one of the finds. 1t
was doubtless that OF a prehistoric
dentist.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
60 Cents for Butter.

Chicago.-Sixty cents a pound for but
ter said to be the price to which retail
dealers in Chicago looked forward. Quo
tations reached AZ cents, the highest in
the city's market history.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
AGAINST AMERICAN INVASION
Queen Mary Would Restrict Presents
ton of Ladies at Court.

New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Ameri-
can women Mt the English court are to
be restricted in the future to those
married to British subjects or whose
male relations hold high official positions
in England, ii suggestion made by Queen
Mary is adopted, says the Tribune's Lon
don correspondent. 1t has long been
known that the Queen does not view the
American invasion with favor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Sentenced for Infanticide.

San Barbara, Cal.-Iohn Rech, con.
victed of having murdered his newly
born infant because, he explained, living
was too expensive, was setenced to lii,
imprisonment.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

The navy Is evidently in earnest In
Hts determination not to HAYS unde-
,sirable men in Its service. 1t has just
ISSUED an order putting the ban or
chewing gum.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A New Jersey boarder who showed
night TO his landlady and was dubbed
into submission with a chicken was
sent to jail, He deserved his fate tor
causing such q tragic hiatus In the
menu.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

We see by the papers that a New
York bride is spending her honey.
moo learning how to II a dairy
farm. The damsel's heart Ia full Of
the milk OF human kindness.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26
Mrs. Morrow Held.

Chicago.-M Mrs. Rene B. Morrow, who
was arrested on a charge of numbering
her husband, who was twenty years
older than she, was held to the grand
;.s4s IN bonds Of SAC. 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Certain scientists advocate the us>
u the surgeons knife to reform bad
Boys. but a good old fashioned session
IN the woodshed is worth more than Q
Seance on the operating table.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Mr.. Edison says that soon the new
ly-weds need not pay out $3.50 on the
tnstallment plan for furniture, but a
get their concrete outfit for $500. Still
on the installment plan7
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A wife suing for twenty eight year
alimony, places her claim at sl2 a
week. Her recreant spouse nov finds
that harmony In the home at nothing
. year would have been far less ex
pensiVe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A scientist tells us that turkey will
be extinct within the next ten years.
From the looks Of things In Europe. 30
gill Turkey.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Mr.. Edison Is producing all kinds OF
concreted furniture except mattresses.
Thus far concrete mattresses have moi
Neen well received.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

You don't hear tobacco dealers join
ing in the laugh at the expense OF
those large hearted women who buy
christmas cigars for their husbands.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

German women are seriously recon-
mendfng compulsory military service
Il the sex. Sometimes it does seem
"a II war was hardly worth while.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Down in Georgia a Judge has decid-
cd that Il Is a crime to kill a baseball
umpire. 1t seems a rather decent
ching to decide.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A Washington telephone girl re-
GENTLY married a London banker. with
Iher II was a rapid transit from ring
OF" to ring on"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Maryland has revived the old GUS
tom OF whipping wife bcaters. A lit
tie whipping now and then will Often
cure the worst Of men.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

London Is to have n new hotel con-
tanning 1000 rooms, and 1t Is promised
that no tipping will be permitted. Re
,erve your rooms early.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Men are increasing faster than won
"a in this country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Kipling gets one dollar a word Tor
every word he writes. He should
write at Least ten words before break
last.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

New York asks every citizen to be
enough Of a sport to Clean five n
Dne.third inches Of m of his side
walk.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

why do beautiful women marry
rgly mem asks a contemporary. Pos
:, Inv hecsuse they believe that hand.
.ome Ia ss handsome doeS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

II there were no wars In the world.
what would the newspaper paragraph
Srs do for material3
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A flying lifeboat for aviators Is o
planned Completely to defy the ele
ments. It should be made ireproof.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

Having discovered that It 10 posi-
Bile TO live without butter. some indig
NAnt persons are doing It.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

A Philadelphia man has been arrest
ed for talking back to his wifo He
ought to be tried for lunacy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

An American miner killed seventeen
Mexican bandits single.handed. He
could hire out to almost any nation
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-01-26

The son OF the Gaekwar Of Baroda
says he has no inclination to marry an
American girl. Congratulations. girls,