Show I MACRUM IN ROME FORMER U S CONSUL AT PRETORIA PRE-TORIA AT ITALIAN CAPITAL He Declines to be Interviewed and also Denies that He Has Letter from Kruger to McKinley Rome Jan 20 Charles E Macrum former United States Consul at Pretoria Pre-toria who left Lourenco Marques December De-cember 18th and landed at Naples last Thursday has arrived here He positively posi-tively refused to be interviewed j The Naples correspondent of the Cor rlere Italia says Mr Macrum denies j that he bears a letter from President Kruger to President McKInley Mr Macrum will go to Paris and London and it is believed by some that ho has a semiofficial mission to Euro I pean Governments from President McKinley Mc-Kinley The Tribuna expresses the belief that he l has a delicate mission from President Presi-dent Kruger to the Government of the United States and has Qrders to report re-port to Washington as soon as possible possi-ble |