Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-16
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

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D. K. West, Texas insane asylum in
mate, cholsed his cellmate I. G. Denge
to death.
John Wotlsa, Creek Indian. sen
teneed to death for murder, will be sho-
October 80.
1he Cuban colony in New York i,
generally rejoicing over the escape OF
Miss Cisneros.
Detective Moore, of New York city
accused of numbering his wife, has beer
committed to Jail.
Secretary Wilson will ask congress
10 place agricultural attaches at United
States legations abroad.
Fire destroyed the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. John Stout at Xenia, ILL.,, the
family narrowly escaping.
J Acanton (o.) man is in Jail, suspect.
ed OF soaking his wife's clothes with
Oil and burning her to death.
A rich vein of lead has been discoy.
cred in n vacant lot in Sedalia. Mo.
The vein is rich also in silver.
Thomas Nelms was killed by n freight
train at Xenia, Ill. He crawled unde,
box car and his neck was broken.
Fire at Atchison, Kas, DESTROYED
John M, Gains flour mill, busines.
block and several dwellings; loss, S75,.
600.
Five thousand nationalists in Dublir
commemorated the sixth anniversary
of Charles Stewart Parnells deatf
Sunday.
An attempt by two men to rob the
post Office at lillsboro, Tex, resulted
IN one man being shot and the other
captured.
A posse of Cheyenne Indians have
been put to work on the trail of the
gang who heldup the Rock Island train
last week.
A London cable says that if it be-
comes certain that the Indian mints
will not reopen the bimetallic mission.
aries have failed.
The New York mayoralty campaign
Is said to have resolved itself into n
three-cornered fight between street
railway corporations.
Oklahoma cotton planters complain
OF the dearth Of cotton picllers in the
territory, lack of which is resulting in
the loss of much fine cotton.
At a church ten miles south of Carmi.
ILL.,, jeff Jones Shot and killed Fred
Mobley and wounded John Browning,
half-brothers, in self-defense.
sam January, well-to-do farmer,
was killed from ambush near his home
III Stoddard county Mo. His stepson is
i'll iail charged with the murder.
Authorities on international law say
that if Spain demands it, the United
States must give up Miss Cisneros if
She takes refuge in this country.
Mrs. Henry p. Hagen, the wife of one
of the wealthiest merchants OF Paris,
ILL.,, was instantly killed Sunday and
her daughters nose broken in a ruua.
way.
Rudolph Beck was struck by light
ming at Dallas, Tex, md knocked un-
conscious, remaining ia that condition
or nearly two hours. lie was terribly
burned.
Mrs. Mary E. Smith, sister of the late
uov. Hardin of Missouri, whose hus-
oand was for many years superintcnd-
ant OF the Fulton (Mo.) asylum for the
insane, died at Georgetown, Tex.
Mrs. Sarah Webb, aged 10 wears.
widow of the late George j, Webb,
and for many years resident of Ed
ILL.,, died at the residence of
her son Thomas, in Granite City, ILL.,,
Sunday.
With a horrible vision of his own
death seen in dream staring in his
face, Railway Engineer Anderson went
10 work and was killed exactly us pre-
sentiment had foretold, in a wreck at
Naples, Ill.
Harry Ferguson, of Chillicothe, Ill.,,
while trying to catch n train at Gales
,urg, Ill.,, to go and arrange for
he funeral of his sister slipped and
ell under the wheels. Both legs were
ut oil, and he died few hours later.