Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-02-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state at
Trenton, N. j., Of the Rubber Goods
Manufacturing Co., with nn authorized
capital stock of $50, 100000, one-half of
which is to be preferred and the other
half common stock.
On the 2Gtl, while at work in one OF
the boilers of the cruiser New York,
in dry dock at the New York navy
yard six men were scalded through
the unexpected turning on of steam in
the boiler One of the, men is perhaps
fatally injured, but the others are cx-
pected to recover.
Grant &. Gillett, the Kansas cattle
trader, who recently failed with liza
bilties aggregating over million dol
lars, has turned all his property over
to his creditors, and it is stated that
the latter have promised that no Grim
inal action shall be instituted against
him il he shall return from Mexico,
Charles Green, of st. Louis, who has
lien for about $4,000 on the Ken
tucky association race track at Lex
ington, Ky, the Oldest in the United
States, will soon begin cutting it up
into town lots. There will be no more
facing at Lexington.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Talley.
living on Cedar creek, in Newton coun-
ty, Mo-, were at church. on the night
CT the Goth, thcirthree children, whom
they had locked in the house at home,
were burned to death. On returning
at II o'clock the parents found the
house in ruins.
Former Acknowledgement Augustus
II. Garland was stricken with apoplexy
while addressing the United States SUI
preme court, at Washington, on the
Goth, and died within ten minutes. The
occurrence came with startling and
tragic unexpectedness and created a
profound sensation.
Mai. Walker, the Illinois pioneer,
was reported, on the 26th. to be dying
at his home in Lewistown. Maj. Walk
Ell was 9j years old on December Is,
1898. He was born in Virginia in 1903,
and was married to Miss Ann Simms
sixty-fye years ago. She is still in
good health. They reside on the same
spot they settled when they came to
Illinois in 1885.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Robertson, two
of the pioneer settlers OF Knox county, |
ILL.,, died. recently within three
days, and both were buried in one
grave. Mr.. Robertson was prom
inent citizen, serving for a number OF
years on the board of supervisors and
in other capacities.
Capt. Fritz Muller, Troop Z, rough
riders, has presented the Historical So
cicty of Santa Fe. n. NJ. with heavy |
chain which he found fastened to n
tree in front of Santiago, Cuba, the
loose end holding the bones of man
who had died while thus confined.
The captain also presented an ancient
Arabic manuscript he discovered in
block house on San Juan hill.
Ad,ices, of the 27th, from Kokomo.
Col, on the Colorado & Southern rail-
way, announced that an accommoda- |
ton train was lost between Dickey |
and Kokomo, The train was thought
to be stuck IN big snow bank.
The crusade against thepolygamous
Mormon, Representative-elect Rob-
erts, of Utah, has brought the issue
fairly before the peaple. In their
anxiety to record their protests
against polygamy. many churches
and societies are filing them with the
present congress, though it is the
next congress which will decide the
question.
Disabled by an accident to her
steering gear during trip up the
Sound, the steam canalboat j. Z. aus
tin. of New York, ran on the rocks OH
Nol walk, Conn, on the 27th, ,and sank.
Accompanying her was the consor'
David i. Fisk, loaded with coal con-
signed to Wcstport. Five OF the per
sons aboard the vessels lost their
lives.
The pension bureau, on the s7th,
granted n pension of $12 month 10
the widow OF Chief Yeoman George H.
Ellis, or Peoria. ILL.,, the only man IN
cur navy killed at Santiago in the an
initiation of Cervera's fleet. Ellis
was IN the Brooklyn and was exposed
on the open deck to ascertain the
runge of the enemy with stadlmetcr'
when his head was blown OH ~
shell. i
The Eagan court-martial was closed
an the o7th. Within an hour after
the court had been cleared for delip-
erution the verdict was made up an"
was forwarded to the proper review
Ing authority by the. judge advoca'e
An unofficial report from Washh gfon
suys the verdict WAS guilty with 9
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