Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-02-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Hannah Ward, an eccentric |
Did Indy, died suddenly at Van Buren,
Ark. Relatives who knew she had |
money about the place found $500
tied In rags on top of an old safe
She had her silyerware lying under
her he'd covered with dust and astes.
DR. Leonel de Pean, a promiu2nt
Cuban physician now in this country,
says that when Estrada Palma, the
newly-chosen president of Cuba, lands
in the island there will Immediately
follow a revolution between the
whites and the blacks.
\ sensational pitched battle, with
pistols. occurred at Richmond, KY,
on the 18th, as the result of which
Leslie Estill and Shelton Chambers
were mortally wounded, Jim Estill,
a brother of Leslie, also participated
in the battle, but managed to escape
unhurt.
The Kansas state agricultural col
lege is overwhelmed with demands
from western Kansas for prairie dog
poison. One western Kansas county
ordered hundred half-gallon cans
capable of poisoning 1000 to 1900
dog families each.
Five thousand laborers on the
docks at Sueste, Hungary, struck, on
the 18th, in sympathy with the fire
men employed by the Lloyd Austria
company who were out, Several col
lisons with the police occurred and
numerous arrests followed, Troops
finally arrived there to maintain or
der.
The Italian government has appro-
priated $4,000 for the purchase of
an Italian embassy at Washington.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, on
the 18th, said: Count Tolstoi inn
proved to-day, but his condition is
still precarious."
The first American blast furnace in
Germany with an automatic charg
apparatus has been started in ST.
lesia
The city council Of Des Moines, Ia,
on the 18th, decided to close all
churches and theaters and to prohib-
it all public gatherings until the
smallpox epidemic shall have abated.
Seven men were killed and at least
fourteen were seriously injured, on
the 14th, by a huge boulder, weigh
ing IS tons, crashing into the ca
boose of a work train on the Choc-
tow. Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, 20
piles west of Little Rock, Ark.
Sir Archibald Milman, formerly
clerk of the British house of com
mons, died in London on the 14th.
He had been in the service of the
house from 1857 until recently.
The statement of the treasury bal
anccs in the general fund, exclusive
of the $15O,OOO,OOO gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
18th showed. Available cash balance,
$l74,49S ,734; gold, $S7,336,557.
On the 14th r. G. Dun & Co., of New
York, reported; Failures for the
week numbered 240 in the United
States. against 257 last year, and in
Canada 80, against 40 last year"
A dispatch to a London news agen-
cy from st. Petersburg announces
that the large town of Shamaka,
Trans-Caucasus has been destroyed
by an earthquake, No details of the
disaster have been received.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
Reuter- Telegram Co., London, on the
14th, said that Miss stones ransom
had been paid and that Eer release
was expected at any moment.
Mrs, Kate Voepel, widow, was
murdered in her apartments in
Christopher street, New York, on the
18th. She was found dead by her
young son. There were IS knife
thrusts in her body, and disordered,
blood-marked room told of a desper-
ate struggle before the woman gave
up,
Marconi's laurels are in danger of
being stolen. A society has Just been
formed in Paris for the commercial
exploitation Of wireless telegraphy.
The promoters say that it will be inn
possible for Marcoai to patent his
system there.