Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. NJ. j. CAST aged 49, who lived
alone at Grandview a., was burned TO
death in her home on the l4th. Her
body was burned to a crisp.
The south-bound through train on
the Kansas City Southern was held
up by seven men at a point between
Spiro and Redland, /. r., early on the
morning of the 10th, but no booty
was secured.
Capt, John Alexander Armstrong.
aged a. one of the best-known river
men between Pittsburg and Cincin.
natl, died in the hospital at Hunting
ton, W. Va, on the l7th. He lived at
Point Pleasant, where he operated
the largest docks on the Ohio river
He was president of the first line OF
steamers that ever towed coal from
Pittsburg to the south.
At two o'clock on the morning of
the 18th two shots were fired through
tho window of the bedroom of Super.
intendent Deck of the Starlvile Coal
mine at StarllyiIe, Col. Neither hit
him. It is a mystery what prompted
the attack upon the life OF Mr.. Deck
He is very popular in Starllville and
adjoining mining camps.
President Roosevelt has promised
to give an invitation to visit Kansas
City, Mo, on his next trip west his
serious consideration, according to a
letter from his private secretary
George t. Cortelyou, received by i,
NJ. Clendcnning, of the Commercial
club of that city, on the 17th.
The twenty-ninth battery of United
States troops arrived at Fort Sill,
Okla, on the 27th, from Cuba, where
they had been for couple of years,
This was formerly known as Grimes
battery. 1t has now but G3 men, but
will be recruited up to 100.
In the suit for $1,000 damages for
alleged libel brought by Frank ~
Morse, of St. Paul, Mimi, against the
TimesRepublican, Judge Caswell, on
the 18th, instructed the jury to re-
turn a verdict for the defendant,
1t was announced, on the 18th, from
the federal Office at Guthrie, Okla,
that in order to prevent contests, all
homesteaders should be on their
claims in the new country by Febru-
airy 6.
The house committee on revision of
the laws, having taken up a long |
mooted question, decides that the
verb lis" should be used in referring
to the United States.
The second producing oil we'll near
Boulder, Col, was opened on the
18th 1t is half mile distant from
the first. The excitement is great, |
land values are rising, and many par
ties are preparing to drill for oil.
James +. Wide, who with William
II. Dalton is under sentence of death |
at Portland Ore, for killing James
b. Morrow on November II last, has
confessed that he fired the shot
which killed Morrow.
The Kentucky senate, on the nth,
unanimously concwred in the house
resolution asking congress to provide
for the election of United States SEN
ators by direct vote.
On the 18th Il. G. Dun & Co. re-
ported: Failures for the week NUM-
bered 334 in the United States, against |
325 last year and 40 in Canada against
43 last year"
Warden McClaughrey of the fed
eral prison at Leayenworth Kas.,
has received tolegraphic information
from the Canadian police authorities
that i. \. Rating, a prime leader in
the prison mutiny of November Z,
has been located near Quebec and
can be had whenever wanted.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, di-
rccted Secretary Long to deliver 20
the state department, for transmits
sion to the Chinese minister, S376,OOO,
representing the value of the silver
bullion seized in the yamen at Tien
Tsin by the United States marines.
An unconfrmed dispatch from
Mishawka, Ind, states that j. p. Ny
ers, confidential agent for Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, is purchasing n 100
foot right-of-way for an electric rail
road which is to connect New Iork
city with st. Iolis.
A syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists
has concluded negotiations for II, 900
acres OF coal land in the first pool
district, south of Pittsburg, Pa. The
price is said to have been SS,00O,000.
Eight mines are TO bc opened, TO haze
daily capac ty Of 10000 tons and
900 houses for the worlmen a1 10
be built.