The Tupelo journal., 1903-01-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

United States Vice and Deputy Con-
sul-General Edward P. MacLean died
of pneumonia, at Paris, on the 18th.
While prospecting for zinc and lead
on the holdings of the Big Four Zinc
miles south of Harrisburg, ILL.,, on the
Sth, N. W.. Ferguson struck a five
Mining and Prospecting Co., eight
foot vein of the finest quality of
plumbago.
An official of the United States Steel
corporation reports that applications
to the amount of 26,400 shares have
thus far been made by over $1,000 en-
ployes who wish to avail themselves
OF the proposed profit-sharing plan.
The dropping of a burning match
into a vat of oil caused an explosion
and fire in a large manufacturing
plant in London, Ont, on the 9Th,
which resulted in a property loss of
$500 900.
Mrs. Anna T. Miller was convicted
at Columbus. o., on the 9th, of using
the United States mails in an attempt
to blackmail prominent citizens, and
sentenced to Is months in the peni-
Tertiary.
BY a decision of the Missouri SUI
of death by the lower court on John
Vinso was affirmed and he will be
hanged at Pierce City February ID.
United States Ambassador Robert
S. Mccormick and wife arrived at St.
Petersburg, on the 9th.
Engineer King, living at Mattoon,
ILL.,, was badly hurt in a collision on
the Big Four, near Moro, ILL.,, on the
9Th.
DR.. G. F. Shoey, a prominent physi-
clan of Medora, Ind, was burned to
death by the upsetting of a lamp in
his room at his boarding house, on
the night of the Sth.
The Indiana state senate passed a
bill, on the 9th, appropriating $1,000
for a sword for Admiral Taylor, COM
mander of the battleship Indiana at
Santiago.
Fl. P. III. Bromwell, a member of
congress from the Charleston 0ll.)
district from 1865 to 1869, died at
Denver, Col, on the 9th.
Emil Johnson shot and killed Miss
Beena Benson, at Virginia, Mimi, on
the 9th, because she had refused to
marry him.
Mgr. F%alconio, papal delegate to the
United States, called to pay his re-
spectS to President Roosevelt, on the
9Th.
Capt. w. E. Gleason, of the Sixth in
fantry, U. S. A., died at TT. Leaven-
worth, on the 9th, of pneumonia.
Louis Baldwin, a well-known min
strel and comedian, died at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, on the 9th
The southwestern limited, west
bound, and the Cincinnati express,
east-bound, on the Big Four, collided
head-on. near Bethalto, ILL.,, on the
night OF the 9th. Both engineers were
probably fatally hurt and the fireman
of the limited is missing, probably
buried under the wreck. The passen-
gers escaped with a severe shaking up.
~Germany's choice of city for the
Olympian games is ST. Louis, not Chi
cago, and DR.. Gebhardt, head of the
German section of the international
committee, has so informed Baron
Coubertin, head of the French sec
ton.
Alfred Belt, the South African
financier, reputed to be the richest
man in the world and one of the early
developers of the Kimberly region,
was reported to be dying at Johannes
burg, South Africa, on the 9th, where
he had been stricken with apoplexy.
The offering of the administration
antitrust bill in the house, on the
Sth, by Congressman jenkins, wa the
occasion of much surprise and no lit
| tie comment in administration circles,
as well as among the members of the
| senate and house