Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-12-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

Ark, on the 22d. Harry Wells, fire.
man on Nc II, was burned to death,
and Engineer Deguire, Of the same
train, was nad1y hurt Four passen-
gers were seriously injured, and 10
others were slightly hurt
On the ed, William Holden, farm
hand, entered the Platte Valley bank
at Platte Center, Neb., and demanded
the banks cash, and on refusal OF
Cashier Barney Schroeder to surrender
It, shot the latter in the breast, inflict-
Ing a serious, but not fatal wound.
The band!. was afterwards captured.
The three negroes, whose lives had
been threatened by mobs at Lexing-
ton, KY. were removed to Louisville,
on the 22d. for safe keeping.
The American Art Exposition Co.,
having failed to satisfactorily complete
its side OF ths arrangements. the pro-
posed trip Of the Filipino constabulary
battalion and band from the Worlds
fair for weeks engagement in Madi-
son Square garden, New York city. has
been declared off.
The Red Star line steamship KrooG-
land, about which there had been some
anxiety. by reason Of published reports
that she had foundered, came to
anchor at quarantine, New York har'
Dor, on the night OF the 21st
Briefs containing the arguments Of
counsel for Senator Joseph Il. Burton
of Kansas, were filed, on the 22d, in
the United States supreme court.
Rear-Admiral John Russell Bartlett
United States navy, retired, died at tho
Marine hospital in St. Louis, on tho
22d, Of pneumonia, contracted while Oh
tour of inspection of government
steam vessels plying on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
President Francis OF the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Co. announced, o.
meeting Of the board of directors, on
the 22d, that the Worlds fair had no
bills payable beyond the comparative.
ly insignificant current accounts.
Senator Il. b. Tillman, Of South
position to DR.. Crum as collector OF
the port OF Charleston, and he Is re-
ported by his friends as having passed
up" politics for the time being.
Benbow's Montana Meteor" made .
flight from the Worlds fair aerodrome
on the 22d, but its diriglbility was mol
demonstrated. as the motive power
went dead" almost Immediately afte'
the ascension was made, and land
ing was effected at Underwood, fouJ
miles away.
Six negroes engaged in a deadly
fight In a 14-foot room near Curtis
La, on the 23d, the participants be-
ing armed with shotguns and pistols,
After the battle, three lay dead. The
other three escaped.
By the explosion Of tho boilers In
n. II. Middleton's cotton gin in the
town of Walters Miss, on the oath,
two lives we're lost and five persons In
jured, two % them seriously.
Ono man was killed and three others
injured in freight wreck on the Gin
olnnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific
railroad at Highbridge, KY, on the
oath
monument to the memory Of Pres
ident William Mckinley was unveiled,
on the oath, at the main entrance OF
Golden Cato park at San Francisco.
Otis Loveland, who killed George
Geyer o farmer, near Alton, o., was
electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio
penitentiary on the cath.
Dom Paul Kruger left fortune esti-
mated at $3,750,0OO. A large part was
bequeathed for the maintenance OF the
Dutch language.
Five Italians perished In fire
which destroyed the old Noble grain
warehouse at North Bend, Pa, on the
oath
The special train bearing President
Roosevelt and party arrived In st.
Louis at 40 a, M, on the 26th, and
was at once switched to siding inside
the Administration entrance to the
Worlds fair, where its occupants were
left to repose undsturbed until the
official day opened.
A Stockholm dispatch Of the 26th
says that Heinrich Ibsen has had sew
eral attacks of heart trouble, and that
his condition is such that there Is little
hope for recovery.
Tremendous excitement prevailed in
st. Petersburg, on the 26th, when 1t
became known that the czar had re-
ceived in audience delegation from
the zemstvos for consultation over the
demands contained in their memorial.
1t ia believed in Toxic that impor-
tant developments in the siege of Port
Arthur are impending. The belief
seems to be based mainly on the un-
official reports of the successful prog
ress of the sapping against the Er
Lung, Sung Shu and Tung Kekwan
forts.
1t Is said that the dispatches sent
by Gen. Stoessel commander at Port
Arthur, sent by the destroyer Rasto-
ropny to Che Foo, contained frank
statement of the hopelessness OF the
situation. He said "The garrison Is
being starved out"
Si- Wilfrid Laurier, premier Of Can
ada accompanied by Lady Laurier,
was q visitor at the Worlds fair on
Thanksgiving day. Sir Wilfrld ex-
pressed his amazement at the exposi-
tion's magnitude and comprehensive
ness.
Paul ,Strasser, union veteran, and
who was an inmate of the soldiers
home at Danville, ILL.,, died suddenly
at Union station, st. Louis, on the
morning of the cath, while en- route to
Sebring, O., to visit his family.
A great wolf drive occurred in the
pasture reserve near Chattanooga,
Okla, on the Gath. Forty square miles
of territory was covered and about fifty
wolves corraled, ten OF which were
captured and killed 1t was the larg-
est hunt ever held In the territory.
Sixteen persons were hurt, two prob
ably fatally. on the 25th, when pas
senger train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road crashed into trolley car at Bed
ford, Q. The trolley car was filled with
passengers.