The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1904-11-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL


freezing over of the Hun river. which
is now passable for men and material
on the ice.
In Raleigh county. Va, Eddie Mes
sick and John Hillard quarreled. on
the 9Th. after a political argument,
when Messick pulled a revolver and
shot Hillard dead. a brother OF the
latter. who appeared about the same
time. was also shot and killed by
Messick-
As the result OF a quarrel growing
out of stock depredat!ons, York Grover
was shot to death by Henry Virgins
at Caldwell. Tex. on the Sth.
A Toxic dispatch OF the morning OF
the 10th said that Gen. Stoessel had
asked for an armistice at Port Arthur.
will capitulate before the place is taken
by assault. The object of the armistice
asked for was not stated.
James y. Storm. county treasurer at
Prescott, Ariz-. was, on the 9th, found
locked in the steel vault OF his Office
bound and ragged. with SIS. 900 missing
from the cash funds OF the treasury.
Mr.. Storm had been in the vault 16
hours when found by his daughter.
There is some talk in Washington OF
probable changes in the cabinet after
March next. II is thought that Sec
rotary Shaw may retire. ia which case
it IS predicted that Hon. George b.
CortelyOu stands next. 1t is stated with
confidence that Secretary Hay will re-
main at the head OF the state depart
ment. and that Secretary Taft will
continue at the head of the war depart
ment.
Up TO the morning OF the 10th Mis-
souri, appeared to be the only state in
doubt as TO the result of the vote on
the national candidates. The repub-
licans claimed that Roosevelt had car
ried the state by 5000, while the dem
ocrats were insistent that the states
electoral vote would be saved to Par
ker
Capt. Kirliwood and % members OF
the crew of the Inflated steamer Mine
ola arrived at san Francisco from the
orient. on the eth, on the steamer Man
churia. The Mineola was wrecked
about three weeks before in Tegil bay,
OFF the coast Of Siberia.
Japan. the land OF the chrysanthe-
mum. was fairly outclassed by the dis
play OF those flowers at the Worlds
fair. on the 18th. the opening day Of the
flower show in the Horticultural build
ing. Japanese visitors declared Il the
most interesting display of their ma
tional flower they had ever seen.
Five men were killed and % in
jured in a wreck on the Chicago q
Eastern Illinois railroad near Clinton.
Ind. on the Sth.
The body Of an unidentified white
man was found in a corndeld near
the end of Ohio avenue. East st. Louis.
H.. on the 9TH. by persons living in
that vicinity.
Richard Gorety. a white soldier at
jefferson barracks. ST. Louis. was ia
tally stabbed. on the 9th. by Walter
barrymore. a colored cavalry corporal.
An east-bound freight on the Balti-
more & Ohio road was wrecked. on the
10th. near McKeesport. Pa. and before
passenger train No. 3, from Cumber-
land. could be tagged. IL plunged into
the wrecked cars which had been piled
mp on the west-hcund track. Engineer
Samuel Bits, Of the passenger train,
and his fireman, Samuel McMinn., were
badly hurt.
Three persons lost their lives. 20
were injured. nearly half a hundred
were overcome by smoke. and an equal
number rendered homeless as a re-
suit of n series of fires in various parts
of New York city on the 10th.
One man was killed and three per-
int ffn Of
between a Missouri Pacific passenger
CINE. near Kansas City. Mo. on the
10th.
Safeblowers entered the Churchville
bank, II miles west OF Rochester. y.
Y. on the 10th. exploded seven charges
against the safe and secured $1,000.
There was a light fall OF snow at
Kansas City and in southwestern Mis-
souri,, on the 10th, the first Of the sea-
son.
The Lokal Anzeiger (Berlin) printed
a Toxic dispatch. on the 10th. saying
that Gen. Nogi. commanding the troops
before Port Arthur. was fully empow-
cred TO negotiate with Gen. Stoessel,
the Russian commander. for the sur
render Of Port Arthur. The capitula-
ton OF the fortress was expected to oc-
cur al any time.
The London Daily Telegraph's cor
with Gen. Oku, cables. I'M
der date OF November 3: Last night
he Russians made several determined
attacks upon Lamu Ting anu Sin
Ching Pu. but were repulsed with
heavy losses. The artillery laid the
villages in ruins"
A dispatche from Colorado Springs,
Col. al a. IN. OF. the 18th, said that
The town of Anaconda. in the Cripple
Creek district, was in danger of de-
.truction by fire. One block had al
ready been burned. aud the flames at
hat time were beyond control of the
ocal fire department
At height varying from 400 feet
q two miles, wireless messages were
received by the occu-
pants OF the basket of a balloon which
made an ascension from the Worlds
air grounds In st. Louis on the llth.
rhe experiment was the first of its
Kind ever made in America.
One Of the results Of the recent
1t Is intimated. will be the