Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-02-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

One engineer was killed and three
tranmen injured by the wreck of Bur-
lington passenger train No. 3, a double
header, u miles west of Creston, Ia,
due to a broken rail.
Tho Western Oil Mems association
met at Toledo and adopted resolutions
of sympathy with their brethren in the
Kansas oil field and condemnatory of
the course taken by the Standard Oil
Co.
When the ice .ams in the Ohio river
at Cincinnati broke loose much dam
age was done. One steamer was sunk,
others seriously damaged, and 100
barges many of them coal-laden, car
ried down stream and probably sunk,
Alabama has been having phe-
nomenal rain. About ten inches fell
in nine days, and still raining, All
traffic entering Mobile was more or less
impeded.
A special session of the house of rep
resontatives was held in Washington,
on the 18th inst, to pay tribute to the
memory of the late Senator George f.
lIoar, of Massachusetts,.
In future smoking by any other
than first class men at the naval acad-
emy at Annapolis, Nd, will be cause for
immediate dismissal
The Katy fast passenger train, No. 2l'
n double.header was wrecked at Moran
water tank, near Wichita, Kas,, due to
the rails being coated with ice, One
engineer was killed and the other had
log fractured. No passengers were
hurt.
The order of the king of Saxony TO
his former wife to surrender the
Princess Ana Monica Pia can not be
enforced in Italy without recourse to
the courts and decree in the kings
favor would I've difficult Of enforce
ment ws.s.
When the present afeged land fraud
investigation in Oregon is concluded
attention will be paid to similar condi-
tions alleged to exist in Washington,
Montana and Wyoming.
Russia has bought the Hamburg
American Steamship Co.'S steamships
Deutschland and Hamburg for S3,500,-
coo and 100000 respectively.
ST Joseph, Mo. is threatened with a
coal famine by reason of the inability
of the railroads to move fuel in fast
enough, due TO the extreme cold,
Fire destroyed the eight-story build
ing OF the Sch Nabacher Hardware Co.,
of Seattle, Wash. loss, $4,000; COW
cred by insurance.
The jury in the case OF Coroner
Moses ]. Jackson of New York city,
charged with attempted bribery, re-
turned a verdict of guilty
Mrs. Alice Duke has been discharged
from custody in New York city, the
Texas authorities not insisting on her
oXtradition.
Missouri Pacific train No. s. from Col
orado to Kansas City, collided with a
freight, stalled in the snow at Gypsum
City. Kas Three persons were in
jured.
Fergus Falls, MINI, had its coolest
weather in six years during the last
blizzard -3S1s degrees below zero.
Burglars broke into the Bank of Leb-
anon, at Lebanon, Ore, blew the door
off the vault with nitroglycerine and
secured $4,000 in coin and currency.
William K Ackerman, president of
the Illinois Central Railroad Co. from
1877 to 1884, died at his home in Chi
cago from heart disease,
Sylvester Scoyel, who attained noto-
riety during the war with Spain
through his controversy with Gen.
shafter, died n Havana, following an
operation for aoscess Of the liver.
Rear-Admiral Frank c. Cosby U s,
NJ, retired, died in Washington follow
ing q AEOEs Of paralysis,