Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-03
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH. EAST. SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

navy department TluIlS anu WdlhIIS
test for officers. The admiral quotes
his record with Uncle Sam and said:
eff that is not god enough the govern
ment may release me-"
While Mrs. David Hannick, aged 50,
with her son, was standing on the Hi
nOis Traction system track at Brink
erhOff Crossing, four miles north of
Springfield, waiting for a Chicago &
Alton train, an interurban express car
struck and killed her.
Mrs. Margaret Smith, aged 35 years,
and Mrs. Minnie Wright, aged so
years, were killed by a gas explosion
in a boarding house at Rochester, n.
Y. A jet in their room had leaked all
night. Mrs. Wright, in a dazed con-
dition and half s~uffocated by the es-
Gaping gas, had applied a match to he
leaky jet.
The appellate division Of the SUI
preme court of New York at Pough-
keepsie has affirmed the decision of
Supreme Court Justice Keogh, in the
action brought by Mary B. Tower,
wife of Albert f. Tower, the Pough-
keepsie iron king" for separation
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the separation and allowed Mrs. Tow
er 800 per month alimOny.
Constable j. H. DObbs narrowly es-
capped Iynching at Columbus, Ill, after
he nae shot and killed William
Thompson, his neighbOr. His towns
men were excited over the affair, and
made Open threats. The killing was
the result of a quarrel over the chill
Lren of the men.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
has ruled that private lands within
government reclamation projects may
be sold together with the water
rights that attach to the lands, provid-
ing the man who sells the lands has
with all the provisions of h recla-
nation act before he sells out.
One million dollars has been de-
posted with the Rothschilds at
London to the order of the Hague
arbitration court by Domingo Cana,
against Chile, in case the court finds
in favor of the claimants.
John Peters, injured in a practice
football game with Morningside col
lege of Sioux City, Ia, in prepare
ton for the contest with Vermillion
on Thanksgiving day, died in a
hospital Tuesday.
Marguerite Bolts, the 1~2-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Bolts,
was burned to death at Paris, Texas.
The little girl had gotten out of bed
and was warming herself at a CRATE,
when the lower edge of her night
gown caught fire.
James p. Scott, So years old, and
his 12-year-Old son, were smOthered
to death nea L~ynchburg, Va, under
a wagon Oad of leaf tobacco.
Benjamin S. Gable, an attorney of
Chicago, will succeed Ormsby Nc
Harg as assistant secretary of the de-
partment of commerce and labor, &C
cOrding to a statement made by
Senator Cullom of Illinois.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
approved designs for the new postal
cards to be finished by the govern
ment printing office under the ar
rangement taking effect January 1
next. The head Of Mckinley will be
continued on the ordinary card, but
a better likeness has been selected
and the border design has been much
improved.
w. l.. Carney, an aged recluse and
we'll to do citizen, who was attacked
and robbed in his home several
months ago. died at Bismarck, Mo.
He never recovered from the injuries
sustained when robbed.
Aaron Johnson. a negro. who is said
TO be 115 years old, fell out of a
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his neck. as he was being conveyed
to the Rapides parish poor farm at
Pineville.
Henry Keck, SO years old, a farmer
living at Gonzales, Tex, conceived
and executed what is probably the
most peculiar form of suicide ever re-
corded in Texas. Keck built a huge
funeral pyre at the foot of a tree,
touched a match to the tree and as the
flames leaped about him. sent a rife
bullet into his head. The remains
were found Monday.
The post office and general store at
Seville, a small town near Lewistown, |
ILL.,, was entered by burglars and the
safe blown open. All the contents
were stolen. The robbers made good
their escape. Bloodhounds are on
heir trail.
A Jail delivery, in which three priS-
oPers, Blondy King and George Sim.
mons, white, and Richard White, a ne
gro, made their escape, was effected
from the Perry county Jail at Duquoin,
Ill. They sawed out the bars in the
cells and escaped from the building by
digging a hole through the wall.