Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-12-03

ancient structure. The prison was
erected in 1910, and the ~tunneling of
the prison caused the crumbling walls
to fall.
Engineer A. A. Deguire, Fireman +.
E. Pratt and R. NJ. F1ack, a mail clerk,
injured as a result of a wreck on the
Iron Mountain near Malvern, are in
a hospital at Little Rock.
Donald Geiselman, II years old,
while hunting near Orrville, O., shot
and killed his father, Cyrenius Geisel-
man, SO years old. The old man was
husking corn, standing back of a
shock, when the son fired at a bird.
The largest fire in Hickman, KY,
for many years was that in which the
large Richmond and Bond oil mill
burned, with a loss Of 500, 600.
So severe were the burns received
by Herbert McMath at Pembroke, KY,
Tuesday that he died Thursday night.
He was literally cooked from his head
to his feet by the flames, and suffered
intensely. He was about 80 years old.
After a quarrel, Gustave Neibert, an
empIoye at the Rock Island arsenal,
shot and instantly killed his father-in-
law, Dan Gilbert. The Rev. Mr.. En-
right, a Catholic priest, who had been
summoned to pacify the quarreling
men, was present when the Staying
occurred.
A woman neighbOr of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Davis, of Salisbury, ILL.,, went
into their home at Aurora, Ill, to take
care of their baby, II days old, while
Mrs. Davis was i'll, and the we'll meant
attentions killed the child. Under the
impression that she was using talcum
powder the volunteer nurse twice
sprinkled her charge with powdered
arsenic n the infant died.
FRANKIE Pate was killed at Mt. Car
mel, Ill, by William, alias Jumbo
Adams, after a quarrel at a dance
Pate had a shotgun, hut Adams fired
first, using a revolver, death resulting
almost instantly. The coroner's jury
held Adams to await the action of the
grand jury.
Thomas H. Field, known Familiarity
in Dallas, Tex, forty years as Tom
Field" is dead. He "a a native of
Missouri; born near ST. Louis sixty
years ago, n promoted many of the
best enterprises of Dallas.
The Chicasaw legislature adjourned
at Tishomingo after passing a bill
authorizing the election of two dele
gates to represent the tribe in Wash
ington at a salary Of $4,000 a year.
w. F. Bourland of Ardmore and Ben
jamin II. Colbert Of Tishomingo were
elected.
For one day after Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison go
to Jail 100000 men and women
workers will quit work and voice a
protest, if Mrs. Raymond Robins,
president of the National Women's
Trade Union has her way.
Kansas products of 1909 were worth
a total of $685. S5, 245, a gain of $751;
440,414 over last year, according to
the annual report of F. D. Coburn,
secretary of the board Of agriculture.
AT Redding, Cal, while Miss Mae E
Deffert was putting on her wedding
Owl for her marriage to George
Gautier, and the guests were as
sembled, she was stricken with
paralysis and died.
Amos Virkey, a wealthy farmer
nea Foosland, ILL.,, was taken to the
Northern Illinois insane hospital, after
being a~djudged insane. His insanity
was brought on by a large yield of
corn in Champaign county. He want
ed to husk corn day and night.
While trying to grasp the revolver
OF one of two robbers, who "stuck
up" his saloon at Kansas City M. A.
Spangler was instantly killed. In a
pistol duel with his fathers murderer
Sam Spangler was shot through both
arms.
Edward Bachman, a prisoner in the
Richland county, O., Jail, faces the
gallOws in Mississippi because of his
cOnfessing a double murder at Gulf
port SO that his aged mother might
get the reward offered for his
capture.
Admiral Sperry has been detailed
by the secretary Of the navy to assist
the National Waterways commission
in it's work. He will give attention to
various questions III will aid the
commission in the preparation of it's
forthcoming report.
Baron S~hibusawa, head of the Jap
anese Commercial commission, which
is touring the United States, was i'll
when the special train arrived at San
Diego, Cal, and was unable to leave
his private car all day.
The Franklin entry in the 15O-mile
race at the Ascot park, Los Angeles,
Cal, plunged through the fence at the
first turn and the driver, Guy Irwin,
was perhaps fatally injured.
Sailing Tuesday from New York on
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse was
Baron Liang Kuei, uncle of China's
baby emperor, who, incognito, has
just concluded a trip across The