Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1909-11-19

ly enough to live on, and who long tC
see the open country was announced
by Miss Sadie Galloway, manage OF a
Chicago dry goods store. Miss Gallo
ways advice to girls is to go west. She
has just returned from South Dakota.
where she has been teaching school.
Eraste Champagne, a deputy sheriff
and leader of his political faction at
Breaux Bridge, La, shot and killed
from ambush Taylor DGsptt. Sr., so
years old, in revenge for the Staying
of Henry Champagne, his son, Septem-
Der %, at a municipal election by AL
bert Daspit, son Of the man who fell
victim to the political feud.
Private detectives, employed by the
family of Edwin Hills, a member OF
the Connecticut legislature and a
wealthy hardwood manufacturer and
banker Of Plainf1eld, Conn, are scour-
ing New York for the beautiful wo-
m a with whom he registered at the
Gilsey house and who later deserted
him In his room when he died of
heart disease.
James Theilman, who became a
waiter in Delmonico's in New York
in 1872 and was there until his death,
saved his tips and invested them so
p~rudently that he left a fortune OF
$500, 600. During the las ten years
he vas head waiter.
Major Harvey w. Salmon of the
defunct Salmon & Salmon bank of
Clinton, Mo-, has returned to st.
Louis, having given bond for his APP
pearance at the January term Of court
to answer to the charge of receiving
deposits when he knew the bank to
be in a failing condition.
An attempt to rob New York Cen
trail train No. "A, the American Elk
press, between Lyons and Syracuse,
N. Y, vas frustrated and two men
were arrested at the point of guns
A third Is believed to have fallen
under the train and been killed.
A strong flow Of gas n oil was
struck at Marathon, Tex, while drill
ers were sinking a well for a rubber
factory. The drill was blown from the
we'll by the force of the gas.
DR.. JabeZ N. Jackson, Kansas City,
made the principal address before the
600 delegates attending the South
western Medical Society convention at
San Antonio, Tex. A feature of the
convention will be the study Of two
cases of pellagra and two cases OF
hook worm brought before the body
by State Health Officer Brumby.
Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S.
N, discoverer Of the North Pole, has
announced that within the next five
years he will head an expedition to
seek the South Pole. The expedition
will be under the auspices of the
Peary Arctic Club, which backed him
in his recent trip to the Far North.
DR.. V. E. Hayne, a dentist, died at
Abilene, Tex, from a bullet wound in
ficted by his 4-year-old son. They
were hunting when the boy picked up
a small rifle and fired. The bullet en-
tered the fathers arm. Blood poison
ing and lockjaw followed, resulting
fatally.
Thai A. E. Talbot, horseman and
sporting man, was shot to death by
his wife, Mae Talbot, at Reno, New,
during a quarrel over a settlement of
their marital affairs when he was on
the point of filing papers for divorce,
was Tic NCIulCI T0luIu0O ny luS COIO-
ner's jury.
David H. McCreight, 40 years old,
a travelling salesman, died suddenly
at the St. George hotel at Dallas, Tex.
A drug in tablet form that would re-
lieve pain had been used. An over
dose may have been taken by mistake.
The body will be sent to Lewisburg,
Pa.
Otto w. Wilkie, a chirOpodist, was
given a term of four years in the pen
ttentiary at st. Joseph, Mo-, by a jury,
on a charge of swindling Mrs. Mary
Humphreys of Humphreys, Okla, out
of $1,000. Mrs. Humphreys says that
while a patient Of Wilkes she was
imprisoned by Wilkie and two women,
who, by threats, extorted the money.
Mrs. Mary Mckinney, sister-in-law
Of Congressman James Mckinney Of
the Fourteenth district, was released
from the asylum for insane at Water
town, ILL.,, as a result of States Attor-
ney Robert Schole's action in quash-
ing the charges against her.
Two suffragettes, who broke the
stained glass window at the Guild
Hall during the height of the Lord
Mayors banquet in London, were ar
raigned and fined $25 each, with the
alternative of a month at hard labor.
The prisoners were Amelia Brown and
Alice Paul.
Two attempts were made to wreck
passenger trains on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad below Bay Minette,
Ala. Bloodhounds were ordered to
the Ger
The funeral of T. B. Murdoch, edi-
tor of the Eldorado Republican and
widely-known Kansan, vas held Sun
day at Eldorado, Kas. Many state Of
icials, politicians and prominent men