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NARROWING THE MARKET.

france and Cinada Give Us a Dose of "Mc-
Kincylsm"-iIow Frances Ectaiiatory
luty on Our Grain il Narrowing the
Farmers Foreign Market b. Effect Of Can
adl's Duty on Our Low Exports "Mekin-
leyism" and the Interests of the Farmer.
BY her recently adopted tariff laws
France collects duty of fifteen cents a
bushcl on grain imported from other
European countries; but on grain from
the United States the new duty is thir-
ty-three cents bushel, which is prac-
tically prohibitory.
Why this discrimination against us?
1t is a dose of "McKinleyism' which
France has prepared for us to pay us
back for the high tariff folly of the
party in power. The Mckinley Ad-
ministrative Customs BILL which went
into effect on August |, lays great ditf-
culties in the way of buying and i'm
porting the foreign goods that we need,
and France was very much wrought up
over it, as we'll as over the other and
still worse Mckinley bill which is yet
to come France has simply gwen us a
dose of the Mckinley medicine. but 1t
must be noticed that it is our farmers
who have to take it; and thus, as
Blaine points ont, "our foreign market
for breadstuiIS grows narrower"
But what will be the precise effect o.
this French duty on grain?
The latest reports from the Treasury
Department present the following in
teresting facts: Our exports of corr
and wheat to France for the fiscal yea
ended June 30, were valued tS6, $40 900
and for last year S9,s7l,0Oo. Here is al
average of eight aud half million dol
lars cut off from our farmers foreign
market at a single stroke, and "'Twa
all on account OF Mckinley"
The effect of these French duties yer
clearly show by comparing our export
to France in June, 1889, with the sam
month this year The duty has but IL
Gently been imposed in that country
but already for the month of June ther
: is a most remarkable falling off in ou
exports of wheat and corn to France
Our exports of these two article to tha
country for the two months are as TO
l lows: June, 1889, corn, sol, ,653 bushels
; wheat, l65. 4s6 bushels. June, ls9'
corn. 81, AL bushels; wheat, 24,c(
bushels.
The value of these exports fell fro
. S507, 12S in June, 1889, to the pititul SUI
of $50, SIS in June, 1890. That Is he
3 mckinley sm'' narrows the forei.
8 market for our breadstuifs.
In the face OF fact like this what
y the use for Mckinley to try to humb,
a Che farmer 10y eaising the duty on @he
from twenty cents bushel to twent
:, i've cents, and on corn from ten cen
u 70 fifteen?
!. OF those TWO articles we impogteddu
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
TRA1N-WRFCKING.

Rail Loosened and Passenger Train
Wrecked, but Strange to Say No One Is
Killed
The Louisville, New Orleans and Tex.
as railroad passenger No 2, due at
Vicksburg, Miss, at midnight Thurs
day, but two hours late, was derailed
on an embankment five miles south of
Vicksbarg at two o'clock and badly
wrecked. Every car left the track, but the
sleepers were not overturned All the
others rolled down the bank, and the
engine tender and baggage car were
wheels upward. No loss of life occurred.
Conductor Gurley, Engineer Cook, and
two passengers are confined to their
beds, owing to severe bruises. The
wreck was the result of deliberate nal
ice--a rail having been loosened.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Nav York Central Employes Mangled

Rufus Barrett, freight conductor
from Evansville, Ind; James Ryan, OF
Philadelphia, and Brakeman Wm, Skid
moro, of Brooklyn, all green hands en-
ployed in tho New York Central rail-
road yards, New York, while employed
in coupling cars, were more or less bad
ly injured by being caught between the
cars. Barrett had his right arm fractur-
ed and one of his legs lacerated. Ryan
was terribly crushed between the cars,
and Skidmorc had his left leg crushed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
IN A RING.

ITO Girls Fight a Savagely Contested
Battle-After Thirty-Eight Rounds 1t
vas Declared a Draw.
Mary Herbert and Mabel Brown.
dIughters OF prominent residents Of
Heasantville, N. j., fought prize
Hht in sixteen-foot ring which was
pitched in an old barn in the outskirts
Of that village at o'clock Sunday
uprning. The cause for the fight
WIS rivalry for the attentions of a
yang man named George Woodward.
Hirty-eight rounds were fought, in
which both girls were severely punish
ed but neither had the advantage. The
cotest was declared draw. The COM
baants were stripped to the waist, and
evry part of their bodies exposed to
visy bore traces of punishment. The
retree, seconds and spectators were all
fetales, and friends of the principals.
Woodward has since declared that he
vii have nothing to do with either of
th girls
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
RUBE BURROWS.
Hunting the Outlaw with BIoodhounds In
Florida


The Florida mail train robbery has
produced intense excitement at Pensa-
cola. Rube Burrows was reported to
have been seen at Milton, twenty miles
east OF that city, Wednesday, and at J
o'clock special train with Superinton-
dent Fisher, Route Agent Arnold,
several express company detectives and
posse of deputy sherifTs from Alabama
under Sheriff Mcmillan, passed through
Pensacola for Milton. Deputy Sheriff
Tom Cushbacks joined the party Thurs
day there with posse of six
men. Patrolman Wilson, of tho
police force Of Pensacola with
a posse Of six men, left
Wednesday,. and is coming down Escam-
bia river from Bluff Springs in boat
and several parties with bloodhounds
are securing the country from the sceno
OF the robbery down the river to tho
swamp. Detectives and deputy sherifs
passed through Pensacola Thursday
with their blood-hounds, and if Rube
Burrows is in Florida it is thought he
will be captured by Friday night. 1t is
certain, beyond any possible doubt, now
that it was he who committed the rob.
berry, assisted, it is thought by noted
desperate of Santa Rosa County, Burrell
Martin.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
News Items.

MILES OGIE, a noted counterfeitor, is
held by the United States authorities at
Cincinnati. on an indictment found
against him ten years ago.
Mrs FRANCES FREEMAN, mother of
Carrie Freeman, who escaped from
Longview Asylum, Cincinnati, a few
weeks ago, has herself become raving
maniac.
AT Portsmouth, o. Fair, Strathmore.
fouryear-old, paced quarter of a
mile Sll1 seconds.
THE Glass Manufacturers convention
adjourned at Chicago Wednesday. 1t
was concluded best to leave each manu-
facturer to fix his own price and terms.
THE population of Topeka, Kas., was
announced by the Census Bureau on the
I'd as 81, 500. This is an increase during
the census period of l6, 357, or l0j, Sc pc,
cent
THE Secretary has issued n call fol
5000, 900, 600 of four-anda-half bonds
THE Brazilian Minister at Washing
ton assures Senator Aldrich that his
| country is anxious to enter into al
WIN but ,Hittu CtdltS OF
the basis of Blaine's reciprocity policy
THE President has approved tn,
joint resolution making an appropri
alton for the relief of the destitute il
Oklahoma.
THE total of all appropriations for riv
ers and harbors agreed upon by the Sen
ate and House conferces is S2I, 9Sl, ,295.
A LARGE number of counterfeit ten
dollar bills, of the Germania Nationa
Bank of New Orleans, are in circulation
In Kansas City.
lNcENDIARIEs fred the big barn Of
the Palo Altoranch of Senator Stanford
The prompt work of the hostlers save
many valuable horses.
AT Philadelphia Sunol and Palo Alt
trotted mile in 2:l2k and 2:13 respe,
lively, on track deadened by heav
rains.
| A COMPANY with So, 600, 600 capital ha
been incorporated to pipe natural ga
from Indiana to Chicago.
THE Republicans OF the Tenth Mi
souri District renominated Congressma
Kinsey.
CHARLES II, AMspEN, of Penacool
was nominated by the Democrats ,
New Hampshire as o candidate for Go
ernor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
The Baby Was Not Hurt.

A baby carriage which was being
rolled by two boys on the roof of No,
2O3 South Fifth avenue, New York,
brok away, and with its two-year-old
occupant fell five stories, Saturday
afternoon. The carriage remained up
right and fell on bale Of rags in tho
street, whore it was shattered. The
baby was bounced upwards, and was
caught in the arms of n young man
standing near. 1t was not injured.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

M'KINLEY'S FINE HAND.

One of His Methods of "Protecting" an
Article Not Manufactured I'm This Coun-
try.
Interest in the Mckinley Tariff bill
has attracted attention away from the
other Mckinley bill which has already
become law. This is the so-called Gus
toms Administrative law, which was
passed several months ago, and which
went into operation on the 1st of Au-
gust
This law relates only to the manner
of calculating and collecting duties, but
it results in many cases in very large
increase of the duties collected. Some
| of the main features of the law are that
the duty must be collected not only on
the cost OF the merchandise itself, but
also on the packages and on the cost of
freight on the other side for shipment
to the sea port; and furthermore it is
provided that nothing shall be allowed
for waste bySbreakage or otherwise.
A case has already come to light in
New York which shows how greatly this
law may increase duties. The Eisner &c
Mendelson Company, of that city, are
the agents for Johann Hof's malt ex.
tract, kind of medicinal beer which
is made in Germany This company
has recently received two shipments
from Berlin of equal quantities, by two
niGrsdpI ,ied 7, SSssei'y Ssw yorl, Ipivt The dutv
paid on the invoice OF malt extract
brought by this vessel was s659 70; that
is 80 per cent. on the value of the malt
extract and 80 per cent. ad valorem on
the bottles,
On August the second consignment
of malt extract arrived, and the duty
collected under the new law was ST.
2l720. The cost Of the straw wrappings
around the bottles, the cost of the boxes,
the cost of packing and the freight were
all included in the duty collected; and
it was this that made the difference.
Mr. Eisner said in regard to the mat
ter: This sort of treatment is very dis
couraging. The increase in the duties
knocks all the profit out of our business.
No increase in the duties was required
for the protection Of the domestic pro-
ducers of malt extract, because they
have been underselling us for years
our price being $3.50 per Dozen while
the price of the domestic article is but
two dollars.
That is what Mckinley can do when
he is mot half trying" Wait till he
gets in his fine work with the real Nc
Kinley bill for decreasing revenues by
7 increasing duties.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
sastrous Wreck.

Early Thursday morning freight
train. drawn by engine No. 1,2os' ran
into the pickup on the b. S O., just east
of Warrington, W. Va, causing ter
rible wreck. Engineer Cordell and an
unknown man were killed, and sixteen
cars piled on top of each other inc
wreck took fire and the cars and contents
were almost totally destroyed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Destructive Hurricane in Italy.

A fatally destructive hurricane iD the
north of Italy did much damage at Bel
luno, and destroyed bridges and houses
in the Zolda Valley. Twenty-Five bod
les have already been recovered from
the debris of ruined buildings, and it is
feared that the remains of other vic
tins of the storm still lie buried under
the ruins Of dwellings.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Speaker Reed Re- Elected.

The Republicans of the First Con-
gressional District, Maine, have out
done themselves. They have reelected
Speaker Reed by over $500 plurality.
In 1883, in Presidential year, and with
very heavy vote, his plurality was
2,4S9, by far the largest he had then
ever received. That year the vote
stood: Reed, 1s,2sS; Emery Democrat)
II. $40: scattering, 500
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
ocean areyhounds on.

Tho Inman Limo steamer City Of Now
York, Captain Watkins, left Queenstown
for New York at s:4s o'clock Thursday
ofternoon. Tho White Star Line steamer
Teutonic, Captain Irving, departed a'
s:5s y. M, fifteen minutes later than her
rival. Tho passengerson the two vessels
were betting on the result OF the trip
ocrnas
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Sensational Incident at Funeral.

A sensation in Pikesville (Md,) Bap-
tist Church was caused by section of
the floor giving way while the funeral
of Mrs Sarah Il. Dorsey was in progress.
A daughter of the dead woman, the un-
dertaker and two pall-bearers were pre-
cipitated into the cellar. The other
pall-bearers prevented the coffin from
going entirely down, although it was
tipped almost on end.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
BLISTERED BY ELECTRICITY.
Two Thousand Volts Go Through Mans
Body without Killing Him,

Herbert Burns an electrician en-
ployed in the electrical works, San
Francisco, received an electric shock
that nearly killed him. One Of tho
dynamos was out of order, and while
Burns was repairing it he received a
shock of 1000 volts direct from the dyna-
mo through his body. The shock knock
ed him backward, and he was picked up
for dead. He gradually recovered con.
sciousncss. One of his hands was badly
blistered, and he complained of soreness
OF tho lunrS
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Ruined Salouicl.,

One-fourth of the city Of Salonica Is
in ruins, caused by fire. In the burned
districts were the British and Greek
Consulates, the Greek hospital and
schools, and the Turkish Mosque, all Of
which were destroyed. Twenty thous-
and people are made homeless by the
fire, 1t is believed that money will be
easily raised to rebuild the burned por-
tiOn OF tho city
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Young Lady Burned to Death

Ethel Curtis, 10 years old, type
writer and stenographer, was smoking a
cigarette in bed at homo in Lexington
avenue, New York, Sunday evening.
She fell asleep, tho cigarette dropped
from her hand and ignited the bed-cloth-
ing and the girl was terribly burned about
tho body. She afterward died OF her burns
at Bellevue Hospital.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
SERVANT GIRL QUESTION.


-
The ladies Of Asheville, n. c., had q
meeting Saturday afternoon in response
to call published in the Citizen, to
take action on the servant girl ques-
ton, which has been agitated for
several weeks. General incompo-
teney and unreliabil.ty are the com
plants made. Mrs. NJ. +. Fitch wa,
elected president, and read paper ad-
vocatng the formation of union OF
house-keepers to secure good servants
and fix schedules of capacity and OF
rates Of wages. This is the first society
of the kind ever formed in the Southern
States.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
WIN Strike Next Spring.

It is estimated that only about $50 OF
tho striking carpenters at Chicago have
refused to return to work up to the
present time, and the strike
is considered virtually at an end. The
Union is now devoting its energies to get-
ting nom Union men into the fold with a
view to a general strike next spring,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
st,,, Looking for a Site.

Tho South Park Commissioners, OF
Chicago, have unanimously decided not
to tender Washington park to the direc-
tors of tho Worlds Fair. The unim-
proved area Of Jackson park, compris-
ING efU acres, and mile and hall OF
lake front, will be added to the former
rrant of that park.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Niue-Hour Day Granted.

The machinists and boiler-makers em-
ployed in the shops of the Pennsylvania
railroad have been notified that hereaf-
ter the nine-hour day would be adopted
at the same compensation per hour as
before. The men had petitioned for nine
hours, with pay for ten hours.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

John Kiernan, freight brakeman,
and John Cordial, freight conductor,
both of Albany, n. Y, have been ar
rested on suspicion of having hand in
tho recent wreck on the New York Gen.
tral, at Castleton.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Adviccs from Armbry, IA, on the
Cresson and Clearfeld road, say num-
Der of men armed with guns forced the
non-union men in the mines to flee for
their lives. Tho town is in an uproar,
and seventeen of the rioters were arrest
ed and are now in the Ebensburg jail.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

1t is claimed that man known as
"Yellow Dick" Vance, who died in Ken
lucky some time ago, is said to have
confessed to the murder of the man for
whom Isaac Smith is under sentence OF
death in the Ohio penitentiary.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
New Method of Firing High Explosives

Louis Gathman, of Chicago, claims to
have invented a method of firing high
explosives by which eight-inch ordnance
can throw she'll containing over one
hundred pounds of powerful explosives
q distance of three or four miles, and
that one shot properly directed, would
sinl, any iron-clad alloat. The Govern
ment will investigate.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
To Gust Bob Kennedy.

Representative Boatner, Democrat)
of Louisiana, has prepared resolution
for the expulsion of General Kennedy
from the House, on account of his speech
against Senator Quay. 1t is said the
Pennsylvania delegation will await the
return of Speaker Reed and Major Nc
Kinley before taking any action in the
matter.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Judge Edward +. Noyes, of tho Supe'
rior Court of Cincinnati, Ex-Minister ia
France, General in the late war, and
Ex-Governor of Ohio, dropped dead In
the street while going from the court
house to his home Thursday.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Ex-senator christlancy Dead.

At Lansing, Mich, Judge Christiancy
died Monday evening at $3.50 o'clock,
after an illness of many months From
1857 to 1875 he occupied the bench Of the
Supreme Court Of Michigan. lie was an
Ex-United States Senator and Ex-Minis.
ter to Peru
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
TERRIBLE CONFEDERATION.


lWeIve Thousand Houses IN Ruins IN tho
CITY of s-iaut~a-
Fires broke out almost simultaneous
ty In four different parts of Salonica
Thursday, and did largo amount of dam
age The Greek and Jewish quarters
are devastated. 1t is supposed the fires
were set by incendiarics. The govern
ment at Athens will send two war ships
to the port to protect Greek subjects.
All the consulates, the Cathedral and
most of the public buildings have been
destroyed. Twelve thousand houses
are in ruins, and the fire is still burn.
ing
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Train-Wrecker Arrested

A man named York Reed, formerly
brakeman on the Hudson River Division
OF the New York Central, has been ar
rested on suspicion of being ono of tho
wra"ters OF the Montreal express.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

John Wclberline, section foreman
on The Northern Pacihc, near Spokane
Falls, was scalped by two drunken
Indians who demanded liquor. He kad
none to give them and they took he
scalp.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
An Alliance AGAINST Strikes.

A number of the richest corporations
in the country have formed an alliance
against strikes. Strikers are to be
allowed to remain idle until they choose
10 return to work.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Shot HIS Adopted Sister

At Rawsonyille, N. Y, fourteen-
year-old boy, jealous of his adopted sis
ter, shot her, using shotgun loaded
with pebbles
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Suicide in the Ohio pen,tent,ary.

Henry Mersman, who killed Ben Rick
ing on Court street. west Of Cutter, Gin
cinnati, couple Of years ago, commit
ted suicide at tho penitentiary Sunday
night The suicide made paper tube
and inhaled the gas from gas-pipe.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Hunting for a NV Gun Natal.

Herr Krupp, son of the German gun
manufacturer, is in Ottawa, Ont, test
ing the ore produced by the Sudbury
nickel and copper mines near there He
is in search of nickel to be used in the
manufacture of new gun metal, which
is expected to as far surpass in strength
and durability the metal now used as
pt.n1 enrpncynu nj -irop
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Reports OF very destructive fires still
continue to come from Hungary. The
latest dispatch says that szalnok and
several Hungarian villages have just
been burned,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
TsAINMEN MISTAKE ORDERS.
Hgineer ami Brakeman Dead and Others
Seriously Iiurt-l;ad Wreck on the Is.
nL n

Seriously Iiurt-l;ad Wreck on the Is.
and o.
At Littleton, thirty miles east OF
Wheeling, w. Va, at 3 O'Clock Monday
dnorninS, freight train 80, or Tho Belti-
more and Ohio, collided with train 96,
owing to a mistake in orders. The
wreck was frightful. Fifteen cars load
ed with grain, coke and slaves
were piled up in endless con-
fusion, and both engines were
completely destroyed, Brakeman Jas.
Toothman was instantly killed and En-
gineer Jefrers fatally hurt and has since
died. Engineer Charles Jeuthke and
Fireman Lee were both seriously hurt.
Brakeman Louden received severe
bruises. The wreck has been cleared
away and trains are running as usual
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Thirty Bohemians Drowned.

A bridge in Prague, over the Moldau,
on which a number of persons were
watching the flood in tho stream, col.
lapsed Friday. Thirty persons were
Jrnmpnl
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
The Population Of Vermont.

The population Of the State Of Yer
mont as announced by tho Census
Bureau is 332,2O5. decrease in ten
years Of eighty-one.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
p,mocrat,c Gains In Vermont Legislature.

The number of Democratic Represent
atives elected as per returns in the YER or.
mont election is about sixty, or gain
of forty-two over 1883.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13

Captain George Houghton, one of the
Oldest river men in tho West, died at
Louisville, Sunday night, aged eighty.
six. He was steamboat inspector at
Louisville for many wears.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
ilaaka,a aoyernmant.

Representative Thompson, of Ohio,
introduced bill Monday to annul the
act providing civil government for
Alaska. The laws OF Oregon, SO far as
qpplicable. IRE made to apply to the dis
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Rirst Arrast Under a New Law.

]. ]. Nicholson, Of Lewiston, Nd,
was arrested on the charge oil CORE
spending with green goods men. 1t is
the first arrest by the post-oflice author
tiles under the new law.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
The Hill Parm Mine.

Work in tho Hill Farm Mine at Dun
bar, Pa, has been stopped and the mine
sealed up again. Inspector Keightley
says new plan for putting out the fire
will be adopted
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-13
Of,red the Snanish Hisaion

John W. Foster, of Indiana, has been
offered the Spanish Mission, and will
probably accept if the reciprocity meas
ure goes into the tariff bill.