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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
THIRTY INJURED.
Wreck Of an Express Train on tho Sante
Fe Railroad-iist of Injured.

Wreck Of an Express Train on tho Sante
Fe Railroad-List of Injured.
Thirty people were seriously injured
by the wrecking of train No. 5, the
through Sante Fe vestibule Denver ex.
press, at Wakaruss, thirteen miles south
of Topeka, kas., Friday afternoon.
The train was running at high rate
Of speed and left the track at a curve
this side of the east end Of the
yards. Tho tender, express, mail
and baggage cars and three Pullman
vestibule ears all left the track. The
chair car, sleeper and tourist cars are on
their sides. The track is torn up for
about four hundred feet A relief train
from Topeka arrived at 5:15, bringing
with it the injured, who were cared for
at the National Hotel The following
persons were injured, many of them
seriously: W. f. Jones, mail agent,
Kansas, City, pinned between cars
and injured interally. J. W. Fade
ly, mail agent, Kansas City, in
ternal injuries Harry Stone, mail
agent, Kansas City, head bruised. Mrs.
Ella Steele. New Yorl, City. hurt in tho
head. +. L. Terry, express messenger,
Kansas City, badly injured in spine. L..
j. Johnson, Kansas City, baggage agent,
leg hurt. Henry Lindsey, Topeka,
bruised in the side and jaw hurt. Mat
tie OConnell, Chicago, head and back
injured. Mrs. Dr. Beaslee, Tullunde,
Col, bruised and teeth knocked out T..
NJ. Beaslee, same place, concussion.
Mrs. Geo. Turley, Fresno Cal, back cut.
Mrs. J. Mcfarland, Terrill Hill, Ohio,
head cut. S. Sylvester, Milton, Cal,
knee injured. C. f. harrington, Lis
hon, H., collar bone dislocated. J. j.
Buckley, brakeman, back hurt. Eliza
beth Babbitt Oakland, Cal, arm in
jured Mrs W. S. Mcclure, Kansas
City, arm dislocated. Mrs l.. L. White.
Oakland, Cal; f. A. Fair, Albuquerque,
N. NJ; George +. Reppy, Denver; Solon
Il. Rose, Albuquerque; S. i. Hankins,
Aspen, Col; w. T. Jones, Kansas City;
J. A. Coulter, Colorado Springs.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
THE ELECTRIC DEATH
To BE Tried on Eight More New York C,im-
inals.

On account of the many electrical ex-
ecutions that are to take place in the
three State prisons of that State tho
prison and State officials have begun
preparations to avoid many OF the mis-
takes that occurred in Kemmlers case
and also to apply new methods that have
been discovered in the interim. Thus
far eight men have been condemned to
die by electricity before January /. Six,
unless the court of appeals decide other
wise, will be executed in Sing Sing pris-
on, one in Auburn and one in Danne-
mora. In order to perfect arrangements
n meeting was arranged for in New York
City, There were only present on the
part of the State Dr. Macdonald and
Warden Brush. Some of the electr' clans
at the meeting were present at tho
Kemmler execution and suggested sew
eral improvements. ltwas decided that
it would be better to extend the time
during which the current should be al
lowed to pass through the condemned
from twelve to twenty seconds, and also
to have tho helmet so made as to tit COM
pletely over the victims forehead, in or
der that the electricity encrcle the
head entirely. Changes arc also to bo
made in the seating Of the victim, and
also in the manner of strapping him to
the chair
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A DEAD "GIVE AWAY"
A Protectionist Organ Gives Away an Ii
portant Secret.

Protectionist Organ Gives Away an I'M
portant Secret.
The New York Press of which that
high priest Of protection, Robert
p. Porter, was editor before he was
appointed to make botch OF the CEN
sus, has made singular admission for
protectonist organ. 1t says in regard
to the Mckinley check on English trade
with US:
The Mckinley bill has stopped exporta-
tions to this country Of certain large lines OF
manufactures, In which Germany and Bel.
gium were competitors of the English in
this market. The Germans and Belglans,
being also cut off from this market, are
flooding England with their goods, being
able to undersell the English In England be-
cause Of an advantage in the price Of la bor.
Do you mean what you say? Do you
admit that wages are actually higher in
England than in Germany and Belgium?
And England is free trade country,
and Germany and Belgium have high
protection. VIII some good protection.
ist tell us why protection has not made
wages higher in these countries than in
free trade England?
Last winter Mr. James Gillinder a high
ly protected glassware manufacturer
of Philadelphia, went before Mckinney
to ask for still higher protection against
Germany, because, he said, 81 do not
want to see our we'll paid labor put on
the same footing with those who are
said to get meat only once a week. "
During his examination the following
dialogue took place:
Mr. Flower--some statement has been
made as to the efficiency of the German
labor?
Mr. Gillinder-I have not been In Germany
myself, but my brother visited there and
was very much astonished by the skill and
quIckness displayed by the German glass
blowers.
come more from Germany, where they have
a protective tariff, than from England,
where thy have not?
Mr.. Gllinder-I think that Is true. The
reason for that is that labor In England is
as two to one in Germany. Where work
man gets sl2 in England he gets s. in Ger.
many.
Mr.. McMillln-And yet Germany is pro.
tected and England lie not
And after making such fatal admis-
sions as these the New York Press and
Mr.. Gillinder continue the old cry that
protection is necessary to keep up
wages! What do protectionists believe
about wages and protection, any way?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
THE TUNNEL WRECK.
ohcial List OF the Dead and Wounded
Strange Scenes of Horror.

|
Ihe following is the list of fatalitioa
py the railroad collision in the tunnel at
sloan'S Station, on the Cincinnati South.
ern road: Killei-John Welch, fireman
Somerset, Ky; w. +. Could fireman.
Ludlow, Ky; c. Doegen, postal clerk,
cincinnati, O.; j. Rufrner express mes.
senger, Cincinnati O.; John Montgom.
cry brakeman, Albany, N. Y; John
Plmlott engineer, Detroit, Mich. In.
lured-P Taylor, engineer, Somerset,
NY, D. Ia Gayle, postal clerk, Cincin.
natl o.; John Long, baggage, master,
Newport, Ky; Miss Ollie Get.
tys' passenger, Dayton, Team;
Arch Murphy, passenger. Admission,
Ind; N d. Wheeler, passenger, New
Orleans, La; Wild Rose, passenger, in
charge of Mr.. Wheeler; Moses Simon,
passenger, Cincinnati, 0. The flames
and smoke that continue to pour from the
narrow cavern form weird spectacle
That has attracted thousands of specta-
tors. Sloan's Valley tunnel will remain
the mausoleum of most of the unfortu.
mates who perished in its depth. Their
ashes, trodden in the earth, of the road.
way with the dust of the lime.
stones, will never be identified. One or
two of the dead were more fortunate.
All that remains of poor Ed Ruffner's
body was discovered Thursday and was
taken to Cincinnati in charge of his two
brothers. The Ruffner brothers arrived
at o'clock and were taken at once to
the mouth Of the tunnel, whore the ef-
fects had been discovered. They immo-
dlately identified the revolver as their
dead brothor's property and further in
vestigation proved that the bones were
tho sole remains Of the cypress messon-
ger. A part of the jaw bone was picked up
and the charrcd teeth fell from it with
the gentle movement Several smaller
fragments of bone there were, and one
larger piece that was pronounced a part
of the elbow joint. There were an inch
or two of the bones of both the upper
and fore arm, the fragments being at
right angles with one another, as if tho
elbow had been turned. Leaving this
ghastly memento on tho surface of tho
debris, the brothers traced line on
the earth to the spot where tho hand
should have been, and, digging into
the ground, they unearthed ring
which RuiIner had worn in life. A
brass seal, the wooden handle of which
had been consumed in the flames, was
also found, the piece being stamp
which the messenger always carried in
his pocket The Ruffner brothers gath
cred up the little heap of bones thero
was and had not a handful in all, and
placing them in basket carried them
to Somerset, whore pine box was pro-
cured in which to carry them to Gin
cinnati. At Somerset the brothers were
given the metal part of the company
revolver, which always lay on the
express messengers safe. The ex-
press safe vas discovered early in
the day, and was pulled out of the tun-
mel with the aid OF the derrick car.
Route Agents King and Owens, who
went down from Cincinnati Thurs
day as Representatives OF the United
States Express Company, opened tho
safe, but found only ashes and dirt, Tho
receptacle was m old-fashioned affair,
and its contents in paper and other val
lables has been destroyed.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
FIRE SWEPT.
Seven Hundred Thousand Dollar Con-
Migration at Mobile, Ala.

Seven Hundred Thousand Dollar Con-
Migration at Mobile, Ala.
Ono Of the most disastrous contlagra.
tions witnessed in Mobile, Ala, began
Sunday about half-past twelve in tie
shingle mill of Stewart & Butt, and
owing to the strong northwest wind pre-
vailing was hot checked till ave o clock
Sunday afternoon, and only then after u
favorable change in the wind. More
than twenty squares were burned,
bounded by Beauregard, Magnolia and
St Louis streets and the river. The
loss is estimated at about S7OO,OO0 with
about S4OO, 900 insurance. The tracks of
all railroads centering there have been
obstructed by the debris in the burned
districts, and trains are delayed. Tho
fire was of incendiary origin.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
BLAINE AROUSED.
He Believes That Tins Country Can n
Consume All 1t Produces.

nc beneVes That inns country Can Not
Consume All IL Produces.
Mr., Blaine talked reciprocity to the
people at Waterville, Me-, on August
2sth. Some things which be said would
not have been out Of place in tariff re-
form or even a free trade speech. For
instance:
81 wish to declare the opinion that
the United States has reached point
where one of its highest duties is to en-
large the area Of its foreign trade.
Under the benefcent policy Of protec-
ton we have developed volume Of
manufactures which in many depart
ments overruns the demand Of the home
market. In the field of agriculture,
with the immense propulsion given it
by agricultural implements, we can do
far more than produce breadstuffs and
provisions for our own people; nor
would 1t be an ambitious destiny for so
great country as ours, to manufacture
only what We can consume or to produce
only what we can eat"
This doctrine is q severe blow to the
Uhinese wall fellows who want us to bo
independent" and who want to "de-
velop" the home market so that it will
take up all our products Mr.. Blaine
declares that "the inevitable tendency
is toward the increase of the free list"
81 believe" he says, that one article
after another will be found to need less
and less protection till ultimately the
importation of free articles will be
equal to that Of protected articles"
The end at which the Secretary aims
is about the same as that arrived at by
the tariff reformer. He would do the
work, however, by negotiating treaties
of reciprocity with foreign nations, and
would admit their articles free only as
they would admit ours free. The tariff
reformer, on the other hand, would put
articles on the free list without regard
to what other nations might do because
he believes such a course would be best
for the people Of the United States.
There is one point, though, that Mr..
Blaine should think about. II he really
wishes to try his reciprocity scheme,
there is chance for him right at hand.
England admits all our products, with
three or four insignificant exceptions,
absolutely free of duty. Why should
not we reciprocate? No treaty is neces-
sary; no long negotiations are required.
England has done her part. We have
free access to her markets. Why is not
reciprocity in order here?
Mr.. Blaine is being educated very
rapidly. His progress since 1883 is
something remarkable. But the differ
ences between him and Mr.. Mckinley are
quite irreconcilable. The one seeks to
extend our foreign trade, the other to
check importatons; the one believes
that the day will come when protection
will not be needed, the other believes
in 1t as permanent policy without re-
gard to revenue requirements, and he
likes it for its own sake. Rec iprocity
means intimate free trade. Mckinley
ism means absolute destruction of all
foreign commerce.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"


Mabel (relenting a little, but still a
trifie angry)-"AnY thing l have Of
yours will return at once" Charlie
(giving her kiss)-''Well, there's your
opportunity"-N Y. Herald.
--ScribbIer-"rve just published an.
other novel, johnson. You ought ia
lose no time reading it" Johnson
"Thanks for the hint, old man. I'll bs
careful not to read it."-West Shore.
-She-''George, dear, what do You
think our happiness is chiefly depend,
ent upon?' He las his arm steals about
her willowy waist)-"Upon our sur
roundings, weet."-Dakota Blizzard.
"A man who has travelled much
claims that only about one married
woman in forty-ive is free from look
of worried care. Possibly the fact that
most husbands now get their hair cut
with clippers may have something to do
with it-Ram's Horn.
-Smithers (who has just proposed)-
"Why do you smile? Is my proposition
80 utterly ridiculous that" Lizette-
''Not at all. Mr. Snithers. l am only
looking pleased. l bet Mr.. Hicks box
of candy I'd have the refusal Of you
within week. IN. Y. Sun.
"A Brand-New Motto. "Hollo, Jim,
how are you coming on with your new
diet scheme?" "Oh, I've quit / was
doing first rate until came~to that part
Of the book which says, Never eat on
an empty stomach and (sorrowfully)
had to give it upr'-American Grocer.
Just she and alone were there beneath
the stars so calm and bright;
I told her that to me her cheeks were like
twin lilies, pure and white
But In the morning as brushed my pow
dered vest for half an hour
realized the lilies must have been soms
other kind Of flour.
Chicago Post
The English of It-Registry Clerk
-"Your name, sir, please?' His Visit
or-"Calder." Registry Clerk-"How
do you spell it9" His Visitor
"C-a-d-w.a-l-a-d-e-r (hotly) how do You
spell your own?' Registry Clerk
J-o-w-l-a-g-n-a-e-s" His Visitor
"What do you call that?' Registry
Clerk-"Jones. "--0nce Week.
Wife from the window)-"Well, I
7 declare John, wouldn't spend time
sprinklng the dust in our neighbours
back yard, especially when they are
people who talk about Us the way they
do" Husband-"That's all right my
dear; their pet poodle was washed this
morning, now he's out rolling in the
mud. Trust your husband, my sweet
for though htfulness. "-Bostonian.
Progress in Culture Even compar.
atively recent settlers on the coast
must have been struck with tho aston
ishing progress in culture and refne-
ment made by our rough Western COM
munities in the last few years AT
Bodie, for illustration, not five years
ago, when man was shot the chances
were he was allowed to lie just where
ne fol-, TO be muddied w by passing
stages and stray mules. Now. such ID
the improved tone OF public opinion
that even the most ignorant shooter
hangs the corpse over some fence whore
its friends can readily find It and not .
few even drop pcstal-card " ~
wid.w.--Sa Francisco Nsws sLetisA
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
RAT AND RATHER.
They Fight Three Days Battle, II
Which Both Are Finally Killed.

VIM. Weeder, of Columbus, Ind,
bought black rattlesnake from Brown
County man, with seven rattles and
three and onc-half feet long, and placed
it in glass box in his barber shop
A day or two later he caught a large
wharf rat and put it in the
box with the snake. A bloody battle
followed. When the reptile would bite
the rat it would get off in one corner
and suck the poison out of its system,
seeming to understand just what TO do
These sanguinary battles continued at
intervals for three days, by which time
the fur was nearly all torn from tho
rats body and the rattles and part of
tho snakes tail were eaten off, Satur-
day morning both were found dead in
the box, and badly swollen.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01

or 5000 men should continue in their
present employment That is the con-
clusion that the public has reached on
this question Of lsbor-saving machinery
and its effect on labor.
But suppose, now, that this saving
comes in different way. Instead OF
an inventor we have a foreign people
who offer TO make these hats for US at
81 apiece Shall we take them?
Our protectionists, who keep up the
Patent Office at Washington, say: Oh,
mol We will have no pauper made hats
dumped upon this country. You will
throw labor out o! employment
But machine-made hat does precise
ly the same thing. Why, then, do you
keep up the Patent Office?
To make things cheaper through the
invention OF machinery
Then why not make things cheaper
through importation?
OH Don't you know that cheap
things are no good? Don't you know
that Major Mckinley says: 1--WE want
no return to cheap times in our own
country?'' and Congressman Julius
Cesar Burrows. CT Michigan, echoed
this sentiment Of his chief by saying:
Into this race for cheapness the Re-
publican party does not propose to
enter?
Then your Republican party takes
strange liberties with common sense.
1t passes laws to break down foreign
trade; and it then votes the peoples
money away to subsidize ships in order
that we may have at least some foreign
commerce. 1t will have no American
labor lose employment through the ad-
mission OF 'the cheap, pauper made
goods Of Europe;" and then it looks on
with encouraging mods when the same
thing is done by labor-saving machin-
cry. What a pretty mess Of inconsis-
tencies your Republican party is, any
way! 1t is an old fogy standing in the
way of human progress. 1t praises pro.
lection for making things cheap, and
with the next breath it Is telling US
that cheapness is not to be desired, and
asking us: "Are there no higher consid-
arationecn
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
Worse Than Cholera

The smallpox epidemic which is pre-
vailiug in Madrid rapidly assumes
graver proportions. The number OF
persons afflicted are counted by thou
sands and the authorities are resorting to
every possible measure to check tho
spread Of tho disease. AS a means to
this end the Government has ordered
that all servants and soldiers be vacci-
mated, and has prescribed severe punish
ment for those who shall seek to evade
the operation.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
Welded IN Mid-Air.
Tbos. ]. Minis and Miss Gertrude Pitt.

Thos, j, Minis and MISS Gertrudo F1tt-
man, a young couple from Brewton, Ala,
were married in mid-air in big balloon
at the fair grounds, Birmingham, Ala,
by Rev. S NJ, Adams, president of the
State Farmers Alliance, after which
they took an aerial tour of seventeen
miles, landing safely at Helena, Shell
hey County Minis is only 81 and his
bride II. They weregiven $3.50 to make
tho trip and numerous presents.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
Killed at the Crossing.

A furniture van, owned by Samuel
Nathan, of Brooklyn, to which four
horses were attached. and in which were
the owner Nathan, VIM. Wickson, tho
driver, and man named Hermann, was
struck by freight train Saturday night
at the Jamaica turnpike crossing, near
the village of Queens, l.. l. Hermann
was instantly killed. and Nathan was so
seriously injured that he died soon after.
Wickson is probably fatally injured.
Three of the four horses were killed,
and the van was smashed into splinters.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
A sTAND.PIPE BURSTS,
Letting Loose Thousands of Gallons of
Water, Which Floods the Town, Destroy
ing Many Houses.

Letting Loose Thousands of Gallons 81
Water, Which Floods the Town, Destroy
ing Many Houses.
A dispatch from Temple, Tex, says:
1.-Two hundred and eighty thousand gall
Ions of water confined in the steel
stand-pipe broke loose at about 8 o'clock
Friday morning and flooded the town.
Immense sheets of boiler steel, hundreds
OF pieces of scaflolding, houses, barns,
fences and all the debris of the sur
rounding neighborhood went float
ing and crashing in all directions.
The people of the town were awak-
ened, and stood in frightened groups
about the town watching tho
destruction of their homes and proper
ty. The house of 0. L. Rigdon was
crushed as an egg-shell and afterwards
took fire from an overturned lamp and
was burned. Rigdon was seriously
burned and his recovery is doubtful.
Lying out towards the street were six
teen sections of the pipe, great hol-
low cylinder twenty feet in diame'eI
"he~ u eho HedNftSb DOllcfs bbbOt.
lower sections of the pipe were thrown
in different direction. They were
torn, twisted and crumpled The
several barns and sheds near by were
washed down and away. The fences
OF the neighborhood are gone, and
all over the streets, alleys and
yards are scattered the contents Of
houses and barns, while timbers from
everywhere are lying around in all con-
ceivable shapes The damage done is
heavy outside Of the stand d-pipe itself.
All the houses around were flooded with
water and several seriously damaged.
The accident is unaccountable. No
flaws are apparent in any of the broken
and torn pieces, and the workmanship
shows it to be frst-class. The founda-
tion is still there, solid and unharmed,
except in one place, where cash two
feet long is cut through the bottom and
n n Ifr 1r, ,gln nl
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
Fire Panic in n School

A lot of waste paper caught fire Mon,
day afternoon in the basement of st.
Xavier College School, Baltimore, The
school was in session, and when the
alarm was given the children became
badly frightened. Katie Smith jumped
headlong from third-story window,
and was probably fatally injured. The
fire was quickly extinguished.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01

East-bound passenger train No. 8 on
the Panhandle railroad, Sunday even.
ing, ran into five persons near Steuben.
vile, o. Mrs. Bluebank was killed,
Miss Bluebank had rib broken and her
back broken, Joshua Winds back was
also broken and Mrs. Wind was hurt in.
ternally v and will not live.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
Earthouake Shocks.

Two shocks of earthquake when
came from the southwest occurred at
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, at G;1o o'clock
Thursday morning. One OF the shocks
lasted about one minute, and the other
TWENTY-FIVE seconds. Buildings furni-
ture, crockery, etc, were visioly anec'-
al Inv tho movement of the earth.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
INDIANS TROUBLESOME.
The Governor of Colorado Calls Upon tho
President to Take Action,

IfcsiuenI 10 rake action.
The Governor of Colorado sent tho fol-
lowing Monday night: "To the Presi-
dent, Executive Mansion, Washington,
d. c.: Reliable advices are being re-
ceived that the Ute Indians from
the uintah and Uncompaghre
Agencies are off the reservation
in large numbers and committing depre-
dations in the western part OF Routt
County, this State. Aside from the
damage to private property interests
and slaughter of game, their presence
is constant menace to our people, and
serious consequences are to be feared
from the present temper of the settlers
The case is an urgent one, and l earn
cstly request immediate action"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
Killed Her Lover with n Raz,r.

In Gwynctt County, Ca, Fannie
Chambers, negress, after quarreling
with Pierce Wright her lover, cut off
his head with razor.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-01
HIT the Bank Roll Hard

II. b, Mullenberger, farmer living
near Gladstone, ILL.,, arrived in Burling-
ton, Ia, Monday afternoon, and was
persuaded to enter gambling house.
He had $40 when he went in, and at $3.50
Monday night he cashed his checks for
sl9,01L The sporting fraternity of that
city is fairly wild over tho unheard-of
"run,n