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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-24

The summer young man has disap-
pcared for a year, and his SASH CANDY
Shirt and chip hat are buried with the
memories of humidity beneath the au-
tumn leaves. But the winter young
man is here with all his mad incongru-
ity of attire. The besetting difficulty
Of his life seems to lie in his inability TO
acquire a complete outfit. He parades
Fifth avenue on Sunday with a pair OF
beautiful $50 seal-skin gloves, but he
has no ovcrcoat to keep the cold away
from his attcnuated legs, and his boots
are shabby and old. Or if he has the
overcoat, his hat is out of keeping. Once
In a while he appears in a magnificent
fur over-coat, with the seams looking
bleak and bare. There is always some
previously or gorgeous bit of apparel
but he never seems to rise to the pos
session of a complete outfit N. Y. Sun.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-24
SOUGHT WITH NAPOLEON.
An Old Monk Who Was once = Soldier o

An Old Monk Who was OhOc
France.
The Trappist Monastery, situatedi IN
van,,cl,v IS the home of those monks
nnon whom the injunction of perpetual
silence is placed. The stories that silt
throuCh TO the outside world, with more
or less romantic detail, concerning the
individual monks of La Trappe' are
many. There is one told OF a brother
at Gethsemane, which is old, but full OF
dramatic suggestion. He was a solaler
Of Napoleon, so it was said and aiter
the Emperor's first abdication tooR the
coxyl Of the Brown Brothers" ana
ultimately came to Gcthsemane' FORTY
years he lived in silence, hearing moth
inc of the worlds history, but with
one item of curiosity left unquenched,
When he came to die and was lifted
from his hard couch and laid upon the
harder floor, strewn with straw, when
NIL followers of the order must meet ex-
tremcs, the Abbot, as is customary told
him he was at liberty to ask any ques-
tion he desired. What became OF the
Emperor?" the old man asked prompt.
". and then for the first time learned
Napoleon's fate, long years after tha'
restless clay had become dust'-Chicago
Journal.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-24

gathered around and gazed reverently
on the face of the man who saved them
at the cost of his w life.
81 sat winning the damn dew from his
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-01-24

good many miles out before the love
lightsin Eds eyes faded.
1T was nearly a week before We re-
turned. Ed was as merry as a boy Just
let out of school. When we run u
engine into the house | noticed a
Cood-sized knot of fellows about an
engineer named Smith who was read
ing the afternoon paper. As Ed stopped
down from the engine Smith come to-
ward him with paper extended, crying
Here, Ed, here's something will inter-
est YOU
HALF a dozen tried to holdhim back,
CRYING: Shut mp, Smith; don't be a
feol;' but Ed seeing something was up
turned and took the paper. He was
deadly pale but his hand V
trembled. He ran his eyes over the
columns. l looked owe his shoulder.
At the top of the page was a special
dispatch from a little town in
stating that Howard Oceans, of New
York. and Miss Kitty Moore, of Shoe
town. were married that morning at
the residence of Rev. j. {. Smith. The
dispatch concluded with the line: The
marriage is said to be the sequel to a
romantic elopement.' Following was a
note 10 the effect that the Miss Moore
alluded to in the dispatch was a young
lady well known in Shoctown society
and was understood to have been en-
gagged to an employee of the N. & 0.
road
81 never saw such q look as came into
Eds V Without a word he walked
across the house to the door. There
was not a whisper until the door closed.
Then the way that crowd went for
Smith would have done you good to
see. | waited long enough to fire a
few hearty curses at him and snatched
my coat and hurried after my friend.
| caught up with him as he was enter
ing the gate at his home. He beckoned
me to come in. At the door he was met
by his mother. With a cry she threw
her arms about him. He gently I'M
looscd the clinging fingers saying:
There, there, mother, perhaps IL is all
for the best and went on up to his
room. Once inside he turned on me
like a tiger: Tom, | want your re
%volver.' .
"What for?"
"To follow that thieving hound until
| find him
"'And them
Then, oh, my Godl End three
lives
"rhe last words came ont with a hiss
like that of a snake when ready &c
strike.
Think of your mother
"'Will you get me the revolver|'
Ono
"'And you call yourself a friend
I ~ ~ ~
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
REDUCTION oE RATES.
The Recent Trouble in the Southwest APP
proaching a Settlement

pfOacnlnS u SeLLlemenb.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-The Sun says:
The trouble between the Texas railroads
and the state railroad commission over
reduction of freight rates, is likely to
come to head very soon. The legal
advisers of the Southern Pacific, Atchi-
son, Missouri Pacific and Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas systems have had num-
Der Of meetings in New York during the
last few days.
"The companies might have submit
ted to Commissioner Reagan's first re-
duction of rates, said general counsel
Of one of the roads Wednesday, "but
when the commissioner ordered the rail-
roads to compress their cotton, as well
as cut the rate in half, they thought it
was going too far.
when the first schedule was an
nounced the railroads asked whether
they should be required to compress the
cotton for shippers. DO as you please,
was the reply. The companies decided
not to compress the cotton. There was
no money in carrying cotton as it was
The roads began carrying the cotton just
as they received it. The commission
came around again and said that the
companies would have to compress it or
the rates would be reduced still lower
in order to allow for the cost of compress
sion. This single item amounts to from
100000 to $3.50 600 annually for one Of
the railroads. Heretofore an allowance
was made in the rate for the shipment
of compressed or uncompressed cotton. g"
The counsel of the companies have
been studying u plan of attack. They
have sitted the act creating the COM
mission, and have decided to contest its
constitutionality. The chief ground for
this claim will be that the act provides
that the decisions of the commission
shall be final and that there can be no
appeal,
1t is, in sense, the case of the Min
nesota state railroad commission over
again. That commission reduced the
rate on milk on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul, and tine company appealed to the
supreme court of the state, which de-
MED a hearing, and held that the de-
clslOn of the commission was final.
The United States supreme court held
that the act creating the Minnesota rail
road commission was in conflict with
the constitution of the United States.
Counsel for one of the roads said that
probably bill in chancery would be
entered in one of the federal courts.
The railroads have been quietly pre-
pairing for bitter struggle, but it seems
that the Texas railroad act was carefully
framed with full knowledge of the Min
nesota case, and Commissioner Reagan
expected opposition when he ordered the
destructive rates. The contest will
probably attract more attention than
any railroad case that has been in the
courts for long time
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER gxpLoDrs


Two Probably Fatally
ST. PAUL, Dot. 1e. .-WednesdRy after
noon, at South Park, just below this
city, eleven men were injured, two
probably fatally, by the explosion Of q
locomotive boiler in the Kansas City
railway shops. A gang of machinists
were at work on an engine getting Il
ready for use, whep the boiler ex-
ploded. The doors of the shop were
torn down and the men thrown In
every direction. The injured are as fol-
lowsi
John J. Clancy, unmarried; scalded
and injured on left knee and scalp; little
chance of recovery.
John May, married; scalded about
head and neck, left leg broken; injuries
very serious.
Martin McGrille, married; scalded
about the head and body; may recover.
William Davidson, unmarried; not Sc
rious.
David Field, married; slightly
scalded.
James Dickson, married; an alderman
at South Park, and foreman, badly, but
not fatally scalded.
James Slavin, locomotive engineer,
married; scalded, and also cut and
bruised; is still unconscious and feared
injured internally.
Harry Garrickson, married; slightly
scalded.
Three others yery sliphtly.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
KEEPING SILENT.
The officials of the Adams Express Com
pany Have Nothing to Say.

The officials of the Adams Express Com
pany Have Nothing to Say.
BRIDGEPoRT, Conn, Oct. 49, The
story relative to the double dealing
practiced 10y President Hoey and Vice
President Clapp Spooner, of the Adams
Express company, has caused much as
tonishment in this city, in which Mr..
Spooner has lived for the past thirty
years. He resides in palatial house on
Golden Hill, the fashionable residential
street, has been pillar Of Christ Epis-
copal church, and has always been re-
garded as a model of unimpeachable up
rightness III business dealings.
He was seen by reporter and when
the purpose of the visit was announced
displayed much agitation. He said, Il
have nothing whatever to say for publi-
cation. do MT know what the morn
ing papers have to wy, MS I have not
read them, but if | had, | would still
have nothing tqsa
Mir. SpoonerB health has been poor
during the past year, and he has also
been greatly affected by grief at the re-
cent death of Ids wife,
Henry Sanford, whose investigations
resulted i'll tLe discontinue of Hoey
and Spooner, lives within a stones
throw of the htter's house. For years
the two men have not spoken to each
other, and it hR been common talk here
that Hoey and Spooner were chiefly re-
sponsible for kAping Sanford out of the
presidents char of the Adams Express
company yearsago.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
HIS MISSION.
The Gar of Russia Has I'm.
dOubtedly Mistaken 1t.
He's Prosecuting the Jews for
Killing Christ.

Thinks His Life Has Been Spared 10
Avenge the Death of His Father-He Is
Well-Meaning Man, but His j Judgment
Has Been Narrowed by His Chief Adj
visers-so Says George Kennan.
CHICAGO, Oct 16.-"The Gar of Rus
sia is a well meaning man, but his judg-
ment is bad, having been narrowed by
his advisers. He believes he is devinely
appointed to persecute the Jews for
having cruciied Christ and that he is
only fulfilling the commands in the
Scriptures by so doing" So said George
Kennan, the noted Russian traveller and
writer at the Grand Pacific hotel.
1.-The czar's chief minister, Pobedono-
stoff, which means victory bearer, is a
good representative of the inquisition of
the middle ages, and the czars line of
conduct toward the Jews is mainly in
spired by this cruel man. The czar and
his ministers were in railroad wreck
several years ago, and although their
car was totally demolished every one
escaped unhurt and this escape from
death the czar looked upon as divine
InIclNSAOlOn VI IIONlu6uC6 bIlhU u0
might continue to pursue the men who
killed his father"
Mr. Kennan added that the Russian
peasant as rule is improvident and
often a drunkard, making them an easy
prey to the usurers among their people,
who by loaning them money on their
crops at exorbitant rates of interest soon
became their absolute masters. Mr..
Kennan has great faith in the ultimate
tripumph of the Russians as a race, and
believes there is a ground work of char
acter in the peasant that only needs de-
veloping to prove him great among the
peoples of the earth.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
THE GRADY MONUMENT.
Preparations for the dwelling at
Ianta Next Wednesday,.

Preparations for the Unwilling at At
Ianta Next Wednesday,.
ATLANTA, Oct 16.-The bronze i'm
age of Henry w. Grady has been placed
in position and preparations are nearly
completed for the unveiling which takes
place on Wednesday next, Oct. 81.
Alexander Doyle, the sculptor, super
intended the work Of placing the statue.
The platform in front of the custom
house, is in course of erection and a
grand rush is being made TO obtain tick
cts for the several thousand seats that it
will contain. The monument commit
tee has issued manifesto acknowledge
ing the universal cooperation extended
1t and paying o tribute to Mr.. Doyle for
his work. HE knew Mr. Grady, whom
to know was to love-" says the mani
festo.
Public and private business in Allan
la will be suspended during the cere-
monies.
The committe which is on it's way to
Albany TO bring Governor Hill and his
party 10 Atlanta, will leave Albany
Sunday and reach Atlanta Tuesday
afternoon. stopping en- route on Monday
at Richmond, where the governor is ex-
pected to make a speech before Demo-
cratic clubs.
In the party will be Governor Hill,
General Slocum, of Brooklyn; John A.
Mccall and General f. z. Earle, of
New York; General Austin Lathrope,
Assistant Adjutant General McEwen
and others.
On the night Of their arrival the party
will be rendered reception by Gov
ernor Norton at the executive mansion.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
SABBATARIANS
VIII Seek to Enforce the Blue
Laws in Pittsburg.
Sunday Newspapers to Receive
Attention Next.

Editors, Reporters, COmpositors, Preas-
body Else Who Works After Midnight
Saturday Night and Before Midnight
Sunday Night, to BE Arrested.
PITTSBURG, Oct 1G.-- The Western
Pennsylvania Sabbath association has
determined to go cunning for persons
employed on newspaper who are in the
habit of working on Sunday. The asso-
citation has already succeeded in closing
down on Sunday all the saloons, candy
stands, news stands and all other man
ner of business save the railroads, iron
furnaces and newspapers. Now 1t has
arranged to raid the newspaper offices.
One report is that at the tap of the mid
night bell ON the city hail tower next
Saturday night the agents of the law
and order society, acting for the Sab
batarians, will enter the three news
paper establishments in town, and ar
rest all persons at work there for violat-
ing the blue laws Of 1894, relating to
the observance Of the Sabbath. Should
the accused enter bail and return to
work, as they certainly, will the carriers
and agents will be arrested and bound
over.
This done, the law and order minions
will rest on the Sabbath day and keep it
holy until the employees Of the four
morning papers come around to get out
the Monday morning edition. Then
these poor mortals are to be swooped
down upon and put to the necessity of
giving bail for lNaring, The foregoing
is said to be the program mapped out
by the Sabbatarians. 1t, however, ap-
pears to be past belief, but as the Off
cials of the organization decline to tell
what they will do, the newspaper pro-
prietors and their attorneys are doing
some tall guessing and some anxiously
consulting as to the best method of pro-
cedure. The more probable course OF
the law and order people will be to have
their agents visits the offices, take the
names of offenders and then proceed
against them in the regular way on
Monday and attempt to collect the fine
through an alderman. 1t has not been
the practice of the society to prosecute
criminally through the courts, but to
have the entire proceeding before an al
derman, who invariably gives Judgment
for the prosecutor.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Generaf Raum
has not resigned from his commissioner
ship of pensions, the report to the con
trary Notwithstanding. He has told the
president, however, that should his
resignation be desired at any time il
would be forthcoming and has been as.
sured that his administration was salts,
factory and there was no desire to dis
pense with his services. It is likely TIA:
General Raum will retire from the pen
sion Office next month voluntarily and
with the best wishes of the president.
The general has become very weary OF
the attacks being made upon him per-
sonallV.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
BY WAY OF CANADA.
Lottery Peoples Mail In Fair Way to
BE Suppressed.

Lottery Peoples Mail In n Fair Way to
BE Suppressed.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-In letter ad-
dressed to the postmaster general of
Canada, Postmaster General Wana-
maker says the Louisiana Lottery conf
pany has established an agency at To-
ronto and is flooding the United States
mails with its circulars in sealed envel-
opes from that point. AS the act of
mailing, constituting the offense, does
not occur within our jurisdiction the
postmaster general says the penal clause
Of the law cannot apply. AS all lottery
tickets and lottery circulars are held by
the treasury department to be liable to
customs duties, postmasters at all
United States exchange offices have
been instructed to place upon mail mat
ter which they believe to contain duti-
able articles, the words supposed liable
to customs duty"
ter is opened by the addressee in pres
ence Of the customs officer, and if found
to contain lottery matter is forfeited to
the United States. The Canadian post
Office department has heretofore stated
III correspondence Nit' L.e postmaster
general that it would Oe proper under
the laws of the Dominion to similarly
stamp letters believed to contain lottery
matter. Postmaster General Wanna
maker has therefore asked the Canadian
postmaster general if it would be proper
to instruct the postmaster at Toronto to
SO stamp letters mailed there by C. j.
Mccullough, the agent of the lottery
company. If that course is pursued the
postmasters at United States exchange
Offices, he says, will make similar en-
dorsement ON behalf Of this country.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16

White Caps Call on the Wrong
Party in Kentucky.
Given a Very Warm Reception
of Cold Lead.

II Was Their Second Visit and the Pro-
posed Victims Were Ready and Wait
ing-George and Jim Howard Instantly
Killed and Two or Three More of the
Would-Be Regulators Wounded.
MOUNT STERLING, KY, Oct. 16.-
Tuesday night about 1 o'clock some
seven or eight masked men went to the
house of George Cupps, who lives just
on the edge Of Bath county in the How
ard Mill neighborhood, about seven
miles from Mount Sterling, and with
two rails burst open the door of his
house and rushed i'll upon Cupps and
his family, who We're in bed. Cupps, 1T
seems, had suspicion that they were
coming, was prepared to defend himself
| and family, and when three masked
men came through the door he fired
upon them, as also did his wife, who in
the fight got hold of the pistol of one of
the men and began shooting. The re-
mainder Of the band fled.
When Cupps came out he found one
man dead near his door and another Just
outside his yard, in the big road, dead.
The two dead men were masked, and
proved to be George and Jim Howard.
brothers, and sons Of p. A. Howard,
highly respected citizen of this county.
Three others OF the band are said to be
badly wounded.
The Cupps family about three weeks
ago, were visited by White Caps in the
night and some of them soundly threshed
and ordered to leave in thirty days. The
time expired Wednesday night, but
found them still there and prepared to
defend themselves at any cost, as the
result shows.
Further serious trouble may result
from this, as the community is thorough
ly aroused about the matter.
The Howaris We're prominent and the
trouble grew out of the alleged attempt
Of Cupps and lH wife to decoy girl
from home. Cupps will surrender to
the authorities at Owingsville.
The death Of the Howards, especially
George, is not a matter of surprise, us
they have figured in more than one trag-
edy, On Nov. 1S, 1878, George Howard
then a mere boy murdered James l..
Young, city marshal of Mount Sterling
on the streets. A general fight ensued
with Howard and his brothers on one
side and a posse summoned by the Off
GERS on the other. An innocent by
stander was killed.
George Howard, himself, was desper-
ately wounded, and two or three others
received slight wounds. George How
ard recovered from his wounds and es-
capped with two years sentence in the
penitentiary. He has always been re-
garded as desperate, bad man. and his
death causes no regret. His brother
James has been living in Missouri for
several years, and only returned to this
county about three weeks ago
He was also regarded as a bad man,
while Cupps is not regarded as first
class citizen.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
Bad in Some Sections.
A GREAT GUN, THIS,
Largest Casting Ever Made In This Co
try Made for the Government

Largest Casting Ever Made In This Coun-
try Made for the Government.
BETHLEHEM. Pa, Oct. 16.-Secretary
Tracy and Commodore Folger, of the
bureau of ordnance, made an official
visit to the ordnance department of the
Bethlehem Iron company Tuesday.
They witnessed the pouring of a 1870 ton
casting, which is the largest ever made
in this country. They also witnessed
the forging of the first 13-inch gun made
by the Bethlehem Iron company, Tues
day morning. Armor plates were also
forged. Ths visitors expressed them
selves highly gratified with the progress
made ON the 81, ,0O0, 900 contract.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16

CHICAGO. oct. 16.-An accidentwhich
resulted in the instant death of Mrs,
Dinah Messman and her daughter and
the probably fatal injury of her infant
son, is reported from Bensonville, Ill.
Mrs. Messman was returning home with
her children in a wagon and was run into
by train. Mrs. Messman and daugh-
ter were instantly killed, while the babe
received injuries which will probably
result in his deAlh.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
ed. N.HARRIsoN.
VIM. T. OoRTcH
=AG z Z N GY=

Bailey Block, lis South second Street Clarksye. Tenn,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENCY: Careful
attention given to this department of business Rep
resenting the best companies.
GENERAL, REAL. ESTATE AGENTS: Buy and sell
for others commission in city and surrounding coun-
ties receive property for rental and collect rents Inves
stigate titles and furnish abstracts
Negotiate loans and sell land notes. Parties having
money to loan good mortgages are invited to
consult with as have opportunities of
placing such loans the best property and on excel
lent terms. No charge to the lender.
Agents for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company Milwaukee, Wis
We solicit correspOndenCe.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
Union Veterans.

READING, Pa, Oct, 16.-The national
encampment of the Union Veterans re,
solved itself into an immense camp fire
Wednesday night. indianapolis was
selected as the place Of meeting next
year. Among the resolutions offered
and referred was one asking for the re-
moval of Pension Commissioner Raum
on the ground that he is not in sympa,
thy with the soldiers, and that in pub
lie employment preference should be
given to the soldiers.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
Mystery of Mount st. Elias.

SAN FRANCISCO oct, 49, Much anX-
iety is felt for the safety of Lieutenant
Russell ana party, who were sent out by
the Smithsonian institute to explore
Mount st. Elias. Russell and his men
were TO have met the revenue cutter
Corwin at Yakutat Sept. /, but when
the Corwin went there Russell did not
appear, and searching party sent out
failed to find any trace of him.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
nobert Rnr HnmIlton,. Death.

BLACKFooT, Ida, Oct. 1G.-The sur
geon who accompanied the coroner from
Wyoming to the Sargent ranch to ex-
hume the remains of the late Robert
Ray Hamilton and ascertain, if possible,
the true cause of his death, reports that
the examination was successful, and
the remains are unquestionably those of
Robert Ray Hamilton, and that he came
to his death by drowning.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-16
They Scont II.

New York, Oct. 16.-Barbar 81 Sons,
the Broadway merchants, are the New
York merchants of the Citta di Roma.
The secuted the report that 1t was their
boat. They could not imagine what she
vas doing in those latitudes. The Citta
di Roma is only tramp boat. She is
owned abroad. She sailed from Norfolk,
Va, Sept. 3d.,