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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
RAILROAD WRECK.
Two Engines and Three Coaches
Make the Plunge
From a Bridge In Switzcriand-The Dead
Number 120, Many of Them Leading
and Wealthy Citizens.

| Further details received from the
scene of the terrible railroad accident
which occurred Sunday at village
near Bale, on the Moenchenstein and
Bale railroad; show that two engines
and three carriages loaded with excur-
sionists fell into the stream which
flowed beneath the iron bridge, which
gave way and caused the disaster.
These carriages and engines now form a
shapeless heap of wreckage beneath the
bridge structure, and by its own size
prevented two other carriages, which
were suspended practically in the air,
from falling and still further increas-
ing the number of killed and wounded.
nf the large number of persons injured
many have suffered so seriously that it
is considered likely that their injuries
will terminate fatally, as they
consist of bad decorations, and in
some cases limbs have been
completely severed The bridge or VIA
duct which collapsed and caused the ac-
cident had only recently been built,
and had just been strengthened, after
sustaining damage by the rising of the
river. Until the bridge is rebuilt traffic
over this road goes via Mulhausen.
Passengers going to Moenchenstein
are using the ordinary foot bridge.
The total number of people who lost
their lives is now placed at 1870, with
hundreds more or less injured. An
other account Of the disaster says that
tifty-seven bodies have already been
recovered, and that forty persons are
severely injured 1t is feared that
many others are dead whose bodies
have not been found. The victims are
mostly leading citizens OF Bale and its
neighborhood Engineers who have in
spected the bridge since its collapse say
that the iron work OF the structure
alone gave way, and that the masonry
work is intact,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
ROCK OF AGES"
A Mother and Child Cling to the Branches
ola Tree Through a Terrible Night Until
Rescued With Raft In the Morning.

A Mother and Child Cling to the branches
ola Tree Through a Terrible Night Until
Rescued With a Raft In the Morning.
A gentleman who has Just arrived al.
Arkansas City, Kan, from Greer coun.
ty, in the extreme southwestern part Of
the Indian territory, reports that the
Red river and its north fork have been
out of their banks for over a week, COM
pletely hemming the people in, cutting
off all communication with the outside
world. The rainfall there has been
simply terrible, and the people are suf-
fering everywhere. Over half the
wheat crop has been entirely ruined,
and corn and oats are nearly
killed. A cloud-burst inundated
the little town of Fraser,
running every merchants stock of
goods and compelling people to flee for
their lives. Two persons were drowned
in the town and three in the country.
Along Turkey creek and along the fork
dozen or so houses were washed
away A Mr.. phillips and daughter-in-l
law, hoated a mile on a portion If their
house, and finally washed ashore. Mrs.
Phillips and little daughter grasped the
limbs OF tree and hung there until
morning, when they were rescued with
raft, the water being twenty feet
deep under the tree.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20

Rev. j. w. Stone who had been con-
ducting a revival in Mason county, W.
Va, and was accused by John Woody
of being too intimate with IA sister Of
the fold. Stone called Woody a liar,
whereupon the divine received left
handler in the lip. Rev. Stone then
drew his knife and plunged it into
Woody's side. The blade struck rib,
and was prevented from entering the
heart. On trial Stone was found guilty
and fined.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
THE BACCARAT SCANDAL.
MISC G0rnore Generous Impulse
Mado Her q Bride.
cummings Romantic Act Reacts Against
hlm-his Lady Fair barred From
society-The Prince Has Raised
Tempest That May Prove a
Tornado.

The United Press correspondent
learned Friday that a meeting of the
members of the English cabinet had
been called to consider the events fol-
lowing the baccarat trial, and especial
~ the unprecedented criticisms upon
royalty in the press and among the
people. There is no thought of any le-
gal action, unless the Wilson's or others
should conclude to prosecute for
libel, but there is a feel
ing in the highest circles
OF the government that the mon
archy is shaken by the harshness of
discussion touching the heir to the
throne, Assaults of this character have
heretofore been confined to socialist
clubs and disreputable newspapers; now
they are heard and read everywhere.
What the government most breads is
proposed attack upon the prince by the
radicals in parliament. Under the
shield of discussing the army estimate
1T is intended to demand that the prince
shall resign his office as field marshal
OF the army. This the govern
ment will oppose. 1t has leaked out
that the proprietor of . well-known
wax works and curio exhibition has
been trying to get hold of the famous
baccarat counters, They are said,
however, to be inaccessible The of.
fetal London Gazette announces un.
der date of Juno 10 that the name
of Sir William Gordon Cumming
had been removed from the list
OF officers in the army, as her
majesty has no further occasion fol-
his services. Members of the Garner
family in New York deny that any rela-
tive OF Miss Florence was present at
the marriage of Sir William Gordon
Cumming. They state that the marri-
age was disapproved by the family and
leave it to be inferred that the bride
will be ostracised by them. Sir Will
liam Gordon Cumming has requested
the municipal authorities of Forres,
near Altyre, Sir Williams country
seat, not to celebrate as they
had proposed to do on Sat-
urday next the yeturn home of the
celebrated plaintiff with his bride.
New York society will probably not re-
ceive Sir William and his bride if they
come there. There Is quite . general
criticism on Sir William taking advan-
tage of Miss Garner's generous impulse.
1t is held that he should have required
her to wait until the full effect of his
disgrace was apparent and she could
fully estimate what her position would
be
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
TARIFF IMMIGRATION.

Ex-Congressman McAdOo shows That Inn
migrants Arc Not Wanted-IIow High
Protection Forces Undesirable immigra-
tion-shall We Take Paupcr Goods or
Pauper Labor Competition of Foreign
Labor In the Home Market.
Ex-Congressman William McAdoo, of
New Jersey, has an article in the June
number of the Forum, in which he
shows how protection has degraded
American labor by the enforced trans
portation of industries from Europe to
America with their operatives, who do
not come to seek citizenship among us.
Mr.. McAdoo does not commit himself
to any scheme for restricting immigra-
tion He gives hearty welcome to
the intelligent immigrant who of his
own choice casts in his lot with us, ''in-
tending to live and die here, to rear
children, to make q home, and become
devoted and loyal citizen" The inn
migrant that he objects to is ''the UNI
fortunate wretch who without choice
or provision, is chased by starvation
and immediate necessity, together with
his more wrctched family, into the
crowded hold of great steamship,
to seek the market closed by
u prohibitory tariff to the
goods which he produced in his native
land lie comes here, in most in
stances, seeking temporary relief from
grinding poverty, with intention to re-
turn with his gain to the land of his
birth. We have shut out the cheap for
eign watch, blanket, tin sheet, glass
pane and steel rail; but the cheaper
foreign worker hand to hand with
hunger underbids American labor in
the home market that we boast was
made for II alone"
The reasons why the tariff immigrant
is SO undesirable are thus stated;
"Such an immigrant is forced to
come; he comes sullcnly and regretful-
ly; he does not come intending to stay
or to he assimilated; he comes under
the pain and pinch of necessity which
our laws have forced upon him; he
lands here generally with family de-
pendent upon him and with little or no
means; and yet he is not pauper with
in the meaning of the law. lie lin
gers where he lands, unless an en-
ployer selects him from among the
vast number of our own unemployed
and pays his fare to n distance
because, in the free and unprotected
labor market, he has underbid the ma
tive workman Frequently he becomes
a ehattel. serf, with number instead
of name, piece of brutalizcd, dc.
graded, human machinery, consigned in
freight car to some great corporation.
Or, as In the case OF the supposed Ital,
ian workman alluded to above, he has
read on the dead walls of European
cities the steamship advertisements il
which, in the glowing periods and re
splendent imagery of the "spellbinders'
Of aWv election campaigns, the Eden il
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
PERSONAL AND iMpERsoNAL.

-In<fs44, when Rev. DIR. Howard
Crosby was student at the University
of tn, City Of New York, his phy sicians
assured him that he would not live q
year, as one of his lungs was destroyed
He outlived the physicians who told
him SO, and survived the prediction
nearly forty-seven years
Charles Dudley Warmers wife Is
fine musician, and one of the pleasant
est rooms in their charming house at
Hartford is the music room, with its
grand piano and many ctrios picked up
in foreign lands. Yet for all his pleas
ant surroundings in Hartford 1t is said
Mr. Warner would prefer to live In
southern California Climate enforces
its claims on sensitive natures.
Lightning recently. performed two
unusual feats at house on Bean Hill,
Norwich, Conn. It cut half an inch of
the rim of an inverted goblet on table
and left the goblet sitting as it found
1t. The work is said TO have been done
as neatly as il II had been done with
diamond. The electricity also set the
hands on on the dial of the clock four
hours in advance of the true time with
out stopping the clock.
P. L. Barnum's family motto was
Glove God and be Merry" A short
time before his death he said: "Besides
being temperate and trying to love God
and be merry, have also tried In my
humble way to make others happy
That is wonderful promoter of health
and longevity. He who is trying to al
leviate life's ills for those around him
has no time to become morbid by think
ing of those with which he himself Is
afflicted"
The body of Boron Drais, who is
supposed by some to have invented the
bicycle, and who died over thirty years
ago, has been removed from an OBJ
scure resting-place, and given burial
among the tombs of illustrious Ger
mans at Carlsruhe. A funeral cortege
of about four hundred persons of both
sexes, mounted on bicycles of all
classes, and wearing the uniform Of
'Ho iS9Pco'Nc ciuos' loiio"eu the oooy
to the grave.
One of the most frequent complaints
among cauaries is asthma. This dis
ease is easily cured if taken hold of at
once. The bird-dealers sell powder
that is mixed in the water the birds are
given to drink, and there is also bird
tonic which is good for all the ills that
bird flesh is heir to. When bird has
the asthma the symptoms are heavi-
ness of breathing at night. Canaries
with this complaint have been known
TO breathe like human beings
"A statistical ino,liry undertaken nv
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
ENGLAND'S EXPORT TRADE.
Protectionst Juggling With Figures to
Sustain False Position.

.
Sustain False Position.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, the
Mckinley of the United States senate,
has recently attempted to show that
the system of protection is more favor.
able to building up an export trade thar
the free trade system. In doing so he
cites the case of England, claiming that
the exports of that country have net
increased rapidly under free trade.
But the senator deals with his figures
in way that can not be called honest,
In comparing British exports in 1850
with those of 1876 he includes for 1880
exports to British colonies, but when
he came to foot up the exports for 1876,
he suddenly conceived the notion that
exports to the colonies must be excluded,
since the colonies are part of the
British empire, and trade with them is
not foreign trade. In this way he cuts
off $3.50, 900, 900 from England's exports
for this latter year, without having
made the corresponding deduction for
1860 Anything could be proven by
such methods.
But Englands trade with her colonies
is foreign trade. Most of them, indeed,
maintain protective tariffs upon the
products of the mother country, and the
commodities which they sell to England
are as much foreign products as the
products of Brazil and China are For
all purposes of trade India. Australia,
Canada and other British possessions
are foreign countries.
Restoring the $3.50, OOo, 900 to England's
exports for 1876. it will be seen that her
total exports increased S32O,OOO,O 600 in-
stead of remaining stationary, as the
Rhode Island Mckinley seems to claim.
Nor is there any truth in his further
claim that our exports have gained
on those of England; but they are
further behind British exports than
they were thirty years ago. Instead of
our exports being $4,000, 900 greater
than those of England, as was claimed
by the protectionist senator they are
at least $500, 900, 900 less.
The McKinleyites will have Il long
and dreary time of it in their effort to
prove that protection increases q ma.
tons export trade. In the meantime
while they are muddling their brains
and Juggling their figures plain, COM
nonsense people will continue to see
as clear as daylight that the more freely
we buy from foreign countries the
more freely will they buy from us in
exchange, and that thus we shall get
market for another bushel of wheat
and another barrel of pork.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
COAL COMPANY INDICTED

FOR Violating the West Virginia AntI-scr.
anu Screening Laws-AIiners Ont. az
EN'rtions Threatened.
IL was expected that trouble woula
arise with coal operators when tbo
antl.scrip and screening laws passed
oy the last West Virginia Legislatures
went into effect The operators and
miners worked together, but THURSDAY
the Peel Spliht Coal Co. was indicted
IN three eases at Charleston for vio.
iating the anti-scrip and scrccnin,
laws AS was foretold, some ,f the
operators viii continue at work and
make contest in the Peel Splint Coal
,o' cases on the constitutionalitv ~
the law. Several mines have "blowedn
out, and their men are out of emnlor.
ment and it is said that number y,
e1ectment suits will be brought to dis,
lodge their families from the companies,
houses The wholesale men of Char.
lesion and drummers from other cities
report trade stagnated, and it is believ.
ed that hard times will follow AMONG
the miners of the Kanawha and New
Klyer coal regions.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
SKIN-GRAFTING.

One Hundred and Sixty Odd Fellows and
knights of Pythias Sacrifice Cuticle to
Aid Brother, and successfully.
The successful grating of skin suffi-
cient to patch up two legs was COM
pleted at Kansas City, Mo-, Saturday.
A year ago A. C. Fulkerson, of the Sill
yer Towel Co., stepped by mistake
into vat of boiling grease. The
flesh off both legs from the
knees down was cooked away.
The only method of repairing the
damage was by grating of skin from
other human beings upon the injured
members. One hundred and sixty per-
sons, odd fellows and knights of pyth.
las, of which organization Fulkerson
was member, contributed portions of
their anatomy to be used in piecing up
Mr.. FulkerSon wound. The gratis
were about a thousand in number, and
in the majority of cases were successful.
Fulkerson was out Sunday enjoying tho
use of both limbs.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
"A LITTLE NONSENSE"

The Owner of an Umbrella. Tom
"Will you be kind enough to lend me
my umbrella, Jack?" Jacl-"Your
umbrella?r Tom-"Ycs, you know, the
one you borrowed from Harry
Yankee Blade
Miss Urgent-"Do you know, pa,
hat have about made up mind to set
my affections on Mr.. Lordly?" Pa
"Have, eh? Well, have made up my
mind that as sure as you do that will
set 'Towser' on him. "-Boston Courier.
The Little Philosopher Hans (who
has torn his clothes badly getting over
a fence )-"0h, dear, what will mamma
say now? If had only cut my head
open she would only say: Just like
you, you careless boy,"-Fliegende
Batter
You see it was this way. Tho
india-rubber man struck the ossifed
man aud broke him" What did ho
strike him for?' Five dollars, When
The manager found it out the india.
rubber man was bounced "-Indianapo.
''S oo"'i'"''
-Conductor-"Step forward theie.
please" lrate Passenger-"I'm for.
ward as far as can 60 There's np
room forward" Wag-"fou are
wrong, sir There's about six miles
of space just ahead of the HORSES
IIarper's Bazaar.
AT the Dentists. -"Ach! my dear
sir" said n moor sufferer to a dentist.
...i A., ,l,,,a a,,.ro,,c,,,,,l, go, ho,,,
',,'' 20 Va" ""'
pulled out am very sorry sa'u
the careless operator, but as You had
only three teeth when | commenced. |
az, s,.o 60 r.t bo,d of .ha r;oht ona
49,, .;,,, ., Wiarar wo.nan
r., c.o., pisl, p.s.
..c,ad.,,or on, ~ ,h, hrt,o,s 90 ~.
aross of that I,dv in front of ma has
saiIon ~ Uo,e 4 is and ,h;nl Won
had h,,ter toll b,r about IL en-
dmc,,r l,rrflyl-"Whv don't Won tel,
har ro,rse,fo'' passenger-"Not much
I'm bsr husband "-Cloal, Review
~. ,,.,;, I'm ,a,, r,,, -
49,, ..r,, 49, ,asaro a ! nno" ..V.s ca,raa
IN, g., H., Ia d,nn,;,r horor.J,,ha
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po,has,,r .raIismnn
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
Our Lard In Venezuela.

Venezuela imposes an enormous duty
upon lard, and the high tariff there has
the same effect as with us in lowering
the quality of the imported article
"As the tariff has been raised from
time tc time" says Bradstrect's in
speaking of Venczucla's almost prohib-
itory duty ON lard, 1.-THE importers have
demanded cheaper grades of lard, and
the American exporters have shipped
accordingly. While the Venezuelans
refused to pay higher prices
they were forced to consume
poorer goods. One of the leading jour
nails of La Guayra, speaking of our
lard exports, says: "Cheap lard is or
dered. the cheapest that can be OBJ
tanned. and an article is sent which is
worth but to cents pound. The
same has been found to be true of other
exports from the United States, notably
of mineral oil. II the American
lard makers pay Venezucla's high
tariff tax, according to the Mckinley
theory, why should not the Venezuelans
have the very best Of lard at the usual
prices? But in Venezuela the tariff
seems to be tax.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
A Growing Evil

Mrs. Charlotte Smith, president Of
the Woman's Industrial league of
America, has written a letter to presi.
dent Harrison earnestly urging the ap.
polntment of two women on the board
OF commissioners to investigate the i'm.
migration problem in Europe. The let.
ter calls attention to the great
immigration of women of all
classes into the United States
from Canada and Europe, many
of whom, it is asserted, are brought
over here for immoral purposes Great
numbers of them, it is also alleged. are
imported to take the places of Amcri.
can women in mills and factories and
clothing establishments at greatly re-
duced wages
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20
SIXTY PEOPLE
Are Ushered Into Eternity by tho Col

Are Ushered Into Eternity by tn. Col
lapse of Bridge in Switzerland.
A most horrible accident occurred on
the Muenchenstein and Rale railway
near Berne, Sunday, through the col
lapse of bridge beneath n heavily
loaded excursion train. The train was
crowded with people on the way to at.
tend a musical fete. Sixty persons
were killed outright, while hundreds
were injured. Two engines and the
first car plunged into the river, and all
the passengers in the car were
drowned. Two cars remained sus-
pended from the bridge. All the
train men were killed, Thirteen
cars were saved. The musical fete at
Muenchenstein was abandoned as soon
as the news Of the accident arrived,
and hundreds of villagers hurried to the
scene to assist in rescuing the victims.
The bridge was an iron skeleton struc.
ture which was considered well built
and substantial. The only apparent
reason for the collapse of the bridge is
that the train left the rails and threw
its entire weight on one side of the
bridge
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20

which American work!ngmen luxuriate
is strikingly described; and he hsstens
hither, to be disillusioned and to join
the growing ranks of the reckless and
radically discontented."
"a Joyous shout" says Mr.. McAdoo.
"went up from the chief advocates Of
the Mckinley bill, after its passage,
when the cable brought news that Eu.
rope was filed with rumors of indus
tries that had been ruined by the loss
of their American market Was that
really good news for the American
workingmen? Our law closes Euro
pean shop and throws out cf employ
ment thousands of workmen; with land
monopoly, costly governments, dense
populations, few opportunities for ad.
vancement, and a restrictive caste sys-
TEN, they have in many cases only two
alternatives. the poorhouse and the
emigrant ship. That ship sails, in
nearly all instances, to the United
States, and her hunger-driven cargo
the pauper labor of Europe'-is soon
in sharp and deadly competition with
the American workingman. Oh, but
our dreaded rival, the foreign manufact
urer, whom you must fear equally
with his workmen-have we not put
him out of cur way? Yes, perhaps, but
only to place him in a still more danger
GUS opposition to our best interests.
He closes his factory, counts his gains,
and goes neither to the emigrant ship
nor to the poorhouse; but he invests his
money in a syndicate to purchase
American lands or industries, and lives
contented and happy thereafter on the
fruits of the labor of his American
workers He may curse and detest
American institutions, but he must
bless American money and consider
that under frowning front, after all,
Mr.. Mckinley is his chief benefactor.
American toilers on Illinois farms, on
Wyoming cattle ranches, in Colorado
mines, in California fruit plantations,
in Oregon forests, and in industries gen.
orally throughout the country are 'pro-
tected' against "the degraded serfs" of
Europe, while giving their hardest labor
and best skill to benefit the detested
foreigner against whom we inveigh
during presidential campaigns"
Mr.. McAdoo cites the figures of i'm.
migration as published by the by the
bureau of statistics at Washington to
show how rapidly foreigners have been
coming into the country since the en-
actment of the Mckinley law. These
are the figures:
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20

The famous crater of the ooiia'ai" '',''
Of pozzuoli, near Naples is showing
signs of renewed activity ms Voica-
no was active long before NesuV'us was
hn, Cor apcs has been nearly crtlnct'
During the last few days tnerT !, naSe ave-
been frequent earth 'rcmellnFs IN 'ne :,
vieinity. and other signs of impending
eruntion.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-20

A Richmond Qnd special says sew
eral of the widows of those killed in the
disastrous wreck at Hagerstown last
winter have been offered from three to
five thousand dollars each by way of a
compromise, but all have refused the
offers, and have indicated that they
will bring suit for SO, 900 each against
the Pennsylvania road unless better Of
fers are made them.