Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-09-16

''""iiS up 10 lnc Dad condition of the |
cruiser Atlanta and has concluded not
to call any court martial.
CHIEF HARRIS, of the Cherokee na- !
tlon, has forwarded to Washington a
vigorous protest against the strip allot. |
ments as decided upon by the secretary |
OF the interior.
CLEARING house returns for the wecl,
ended September showed an average
decrease of $40 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 3Ll; outside.
3l.S
The cholera spreads rapidly in Lozer
and Neft on the west shore of Lake Al
Sibrah, north Africa. Two hundred
fresh cases have been found in the two
towns
SEVEN scamen who shipped at Swan
sea- Wales, on the steamship Atna for
Red Sea ports have died of cholera.
The Atna carried large number of
Mecca pilgrims, of whom 200 or 300
| died
THE whole district around Biarritz
on the bay of Riscay, has been aroused
to Indignation by the report that the
government will suppress bull fighting
in France
The temporary repairs on the battle
ship Campcrdown, which was damaged
in her collision with Adm. Tryon's flag
ship Victoria off Tripoli last June, have
been finished,
The national congress of trades
unionists at Belfast Ireland, adopted
a resolution advocating a bill to regu-
late the hours OF labor TO eight day in
all trades and occupations.
AGENT SwINEFoRD, who has charge of
the strip opening, has issued "A procla-
nation to the effect that man can
take only one lot at townsitc.
THE So-called "faribault school
plan" has been abandoned in the Min
ntsota town of that name, The church
demanded that all the teachers in the
parochial schools should be Catholics
which the school board could not see
its way clear to allow.
PREPARATIONS are already under way
for the opening to settlement Of more
reservations in the Indian territory and
Utah,
THE London Standard says that
everything points to dissolution OF
parliament next year Mr.. Gladstone,
it says, deludcs himself If he thinks the
constituencies will have by then for
gotten his Irish policy,
7. W. WHITLEY, residing near Silver
Hill, Ark, attended church some dis
,auce from home, leaving five Of his
children in care of the house, After
the services were over he returned tc
) find the house had been burned and al
the children crcmated
AGAsoLINE stove exploded at Crcston
Ia, setting fire to the residence OF W
, Il. Maxwell and resulting in the fata
burning of his wife and daughter
l Stella,
: TUE Rockford passenger train on th'
/ Burlington & Chicago jumped the tract
at Hinckley owing to brakeman
n blunder Engineer Andy Farr, of Rock
- ford, Jumped out and was killed
Z ". b. SnAwBECK, chief of the invoic
S division of the Pennsylvania bureau
l was in Pittsburgh and in an intervie'
c stated that of the $4,000 pensioners Su'
pcndcd over two-thirds will be rclnSta
S led under Secretary Smiths new II
I ling.
h Arorr 800 Spanish cigar makers
G New York went on strike after relV
sinr to accept a reduction OF ;! pc
4 / 900 proposed by their employers Inc
= have been paid from $40 to $40 pc
1000
FIRE at Candy, MINI, burned a bloc
=. and half in the business part of I'll
town. destroying sixteen stores, IN
.s most office and the Bank of Candy In
=. loss was estimated at 100000; insu
A. ancc, $50, 900.
Tur North China Herald bring
&c further details of the great Hood, VINE
p IT pronounccs the most extensive sll''
y $500, No less than 100 villages NAY
n becn DESTROYED in the metropolIta
prefecture of Chunticnful alone lc
~. thousand lives have been lost,
= ABASp of communists attacked Ia IA
u ton & Abelrs store, at Pattonvill
70 TEX, having planned to divide !, /,
stock. The proprietor hearing OF u
70. contemplated raid, had guards rea'
to who rcpulsed the raiders fa'al al
" rounding man named Wilson. !
A.. others escaped.