Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-01
IHE Reading reorganization plan has

mileage book, good to Pacific coast
points, at2]9 cents mile,
lhE Kansas railroad commissioners
are gong to compel wholesale reform
III lreiBht charges on the part of the
roads in that state.
lhE drought in Europe is causing
widespread distress.
hlSBARMENTproceedin have formal
~ begun against ex-Patent Commits
sioner Simonds
EIdiri-sEvEN special pension exam
iherS were reappointed by the secretary
of the interior
CHARLES T. PECK, ex-labor commits.
sioner Of New York, and indicted for
burning state documents, failed to APP
pear for trial at Albany lie was re-
ported to have fled to Europe.
FRIEDMAN & FREEDMAN. wholesale
clothing dealers in Chicago, failed.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets about the
same.
DR. X =. GORDON, of Hebron, Ky..
who was jolted out of cable ear in
chicago, while asleep, died of his in.
juries.
LEROY PAYNE's big livery stable at
Chicago went into the hands of re-
ceiver. The place was forecloscd upon
by the Exchange national bank with a
s35, 900 mortgage
NEW YORK bankers all agree that the
financial situation is rapidly improving
and that the outlook now is all right.
FOREST fires are raging in Colorado
with unprecedented fury and have al
ready destroyed u great deal of valu-
able property.
STARR x CUNNINGHAM, Cherokee
commissioners to sell their bonds, were
in Chicago waiting for the arrival of
New York bidder.
The directors of the worlds fair have
completed the arrangements for having
religious services at the fair every Sun
day.
AT the worlds fair congress of bank
ers, a number Of speeches were made
on the silver question by the advocates
and opponents of free silver
Ar Pains fireworks exhibition on
Manhattan beach, a bomb exploded,
seriously injuring seven men, one fa-
tally.
The. great American derby, worth
$4,000 to the first horse, was run at
Chicago and was won by Boundless.
YALE defeated Harvard in the base
ball game at Cambridge, Mass. Score,
3 to ..
THE supreme lodge of the A. 0, L. W.
has decided that liquor dealers are not
eligible to the order
A HUGE scandal has been uncarthed
in Canada in the discovery of stealings
from the government by bridge con-
tractors.
ZIMMERMAN, the bicycle champion,
has returned from England He claims
TO have been unfairly treated by the
English National Cycling union.
AT Washington the Imperial Grand
Council of the Ancient Order of Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine of the United
States (colored masons) was duly or
ganized. This is the first time in the
United States these degrees have been
conferred upon colored masons
ELMER L. MORSE, of San Francisco,
the local cashier of the National Fire
Insurance Co., was lost overheard from
the yacht Rover off Mare island, San
Francisco.
ANARCHIST newspapers have been
seized in the barracks at Milan, Naples,
Florence and Turin, Italy.
TIE Bassett planning mill and other
property was destroyed by fire at Min
neapolis Minn.
DANA THOMPSON, aged Is, broke the
worlds half-mile swimming record at
Oakland, Cal, in thirteen minutes and
ten seconds
OLAF SIMPSON and Peter johnson
were drowned in Lake Michigan at
Chicago They rented a small boat
and started for Michigan City and their
boat overturned.
CHARLES FOSTER, conductor on the
Michigan Central road, was brought to
jackson, Mich, fatally wounded. He
was coming east on the cannonball
freight and at Dowagic put off some
tramps. One of them shot him twice
in the back with revolver
The anarchists of Chicago, on the
25th. unveiled monument erected in
memory of Parsons, Spies, Fischer,