Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Chicago City Railway Co. trans
ported 7s.00O.0 900 passengers between
Nav and October 81. This estimate
is based upon the returns of cash fares
for the time, excluding all transfers
policemen, tircmen, employees and
others who rode free,
HARRIET ANN, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, died in New York, after lin
gering illness, of pleurisy, on the lst,
aged "a.
THE public debt increased during
October 5.14l, ,0590l.
The Elwood Qnd.) window-glass fac
tory, employing 600 hands, was discoy-
cred to be burning on the morning
of the 1st. The immense plant was
situated outside the limits OF water
works lines and could not be reached
by the department. In twenty minutes
| the whole building was ablaze. lhe
plant is total wreck, and its employees
are thrown ont of work at the begin
| ming of winter. Loss, $4,000; insur'
ance, $4,000.
SHORTLY after o'clock on the morn
ing of the I'd a fire broke out IN the
house at No. l9Third street, New York
| A second alarm was sent out shortly
after the tiremen reached the scene
Six fircmen were overcome by gas ana
dragged out of the place by their com
panions.
CHAIRMAN PECK reports the World 5
fair treasury in a healthy condition.
All obligations have been met ana
there is cash balance on hand OF "
500, 600. The gate receipts from now
on and the salvage, it is figured, VIII
nav the current expenses until the
end. so that the stockholders,w who have
holdings representing S1,oOO,OOo, upon
which they scarcely expected to realize
ANYTHING, will be paid fifty cents on
the dollar.
FIGURING mill boiler exploded on
the 1st, at Windfall, Ind, instantly
killing Lewis Mill. Everything was
wrecked.
THE silver repeal bill was entered
upon the records at the White House
on the Cd. and the official parchment
COPY was sent to the state department
for filing with the archives of the gov
ernment
Ara congress of revolutionary So
cialists held in Brussels, on the ISL Il
was resolved to carry on an active prop
apanda to bring abouta strike amohs
the soldiers of Belgium and elsewhere
The Viking started from Chicago
on the I'd, for st. Paul, Mimi, to whici
city it was presented before the cios'
of the Worlds fair.
The public debt statement issued %, o.
| the 1st showed n net increase IN Wv
debt during October of s3,l4l,o'o'oi
Cash in the treasury, s729,447,ol4. .
THE paid admissions to the "orio
fair on the I'd We're S,0i2. -,
ON the Sd the London admrai'.
: court awarded $3.50 salvage agalhs
: | the Dutch steamer Maasdam in iavo
= of the British steamer Winchester ai'
l her crew. the latter to receive sf'o
the award. H.
NJ. u. CURTIS, the actor, VINO
wanted in San Francisco as wlthe7
{ in the case of McMaddus and pun,
: charged with bribery in the Gurus r''''
!; der trial. left that city, on the ID on a
: east-bound train, putting himself D.
= yond the jurisdiction OF the Oaliiorh'
state courts "a,
TEN THOUSAND persons witnessed VI ",
= unveiling of the statue OF the ia'e
: John Macdonald at Hamilton, ont'' q
n the list. A., 9,
ON the Sd orders were sent to inc .
! perintendents of the uni.e" o'"r, ~
mints at San Francisco and Ne" y
q leans to resume the coinage susPei'.
!. some time ago, Of standard silver W
lars.
Miss ANNIE HOWARD, VINO was
!, have been married to the late May
Harrison of Chicago, left that Guy
: the sd for her home in Biloxi MISS.
= LATER reports say that but SIX NV
o were lost by the burning OF the S'eaan na
y CITY of Alexandria, off the CUBAN COO :.
% though seven others were sun h'ss''
ID on the Sd.
The new French tax on bourse tra'i
i actions. which became operative
- .Iulv 10 last, has yielded in four moh''
"a the sum of 2,079, 900 francs. =
THE president signed the on'nese :
amending the Geary act on the su' .
=. pam admissions to the Wofia . i'
O on the Sd were 5000 ~,
4. Tnr old hotel in Apple Creek, ,
ce made famous as the home ior 'n"' r,n
ne wears OF the noted lion-tamer' ne ,
IN | nricshach, was burned 70 ths Sfoa'
i On The pight Of the sd'