Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-08-18


Omaha (Neb) packing houses resumed
work under protection Of the militia,
ut whose approach the strikers dis
pefscd.
WM. +. LEE. cashier of the Canadian
Express Co., left Toronto, Ont, on the
10th, owing TO the discovery of short
age i'm his accounts of 800.
THE American church at Shea-Lu.
Lung, China, was totally destroyed
during recent anti-missionary riots,
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN arrived in Chi
cago, on the 10th, from New York.
On the llth the banks of New York
held $67, ,020,650 in excess OF the re
quirements of the 25-per-cent. rule.
GEN" JENNINGS and his army OF
fifty, Just returned from Washington
took breakfast at an Indianapolis und.,
restaurant, ON the 10th, by invitation
of the populist state central commit
tee. AS soon as the meal was over
they were driven out of the restaurant
and marched out of the city by big
squad of police.
j. s. WILLIAMS, miner, was arrested
in Colorado City, Coll, on the 1lth, for
threatening to kill deputy sheriffs. He
had laid plot to enticc Deputy William
Shellenburger to a saloon, where a
: quarrel was to be started, in which the
deputy would be beaten to death.
: ii. i. STANwooD, of the Illinois
/ Cycling club of Chicago, started from
t that city at p. m, on the llth, in an
! attempt to lower the Chicago-New
York record of 10 days, hours, 80 min
e utes, made in June, 1893.
Il The court-martal to try Maj. Worth
: for ordering Private Cedarquist to tar
v get practice on Sunday, contrary to
J. military rule issued by President Lin
n coin, convened at Omaha, Neb., on thu
IS 13th. Worths defense will be tina
d d while he knew it was against militar.
IL law to require soldier to do unneces
IS sary work on Sunday, it was so gener
IN ally disregarded that he should not b
1t made to suffer.
re A DISASTROUS head-end collision OF
Cured on the Atchison, Topeka & SAINT
a Fe railroad between Hurdland an
IN Gibbs. Mo-, at $3.50 on the morning {
is l2th, between express train No. 5, ives
Of bound, and express No. A, east-bount
of resulting in two trainmen being kille
on and several passengers injured, and tt
or or engines and combination express ar
n baggage were completely demolished.
In FIRE broke out in the Globe mill
sn en Watertown, Wis, on the 12th, and SOC
III. extended to the elevator. 1t was
~ one time feared it would extend
other buildings, and Oconomowoc W
as telegraphed for help, but before the
.i .ir engines arrived the fire was under &C
wo troll. The elevator and mill were
re- tally destroyed. Loss, $4,000; inst
use ance, S46,500.
,s An official Russian crop stateme
re- covering the conditions to the midt
the of July has been published. 1t sa
ion that summer and winter wheat were
,,a u.a most excellent condition. The mil
4 of and buckwheat crops were poor eve
ons where in southern Russia. The ii
bile threshing of wheat and barley G;
:" yields so per cent. above the average
WESTERN Pennsylvania is pass
through drought the like OF wh
10 that section has not endured for ms
lai' wears. Since July and up to Aug
can IL, the total rainfall had been
ter inches, according to the signal ser'
the records. The nearest approach to
on of recent years was in 1882, when
ing rainfall for July was 1.99 inches.
THE excitement over the recen
the discovered gold field in Colorado
Pa, been intensified by the discovery OF
II a float ore extending over a wide te
mas tory. and many who have visited
'ear field are making arrangements to
om- main permanently. A new town
au- been started, and is called Blanca.
liner SMALLPOX is again epidemic in
N OF section of Chicago. On West Sc
teenth street, between Roby
near Loomis street, distance of
led squares. there is perfect nest of
ging disease and more than twenty c
have developed there during the
mes seven days.
ling, L. ID. BroNDELL, an expert swim
on swan miles in the st. Joe rive
dge, Fort Wavne. Ind on the lath in 5
but Mr.. Blondell claims that this beat
records more than ten seconds.
from eral thousand people saw the ex
here t;on