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

THE ignorance OF people in regard to
counterfeit money is phenomenal
What is to be thought of the American
shopkeeper who would accept counter
felt bank bills upon which one-half the
words were wrongly spelled? The won
der is only exceeded by the exceeding |
nerve of the illiterate counterfeiter.
HARRY A. GARDNER, cashier OF the
Second national bank OF Altoona, Ia,
has disappeared in company with
Mrs. Gordon, to whom Gardner has
been so attentive during the past year
MS to excite much unfavora BILE COM
ment. A director of the bank is au-
thority for the statement that Gardner
has also taken with him large sum OF
money belonging to the bank,
! WILLIAM BEAN, IA farmer living near
Grand Rapids, o., was instantly killed,
on the 7th, by bumblc-bee stinging
. him on the neck
DAVE VAN LEW and c. c. Ames,
painters, fell 10 feet with scaffolding'
on the sth, while painting sign on
the Duncombe house at Fort Dodge
Ia. Van Lew was fatally injured, but
l Ames may live.
The pope received liO pilgrims from
. the limited States on the 18th. There
:, were no speeches. The Americans AT
tended mass celebrated by his holi-
-. ness.
y In speaking of the probabilities Oh
the pending war between Japan ana
: China an official of the Japanese lega'
u tion recalled the fact that the season
l. of the monsoon and the typhoon is rap
idly approaching. The presence OF the
;s former is not regarded as a menace tf
a sea maneuvering, but fear is felt fol
re- the latter.
= LAST March A. II. Batliff killed An
sr drew Thompson at Sewell, W. Va, an'
o. escaped, The authorities offered re
l.. ward of 5000 for his arrest and the cltl
zens added $50 On the Sth the polio
at Charleston, w. Va, received a tele
n gram from the marshal OF Pittsbure
OF Kas., saying that Batliff was IN 1al
1g there. =,
is II. WEsNER was shot and killed by hi
We father-in-law, JAS. Livingston, at tn
M latter's home in Lebanon, Ind, on Tn
Ter night of the 9Th. Wesner is son
LAWYER c. w. Wesner, who was kllle
Inv j. C. Brown in the courtroom
Of Danville year ago last May. u.
ed THREE HUNDRED miners at Mysti
lee Ia.. went out on a strike, on the stl
O., because the company insisted on hol'
lsh ;ng back two or three days wag
bt when paying their men every wv
mt weeks
REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN, of Nebra
ka. has petition bearing 10000 sign
md lures for an inve stigation of the cour
b., taken by Atty.-Gen. Olney during u
ain recent strike looking to his impeac
'tly ment.
ap- THE police have discovered in hoi
'en. revolutionary band who correspo
cen regularly with foreign anarchists
ciety women have acted as go-betwee
for the correspondents in order u
OF the suspicious Of the police might
) op be aroused.
IN ON the night of the 9th the ca
,on- hound Oklahoma and Texas express
me the Rock Island road plunged throu
laef an overhead bridge, so feet hign
'ing miles south of Lincoln, Neo, INTO
creek, killing eight persons and wou' u;
80. inc many others. Five OF the vic'i
,oo. ware burned to death in the wreck
'ow On July II thirty-seven British
'lsco r,nes crossed the line OF dele
'Mslel M adopted by the japanese commsn
ons1 , near Seoul, Corea. They were rem
'os.' strated with, and there was 81,
'cas' S, collision. The marines forced u
@As way through, however, IN order 70
on duty to protect the British iegs'
IN Seoul. They were not subsequei
Sth' THE steamship City Of Peking
'anos r,ved at San Franeiseo, on the !
'ssss from Hong Kong, via Yokohama
wa w'sn Aad NOT kvp declared wAea
'H'Ns' ss,,si.