Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-10-05

NiR Arthur PAGET, OF the british
legation at Washington, has ordered
the lierreshoif firm to construct oll.
rater yacht to be used for racing in
britlsh waters. The boat will be 97.
1eet water line, and will be finished in
mahogany. The hull will be covered
with bronze.
PASSENGER train No. on the Bal,i-
more ~ Ohio side-wiped passenger
tram No. A, lying on the switch near
lunnellon, w. Va, on the eth. United
states Marshal Garden, of Wheeling,
W. va, and ex-Secretary of State Wm.
a. ohley OF Charleston, were fatally
scaIded by escaping steam; Miss Mary
H. Downtain, librarian of the state,
was also probably fatally injured
Several other passengers were injured
slightly,
THE British ship Star of Austria,
from Santa Rosalia, March 25, for
Swanseaand Falmouth. and the British
ship Lord Spencer, from San Fran
cisco, April o, for Queenstown, long
overdue at their respective ports of
destination, have been given up for
lost.
A STRANGE hog disease has within
two or three weeks swept away thou
sands of fat porkers in Mclean and ad-
joining counties in Illinois and threat
ems the determination of swine in those
parts.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
27th, said: Great Britain at length
appears to be in earnest She has now
five war ships on the Yang-Tse Kiang
and four more ships will Join them inn
mediately.
A DISPATCH from Copenhagen says
the condition of the czarowitz of Rus.
sia is steadily growing worse and
prayers are being said for him daily in
the Russian church there.
A SQUADRON of German war vessels
has been ordered to Swatow, and the
Catholic missions in the district of
Shantung have been placed under Ger
man protection.
On the 2Sth the associated banks OF
New York city held S!2, 296, 175 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per
cent, rule.
PROF. LOUIS PAsrEUR, the distin-
guished French chemist and the dis,
coverer of the Pasteur treatment for
the cure of rabies, died of paralysis
in Paris, on the 2Sth, aged 70.
A COTTON mill under British manage
ment will soon be erected ut Shanghai.
The erection of the mill was made pos.
siblc by the treaty OF peace between
China and Japan. The building OF
three large cotton mills is contem
plated, the largest of which will be
under the management of a well-knowr
American firm.
FAIIlNG the entire compliance of the
Chinese government with the British
demands, says n Shanghai dispatch o
| the Goth, it is understood that a flee
of fourteen warships will make dem
| UlSLTuUlDll' lut III leinh bCihohu Nu
that within fourteen days an edic
must be issued, degrading the viceroy
of Sze-Chuen; otherwise the British
admiral commanding would act.
JosEPu BELL died in London recent
Fly at the age of SO years. Bells lif'
spanncd the whole railroad history o
the world. In his youth he was TIN
engineer OF the first locomotive eve
constructed--Stephe nsons Rocket
and lived to see the record OF loco
motive running at the rate of LIZ mile
an hour
GREAT excitement was caused at ke
West, Fla, on the 29lh, by repor
that marines from the Spanish cruise
Conde dc Venadito had been landed OF
the Florida Keys north of Key West t
search for tilibusters
Z. A. FELLMER, the organizer of tn
Swiss colonies in Kentucky, died a
Frankfort, Ky, on the Goth, aged G
wears. He was secretary of the ker
tucky geological survey and immigr;
tion bureau under John r. Proctor
He had made numerous trips to the ol
country in the interest of the kel
tuclzv Swiss colonies.
MORE than 200 head of cattle died
western Kansas within four days lat'
ly, poisoned by eating second-growt
sorghum. The crop of sorghum is yer
large in western Kansas, and the se'
ond growth is exceedingly rank. Man
farmers turned their cattle into I'll
fields to cat it down, and death has r.
suited in nearly every case.