Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-09-28
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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lllAT is an interesting dispute il
california as to whether or not fin
lamos as well as the sheep are coyere,
ny mortgages. 1t is well known L
many people who have given mort
cages that those papers are far reach
ing, and such people will not find !
hard TO believe that the lambs ayil
have to 60
The free silver forces of the Unite,
States will be consolidated and head
quarters will be established in Chira
go. Gen. A. J, Warner, president o
the National Bimetallic league, viii
be the president of the CONSOLIDATED
body, and Secretary Edward Il. Lfph
of the American Bimetallic union vii
occupy similar position in the new
body.
ROBERT CooMBEs, the boy who Stable,
ms mot er to death in London a few
months ago has been adjudged guilty
but declared insane, and will be con
lined in an asylum at the pleasure o
the queen.
DODGE, Neb,, was almost wiped on
by fire on the 18th. Forty business
houses were burned, swith contents
and also many residences. The dam
age is over 5000 Fremont, Serb
ner and other towns sent special train,
with fire apparatus, which arrived toe
late to be of service,
A NOTABLE reunion was held at Indi
annapolis, Ind, on the nth 1t was
that of the One Hundred and Twenty
third Indiana regiment, known to his
tory as ''llovey's Babies They were
recruited by Gen. Alvin p. lIovey
aftcrwurd governor Of the state, ant
they got their name from the fact that
the average age was the lowest of any
regiment that participated in the war
Of the 1000 men enlisted 700 at the
time of enlistment were under % years
of age, aud many We're but u years
old. The regiment made great fight,
ing record,
AT Dubuque, la, on the l7th, cred.
TORS libeled the revenue cutter William
Window in the federal court for S2, SOC.
This is expected to precipitate action
by other creditors of the Iowa iron
works, whose experience in the con
struction of the Window and the tor,
pcdo boat Ericsson has been very dis
astrous.
OSHKOSH, Wis, was visited by de-
structive confagration ON the 18TH.
Property, including millions of feet of
lumber, was destroyed to the amount
of $3.50 900. Only after the city FIRE
department was reinforced by engines
and men from Neenah, Mcnasha, Ap-
pleton and Fond du Lac, were the
flames checked and the fire eXtin-
guishcd.
JAKE GAupAUR, the oarsman, said,
on the 18th, that owing TO other en-
gagements he can not accept liarding's
challenge to race in England, but he
will row the Englishman in Texas, one
week after the regatta at Austin, for
-. 500 a side and will allow him $500
expenses from England,
The national encampmont of sons
of Veterans at Knoxville, Tenn, came
to an end on the 18th. On that day
the encampmcnt elected officers and
at night a display of fireworks was
provided near Fort Saunders.
On the 18th Chicago customhouse in
spectors arrested Raphael Cordina, a
Mexican youth aged II, in whose pos
session 81, 600 worth of smuggled dia-
monds were found.
FoUR persons were injured, one prob
ably fatally, by collision between a
trolley car and an ice wagon in ort
Scott, kas., on the 18th,
FIRE in Indianapolis, Ind, on the
18th, destroyed property variously es-
timated at from 800, 900 to 5000, 900.
RUSSIAN agents have gone to Pekin
TO negotiate for the establishment Of
a Russo. Chinese bank in that city.
IT was reported, on the 18th, that a
second Chinese loan, guaranteed by
Russia and France, will be concluded
in November, France undertaking to
find the money. German tlnanciers re-
fuse to take any part Of the loan.
SECRETARY LAMoNT's bashfulness
held him absent from the Chickamauga
rostrum, with his maiden speech yet
undelivered In spite OF the wide ad-
vertisement given to the prospective
speech by the press, as the time drew
near the secretary pleaded pressing
family matters and hurried away to
Maine.
PRELIMINARY to the formal dcdica-
ton of the Chickamauga National
park, the various states that were In
readiness dedicated their monuments,
on the 18th, and turned them over to
the spark commission. The various
were of very interesting
character.
Ross c. VAN BoKKELEN, receiving
teller Of the Merchants Loan and
Trust Co of Chicago, was reported
missing, on the 10th. as was also
about S5s, 900 OF the money belonging
to the institution. Mr.. Van Bokkelen
is supposed to be in Mexico.
A BUILDING in course of construction
in Klosterstrasse. Cohen, in Brandon
burg, collapsed, on tho 18th, burying
sixteen workmen in the ruins. Nine
OF them were killed, and the others Sc
verely injured.
THE steamer Turkcstan reached
Cardiff, Wales on the 10Th. in dam
aged condition, as result OF her col
lision with the steamer Edam, having
on board some of the passengers and
crew of the latter vessel, picked up
after the accident.
IT was estimated that 10000 visitors
to Chattanooga, Tenn, helped to swell
the attendance upon the exercises Mt
the opening Of the national military
mark on the field Of Chlckamauga, on
the 10th.
A DISPATCH from Rio Ianeiro, on the
10th, said the brazilian government
had decided that if England established
a cable station on the island of Trims
dad, the British minister at Rio Ja'
peiro would receive his passports.
WHILE crossing bridge on the
North Pennsylvania road near ogontS,
on the Goth, Mrs. VIM. Moorhead, OF
Oak Lane, Pa. and her l6-year-old
daughter, were struck by an express
train aud hurled from the bridge. The
mother was instantly killed and the