Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-10-03
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| -, a''N' III oohlyn gives the yes.
'els speed at 81. 9l17knots, which earns
Tor the Cramps, her builders. a pre,
MUM of $3.50, 200. fN
QUEEN VICTORIA, on the 2,d nassed
the mark which signalized the longest
reign OF any British sovereign. She
was the recipient Of many eongratula.
tory messages.
The boiler of cotton, ten.wheel
locomotive on the Big Four railroad
burst at Pekin, ILL.,, on the ED hurl.
lhg the enormous engine more than
100 feet, partially demolishing large
factory, killing the fireman and break.
ing nearly all the glass within quar-.
Ter OF mile OF the scene of the re.
markable accident. Pieces of the
engine were picked up 1000 feet away.
LIE directors of the American Ben
Telephone Co. met In Boston, on the
s3d. and declared the regular quarter.
~ dividend of three per cent This
makes lo4 per cent. declared SO far
this year.
A FORCE Of 81 Spanish troops started
Tor Calabrazar, eight miles from
havana on the 2lst.. The next morn
ing five of the 81 returned to Havana
and reported that their companions
had been killed by insurgents shortly
before reaching Calabrazar.
DELEGATES from Is states to the
American Bankers association couyen-
ton at st. Louis, speaking for the
members from their respective com
monwealths, declared that the busi-
ness depression now prevailing over
the country is due to the free silver
agitation.
ONE of the three tramps arrested for
suspected completely in the murder of
the chief of police at Table Rock,
Ncb,, has confessed that he was the
murderer of Officer Moore in Denver in
the spring of 1885
LOUIS GERHARD, Baron dc Geer, of
Finspang, the celebrated Swedish
statesman and politician, died in Stock
holm, on the cath, aged rs years
Ex-ALDERMAN SALo W. RorH, of Chi
cago, was indicted by the Cook county
Grand inrv, on the cath, on the charge
OF embezzling $4,000 from the Ma
tioual Loan and Building association.
tl'f n I'd o'e a.Hed n SOS 900.
JAMES CALLAHAN, Of Des AiOines, and
N Simmer, The noted philanthrorist
of Waverly, Ia, have united in dona-
ton of 100000 to the home for aged
and iniirm in Des Moincs. The insti-
tuition was started less than a year
ago
TIE Spanish government is making
preparations to send 5000 additional
troops TO the Philippine islands at
once, and also to increase the garri-
son on the island of Fernando Pc.
Four Thousand persons attended a
meeting at Liverpool on the 24tn, un-
der the auspices of the Liverpool Re-
form club, to protest against the rule
Of the sultan of Turkey and the mas
sacres of Armenians in the Turkish
empire. Mr.. Gladstone was the prin-
cipal speaker of the occasion.
HuGH CONWAY, aged Gl, one of the
Oldest citizens of Kansas City, Kas.,
while walking on James street, on the
gath, was run down by bicycle rid
den by a IL year-old boy and fatally in
jnred.
TIE pump ng station and depot of
the Waters-picrce Oil Co. in East st.
Louis, H., were totally destroyed by
fire on the cath. The flames extend
ed to the yards of the Big Four railroad
and consumed number of cars before
they were subdued; loss, estimated,
$50, 900.
THE Bank of England, on the oath,
advanced its rate of discount from 2 y
per cent, to 3 per cent,
DECEMBER wheat began to take an
upward turn on the Chicago board Of
trade, on the cath, and John Cudahy,
the accredited holder of nearly all the
contract wheat for December delivery,
was reported to have a deep-laid
scheme to keep the stuff until the dol
lar mark is reached lie was said TO
hold at least 95,O00,0o0 bushels OF
wheat.
SOME years ago an attempt was made
to destroy by dynamite the monument
on South Mountain, a few miles from
lIoonsboro, Md, erected to the mem
orv of George Washington by the
citizens of Boonsboro in 1927, and the
pile was much weakened. Lightning
or vandals few nights ago completed
the work of destruction.
A FIRE in the hospital department OF
the county Jail at Columbus, Ind, on
the 2ath, caused a loss of $50, ,OOo' no
insurance. The fire was started by a
prisoner named Alexander Bell, with
the intention of escaping. Three
nrisoners were taken out almost suffo-
Gated.
LAzARD FREREy, Of New York, re-
ceiyed 81, ,5oO,o 900 gold by the steamer
Augusta Victoria, on the 25th. ana
5000, 900 by the La Bourgogne, making
the aggregate imports by this firm TO
that date SIG, ,a50,0Oe They deposited
81 600, 900 gold in the sub-treasury'
A CONSTRUCTION train of IL dump
cars on the Butler & Pittsburgh Taii-
road was thrown over an s0-1oot en-
bankment, near BGtler, Pa. on the 2oth'
owing to the failure OF the brakes
"a work. One man was killed and
n number were badly injured.
TIE net gold reserve in the United
States treasury, at the close OF ous,-
ness. on the 25th, stood at Sll9'6ie, los'
The days Withdrawals OF gold at new
York was S32, 800. There was OK
changed for gold deposited w. ooo'ooo
In currency.
DAVID BAssErT, aged 81 years was
crushed to death between the pump
ers of two cars in the st. Paul yards'
at Green Bay, Wis, on the 2sth'
ON the c5th, by an explosion Oh gas
in the Philadelphia & Reading Co. s
Middle Creek colliery, near fremont
pa five men were burned and other-
wise hurt. Jasper Newton aud his SON
in.law, John Sogroye, died a few honrs
later. Charles $. Hoffstall ana james
Norton were also fatally hurt.
TnE report of the Venezuelan com
mission, appointed last January 70 IN
vast;gat te the British-Venezuelan oouh'
darv line in dispute, probably viii be
made to the president shortly .oeiofe
,,,nrress conyenes in December.