Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-08-22
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary Of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERA

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OF the absence of reports fron ,ho ,.a'.'..
u .he Egyptian forces on tEe Nile +,
Is reared that serious condition No.
yails there. ''o" pee
FIRE at Anamosa Qa., penitentiarv
;a ns"' 'eo III The cellar of the prison din.
.nR'room, on the nth, and in n shor,
'.n'e was beyond control, aud the on,
a,re ent're building was DESTROYED, in.
cluding large library of 5000 vol.
"nes' The loss will be $50, 900.
a coNFLAGRATIoN at NorfoIl, Va
on the llth, destroyed the Atlantic sa ~
milis, the Old Dominion guiana factory
ana the Merritt wreclsing warehouse
ana the docks, causing loss of sloo
ooo. Twenty-Five fremen were pros.
'rated by the intense heat.
AT Mount Etna, Ind, over 4 oo(
pounds of black bass were taken fron
the salamonie river with buckets or
'ne ! lth. The river runs through the
oil helt, and during the frcshet The
water was covered with oil, which
arove the fish to the shore.
AN Italian man-of-war has captured
or the coast of Erythrea the Dutch
steamer Doelwyk, laden with "A oof
rifles, which are supposed to be of
Belgian manufacture, and which were
destined for Abyssinia.
AT least three persons, and possiblv
others, were burned to death in fire
that destroyed a six.story brick build.
ing at No. 465 Greenwich street New
York city, on the llth. Several per.
sons were injured by the smoke and
heat and by jumping
QUEEN VICTORIA has issued mes.
sage to the nations thanking them for
their expressions of loyalty and atfec.
tion as the period approaches when the
length of her reign will have exceeded
that OF any other English monarch.
On the l2th 75 prominent democrats
representing nearly every county in
the state, met in Wheeling, W. Va,
and formally bolted the national demo.
cratic platform. They also, in equally
strong terms, denounced Mckinley and
protection, and called convention ia
meet in Wheeling, on the Goth, ia
elect delegates to the Indianapolis
sound money convention.
MoLLAm REzA, who on the afternoon
OF May l assassinated Nazr-Ed-Deen,
shah OF Persia, by shooting the mon
arch with pistol as he was entering
the inner court of the shrine of Shah
Abdul Azim, near Teheran, was, on
the 18th, hanged at Teheran for his
crime. Immense crowds of people
witnessed the execution of the assas-
sin.
CASHIER w. G. PETERS of the Colum-
bia national bank at Tacoma, Wash
charged with falsifying the books and
appropriating the funds of the insti-
tuition, was, on the l2th, found guilty.
President Henry Oliver of the Column
bia national bank, who is underin dict-
lnent for embezzlement, will be tried
N February next.
lT was reported, or the l2th, that a
British man-of-war had seized the
Mexican island of Clarion which be-
longs to the state of Colima. and will
establish coaling station there.
NATE EARNsHAw, IL years old. son of
4 well-to-do farmer, residing five miles
south of Olathc, Kas, committed sui
eide, on the llth, by shooting himself
with revolver The lad had been a
slave to cigarettes
THE first regular train was run over
The Lake Superior 4 lshpeming rail
way ON the l9th. The road is com
pleted from Marquette to Negaunee.
Mich, and will soon be finished to
lshpeming, 1t is primarily an ore
hauling line.
DANIEL BUFFERS, one of the Oldest
members of the Chicago board of trade
Lied, on the l2th, of stomach troubles
aggravated by the extreme hot wealth
er.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRyANand Arthur
p. Sewall were formally notified, on
The night of the 18th, in the presence
)f an audience that packed Madison
square garden, New York city, of their
choice by the Democratic national con-
gention rs the nominees, respectively,
for president and vice-president of the
United States. Gov Stone of Missouri
delivered the notification speech.
FIRE, on the 18th, destroyed the
building of the Manhansct
house, Shelter Island, n. Y. Loss,
es0o, 900. Ihe guests lost nothing
FIVE deaths, attributable to the cx-
trcnc ns.- we've renorted AZ Hart
ford, Conn, on the 18Th, milling q ia
al during four DAYS.
THE Michigan Buggy CO.'S factory
Mt Kalamazoo, Mich, was burned on
The l3th. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
ciO,O The Kalamazoo Wagon Co. S
factory adjoining was saved by hard
work. The FIRE originated from spon-
taneous combustion in the paint shop.
On the 13th Pittsburgh, Pa, was the
center of a severe electrical storm,
which was preceded by short space
Vt pitchy darkness. Five persons were
drowned in Pine creek, swollen to
Io.,,,,t h., N aloud .hurcf
In was announced, on the 18th, THAI
the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Co.,
operating in connection with the 500
line had cut freight rates ? cents on
lirst class and ~ cents on lower
classes of freight.
DURING the display OF fireworks Civ.
in honor and in the presence OF
President Faure at Rennes, France,
On the evening of the l2th, bomb
was prematurely exploded, killing a
virl and seriously injuring five other
persons.
ALBERT PLACE aud Walter Whipple,
ocal wheelmen, lhft Providence, L. L.,
It D. M, on the 18th, in an attempt
10 break the bicycle record from that
section of New England to San Fran
.isco
OK the 18th, Prof. Albert Nelson
prentiss, in charge of the botanical
OF Cornell university, died
It Ithica, N. Y, in the sixtieth year OF
us age.
The position OF Capt. John A. Lee
IS police commissioner Of st. Louis
,aving been declared Incompatible
With that of elector-at-large he will re-
IGN his police cominissionership.
ACCORDING to data collected by Sec
etary Parsons Of the Colorado mining
woharra the cold production of Grip