Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-08-28

NIfttaAlf b4i lflt IIill, u
lhe effect that the Carlists in the dis.
tr'ct OF Chelya were preparing to rise.
nlsPAtcu from Nisch, Scrvia SAYS
that during gunnery practice there, on
the 18th, shell belonging To one of
The guns of the fortress exploded, kill
ing SIX ariillerymen and badly iniurinp
four others.
'BoYS playing in the second story of
Geirs hardware store at Ortonyille
Mimi, ON the Goth, started II fire that
resulted in the destruction of nine
buildings and money loss Of s?5O, 900,
distributed among so firms and individ.
uals.
HE commission of Ethan A. Hitch.
cock, OF st. Louis, as minister to Rus
sia, was made out at the White House
on the goth. The appointment dates
from August 10.
Bl close vote, on the 10th, the New
York produce exchange decided to
continue the branding and grading
OF Hour. A proposition had recently
been made to discontinue the practice.
IliE president on the Goth, appointed
James Jegrays of Camden, Tenn, and
Koss Griffin, of Kansas City, commits
sioners to allot lands in severalty to
the Indians Of the Uncompahgre reser-
walton in Utah
The body of H. Il. Key, a tourist
from Wisner, Neb., was found near
The summit of Pixies Peak, on the Goth,
with bullet hole in the back of the
head at the base of the brain.
MICHEL ANGIoLILLI, who shot and
killed Senior Canoyas del Castillo, the
premier of Spain, at the baths of Santa
Aguera, ON the sth, was garroted at
San Sebastian on the Goth.
THE Peoples savings bank of Mt.
Pleasant, Mich, closed its doors, on
the 20th and is now in the hands of
the commissioner of banking. No
statement was given out, According
to the last statement, made IN January,
the capital stock Of the bank was $780,
900, with S0O, 600 in deposits.
ON the 2lst messenger and armed
guard carrying the weekly cleanup of
the Twin Lakes Placer Co. from the
Office to the town of Granite, Col, for
shipment, were stopped Ey two men
and compelled to deliver the gold, val
ued between $4,000 and $1,000. Some
firing between the guards and the rob-
bers occurred, but no one was hurt.
TIE weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for the
week ended on the 21st showed the
following changes: Reserve increase,
$50, 725; loans, increase, 81, Az, 800;
specie increase, S593, 300; legal tender
increase, Sizes, 800; deposits, increase,
SIS, 407, 800; circulation, increase, $50, 100.
ALErTER from the head of Lake Ben
nett states that Frank Slavn. the big
| pugilist, is lost in the wilds of the
Northwest territory, having started
back alone from the lake toward the
summit Of Chilloot pass to find mum
Der of articles lost from his pack.
SENATOR NJ. A. HANNA returned TO
Cleveland, o., on the 2lst, from his
three weeks cruise on the yacht Co.
manche. He looked the perfect picture
of health, and said that he never felt
better in his life He went at once to
his summer home, Windemere.
A MEETING of over 1900 people held
in Athens, ON the 22d, adopted an adj
dress to King George, urging him and
the government to reject the proposed
peace treaty between Greece and Tur-
key and to resume hostilties inter-
rupted by the truce.
Ar Clarlssburg, W. Va, on the 21st,
Judge Gotf found the miners arrested
near Fairmont guilty of violation OF
Judge Jaclisons injunction and sen
fenced all of the "a to Jail for three
days, but later ordered them released
on the ed.
On the 21st the associated banks OF
New York city held $50, 753, $50 in eX-
cess Of the requirements OF the 25-pei
cent. rule.
MEXICAN dollars were quoted in New
York, on the 2lst, at 40 cents.
FIVE children were drowned in the
harbor at Toronto, Ont, on the 22d, by
the capsiziug of a float on which, in
company with ten others, they wer,
attempting to cross from the mainland
to the breal1water, where they intended
to go bathing The other children
were rescued by boatmen. Three o.
the bodies of the drowned We're re
| covered.