Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-08-07

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Hardy, of Chicago, claims to have pro-
duced, at cost of ten cents pound, IL
metal which experts pronounce gold.
Several bricks of the metal have been
purchased by jewellers, who declare it
good enough gold for them.
JOHN ANDERSON and Hagens Nelson
were fatally injured by the tipping of |
a derrick on new building at Market |
and Van Buren, streets, Chicago, a
the 30th. The men fell from the sixth
story to the street.
BY the premature explosion of =
dynamite blast on Beechwood bouls-
ward, in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 3Oth,
three men were dangerously hurt, one
of them probably fatally.
THE crops in strip five miles wide
and 80 miles long in Rock county,
Mimi, were entirely destroyed by hail
on the night Of the a9th.
The Japanese government has ac-
cepted the offer made by Hawaii to ar
bitrate ma tiers in dispute between the
two countries
A DISPATCH from Lisbon says the
situation at Oporto is alarming. Min
listers fear an attempt at revolution.
The governor of the town has been
dismissed ana replaced by Augusta de
Castillo. naval officer.
News from Simla is to the effect that
the revolt in the Chitral is rapidly
spreading. British and native Indian
reinforcements are being pushed for
ward. Several skirmishes have been
fought in which large Numbers of the
enemy were slain.
THE trustees appointed to locate
the Old Folks Home for Illinois Odd
Fellows, after viewing the sites offered
and considering the proposition OF
Monmouth, Alton, Vandalia, Olney, st.
Elmo and Carthage, have decided to
locate the home at Mattoon.
Mr. LEON GoDcHAu, the owner OF
seven sugar plantations in Louisiana,
and the largest sugar producer in the
United States, has advanced the wages
of all field labor l611 per cent, com
mencing on the lst.
MAYOR STRONG of New York has ap
pointed Col. George Moore Smith, o
the Sixty-ninth regiment, to succeed
Col. +. ID. Grant as police commissioner
The new commissioner was sworn il
on the I'd.
On the 3lst the associated banks o.
New York city held s45, 72o, $50 in exces
of the requirements of the s5 per cen
rule.
DISPATCHES from points in Mime
sofa and South Dakota allege inmens
damage to wheat from hailstorms.
The French government has bee
apprised of the arrest, in New Ior
city, of William A. Bellwood. othel
wise the notorious Guillaume Balens
the banker who ruined young Max L'
baudy. He will be held for extrad
ton.
Ar Pacadillo, on the seacoa,t of SAINT
Clara, Cuba, an expedition landed r.
} Gently from the Florida coast. Lift
secrecy was observed The Oubans ha
force of 400 men there to protect
and rs the Spaniards were only q
strong there they did not attempt
attack it.
II THERE is blg blockade OF wheat
i, stockton. Cal, caused by rise OF Il
e price to ST. Farmers are rushing
a grain so fast that it can not be handle
j. The levee is piled high with sacks
l. wheat. and more is constantly arri
ing
= THE recent hot winds have ruin
l. many thousand acres of promising co
e in central and eastern Kansas. Hu
h dreds OF fields which promised a vie
D. of 50 bushels an acre have been parch
by the intense heat.
ID OFFICERS of the steamer Mower
al lust arrived at Vancouver, Is. G., S
T. that Honolulu hnrbor is dotted wi
II British, Japanese and United Sta'
n warships, and that condition OF
S rest pervades the people OF the city.
n SENATOR JOHN I. MORGAN, sen
member of the foreign affairs comm
st tee on the democratic side, is going
be Hawaii for the purpose OF making
H. nersonal examination of the conditit
Ill of those islands
THE crews of the 40 life-saving S
"i tions of the United States governme
10 stretching along the New Jersey co
re from Sandy Hook to Cape May W.
~ ,' on duty, on the 1st, after being out
W service since May 81.