Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-08-14

hE Michigan Salt association. COM
monty known as the Salt trust, has de-
c, r,S9a u, to invade the Kansas field, and
wiz construct manufacturing plant
at hutchinson with u capacity of 600
parrels daily. The company has pur-
chaSeu u tract of 40 acres adjoining the
city as site for the works.
NEWS has reached Seattle, Wash, of
.he he death, last April, of Charles A.
blackstone, George Botcher and I, w.
Mallnque, miners, who went to Alaska
IN 1876, and were frozen to death in
Trying to mako their way back to
seattle. They We're last seen alive
March 81.
AT San Francisco, on the 9th, Judge
campbell held Theo A. Figel to
answer to seven charges of embezzle-
,hent and two of forgery and fixed his
bail at $50, 600.
The sprinkling of railway track S
with crude petroleum has been found
TO effectively lay the dust, and is being
adopted by some of the eastern roads.
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla. ON
The 9th, said: "Casala and Mendaz,
two insurgents who surrendered will
be shot in few days by order of Gen.
Weyler."
ALFRED PACKER, convicted at Dem
YER, COL, of killing five companions
VINO were lost in the mountains with
nm in 1873 and eating their flesh. and
sentenced to the Colorado penitentiarv
Tor 40 years, has applied for pardon.
lie claims that four of his companions
were killed by the fifth, who had be-
come crazy, and that he shot the mad
man dead as the latter was rushing at
him with hatchet.
FORTY persons were killed outright.
Oo fatally and many others seriously
injured by an explosion in cartridge
factory at Rustchult on the Danube on
the 7th. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria
visited the sufferers at the hospital,
and caused money TO be distributed to
the families of the victims.
THREE persons, composing the family
of Peter Veth, residing at 227 East
Huron street, Chicago, were seriously
burned, on the 7th in fire started by
an explosion of gasoline. Mrs. Veth
was more seriously injured than her
husband and child, but she will prob
ably recover.
The Cunard line steamer Etruria ar
rived at New York. on the 18th, from
Liverpool and Queenstown, beating her
best previous record across the Allan
tie in service of nearly 10 years, She
made the run in days, 81 hours and
10 minutes, actual time.
SENIOR CASoyAs DEL CASTILLO, prime
minister of Spain, was asSassinated at
Santa Ageda, on the Sth, by an anarch-
ist The murderer fired three shots,
one Of which struck the premier in the
forehead aud another in the chest.
LEADERS in Chinese mission work in
San Francisco are circulating petition
to be sent to President Mckinley ask
ing him to request congress to appoint
commission to investigate the horrors
of human slavery that are perpetrated
by those who hold Chinese girls in
bondage.
lN the death of Canovas Weyler loses
his best friend The relations between
the late prime minister and the cap
tain-general OF Cuba were peculiar.
They were more than official They
embraced certain business considera-
tions that bound them indissolubly.
Ir is now said to be the intention of
President Mckinley to overhaul the
personnel of the various departments,
with view to wedding out members
of the same family, married couples
and women who have been married
since being appointed but who have
neglected to inform the government of
the fact.
The missing secretary of the Hiber-
man Savings Building and Loan asso-
citation, Thomas O'llare, of Columbus,
O., is found to have appropriated Sl0,-
900 out of $50 900 that passed through
his hands.
LATE Cuban advices describe the Gu
bans, under Juan Delgado, as making
things very warm for the Spaniards in
the suburbs of Havana, and all efforts
to drive the III off appear to be futile.
SECOND LIEUT.. DANIEL DUNCAN, one
of the most popular young officers of
the Fourth infantry, L. 5. A., was
drowned, on the Sth, while bathing on
the beach at Fort Sheridan, Chicago.