Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-09-04

~, SHIPMENTS OF grain from the port OF
.hicago this season are the heaviest
III the history of the lake trade.
JERE BAXTER, president of the Ten
neSSee Central railway, and w. j. Tot
zen, representative of the Carnegie
S'eei Company, Pittsburgh, Pa, closed
contract, on the 27th, for S4OO Oo(
worth of steel rails and fittings to be
nseo III the construction of the road,
me delivery of the material will begin
In about six weeks.
The London Financial News, of the
slh, said: 1.-The French cabinet is
considering the floating of loan Of
.oo'ooo, 1000 in az per cent bonds, part
~ Tor the redemption of the floating
oeot and partly for the reconstruction
OF the French navy"
IN Russia workman with a horse is
paid rouble and 60 copecks per dav.
Inc rouble is valued at 5l.4 cents and
the copeck is the one-hundredth part
OF a rouble. A great deal of the ma
chinery still in use in Russia is very
crude.
THE king Of Siam, who arrived in
Potsdam, on the Goth, and was received
with every mark OF honor by Emperor
William, placed Il wreath of flowers
upon the tomb of the late Emperor
Frederick of Germany.
ANNIE BRoCKFIELD, deaf.mute
whose home is in Fulton, Mo-, was
made the victim of a confidence opera.
tor at Oakland, Cal, and arrived in
sacramento penniless and without
friends. An old man named A. j.
Hintley obtained her purse, containing
S93, saying he would buy her railroad
ticket. That was the last she saw of
him.
THE British steamer Windward,
which left England on June 10 last for
Franz Josef Land, to bring back from
the Arctic regions the members of the
Jackson-Farnsworth expedition, who
mad spent three winters at Cape Flora,
passed Aberdeen, on the 97th, on her
return trip, and signalled that all were
well on board.
SENIOR j. q. SoBERAL, the Spanish
naval attache at Washington, in COM
pany with the Spanish consul at Fer
nandina, has been making a careful in
spection of the coast and harbors of
Florida. lie was warned off the gov
ernment reservation at Key West.
A JAIL delivery occurred at Lead
vile, COL, on the night of the Goth.
Five desperate criminals locked the
night jailer in the Jail and made their
escape. A posse went in pursuit
Among the escaped prisoners were two
murderers.
SHORTLY after midnight, on the goth,
craftsmen literally blew the vault of
the Exchange bank at Elmdale, Kas.,
to pieces Nitroglycerine was used
three times and the explosions were
heard for miles. Citizens surrounded
and fired into the bank, but the rob-
bers made their escape by side door
with Sl,s00 in money and 500 worth of
drafts.
IT is estimated that In. Oklahoma ter
ritory, during the year 1897, the stock,
grain, fruit, and all other products will
to 500, 900 900. OF this the peo-
Pile at home will consume 60 per cent,
leaving $40, 900, 900 of products for ex-
port.
The Paris Memorial Diplomatique as
serts that the ameer of Afghanistan
has ordered the faithful to hold them
selves in readiness for holy war, and
that meeting of mullahs has been
at Cabul to discuss the situa-
lion.
GEN. WooDFoRD. minister to Madrid
expected to start from Paris to San
Sebastian, on the 30th, to present to
.he queen regent the proposition of the
state department for ending the war in
Cuba. The result of his mission is
awaited with much interest.
TIE next official maps of the Cana
lian government will show a change
n the spelling of "Klondike." The
lew diggings and the river will be re-
erred to officially hereafter as "Troan-
iilS."
A LETTER has been received in New
York from Quintin Banderas, the ia
nous negro war captain of the Cuban
lrmy, announcing his arrival in Havana
province with $4,000 men.