Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-08-28
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

'i'N'N N'''pi dNupi embracing ABOUT D, IO(
routes, will run for four years, begin
ming July l. 1898. Bids will be opened
In the second assistant postmaster gen
erals Office December /,
The Peruvian government has or
dered the banks of Peru to withdraw
from circulation, within 80 days, and
to stop the further emission of circular
checks, payable to bearer, which arc
classed as being nothing more or les,
Than bank notes in disguise.
NOTICE of contest Of the second vii
Of Charles Coudert, of New York, which
devised his property to his seven chill
dren was filed, on the 17th, by the
widow, Mrs. Mary Coudert, whom /;
former will made sole legatee.
AS A result Of the decline in silver
the Lamarline mine at Idaho Springs,
Col, discharged its force of men work
ing on the silver lodes on the nth.
The Rock Island Railroad Co. ha,
requested the farmers of Grant ane
Garfield countless Okla, to reimburs,
the company for so 600 bushels of wheat
furnished for seed, in 1894, when there
was "A crop failure,
TnE tWenty-third annual convention
of the American Bankers association
met in Detroit, Mich, ON the 18th.
In the two weeks ended on the 17tl
over 2, 600 beeves were sent to Havana
from Florida most of them from the
kisslmmee river ranges
A MOVEMENT looking to the connec
ton of Denver and the Black Hills re-
gion of South Dakota by railroad i,
said to be in progress in Wyoming.
In the Wisconsin assembly, on tn,
18th, both the express company anG
sleeping car taxation bills were passet
over the governors veto.
The former government boat join
A. Dix, recently turned over to the
Louisiana naval reserve, sank in tn,
Mississippi at the foot of jackson street
New Orleans, on the 18th.
Mrs. MARcELINA VALDEZ and a cir
named Francesca Mondragon were sho
in Guadalupe, a suburb of Conejos
Col, on the 18th, by Pablo Gallegos
Mrs. Valdez was wounded in the heaC
and the girl in the arm and thigh
Both will probably recover. Gallego
was discarded lover OF the girl. He
escaped.
InE wheat pit of the New York pro
ducc exchange wns wrought up to {
fine frenzy of buying activity, on the
18th, inspired by the European demant
and partly by the report of damaged
crops in the northwest, and the price o
wheat went capering upward till tn,
dollar mark was reached and passed by
Il fraction of cent.
THE employees of the Wells-Fargo Ex
press Co. all over the United States ar,
in receipt of letters from the Californi;
headquarters Of the company, saying
that salaries reduced three years agt
would be advanced immediately.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa FL
Railway Co. has acknowledged th'
justness of claim made by the Kan
sas state board of railroad commission
ers of exorbitant freight rates on tina
road, and agreed to substantial reduc
tions, to take effect September l.
w. b. l.. DAVIS, aged 60, wealth,
farmer, living near Rocllmart, Ga.
was killed and his house wrecked, OF
the 18th, by the explosion of II dyna
mite cartridges he had placed unde
the kitchen stove for drying.
On the 18th the directors of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad de
clared quarterly dividend of one PEE
cent,
ALL that was needed, on the 18th, TO
any man in Chicago to make $1,000
was to have 1000, 600 bushels of wheat
That much wheat could have beel
bought the day before for saS5, OoO
and the buyer only needed to hold /
one day and the $40, 900 was his.
GRAIN is moving out of Nebraska a
the rate of 500 cars a day. Three
fourths of this is new wheat and tn
other corn. Everything that will holt
grain on wheels is being utilized by tn
railroads to get the shipments to mar
1et on quick time.
A DYNAMITE bomb was hurle'
through window in the council cham
Der of the sublime porte in CONSTANT
nople on the 18th. The building wa
badly damaged and a porter was killed
The steamer Queen arrived iron
Alaska, at Victoria, b. c., on the 18th
bringing news of the struggles an
disasters of the Argonauts OF '9'. Up
ward of 1000 men were encamped a
Skapuav when she called there, Will
camps of others equally unable to ge
through extended at intervals OF thre
or four hours march.
TIE two nterfeit 1000 bonds re
Gently received at the United state
treasury from Louisville, KY, are sal
to be the cleverest specimens that eve
troubled , the secret service people
They were the work of BroclSway, tn
king bee OF the counterfeiters.
OK the 18th, Cell Killon, living nea
Wabash, Ind, found what physician
pronounce to be the charred bones O
human being under the ashes OF
hay stack which was mysterlousl
fired some days before, when his par,
and four valuable horses were burned
| IT was positively announced on IN
10th, that Mrs. Margaret Ferris
widow of the builder of the great Ch
cago wheel, had been married in Pitts
burgh, Pa, to Francis Schlatter' IN
divine healer of Canton, 0. The cer'
mony was performed by Rev. Nj
Ward, pastor of st. Peters Episcopa
church.
TIE French cruiser Bruix, whici
with the cruiser Curcouf, was escortih
the cruiser Pothuan, with Preslden
Faure and his suite on board, on IN
way to Cronstndt, returned to Dunklri
on the 10th, with her machinery dis'
bled, The battleship Dupuy de LON
Immediately started to replace I'll
Bruix.
FrvE-YEAR-oLD JOIN CONWAY. who's
pareut is reside in Albany, N. Y.,and WI
had been at the mercy of kidnapers Il
three DAYS, was returned to his hom
on the 10Th, through the ehorts
private detectives and reporters IN I'll
employ Of the Albany Argus.
GRAIN is moving out of Nebraska
a rate Of 500 cars ~ day. Three-iouf1i