Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-09-18
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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during the revolutionary war, died re-
Gently in France.
MRS, SARAH HOSE, mother-in-law of
Preacher lIinshaw who is serving time
IN Indiana for numbering his wife, has
been granted divorce at Muncie
Hose believed llinshaw guilty and Mrs.
Hose thinks him innocent.
ON account of the immense shipments
OF gram from the west, the pennsylya-
MIA and Baltimore & Ohio railroads
are experiencing considerable trouble
IN furnishing enough freight cars to
meet the iemand.
THE customs authorities at Colon
have seized 20 cases OF tobacco forward
ed there by the steamer Finance, Capt.
Daily, from New York, which were
down on the manifest as lard. The
duty on the tobacco is 81 200, or twice
the value of the tobacco itself.
CoNsUL-GESERAL MARArrA reported
to the state department, on the sth,
that for the six months ended June 80,
1891 there were received at the Mel
bourne (Australia) mint 6l9,2l4 ounces
ofgold. This came from Australia and
the surrounding islands.
| ACCORDING to information brought
by the steamer National City. from st.
Michaels, arrived at San Francisco on
the 7th, an immense amount of Klon-
dixie gold is on its way from the mouth
of the Yukon to San Francisco and th
sound.
SIX YOUNG men were drowned in n
yacht noar Windmill point in Lake st
Clair, above Detroit Mich, on the Sth.
The disaster was caused by four others,
who rocked the yacht till it capsized.
The drowned men were in the cockpit
when the craft went over.
Hon. WM. j. BRYAN was a passenger
on one of the trains wrecked in Kansas
on the night of the Sth, and was fore
most among those who aided in rescu-
ing the passengers from the wreck and
in mlnlstering to the injured.
| +. LAMB, of Portland, Ore, who re-
turned on the steamer National City,
from Alaska, is authority for the state
ment that over fifty men have already
died of scurvy this summer in Dawson.
AN explosion Of nitro-glycerine, used
by well shooters, occurred at Cypnet,
o., on the 1th, whereby nearly dozen
lives were lost, several persons in
jurcd, and the country for miles around
alarmed by the shock
ONE of the worst wrecks in the his
tory of the Santa Fe railroad occurred
three miles east of Emporia, kas, on
the Sth. A dozen persons were killed
and as many more badly hurt The
fast mail train going east and the Mex
leo and California express, wcst-bound.
colided head on. Three locomotives
exploded, digging a hole in the ground
deep enough to bury themselves and
several of the wrecked ears.
| A SECRET organization which has for
its object the liberation of Canada and
the adoption of republican form of
government has been organized by the
French Canadians at Lewiston, Me-,
and elsewhere IN Maine and in Canada.
TIE annual report of the auditor for
the interior department issued, on the
9th, showed that the amount paid for
pensions during the last year was
Sl4O, Az, 637. The payments on PEN
sion account for the fiscal year 1896
was Sl3S, 722, 127, and for the fiscal year
of 1895 $l40,55S,6il; 1894, SlS7, 49, SOL,
and for 1893, S'54, 552,2l4. The cost OF
the service last year was $3.50 per
81 900; for 1896, S4.Oi; for 1895, 81; for
1894, S3.77, and for 1898, S335.
JAMES X. WILLARD, Elmer Dwiggins
and John Dwiggins, who compose the
firm of j. r. Willard IL Co., bankers
and brokers, with offices in New York
city, Buffalo, Washington, Philadel-
phia and Montreal, Can, assigned, on
the 9th, to Jas. l.. Starbuck, with pref
erence for $50, 600 to William ii. Oster-
| hout.
JAMES II. IIANLlN, q grain broker on
the st. Louis Merchants exchange, was
| found dead in bath tub Mt the Ter
minal hotel in that city On the 9th.
| He was an excessive drinker, and his
affairs are said to be in bad shape.
A FRIGnTFuL accident, by which
probably 40 persons lost their lives and
nearly 200 were injured, occurred on
the lOth,11s miles west of New Castle,
Col, caused by q collision between a
| special Colorado stock train ana
Denver e. Rio Grande passenger. After
the shock of the collision the wrecked
ears caught fire and many OF the
pipioned victims were incineratcd.
OFFICIAL dispatches from Havana
confirm the report that Calixto Garcia
and Jesus Rabi, two of the insurgent
generals captured the town of Victoria
de Las Tunas, defended by seven forts.
The Spanish garrison, consisting OF 3oo
men, were all taken prisoners
A FOREIGNER, who is said to have
been Baron Max Won Schrader, lieu
tenant in the German army. who had
been Mt Ostend, Flanders, during the
entire season, committed suicide on
the 9TH The deceased is said to have
lost $500, O0s in gambling
ON the 9th, the Official Gazette OF
Madrid, published the new customs
tariff of Cuba. Nearly all American
| goods are subject TO lower duties
CONSUL ArwELL reports to the state
department from Roubaix, France,
that there is good market throughout
northern France for California dried
| fruits, particularly prnncs' drieo
neaches, raisins aud candied fruit.
An attempt to bribe Judge MaIklns, 5
of the circuit court OF huntington
county, Ind, to grant u divorce re-
suited in Martin Keplinger' pfomi'
nent farmer, being hauled up eeiore
the Judge and fined for contempt OF
| court o.a. ~,
says: "The body Of Robert ostranaer,
snuiueer Of the Colorado Midland STOCK
train which collided with the no
Craude passenger, was found ~ 'he
ashrIs Of the wreck. The herd ana
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