Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-09-04
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

'i'hho Vi incorporation were fil,,
IN Denver Col, on the cath. for tn
Wheat Belt railroad, which will cor
fhect with the Denver & Rio Grand
near its intersection with Sapuacb
county, and extend in westerly d
rectlon about 80 miles. 1t will enobl
the farmers of the richest wheat rai,
ing portion of Colorado to find a read
market for their products.
| CONSUL GRIMkE at Santo DOMINGO in
forms the state department of the com
pletlon OF railroad from Puerto Plat
to Santiago about 40 miles, over tw
mountain ranges. American and Brit
ish capital is invested in the road, an
several American engineers have bee
engaged in its building.
AN imperial trade was issued, on tn
24th, committing the sentence of dealt
TO be imposed upon the nine Turk
VINO were engaged in the massacre @
Armenians at Toltat in March last. t,
penal servftude for life in Tripoli an,
Barbary.
FIGARO says the French governmen
must fix maximum price for bread O
reduce the customs duties, and warn
Premier Meline that it is inadmissibl,
Tor him to allow himself to be titled
the dear bread minister"
a DISPATCH from Christiania. Nor
way, says that Walter Wellman ha,
peeh there to discuss projected polar
expedition with DR.. Nansen, who think.
his idea a good one. Mr. Wellman ex
poets to make his start next summer.
The steamer Rosalie departed from
Seattle, Wash, on the o5th, for Ska.
quay with 100 passengers and full
load of horses and supplies for miners.
She also took number Of wagons to
break the famine at the pass.
TIIE power-house Of the Federal Coal
Co., operated by +. w. Powers at Fed
eral, Pa, on the Pittsburgh, CHARTERS
Il Youghiogheny railroad, was de.
stroyed by incendiary fire shortly after
midnight on the 25th.
A. l.. HAWKINS, widely y-known Chi
cago sporting man, was killed by the
collapse of folding bed on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg saws
that the czar's decision to meet Presi-
dent Faure at Cronstadt was reached
against enormous pressure upon the
part of the German party. The dis
patch adds the officers of the French
squadron at Cronstadt were enter
tained, on the 23d, by their Russian
colleagues.
PROF, W. w. CAMPBELL. of the Lick
observatory, San Francisco, will head
the expedition to India, made possible
through the generosity of the late Col.
G Il. Croclier, to observe the next total
eclipse Of the sun.
ON the 25th the president appointed
VIM. X. Holloway, of Indiana, to be
consul general at St. Petersburg,
Russia, the commission being dated
August 81.
ALL the British army officers ON leave
Of absence have been ordered to eioin
their regiments immediately.
A TELEGRAM was received at the Jap
apese legation in Washington, on the
bath, announcing the death Of Count
Mutzu, ex-miniss,r of foreign affairs
aud Japanese minister to the United
States in 1883.
PRACTICALLY all the small bakers in
New York city have met the advance
in the price of flour by decreasing the
weight of bread. A five cent loaf of
bread weighed pound before the
boom in wheat and flour, but now it
weighs from two to three ounces less.
ADoLPH FELTON,, of Chicago, an artist
md sculptor, whose work has received
favorable comment from critics in Eu-
'ope and America, was sentenced to
'ix months in the house of correction
)y Judge Chetlain after entering n
,lea of guilty to a charge of forging
he name of Catholic priest to an or
Ter for $50.
TIE body of Aaron C. Coon, a De-
roit Mich board of trade operator
Who disappeared several days ago, was
ound, on the I'D, ON Belle isle.
Around his neck n handkerchief had
,een knotted and then twisted with n
cad pencil until the victim strangled
o death.
PREMIER MELINE, addressing the dele
.ates to the council general of the de-
'artment of the Seine and the munich
'ality of Paris, on the 25th, on the rise
n the price of wheat, declared that he
would submit the question to the cabi-
let, adding that he would not hesitate
o reduce the tariff if the rise was
enuine and not speculative.
THE London Echo asserts that the
uke and duchess of York have ac-
epted the invitation of the premier of
anada, Sir Wilfred Laurer, to visit
anada during the spring of 1898 while
n their way to Australia.
EIGHT persons broke Jail at Welsh,
Y. Va, on the 25th, and made their
scape. Seymour Grey, who was to be
anged September 2, was among the
ngitives, rs were two negroes who
murdered policeman at Keystone.
THE Pleasanton stock farm at Oak
md, Cal, the famous training and
reeding establishment of some OF the
vorld's greatest race horses, has been
eclared insolvent by Judge Hall.
SIGMuND MORRIS, who is wanted in
roolslyn, N. v, for having violated
he postal laws in connection with an
LEGGED directory swindle, was arrested
/ San Francisco on the Goth. He was
rraigned before Commissioner Pea
,ck, on the 27th, and q date fixed for
is examination, bail being required
leanwhile in the sum OF 800.
The large boiler in the Adams
ounty Lumber Co.'S mill at Decatur,
nd, exploded, on the 25th. killing
ern Reynolds, the seven-year-old son
Clarence Reynolds and fatally in
ring William Lewis.
The North German Gazette an
ounced, on the Goth, that DR.. Won
olleban, the Prussian minister at
tuttgart, Wurtemburg, had been Sc
cted for the post of German ambassa-
Or to the United States,
THE reinforcements the Spanish gov
intends to send to Cuba will
art from Spain in October. 1t is said
lat they will number from $4,000 to
0O0 men