Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-02


The wings of the punitive expeditions
against the revolted tribesmen in In
dla, has captured the camp of the Had.
Ga Mullah, the priest who was one of
The chief instigators of the troubles.
The camp, which was located in the
Bedmanai pass, was only taken after
stiff fight.
LIE town of Flat Rock, O., was
thrown into furore, on the cath. by
the report that Wesley Nading, we'll
known and wealthy citizen, in fit Of
jealousy, had shot and killed his wife
and then fired bullet into his own
brain, inilicting fatal wound.
a LANDSLIDE occurred near Sheep
Camp, on the Chicoot pass, in Alaska,
ON the 10th, in which IL men are said
to have lost their lives Only one body
was reported recovered, that of a man
named ChoynsIti, cousin of Joe
Choynski, the prize-fghter.
EVERY business house in the town OF
Alton, 10 miles west of Muskogee, l. T.
was destroyed by fire on the Gath. The
Frisco railroad depot was among the
buildings. Fifteen cars loaded with
wheat were also destroyed; loss over
$50, 600
OWING to the floods having washed
away bridge of the Bangalore-My-
sore railroad, near Maddur, East In
dla, an engine and five cars filled with
passengers were precipitated into the
river, on the gath, causing great loss Of
life.
CoNsUL-GENERAL PRATT, at Singa-
pore, China, reports to the state de.
partment that a loan has been author
lzed there to the amount of S., 900, 900
to begin the construction Of railway
system of about $40 miles in length in
the Malay peninsula.
MORE than half the village of Raven
stone, near Newport-Pagnell, Buck
inghamshire, England, was destroyed
by fire on the cath. The flames con-
suned 40 thatched cottages with barns,
etc. leaving l5O people homeless.
GEORGE Fox, formerly of Rockford,
Ill.,, died at Michigan City, Miss, on the
9ith, of yellow fever. His wife and
seven children are there, and friends
have been unable to get help to them
because trains do not stop at that place,
it being in the section afflicted with the
scourge.
POLICE MAGISTRATE DoNoHUE, of
Troy, N. Y, apparently possessed of
more religious zeal than judicial abil-
ity, sentenced John Burns, Catholic,
on the 2ith, to Jail because he attempted
to eat meat on Friday.
A DISPATCH from Madrid of the cath
says that Gen. Woodford's recent in
terview with the duke of Setuan has
brought to the front again the sugges-
ton that Spain accept indemnity and
free Cuba.
TYPHOID fever is ravaging the Turk
ish troops in Thessaly. Six thousand
men have already been invalided home,
and 1000 Others are awaiting trans
portation back to Turkey.
II. CLAY EVANS, commissioner OF
pensions, has returned to Washington
from Columbus, o., entirely recovered
from his recent illness.
CArF.-GEN. WEYLER has cablcd re-
quest to the Spanish government to
send ll3 additional administrative Of
fcials to Cuba.
On the 25th the associated banks of
New York city held SIS, 997, 500 in ex-
cess Of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
CHARLES MCGUINEss, blind checker
player, who had been on exhibition in
different museums throughout the
country, gave himself up to the police
of New York city, on the Goth, stating
that he had no home and no money to
provide for his wants. He was sent to
the workhouse.
JOHN +. MlELERT, chief deputy in
the Office of the sheriff of st. Louis,
has been notified by the authorities OF
Moscow, Russia, that he is sole heir OF
his brother. Col. Charles Mielert, who
died in that city recently, leaving a
fortune of 600 900 golden roubles.
Ed SrAFFLEBACK, one of the motor
ious family of murderers in Jail at Co.
lumbus, Kas., has gone stark mad
through fear Of lynching at the hands
of mob.
THE German government has made
its first grant OF $3.50, 900 for the relief
of the sufferers from the recent floods.