Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-09-18

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wreck In Kansas place the list of cas-.
ualtieS at a killed, missing and Is
injured, at least two fatally. Severa,
OF the bodies OF the victims were in.
! cinerated.
olNcE March last in the territory
tributary to Kansas City, Mo-, seven
postal clerks have been killed and
elght have been 30 badly hurt as to be
lncapacitated for service.
EMPEROR WILLIAM personally com.
mahded the attacking force in the
army maneuvers at Hamburg. on the
loth' all the troops being engaged
against an imaginary army.
A DISPATCH from Chicago says: "a
zeal Tor the purchase of Sausage Max.
er Luetgerts famous vat has been
practically closed. As soon as the trial
is ended, the vat and the pack of great
Dane dogs will make tour of the
country, to be exhibited as the most
striking souvenirs of the extraordi.
nary case. The price offered for the
vat is said to have been 1000"
The weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for the
week ended on the llth showed the
following changes; Surplus reserve,
decrease, 81, Al, 325; loans, increase, ST..
1852, 900; specie, decrease, 500, 700; lie.
gal tenders, decrease, S7,O7S, 900; de-
posits increase, $500, 500; circulation,
increase, $3.50, 300.
1T is announced that IL OF the chiefs
OF the Shoshones and Bannock Indians
of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho,
have signed a treaty for the sale OF
1000 acres of the reservation for four
dollars per acre, or in round figures for
100000. This will open up the south.
ern end of the reservation to public
settlement.
GEN. PANDo in letter from Madrid
to the Cuban senators and deputies re
quests them to hold meeting and
come to decision regarding the Cuban
situation, declaring that the time has
come to speak out and fix the respon-
sibility for the present policy upon its
promoters.
The British steamer Polyphemus,
from Yokohama for London, was dam
aged in collision near Jebeltar, an
island of the Red sea, according to a
dispatch received from the island OF
Perrin. Twenty-seven of the crew were
drowned.
OK the llth the associated banks o.
New York city held S26, 66S, S25 in ex
cess Of the requirements of the 25-per
cent. rule.
CHIEF OF POLICE LLOYD of Oakland
CAL, received telegram, on the l2th
announcing the death, at juneau, of j
c. Boatman, formerly private secretary
to Congressman llilborn, of California
and recently appointed fish commits
sioner of Alaska. lie was u native OF
Ohio and 46 years Of age.
TIE New Orleans board Of health, or
the l2th, officially declared six of tn,
suspicious cases on st. Claude street tt
be yellow fever. A couple of hours
afterward the board announced anoth
er pronounced case Of yellow fever a
Miro and Esplanade streets, also in the
lower part of the city, but II mile OF
more from the infected square.
The Cuban junta of New York ha'
had coined 1000, 900 ha1dsomely-de
signed silver souvenir dollars, for whicl
the demand is SO great from all sec
tons of the country the iunta is unable
to supply it. Cornelius Nanderbilt ant
John Jacob Astor, of New York, tool
500 600 of these dollars at face value.
The important town Of Consolation
del Sur, in Pinar del Rio province, was
attacked recently by Cuban insurgents
and the whole garrison, composed o
200 volunteers from Havana, slain by
the revolutionsts.
THE London Chronicle of the 1871
says: 1--WE are enabled to state tha'
there is no ground for the suggestion
that the Bank of England contemplate
holding one-fifth Of its reserve in sill
ver."
A LETTER from Juneau, Alaska, un
der date of September 6, tells of tn,
lynching of William G. Martin, OF Mis-
souri,, for stealing food at Lake Ben
nett. The tragedy occurred on Sep
tcmber%.
News has been received at Seattle
from Alaska, that the steamer Eliz;
Anderson, bound north with gold hunt
er, and supplies, has been lost with al
on board.