Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-07-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Englishmen and visitors to England
by the reason of the magnificent spec
tacle presented by the parade escorting
Queen Victoria to st. Paul's cathedral
to render service in commemoration of
the sixtieth anniversary of her acces-
sion to the throne.
PRINCE RUPERT of Bavaria, who would
be prince of Wales now and future king
of England and emperor of India if his
Stuart ancestors had conducted their
royal affairs more wisely than they did,
rode in the Victorian jubilee parade as
the representative of his mother, Prin-
cess Ludwig.
The Hungarian crop prospects are
very unpromising. The yield of wheat
and rye will be much below the aver
age.
"WHAT have you got so many Amer
lean flags for?' asked Julian Ralph of
Londoner on the day of the great
Jubilee procession. "0h," he replied,
II fancy it must be because we are all
one people
Tnr proposition 10 close the New
York stock exchange on Saturday pre-
ceding the Fourth of July was voted
aflirmatively by the members on the
22d.
j. S. BARTLEY, eX-treasurer OF Ne
braska, on trial ut Omaha charged
with embezzlement, was found guilty
ON the 22d.
REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES FRANKLIN
SPRAGuE, of Boston, violated all prece-
dent, on the ed, and astonished the
senators and spectators in the gallery
by appearing in the senate chamber at
tired in regulation bicycle suit.
HARRY WALKER was arrested in
Kingston, n. Y, on the 22d, on charge
of robbing, with man named Laney'
the iewelrv store of Vim. Mcconnell,
at Newark, n. j., on May 5, of 200 gold
watches and jewelry valued at Sl0,ooo
A SPANISH fort on the outskirts OF
Santiago, Havana province, was cap
tured by a force under Col, Rodriguez
recently, and burned This fort was
plague to the Cubans, as it commanded
roadway that they used considerably
AT the business session of the national
sangerfest in Philadelphia, on the 23d,
Brooklyn was unanimously selected
as the next place of meeting
On the 23d Senator Morgan, OF Ala
bama introduced bill to regulate the
annexation of Hawaii to the United
States. 1t is intended, should the
pending annexation treaty fail OF ratl'
tication by two-thirds majority in the
senate, to accomplish the same thing
by majority votes in both houses as
ordinary legislation.
EDWARD STOKES, the slayer OF jim
Fisk, Jay Gould's partner, several
years ago, is said to be ill OF compil
cation of diseases without hope OF re
covery. He is at Hot Springs, Va, but
will soon go to Carlsbad, Germany.
The celebrated race horse, Sempel
Lex. died at Plymouth, Ind, on the
night of the 22d, of burns received
while en- route from Chicago to New
| York. He was valued at $4,000.
THE Japanese cruiser Hiyie nov
used as a training ship, arrived at Sar
Francisco, on the 2Sd, and will remaiI
in that port several weeks before sail
inc for Honolulu. The vessel was re
ceiyed with the customary salutes'
THE nineteenth annual convention o
the Music Teachers National associa
tion opened in the auditorium OF th'
Grand Central palace in New York OF
| the Gath.
THE special train schedule OF tn
Denver g. Rio Grande road for I'M
Christian Endeavor movement iron
the east was completed on the Sati
The result was gratifying surprise u
the officers of the road, and gave IN
timation of rush of travel wholly un
expected earlier in the season.
HERR JOHN MEYER, a director OF Tn
Hamburg American steamship line
died in Hamburg on the cath. He wa
about 8S wears of age. He had bee
connected with the Hamburg American
line for about 80 years, first as secre
tary for the president and then as
director.
ROBERT BAueH, was fatally, an
Joseph Speer and Western Young
seriously injured, on the s4th' by IN ",
giving way of rotten timoers near Va !,
roof Of the condemned courthouse II
Jackson, Mich, which they were heif
ing to tear down.
| THE Pan-Americau tourists devote
the day, on the 25th, to industr'a
sightseeing in districts adjacens. :
pittsburgh, Pa, and were en'ersaine as
at night by banquet, given oy IN
commercial men Of Pittsburgh, at IN
Duquesne club.
| T.. ]. RATcLlFFE, the actor, was a.
rested in Chicago, on the sSd. on
telerram from New York charging MI
with wife-beating. The woman we
sa;a to be In critical condition as VI
- l.a,. h,sahond's abuse,