Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-16
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Wlic-innrder case IN Chicago rested on
.ne oth, ana the prosecution resumed
IN rebuttat, on the 5th. Both sides nro'
fcsscd to be satisfied with fine shori,a
thus far made.
, LIE October term of the United
states supreme court begins ON tha
, llth. There are 400 cases on tha
docket, as against GIG at the beginning
OF The October term in 1875, of which
%" came over from the last term. and
% nave been added during the courts
vacation.
EIGHT masked robbers held up the
St Louls-Chicago express on the Chi
cago " Alton railroad within one mile
OF the famous Blue Cut about six miles
east OF kansas City Mo. After dctach-
ing the engine and baggage and express
cars and running them to safe dis
tance they were frightened from their
work by charge of dynamite placed
upon the through safe, and which,
ialllng to explode, they were afraid to
re-entcr the car and made off throuoh
the underbrush.
AT monster meeting in Cooper
Union, New York city, on the night of
the 9th Henry George formally entered
the lists rs candidate for mayor of
Greater New York of what is known
as the 'Jeiferaonan Democracy"
MAI. Moses b. HANDY, the spccial
United States commissioner to the
Paris exposition of 1900, has secured 25
per cent. additional space for the Amer
lcan exhibits, making the space of the
United States equal to that of the
other big nations.
Two MASKED men held up Night
Agent Cass at the Chicago & Alton
depot in Louisiana, Mo, on the 9th.
at a. m, and with reyolvers held at
his head compelled him to give up the
contents of the money drawer, amount
ing to about $40.
INDIAN AGENT WISDOM, at Tuslxa- |
homa, |. T., where the Choctaw coun- |
ell is now in session, wired another re- |
assuring message to the Indian bureau
IN the 9th. lie says the lower house
had concluded to vote to refer all mat |
ters of dispute to the attorney for the |
Choctaw nation and to abide by his de- |
cision.
The general officers of the National |
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
have requested all local unions to hold
memorial services for the late Gen.
Neal Dow
Ar the launching of the Kaiser Fred
erich at Dante, on the 9TH, Emperor
William said: II ought to be jealous
of the Lloyd fleet, as it is larger than
mine
WM, A. STILES, editor of Forest and
Stream and park commissioner
of New York city, died, Oh the 9th, of
cancer of the stomach.
Two CoLoRED women, Mrs. Mary
Sammon and Mrs. Jennie Layton. were
arrested, on the 7th. at Camden, n. j.
charged with causing the death of
three children. All Of Mrs. Laytons
five children had diedunder peculiar
circumstances, requiring II coroner's
certificate.
GEN. WILLIAM THOMPSON, retired
died, on the 18th, at Tacoma, Wash,
aged 81. Deceased served throughou
the the civil war retiring, at his own
request, with the rank of captain in the
Seventh cavalry. BY n vote of the last
he was brevcted brigadier-
general in the regular army.
FIRE which originated on the stage
of the Detroit (Mich) opera house, on
the 9th, at a. m, caused a loss of be-
tween 5000 900 and 5000 600. The fire t
spread to the block bounded by the n
Campus Martius, Woodward Gratiot n
and Monroe avenues, in the center of +
the business district.
FIFTY high-class horses perishcd by
fire in the stables of the Cheshire Inn
Co., on Ocean parkway, v
Brooklyn, on the eth; loss, $50, 900.
Mrs. MARY MCNlFF widow of 4
wealthy ST. Louis merchant hired an G
,xpressman to haul a trunk, said to a
iavc contained S., 900 worth of negoti- b
lble paper, So, 900 worth of jewelry and r.
y, 900 in gold. The expressman disap-
reared with the trunk. ;s
THE sum of eloo,oO0 in American !,
agles was withdrawn from the Bank .
II England, on the 18th, for shipment
o the United States Is
A HAVANA dispatch states that Sc II
Iorita Evangclina Cossio y Csneros II
made her escape from the Casa de cl
,ecogidas some time during the night la
# the 9th or early morning of the 18th.
me of the bars on the window of her M
oom was cut and bent outward. Wey- IN
er is furious.
A sEvEN-FooT vein of rich gold ore is ~
aid to have been struck in the Red -
lover mine at Acton, Cal. 1t is said v,
0 be sprinkled freely with free gold. M
here are tens of thousands tons of ore SC
4 sight
The Mormon church has again en- in
cred the political arena, and has start le
4 out flat footed tocontrol everything en-
/, the state of Utah. The Gentle po- ot
teal leaders are discussing the adj III
stability of reorganizing the old lib h,
raj party.
A DISPATCH from Washington says
resident Mckinley will probably go IN
, Canton to vote at the November cleo Ll
on. ar
On the Sth, silver scored rise ef 70
emmy, to ~ pence, in London, and
,nts, to 5S cents, in New York, Bull m
on dealers were unable to assign any IA,
her cause for the rise than scarcity
supply. a.
O. d. WEBSTER, of st. Louis, aged 40 ~ ~.
sspondent from lack Of employment, VI
,ol dose of carbolic acid, on the Ar
h, and died shortly after his reeep' ou
on at the city hospital. ex
Ii was made public in Vienna on !
Ie Sth, that Count Wurmbrand, aged en-,
, the son OF Count Wurmbrand, who nor
as minister of commerce in 1s95' had SOC
suicide by shooting himself wb
y cab owing to his unreciprocatcd so,
taahment for the famiiy's English s~, m