Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-08-14
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

a SMALL tornado passed through the
norlher.. part of Greene county, Ia., on
'he "a, sweeping away barns, houses
md stacks of grain. Several persons
are reported slightly injured
lr was announced, on the Sd, that
the rising of natives in Bechuanaland
had collapsed and that Chiefs Toto and
Lnkajaulos, who had a thousand fol
lowers. had surrendered to the British.
In the race for the queens cup n,
Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the 3D. the
prince of Wales yacht Britannia, with
his royal highness on board, beat En-.
peror Williams yacht Meteor on time
allowance.
EVERETT RuGGTEs, Of Stockton, Cal,
has just discovered that the lady whom
he recently welded is an heiress. The
bride has been notified that she is en-
titled to Il one-Seyenth interest in a
$3.50, 600 estate in New York.
The Rome CGa.,) cotton factory has
obtained government contract for
1900, 900 yards of heavy duck FOR mail
sacks, the contrac. price of which is
$3.50, 600.
THE steamer Noyo sailed from San
Francisco, on the 4th, with ll0 pas
sengers for Dyea, Alaska. OF the pas
sengers booked, ten are women, VINO
will make the journey over the Chill
koot pass to the KlondiIse gold fields.
TIE Chicago agent of the Travellers
Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn, has
received instructions from the home
office not to insure any person going to
the klondilie region. 1t is risk that
the company does not desire to take,
The first importation of Mexican
cattle under the Dingley tariff law was
made through the customhouse at
Nogales, Aliz,, on the Sd. Six hun.
dred and forty head of steers, the prop
erty of Il. s. Newman, were brought in,
the duty being 81, 296. 95 over the duties
fixed by the Wilson Law.
FIRE broke out in II. T. Bells store
at Lewisburg, w. Va, on the Sd, de-
stroying Stratton's hotel, two banks,
two drug stores and ten other bnild-
ings. Loss about 500 insurance,
S25, 900. The fire was incendiary, and
the result of a second attempt within a
week.
Two PERSONS were instantly killed
and five were probably fatally injured
in the wreck of the Fast Flyer on the
Kansas Pacific railway, on the Sd, by
going through small bridge which
spans Comanche creek, between Byers
and Strasburg, 40 miles east of Den
yer, Col.
NELSON DINGLEY, father of Congress-
man Nelson Dingley, Jr., died at his
home in Lewiston, Me-, on the 3D. aged
IS years. Death was due to a stroke of
paralysis. Mr. Dingley had been in
remarkable health up to the night of
the 3Oth, when he was stricken with
paralysis. lie rallied, but second
stroke followed, proving fatal.
The king of Siam, accompanied by
the crown prince of Siam, Prince
Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh, and by Lord
Harris, one of her majesty's lords IN
waiting, made a surprise visit at mid
night to an east end London lnstltu-
ton established for the shelter OF the
homeless. His majesty was greatly IN
terested in the 800 outcasts occupying
bunlss in the building, and inquired
closely into all the details of managing
such institutions.
A STORM accompanied by striking
electric display awakened Madison
lWis.) people about a. IN, on the 4th'
Over 800 telephones were burned out
DAN McTAGGART, eX-state senator
from Montgomery county, Ia, and
prominent as n republican politician
was shot and killed at McTaggarts
mill, near Liberty, Kas.' on the 4th' py
Henry Sheesley, lessee of the mill
PLANS have been perfected for
railroad to the Grand Canyon OF the
Colorado, and construction is.to begin
soon from n point on the Santa te Ia
cifc at Flagstaff or Williams, Arlz'
DURING the burning OF II gram
elevator in Chicago, on the 5th' a Ter
rife explosion-whether OF poller o'
mill dust is not known-occurred, as
result of which five persons arc
known to have been killed, and large
number of others severely injured by
Hv;np debris. Several small fires were
started by burning embers scattered
for squares in all directions.
Tur London Evening News pub
lishe, n letter from Calcutta voiun
tecr, reiterating the statement 'ha
during the recent rioting there the ar
tillory fred point blank at mop o.
+ 600 mill hands who were marchihg u
ioiu the rioters with TIE result INA
200 of the natives were killed.
LETTERS received in New York city
recently from Japan state that a strong
anti.American feeling still exists II
that country, and that Americans at' m
being boycotted on all sides by '"'
japanese. .. :. Konsas
RAINS fell, on the 4th, in Kansas
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and par's o
Missouri. The rainfall seemingly wa
General throughout the corn belt ah'
!. /, time to save the crop.
Ir is semi-ofiicially announced II
yolsohnmu that Japan has suggested
that Belgium be selected to act as ar
h,trator in the question in dispute DC
tween Hawaii and the japanese gov
nN the 5th, Hugh White, a Goa
miner on a banter, made the periiou
Lam from the summit OF the railroa'
br;Sge at Clinton, Ind, to the wa'el
,oo feet. After the leap he swan 10
feet in his heavy clothing chmpe"
the TOP of the bridge again ana repsA'
| cd the feat ~ ,,rr
THE glass workers and t, the manu n,au
,,o,rrsrs @ Of the American Flint Glas
Workers union have settled tne u,' WY W
scals for the coming season. Inc on,,
change in the scale Is an aayaaee =
. Sh"" p -. linu Vy.lre.