Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-07-31

terrific cloudburst on the evening ot
I'D, which caused flood that inun.
dated a portion of the town, and re.
suited in the drowning of many per-
sons and the destruction of much prop.
erty.
Hon. EDWIN f. uHL, formerly ambas-
sador of .he United States to GERMANY.
arrived at New York on the 23d. on
board the steamer Normania from
Hamburg.
oN the 23d boat containing 45 EN-
pioyes of the Hamburg engine works
capsized in the River Ebe, and six per-
sons were drowned,
AT Trinidad, Col, six men and two
women have been arrested charged with
the murder OF Deputies VIM. Gregg
and VIM. Kelly when they were in
search of cattle thieves in the spring
OF 1896. Officers are in pursuit OF two
more men who are said to have been
implicated in the crime.
On the 23d, during the prevalence of
a heavy rain and thunder storm at
Mllkesbarre, Pa, the powder maga-
A,ne at tho Empire mine, operated by
tht Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co., in
winch 20 tons of powder was stored,
was struck by lightning. The force of
.he explosion was SO great that it shook
the foundations OF nearly every dwell
ing IN Wilkesbarre. John Higgins,
VINO vas driving by at the time, was
instantly killed.
IHE jury before which DR.. J. Sid
ney Gootmason was tried at Ponca,
Neb'' for numbering his wife has re-
turned averdict of not guilty. This
was the second trial of Goodmason, he
having bee, convicted of the crime in
April.
SECRETARY OF kGRICULTURE WILSON
belleves tina, congress, at its next
session, will authorize the establish
ment of an agricultural experiment
station in Alaska.
A DISPATCH from Singapore states
that the Chinese steamer Srikongann,
bound from that port for Malacca, with
100 deck passengers, capsized during II
squall. Capt. Rawlingson and 100 of
the passengers and crew were drowned.
JENNIsoNs Park hotel, a summer re-
sort structure on Mattawa lake, near
Holland, Mich, is in ashes. There was
a hundred guests in the building sew
eral of whom had narrow escapes with
their lives. The loss on the building
is about $3.50, 900, with no insurance.
THERE is every probability that
Wells, Fargo & Co. will establish an
Office in Dawson City, in ALASKA, the
coming spring.
On the cath the associated banks OF
New York city held S47,364,575 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the a,-per.
cent. rule.
| FROM a telegram received at Jack.
sonville, Fla, on the 25th, it is learned
that there is prospect for the speedy
liberation of Capt. Laborde, Ona Mel
ton and others of the Competitor
prisoners who have been in Havana
jails SO long.
The Spanish government has un
earthed a nest of insurgent abettors il
Regia, Havana and Guanabacoa. Tn,
police searched several houses ant
found ammunition and medicines
Many arrests have been made.
II is stated that Gen. Maxine Come
the leader of the Cuban insurgents, ha
reafiirmed his determination not to ac
cept a compromise with the Spanisl
government, but to adhere to his de
mand for the absolute independence o
Cuba.
The steamship City Of Mexico lef
Seattle, Wash, on the 25th, carrying
for Dyea over 4O6 passengers, 50 horses
about 1, 200 tons of freight and 25 dogs
nearly all bound for the gold fields.
Iris stated that the Turkish militai,
committee will go at once to Thessal
to meet the Greek officers and mark on
the new boundaries. 1t is expecte
that the treaty of peace will be signe
by August 1.
The whaleback steamer Everett, nov
on its way from India, where she ha
been with supplies for the famine SUI
ferers, will make regular trips fror
San Francisco to points on the Yukon
in Alaska, on her return.
MAJ. SAMUEL f. CANBY, of Vancou
YER, Wash, committed suicide, on tn
25th, by jumping from the steame
Mascot, which was about to sail fo
Portland, Ore.