Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-10-08

tTdck Ut tntcaBo on tne 1Jtn. A trip
let and a bicycle collided.
AT meeting OF the New York dem.
ocrats favoring the Chicago platform
Henry George, the son of the single
tax advocate, was nominated to head
the Independent democratic ticket for
governor
Mrs. WILLIAMS, white, near Sheri-
dan, Kingfisher county, Ok, while
alone with her two children, a boy of
six years and a girl of four, cut off the
girls head, ripped open her abdomen
and removed the viscera and then
threw them into nearby pond,
where they were found soon after by
passing strangers. The mother has
been quite melancholy for three years,
but was thought to be harmless.
Mrs SAMUEL SwARTwooD, wife of a
railroad brakeman, residing at Noun
tain Top, Pa, gave birth to her TWEEN
ty-tlfth child the other night. OF the
large number of children born only
two sets were twins. Three Of the
children died. The rest are in good
health.
GEN GOMEZ, in an interview at Camp
Rojas, Santa Clara province, is quoted
as saying that the Cuban insurgents
would disband and apply themselves
to farm labor as soou as the Spanish
troops evacuated the island.
A ROUGH estimate placed the aggre-
gate loss by the recent forest fires in
Wisconsin ut $1,000, O0) to S., 900, 900.
TIE Wabash had damaging rear-end
collision at the edge of Decatur, ILL.,,
on the St. Louis branch of the road,
delaying the passage Of all trains for
eight hours, tearing up the track for a
distance Of 100 feet. A fine engine was
nearly ruined and about Is freight
and coal cars were destroyed.
FOREST fires were burning over Wis
consin on the 29th. At Cumberland,
half the city wes destroyed, FIVE chill
dren were burned to death and large
sawmill was burned, throwing many
men ont of employment. Sixteen
farmhouses were destroyed at Rice
Lake and large portion of the town
of Clear Lake was burned. Almena
and Poskin, two small towns, were re-
ported wiped out entirely and much
damage was done at other places.
JOHN WAEp, until recently city mar
shal Of Ava, H., has had the hiccoughs
for several days and it seemed a:
though the physicians in charge were
powerless to stop them. ltwas though
that the hiccoughs were cansed by the
condition Of his liver and stomach.
The democratic state convention a
Syracuse, N. u, on the Goth nominated
Augustus Van Wyck, brother o
Greater New Yorks mayor, for gov
ernor and Elliott Danforth for lieu
tenant governor. The platform at
tackled the conduct of the war, bu
otherwise confined itself to state is
sues, no mention heing made OF tn
Chicago platform or of the tinancia
question.
TIE Russian ambassador at Vienn
requested that attention be called il
the United States to the fact that tn
Russian government had decided t.
hold great international poultry eX
hibition in May, 1893, at St. Peters
burg. Official invitations are beinI
addressed to foreign government
through the customary diplomat
channels.
Miss Lucy LEE HILL. an examiner il
the Office of the civil service commits
sion at Chicago, is the new "daughte
of the confederacv." Her southern
friends have conferred this homo
upon her since the death of Mis-
Winnie Davis. She is native OF Vii
ginia and is distant relative of Gen
Eitzhugh Lee.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was nominate
for governor of New York on the hrs
ballot by the republican state convcr
ton at Saratoga on the 27th.
The ninth tricnnial session of til
general grand chapter of the Order {
the Eastern Star was opened at WASH
ington on the 27th, nearly every gran
chapter in the country being repre-
sented.
THE health conditions in Dawson
Alaska, were recently described
some thing deplorable and a death rat
ranged from five to II per day. 1t we
estimated that 0, 900 people joined tn
rush to Stewart river and every foot {
ground prospected, but no gold foun'
NEARLY 5000 carpet weavers ha'
been thrown out Of employ yment
Philadelphia because of the action
the ingram carpet yarn spinners
shutting down this branch of the
business. For some time the spinner
have been turning out yarn abo'
twice as fast as weavers could consun
, it, and this forced the price down
such an extent that it was deemed a
visable to close down for time.
FIVE mem bers of the family OF Gree
/ Harris at Odin, ILL.,, were poisoned
some unknown poison. The dead
drug was in the food at dinner. Mr.
/ Green Harris and three children AZ
J her mother, Mrs. Hankin, all partot
of the meal. and were all taken sic
: At night they were reported out
! danger.
: THE queen Of Denmark died at Cope
hagen on the Goth.
A SPECIAL to the London Globe fro
Hong Kong on the goth said that
was learned from a trustworthy FL
r pino source that France had promise
) to recognize the Filipino republic.
, PATRICK KELLEY, boilermaker
4 Atlanta, Ca, some weeks ago took
t total abstinence oath, praying to
struck dumb II he broke it. The 9th
(, night, surrounded by friends, he dra'
5 a glass of whisky and for some u
. known reason speech instantly q
i serted him. He was taken to t
s Grady hospital and tho next morni'
h regained the power of speech. 1
t physicians did not know what to ma
OF the case.
g THE preliminary survey OF the nj
i. Nicaragua canal has been complet
+ and the engineers will soon make th'
r report to the canal commissioners
I Washington. They arrived at M
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