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

ana painful injuries to W. Ii. Gerter.
THE people of Pana, H., had ter
rorizlng time the other night In some
eases the residents of block spent the
night in one house, expecting an at
tack to be made on them by Alabama
negroes, imported to take the place OF
striking white miners. The train CON
veying the imported negroes was, how
ever, held up by the strikers and the
negroes at the point of guns were
taken from the train and afterwards
started on an eastbound train to In
diana. The militia were sent to Pana
by Gov. Tanner.
THE Dawes commission has issued
orders that all intermarred white
men were intrudcrs and would have to
leave the Indian territory. The orders
have created sensation and will af-
feet go, 600 white men. Indian A gent
Wisdom will comply with the orders
of the commission. His mounted po-
lice are under orders to eject the in.
| truders.
HALE ton of powder exploded at
Linds Road building camp, II miles
north of New Whatcom, Wash, and
killed three people Two others were
seriously injured.
The Transmissssippi Sunday school
congress opened at Omaha, Neb, on
the eth with fair attendance from
all parts of the country.
A SPECIAL from Fort Reno, !. r., said
that orders have been received there
to get the post hospital in proper shape
to receive number of sick regular
soldiers who have been doing duty in
Cuba
The tricnnial conference of the Ger.
man Baptists of the United States and
Canada at st. Louis was concluded
after session extending over week.
1t was decided to meet in l9). at Ber-
lin, Ont.
A SPECIAL excursion train on the
way to the Halifax IN. s. exhibition
from Pictou crashed into working
train near Stellerton. The two engi-
neers, two fremen and passenger
were killed.
A CLAREMoNT, Mimi. special stated
that that village was wiped out by fire
the other night, % buildings being de-
stroycd.
Gov. SMITH, of the soldiers home at
Santa Monica Cal, was shot twice on
the 2Sth by an inmate of the home.
He was badly injured, but the injury
was not believed to be fatal. Smith
was formerly commander of the home
at Leavenworth, Kan.
MADRID officials believe Cuba will be
evacuated within three months
THOMAS Il. BAYAED, ex-United States
senator, eX-secretary OF state under
President Cleveland and ex-ambassa
dor to England, died on the 2sth. after
an illness of six weeks, at Dedham
Mass, aged 70. His body will bt
buried in Delaware, in which state hi!
family was conspicuous long before
the revolution.
COLORADO is being swept by fores
and prairie fires and ranches and min
ing camps are threatened with destruc
ton.
AT the insane asylum at st. Loui
William Kerens, an inmate, went T.
the bunk where enjamin +. Bevan
his cell mate, was asleep and attacked
him. A fierce struggle followed, il
which Kerens dashed Bevan violentl,
!, to the floor and kicked him until hi
,lv RI n
Kerens then turned on the guards AM
it required dozen men to restrain him
STRIKING union coal miners and im
ported negroes had a pitched battle a
} Pana, H., on the cSth. Several hun
dred shots were fired and the negroe
: were driven from the city to thei
! stockades. One negro was reported "a
S having died of his wounds.
C TIE distress. starvation and death
at Matanzas, Cuba, continue una abatet
l the daily average of deaths upon th
: street corners exceeding 30. The sitl
r alton in Havana was said to be nc
! much better.
r THE United States transport Mass;
5 chusetts, while at Santiago, had tn
= coal in her bunl1ers take fire and
was found necessary to jettison 10
TONS A portion of this coal was take
i on board again. On going to sea tn
/ fire again broke out in the bunker
= and smoldered for three days. 1t wa
finally extinguished by the use {
o steam and the steamer reached Ne
. York without further accident.
BETWEEN two and three o'clock {
A the morning of the 27th the safe
:, the Farmers bank at Flora, Ind, W;
blown open by robbers. who secure
close to $4,000 and made good the
escape Cashier William Lemon, wi
= was aroused by the noise of the expl
: sion, appeared on the scene while Il
= robbers were nt work, was shot and
'. was believed will die.
- JUDGE DUFFEE delivered an unusuf
T. ly vigorous charge to the grand ju
= at Hot Springs, Ark, and gave rig
- !. instructions regarding malpracti
y and fraud upon visitors by disrep
n table physicians and others at II
IT springs.
IS SOME person placed spike on t
1t Iron Mountain track near st. Louis al
le the locomotive of a passenger ira
o Jumped the track, shaking up the pf
l. sengers. Before order could be
stored freight train crashed into t
N wrecked train from the rear linn
" diately afterwards an accommodate
y train was stopped just in time to ave
8. a third accident, Nobody was hu
ID very much.
* A FIRE on the farm of John Lieb
k. near Fairfax, Mimi, burned his bar
Of granary, three horses, large amou
of grain and his two small childre
4 who, it was thought, had started
fire.
m ROBERT KENNEDY and his wife,
IL Buncombe, Ia, wererding home VIII
4. their team became frightened at a de
d horse and ran away. Both were thro'
out of the buggy and Mrs. Kenne
Of was killed and her husband serious
a injured.
,e The Illinois conference OF the Mel
er odist Episcopal church, recently
i, session at Charleston, voted $40 ay
n. to one nay in favor OF equal lay rep
a. sentation.
~ Mrs ROSE SANGER and her you
~ daughter were found dead in tn
rs sieepinp room at Milwaukee. 1T "