Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-09-10

'N" Tie voyage OF the transport
Natahla from Santiago to Montauk.
~ ~ the engineers of the vessel found
,,i .ne coal in the after hold to be on fire.
The matches were closed and the Ara
was kept under control until the
steamer reached Montauk and dis
charged her sick troops, when the
chle1 engineer reported the coal AGAIN
on hre, The transport was then or.
aered to proceed to New York to un.
.oad the burning coal. She had on
board also 300 eases of cartridges.
1iiE feeling between the Cubans and
the Americans is getting more friendly
DAILY at Santiago de Cuba. Gen. Law
ton believes that the selection of Gu
pan othcers fol important places in the
ciVil government will have good eff.
rect and will accomplish the disband-
ing OF the Cuban forces quicker than
any other scheme.
FIRE was discovered in the five-storv
brick building at ST. Louis occupied
by the A. Geisel Manufacturing com
pany. which manufactured supplies
for wholesale timers, and before the
names had been extinguished the
building and its entire contents were
practically destroyed. Loss estimated
at $3.50, 900.
A GRIsr mill on the farm of Capt
John Floyd Smith, on Choecolocco
creek, near Admission, Ala, got bevond
control and ran away" as it was
termed. Two large burr stones ex-
ploded on account of the heat caused
by the friction and wrecked the mill.
Curt Smith was fatally injured and
Will Chandler very badly hurt and
may die.
The territorial free silver conven-
ton was held in Guthrie, Ok, on the
lst and resulted in the nomination of
Judge Keaton for congress. He was
already the democratic and popnlist
nominee for the same place.
TIE executive council of the Ma
tional Association Of Naval Veterans
has issued an invitation to the sur
vivors of the confederate army and
navy to parade with the veterans in
Cincinnati on September G. 1t is the
! purpose of the association to make a
reunion in the nature of peace iu-
bilee.
The "middle-of-the.road' populists
will hold national convention at Gin.
cinnati, commencing on the 5th.
THE dry goods store of Philip Hatz-
field, the largest at Dallas, Tex, was
destroyed by fire. Loss, s35 900.
OVER 500 men of the Twenty-third
(colored) Kansas regiment arrived at
Santiago on the 3lst.
THE hospital ship Olivette sank at
Fernandina, Ala, on the 3lst. All on
board managed to escape.
The vote on the Choctaw and Chick.
asaw agreement, made with the Dawes
commission on April %, 1897, was Off
cially counted by the Dawes commits
sion and the governors and national
secretaries of the Choctaw and Chick
asaw nations at Atoka, l. Z. The join
commission reports that 2, l64 votes
were cast in the two nations for The
said agreement aud 1866 against it
making a majority in favor of the rat
ifcation. The Indians of the two ma
tions are now reconcled and are Sc
lecting their homes for allotment,
LIGHTNING recently struck the resi
dence of Robert Edgington, nea
Ileathsville, Ill. 1t entered the hous
by way of brick tlue, tearing it down
1t then struck Mr.. Edgngton on tn
hat, burning the top out of it, and TAX
ing downward course, tore his pant
leg and his shoe. Then it hit two O
his children, killing one girl, eigh
years Old.
ORDERS have been received at Annar
oils, Md, from the president directin
Admiral Cervera to make arrange
ments to proceed with his officers an
men back to Spain The officers wer
!, enthusiastic when they received tn
news.
HALvoR FLARlN, aged %, and Ami
Fillenar aged Is, were drowned Will
boating on Diamond lake near Groy
CITY, MINI. Two others in the boa
= had narrow escapes
TIE transports Allegheney and Pal
ther arrived from Santiago on the 3ls
, On board were 625 men, of whom l.
l were sick. Fourteen men died on tn
1 VOYAGE and all were buried at sea.
: JAMES HINES, aged l6 years, OF 2l(
b Division street, st. Louis, was browne
= in the river at the foot of East Gran
avenue. He, with several other boy
e in the neighborhood, went swimmin
2 during the day and got beyond h
a depth.
t THE Hong Kong press is authori'
: for the statement that 900 Spaniard
e including IS priests, lost their liv'
when the Spanish gunboat Leyte WI
n captured by a vessel belonging
= Admiral Dewey's squadron. The Spa
| iards boarded three sailing vessels
). an endeavor to escape from possib
e massacre by the insurgents and Il
q vessels foundered with all on board
q storm which came up.
4 GEN. WILLIAM Boorn, OF the Salv
- tion army, telegraphed from Lond'
:. to the czar of Russia his profoul
,, thankfulness to God for his ma jest,
y beneficent proposal in favor OF NJ
=, versal peace.
u NEAR Carthage, Tenn, Sam Mckl
'e new and his son-in-law, Ira Grlssl
met to settle an old trouble and Gr
p sim shot Mckinney through the add
men and killed him.
n 1T was officially announced at sim
d on the SOth that there were 2, 300 deaf
lie from the plague the previous week
'e the Bombay presidency. The epiden
e. was spreading.
p LIEUT.. Col. HENRY was arrested
Paris on the 3lst, charged with oe''
S. the author of an important let'
'e which figured in the Dreyius ca
IS He made a confession and then co
IS mitted suicide. This may lead 10
$. revision of the Dreyfus trial
l., DR. Sem, the assistant surgeon &c
,r eral. stated that unless Camp WIKI
re at Montauk point N. Y, is abandon
At within six weeks it will be hori
"a camp and a pcstholc. -.
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