Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-08-27

i''S vi uozen persons. Five chill.
uren were reported missing and were
supposed to have been drowned The
great oody OF water did much damage.
a SENSATION was created in the Third
missouri camp at Thoroughfare Gan,
va, when the officers discovered that
nearly every man in the regiment had
signed petition to have the regiment
mustered out The petition stated
mat the men enlisted to fight not for
garrison duty, that the war was over
and that their families needed them at
home
GEN Wo0p has ordered the sale OF
whisky, beer and wines stopped every
where In Santiago. lie provided Sc
we're penalties for infractions of the
rule. Restaurant keepers were greatly
depressed by the order which confined
their sale of drinks to coffee and lem
onadc.
liIE Second Arkansas regiment
showed mutinous spirit when thev
were ordered out to drill on the 19sh.
but the prompt action of Mai. Stark
quelled it.
AN Indianapolis, Ind, dispatch on
the 18th said that Frank p. Sargent.
grand master of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, had officially no.
tilted the order that he will retire at
the end of his term, having been ap-
| pointed member of the industrial
commission by President Mckinley.
ADvicEs from Skalat, in Galicia, Aus.
tria, reported that 800 houses were
destroyed and l,SOO persons made
homeless by a fire there.
Two American ships, which sailed
from the Pacific coast early in the
spring, arrived at New York on the
18th, having been all the intervening
time on the sea, without being re-
ported and oblivious to the fact of the
war waged between this country and
Spain, making their capture as prizes
OF war possible. The war began and
was terminated within the space of
their voyage.
W. AilbNi ltdll lbil dNSOtldIlO0 Dt-
gan its annual session on the nth at
Saratoga, n. Y There was a large
attendance of distinguished members
of the bar from all parts of the coun-
try.
IT was asserted that 100 workmen in
the allied building trades of St. Louis
were out as the result of strike for
better wages inaugurated some time
ago and that the suspension of work
may spread.
EtGur deaths from sunstroke oc-
Cured at Paris, France, on the 18th.
The surgeon generals office has de-
cded to take all the well and conva-
lescent men away from Key West,
Fla, so that they will not be in
danger from the outbreak of yellow
fever at that point
GEN. FIT2MUGu LEE has declared his
intention to enter the senatorial race
in Virginia.
a FREIGHT train on the Texas & Pa.
cifc was derailed and thrown from a
trestle two miles east of Fort Worth,
Tex, with fatal effect Two tramps
were killed and three others seriously
in iured, the engineer was fatally hurt
and the fireman seriously injured.
SOME time ago it was said that Leo
MIL was afflicted with progressive
paralysis, accompanied by dementia.
The statement was promptly denied,
but the papal authorities have now
been compelled to admit its truth, and
it is matter of common talk at Rome
that the pope's reason has completely
left him, and that he is unable TO walk
any longer or to talk coherently.
A GRAND review of the army at Camp
Thomas. at Chiclamauga, Ga, was
held on the 18th by Gen Brcckinridge.
Fully $4,000 soldiers passed by the re-
viewing stand Experienced military
men thought it wonderful that such
wcll-trained soldiers could have been
made from raw men within three
months.
Ar Garry Owen, Ia, ~ children went
to picnic and when they had eaten
dinner they were one after the other
taken violently ill., All the doctors in
the neighborhood were summoned,
and by the use of stomach pumps all
were saved. 1t was thought they
were poisoned by eating canned meat.
i LIGHTNING struck a large oil tank
belonging to the buckeye Pipe Line
company at Findlay, O., completely
DESTROYING $4,000 barrels of oil. A
terrific explosion occurred and the fire
spread to outbuildings, track and
fences and destroyed l5 cars belonging
to the Lake Erie & Western Railroad
company. The total loss was esti
mated at $50, 600
DURING one of the most violent elec
trical storms ever witnessed at Neils
Vile, Wis, four or five fires were in
prorress and the Catholic parsonage
buildings were completely destroyed
James Owen and John Currier were
killed.
DURING the progress of violent
thunderstorm at Wheeling, Ind, a bolt
of lightning struck a 9O-foct tank il
the Standard Oil companys refinery
completely demolishing the upper
portion of the tank and setting fire to
the oil stored therein, which consisted
of over 35, 900 barrels of crude oil wait
inc refinement. The entire fire de-
partmcnt was hurried to the scene and
every effort made to save ADJOINING
tanks. The loss was over 500, 900
THE Delaware Indians have tilec
suit in the court of claims at Washing
ton for l57, 900 acres segregated from
the lands of the Cherokee nation be
fore the passage of the Curtis oiti'
Mrs. BRIDGET RILEY was killed ano
Mrs, James Cleater fatally injured by
a train while they We're crossing
trestle. The ladies were out win
picnic party. mn.
CHAPLAIN X. Il. KERLIN, OF the Thire
reriment. Missouri volunteers, has
written a letter from Thoroughfar'
Gap, Va, exposing the mismanage
ment prevailing in the second army
CORPS Thirteen hundred gallant sons
of Missouri are in that corps. Accord
ing to the chaplain many OF them &c
| ,n.rna1 all are