Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-10-22

out touching the president of the re-
public.
MURDERER JOHN MILLER, the hunch-
back, was hanged at San Quentin,
CAL, on the 18th. He was nearly de-
capitated by the rope.
TIE barge Churchill, loaded with
ore from Duluth, sank in the rough
water off Waukegan, H., and the cap
tain and deck hand were drowned.
TIE police at Alexandria, Egypt,
arrested nine Italian anarchists who
had plotted to assa ,sinate the emperor
of Germany on his way to Jerusalem
THE Atlantic Transport company's
steamer Mohegan was driven ashore
off the Lizard on the south coast of
England, and out Of 900 persons on
board only 81 were said to have been
saved.
EXECUTIVE business occupied the
closing days session of the grand en-
curnpment Knights Templar at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the l4th. An amend
ment to the constitution was adopted
providing for reduction in the per
capita tax from five to three cents
The new grand officers were installed
with impressive ceremonies.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY was the guest
of st. Louis on the 18th. From the
: time of his arrival until he left the
city he was accorded an almost con
tinuous ovation. He reviewed the pa
! rade and addressed large crowd a
the Merchants exchange and drove
: through the city. At night he spok'
t mt the Coliseum and left afterward
Q for Terre Haute, Ind.
+ THE Austrian government is arranG
+ ing to have a floating exposition OF II
+ manufactures. Ships will be sent t
( the countries of the orient and til
l. Austrian manufactures shown and sol
i to the natives at prices fixed by tn
l. exhibitors
T. FRED the young son OF H. 4. sheye'
II nresident of the Indestructible Pos
company, at Brazil Ind, while ridin
ic his wheel collded with team an
T. was badly injured. When he recovere
n consciousness it was discovered th'
rs he was totally blind. ,,
'e OFFICIALS in the service OF u
Of United States weather bureau, repr
n senting nearly every state and teri
tory in the union, held meeting
C. Omaha, Neb., on the 18th, Prof Wlll
ID L. Moore, chief of the bureau, bell
er the presiding officer.
as Two boilers in the state asylum
ze the dangerous and crimlnally insa
in at Ionia, Mich, burst the other da
as killing Harry IIanley, of Saginaw, a
fatally wounding Jack Hogan, DO
ed inmates. Two other inmates VIZ
as also hurt.
ed TIE candy and cracker factory
er the Winn-Johnson company, ana pa
he store of T. c. Burke, at Macon u
lly were burned. Loss, S!25,ooo'
ort THE United States Leather compa1
lat it was rumored at New York, Will
ter dcayor to lower the price of hides
his advance that of leather by clos
many, if not all. its tanneries and
re- pend mt industries because the COZ
ON tions of the leather trade are unfa'
ing able all over the world.
red WHILE kicking about some dirtat
the citv dunn, at Leadville, COL, FRI
hey Rurkhart unearthed cave, IN WI
of he found some very rich ore expo
The officers were at once notlhed'
has unon investigation found rot
S Of cache, from which they extracted
the sacks of gold and silver ore, evlde'
has stolen from different mines III pre-
not to be worth $4,000.
hey GOV. TANNER, of Illinois, issue
urts proclamation calling for the obs
ance of Wednesday, October ~ as
favette day, and recommending on
dav that homage be paid in all ed
Sen t;onal institutions in the state tt
INV 'a"s memory of Lafayette by rehet
W." Us of the French patriots heroic ano
= ri selfish deeds. ..
: MISS VIOLA KATnEYN CLEMoNs'
~" actress. was married at New lor
ting the l,'" " 80, i'o "
lale jay po"'' :, =
=. A PEACE party composed OF Gus
,o;au lien. Father Aloysius, Red Blanke
49,, another Indian, left Walker, NJ
'ne on the nth for Bear island to as
"A ~ an immediate council with the ut
w Indians and persuade the men WI
VIZ to give themselves up lnsp
!. ~ ~ Tinker thought the situation it
',na brighter; newspaper correspond
''N"' however. declared that Indians
moving north in large bands ane
,;a,oa serious times were ahead.
iss 80 - TuELOG q. 4. met recently
es., U.s. nual session, at Danville, III.
-; CORA SMITH. who was serving
III. nv. - sentence at the Aramosa Qa')
!. 'a'D' a., tentiarv for numbering her father
", w. mitted suicide by swallowing 81
JESSE JAMES, Jr., was placed
y. y w.. arrest at Kansas City, Mo-, on sus
m;fs of being concerned in the recen
80 souri Pacific train robbery near
"el. . WILKINSON OsBuRN was drow
J.. ala one foot of water in Clear Greer
A Porter, Ark, the other day. II
: Cen. nearly 100 years OLD.
80 FIVE men were killed and II
,.u,na et bv an explosion of gas in collie
49, 49, 8 at Coaldale, Pa. on the 18TH.
a.h,;r MI. GEN. JULIO A. RocA has been
sly de- rated pres'u.n s;. an tbe southe
"' way, running contrary to
ha
weeks dashed ln'o '"o VI NJ
- . haan - Tenn, The conductor OF the
rouLee and the engineer of the grave
~ hssr were fatally injured. The re
~, 9TH. Of the freight were ditchea q
- a;o.r. o eral thousand dollars worth o.
destroyed. A., :,
~ ToTar who is under arrest at Londot
~ and charge of manslaughter IN con
.., "y' san a with the death of Emma Gill al
60 sso,s;nr E mort Conn, was remanded ior
a;m bv at the police court on the lotn.
! latter sci for the prisoner said ms e.,
widow not dispute her identity WIN
Guilford who is wanted oy
i'd that necticut police A., Matt,
i, lsased John Jones, a wealthy farmer
,o con,. cola ILL.,. was struck on the ne
coal or sandbag and robbed. since
,,sosa,,ar has not been able to recoogl
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