Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-04-22

ieS SMARsHALI, mayor of Keiihsburr.
ILL.,, fAihe second time won the Grand
AMERICAN handicap at Elkwood park
N. ,L,]Fating out .63 competitors for
the wlpg-shot championship honors of
America. Seven ,uen were tied for
first place with "a Straight kills, each
but in the shoot.oft Mar,hall was the
only one Of the seven who shot 81
straight
JOHN SHAW and Andrew Yancy GUAR.
relied at Buffalo, Tex. over farm mat.
ters aud the latter was Shot and killed
and The former vas dangerously
stabbed with a knife.
GIN. roLAvIEJA, the Spanish minis.
ter of war, has instructed Gen. Rios.
inc Spanish conn ander in the Philip
pines, TO evacua'c the archipelago i'm
neoiately, now that the ratiicatons S
sol The treaty CT peace have been ex.
changed.
+1EN LAWroN was continuing his
march north and arrived at the town
sof f'tesgas on thesf4th but found it de
serted At sunset the American troops
entered San Antonio without meeting
any resistance.
Tie Nation al paper box factory, at
Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th, together with the
thrce'story factory building owned
by Peet Bro.. Loss. S25, 600.
TnE big combination of all the coal
interests on the Monongahcla river
in Pennsylvania, predicted several
weeks ago, is now an assured fact
The combination will be capitalized
at $50, 600, 900
A CADLEGRAM received from London
announced that w. S. Stratton had
sold his famous Cripple Crccl; mine,
the Independence, to the Venture com.
pany, of London.
CAPT. NATHANIEL W. PARKER, the
oldest river man and pilot in the west,
died at the residence of his daughter
in St, Louis, aged 81 years. lie is sur
yived by seven children, "a grandchil.
drcn and II grcat-grandchiidrcn
AK attempt to poison Cora Tanner,
the actress, was made at Omaha, Ncb.
by some one leaving box of candy
and II hlndsomc bouquet, both poi.
soncd, at her hotel. The actress was
said to have been made deathlv sick.
A SnANrY in ST. Louis, n which ten
young men were sleeping OF the cf.
fects Of debnach, burned and james
Hogan was baked to death and Basit
Carroll was reported dying at the city
hospital James Kcnncrfc!t was also
at the hospital. but, al Though his burns
were serious, he will not die as the re-
suit of them. The remaining seven
escaped with slight burns and blsters
The Boston museum on fremont
street, the oldest playhouse in that
city, was badly damaged by fire the
other dav 1t was caused by Il care
less smoker. The loss To the museum
was estimated at about $50, 900.
THE eastbound passenger train over
the Great Northern went through a
bridge near Big Sandy, Mont, the
other morning, every car leaving the
track and falling about ten feet. Sew
cral persons were injured, one prob
ably fatally.
GIN FRED D. GRANT has been or.
dered from Porto Rico to the Philip
pines.
EMINENT representatives of leading
Catholic educational institutions in
the country gathered at Chicago on
the 18th to discuss plans fer the unfit.
cation and expansion of the education
al system TO. children OF the Roman
Catholic faith.
A FIRE at Oshkosh, Wis, destroyed
the lIollister furniture factory, the
Reliance boiler works, the Star foun.
dry, the American Refrigerator com.
pany's plant the Ozark flats and a
score OF smaller buildings. Loss, es.
timated at 5000, 900.
TIE $40 dinner of democrats at New
York tool, place on the 18th. There
were fully 800 more guests than the
1000 planned for Judge Van Wycli
was the principal orator He spoke
against the tariff and trusts, but
ignored the money questiGn and terri
torial expansion.
Mrs. DAISY O'NEiIL and Mrs Kitty
Overy, who have recently had trouble
with their husbands, decided to die
together the other night at Omaha,
Neb., and took 30 grains of morphine,
with fatal results. They were each %
years old.
FIRE broke out in the business por-
ton of Chickasha, |. T., carly on the
morning of the 10th and before the
flames could be gotten under control
half block of business houses was
&. ,stroyed.
TWELVE miners lost their lives by an
explosion of gas in the Sierra Majada
mining camp at Coah uila, Mex.
TIE carpenters strike at Cleveland,
o., was settled by d compromise and
the men resumed work on the llth.
Bv the terms of the settlement tho
men receive 81 > cents an hour with an
eight.hour day.
The jefferson club banquet at Mil
waukee on the 18th was attended by
over 400 guests. WilliamJ. Bryan, OF
Nebraska, was the guest OF honor and
delivered the principal address. lie
said the free silver question would be
the issue again in 1903.
TIE Indian territory grand lodge, |.
O. O. T., convened at Ardmore on the
1lth.
DESERVING servant girls to the mum
ber of seven received SO gold.piece
from the German Housewives society
at New York as reward for uninter'
rupted service of two years in the
same families.
STovE manufacturers met at Chicago
on the 10th and decided to increase all
prices ten per cent. Immediately.
A BLUE book giving the evidence OBJ
tanned by the indian currency inquiry
committee was published at London
ron the 10th. 1t includes letter from
[ Secretary OF State Hay to Lord Alden
ham, director of the Bank of En-
gland, dated November 25 last, saying
"Thc Washington cabinet does not
consider it expedient for the United
States to reopen the bimetallic com
mission in lS.lT." Col. Hay added thai
the cabinet was open to consider the
question Of ratio.
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