Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-01-14


sixteen to one plank in the Chicago
platform was dead issue.
The coal operators at Pana III
were said to have become Dissatisfied
with the negroes imported from Ala.
bama to take the place of the stril,ino
union miners and were importing
Italians from Chicago to take the
place of the negroes who were said to
be shiftless and turbulent.
SlLAs ANDERSON, colored, who sho,
and killed his wife, was hanged in the
county Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
5th. Jealousy was the cause Of the
crime.
Gov. PINGREE's message was read to
the Michigan Legislature on the sth.
IL was voluminous document and
dealt with all the governors proposed d
taxation reforms, declared against ex-
pansion and inveighed at great length
against trusts and corporations
The anarchist movement in France
has received an enormous impetus
through the growing fear of military
despotism. The sum of 200, 900 francs
has been placed at the disposal of NJ.
Sebastien Faure for the purpose OF
establishing an anarchist daily news.
paper in Paris.
ATTORNEY A. r. MCCALL disappeared
at East Liverpool, O., while in.
sane last July. The mystery has
been cleared up by the finding of his
skeleton in ravine ten miles north
and almost in sight of the home of his
parents. He had hanged himself to a
tree by strap the body finally fall.
ing to decay.
FLORENCE WATSON was found in bed
by ncighbors at Middletown, O., the
other day. She had starved to death.
Some time ago she eloped with Will
liam Watson and her parents never
forgave her.
THE Missouri Pacific express train
which left Kansas City at lO:4O p IN.
on the 3D. for st. Louis was wrecked
one mile west of jefferson City the
next morning. The wreck was caused
by stone which had rolled down from
the bluff ON the track. The engine
rolled off the track into the river,
crushing to death the engineer and
fireman who had jumped All the
cars with the exception of the rear
sleeper, left the track running into the
face Of the cliff. None of the passen-
gers, however, were seriously injured.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, the new gov
ernor of New York, has made rule
that he will not exercise executive
clemency in behalf of man who has
been convicted of murder or abusing
his wife nor will he pardon any habit
ual criminal.
THE kychonch company of Birmng.
ham, Eng, has commenced making
10000. 900 cartridges for the United
States at the rate of 1000, 600 weekly.
An American inspector examines the
work.
HOT campaign against licensing
saloons is on at Galesburg. III.
JAMES GALLAGHER, pugilist, was
stabbed and killed by John Flynn in a
saloon fight at San Francisco.
IT was rumored at FL Paso, Tex, on
the I'd that Grant q. Giltett, the miss
Ing Abilene, Kan, cattle king, has
offered to compromise with his credit
ors by paying them $50, GOO cash and
that they have accepted the offer
FIRE destroyed Curdy's carriage fac
tory at Brooklyn and badly damaged
synagogue opposite. Loss, 100000
THOUSANDS of Chinese were reported
starving through floods caused by the
overflow of the Yellow river
WHILE COMPRISING 3 bale of cotton
fS The standard compress warehouse
at Pine Bluff. Ark, an explosion oc-
cured in the bale which wrecked the
place and came near killing several
men.
ABOUT 5000 people, according to the
estimates of the convention hall door
tenders. attended the gift distribution
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the I'd.
A DISPATCH from Havana on the 4th
stated that it looked rs if the ques-
ton, who blew up the Maine, was
about to be answered Iararias
Bresmes, Spanish judge, now a fugi-
tive from Havana, was accused by a
Cuban newspaper of having been ac-
tive in plot for the destruction of the
battleship.
By some means yet unexplained a
treste on the Baltimore & Ohio South
ern railway near Lawrence burg, Ind,
was burned early the other morn
ing, making gap of 80 feet 1t was
at point where a westbound train
could not have seen it in time to stop
and wreck in such case would have
been unavoidable. The fire was dis
covered by telegraph operator.
PRELIMINARY steps have been taken
in Denver, COL, for the organization
OF the Omitted States Sixteen to One
Money league its object being to as
sist In the organization of political
parties on the basis of bimetallism.
THE New York legislature convened
Nv hlUdily ou tuC fti.
BY the explosion OF an internal ma
chine in the railroad depot at Albany,
Miss, five men were terribly injured,
some of them dangerously. The ma
chine had been sent from Holly Springs
to man under indictment for mur-
der He and four Others were open
ing the box when the explosion oc-
Cured.
ABARN belonging to white farmer
named Green, near Banks, Ala, was
burned the other day, together with
some corn and other produce. Sus-
picion was directed toward Marshall
McGregor, negro in Mr.. Green's en-
ploy. His body was found afterwards
hanging to a tree near where the barn
had stood.
THE Metropolitan Elevated road at
Chicago was sold on the 4th by Master
In Chancery Sherman for So, OOO, 900
The road was bought by the chairman
OF the reorganization committee in the
interest Of certain security holders
Mr.. AND MRS. SToTLAR, of Grant
county, Ind, are the parents of an in
FAINT that weighed less than two
pounds. From tip to tip of its out
stretched arms 1t measured six inches
while from crown to sole 1t was ten
inches.
THE Colorado legislature met at
IN a.