Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-11-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ii""O'' "ascits 'hat ii Hung Chang
and his colleagues "can do nothing
but intrigue and lie and attempt to
save their heads. If they sign the
treaty it will be a mere formality and
will not afford solution of the
trouble" and that no princes would
be put to death Except by telegraph" +"
il. {. Chubb, a Red Cross man who
recently went to Luzon on Il tour of
investigation, is authority for the
statement that Red Cross supplies, in
stead of being given to the soldiers
are sold to the storekeepers, and that
the cots sent by Miss Helen Gould are
being sold for $3.50 each.
A rumor is current in Rome that tbe
illness of the czar of Russia is due to
poisoning, and it is asserted that
cipher kilograms have been received
at the vatican saying that an attempt
was made to poison both the emperor
and empress, but that the latter was
| not affected.
Miss Louise +. Pierpont Morgan,
daughter of j. Pierpont Morgan, and
Herbert Livingston Sateree were mar.
married, on the 18th, at st. Georges $
church, in Stuyyesant square, New
York city.
The preliminary estimate of the av-
erage yield per acre Of corn in 1900, as
published in the forthcoming month
ly report of the statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture, is 25.3 bush
els, as compared with an average Weld
of 25,3l bushels in 1899. of 24.76 bush
els in 1898, and ten-year average of
24.1 bushels.
A report comes from Kalamazoo,
Mich, that at least nine bodies have
been disintcrred by body-snatchers in
Springbrook cemetery, Newaygo coun-
ty. Que body, that was too far de-
composed to be of use, was left in a
fence corner a quarter of mile from
the cemetery.
George X. Crosthwaite, a physician
of Hamilton, Ont, blew out his brains,
on the 10Th, IN the Railroad Mems
,hrlstlah ASSOCIATION MOTEL chicago
D'spohdency' Hue TO bclng stranded
in strange city, is thought to have
peeh the cause
If the city of Pittsburgh, Pa, will
furnish site, Andrew Carnegie offers
to huilI q tprbnirol grhooI In ro,uan
tion with the Carnegie institute, and
endow it with Sl,QOO,OOO in five per
cent gold bonds
"Mogy' Bernstein, king of the
newsboys" of Omaha, was married, on
the 18th, in the parlors of the Coates
house, Kansas City, by Rabbi Mayer
Mogy's bride is Miss Blanche Sunfeld,
of Perry, Okla.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of city waterworks bonds, bearing
five per cent. interest, were sold at a
special session of the Muscatinc Oa.)
city councillor the l6th,to Cleveland
firm, After January | the city will
own and operate the waterworks.
A woman, believed TO be insane,
hurled hatchet at Emperor William,
on the 10th, as he was driving in an
open carriage, in Breslau, with the
hereditary prince of SaXe-Meiningen,
The weapon missed the intended VIC
tim, but struck the rapidly moving
carriage. The woman was rescued
from the indignant populace and ar
rested by the police,
Preston Porter, Jr., colored, who
assaulted aud murdered little Louise
Frost, on her lonely ride home from
school, was burned at a stake, on the |
exact spot, at Lake Station, near
Limon, Col, where he had committed
his awful crime.
The international committee of the
\. NJ. c. A. sat down to its annual din
ner Mt the Hotel Savoy, New York |
city, on the 10th. Some two hundred |
men from various |
walks of life were there to hear ad-
dresses and reports upon the world
wide interests of the organization.
Frederick w. Royce. widely known
as an inventor, electrician and veteran
telegraph operator, dropped dead |
from apopleXy, on the 10TH in Wash
ington.
With the advent of winter, which |
has now begun in earnest, a ma iority |
of the sawmills throughout the north
west have closed for the season, and |
nearly five thousand men have been
thrown out of work in consequence;
All of them can find plenty to do in
the woods, however, and no suffering |
is anticipated.
Thomas B. REYNOLDS, a salesman en-
ployed bv the Whiting Paper Co., of
New York city, on the 10th, filed n
petition Ia bankruptcy with llablli-
ties, incurred in various parts of the
United States, amounting to $449,0os,
and no assets.
Failures for the week ended on the
10th. MS reported by r. G. Dun g. Co.,
we're 2l7 in the United States, against
e10 last year, and 80 in Canada
against 20 last year.
A severe earthquake shock was felt,
on the 10th. in the Island of Curacao.
Only slight damage, however, was
done.
An anarchist named Bagards, from
New yorl, has been arrested in Stock