Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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The cabinet meeting, on the goth
adjourned at $40 p, m, after having
been in session three hours and ten
minutes. Beyond the mere announce
ment that the diplomatic phases of
the Chinese situation had been under
consideration, no statement was made
by the cabinet officers as they left the
White House.
The yiceroy of India, Lord Curzon
of Kedleston, telegraphs that good
rain continues to fall, but that cholera
still prevails in many districts of thai
country.
DR.. Leyds' interview with Emperor
Nicholas lasted barely five minutes
The ear said he was sorry he could
do nothing for the Transyaal EXCEPT
to urge it to make peace, as he hated
all war"
Yu, governor of the Province of
Shen-Si, China, is reported to have in
yited the foreigners in the province 10
come to his protection. Fifty accept
ed the invitation, and all were massa-
| cred.
Gen. Chaifee, commanding the Amer
lean forces in China, is making all the
necessary preparations to maintain
5000 men in Peldn through the win
ter.
The Frankfort zeitung published
dispatch from Shanghai, on the 30th,
saying plot had been discovered
there to burn the whole city. 1t is
added that Europeans consider the
streets unsafe after nightfall, and the
general situation is described as criti-
cal.
Certificates of incorporation were
filed at Dover, Del, on the 3Oth, for
the Great Western Lead Co. of New
York, to engage in mining lead and
other ores: capital, $2,00O,0OO,
Thomas J. Powers, commissioner Of
banking for Pennsylvania, was killed
by falling from train in the out
skirts of Philadelphia on the night of
the Goth.
According to the Pellin correspond.
ent of the London Daily Mail, Dur
ing the siege every scrap of metal,
including candlesticks and ornaments,
gun was made from a fire eXtin-
guisher. Ten thousand sandbags were
made of silk brocade material, valued
at S5 per bag,
Thomas A. Edison, the electric
wizard Of the century, is almost ready
to make public details of his newest
and greatest invention, 1t is ma
chine for the generation of electrical
power without the use of engines
and dynamos,
Gen. Uribie, the chief of the insur-
gent forces in Colombia, has surrend-
cred to the government at Chuchuri.
All grades of refined sugar were ad-
vanced, on the 30th, five cents hun
dred pounds.
The grand encampment, G. A. r., at
| Chicago, on the 30th, unanimously
elected Maj. Leo Rassieur, of st.
Louis, commander-in-chief, and select
ed Denver as the location of the next
encampment, with a proyiso in regard
to suitable railroad rates.
Ogden II. Fethers of GAINESVILLE,
Wis. was elected supreme chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias at Detroit,
Mich. Mr.. Fethers had previously
served as supreme vice chancellor, and
his promotion TO the head of the or
| der was in accordance with previous
custom as regards the highest office
in Pythanism.
Russa's note suggesting the way
of opening peace negotiations with
China, which has been sent to all the
powers and to which the United
States has made a prompt and IA
yorable response, has, it is believed,
received approval by Japan.
Eleven persons were reported suf-
fering from the bubonic plague at
Glasgow, Scotland, on the 30th and
five others had symptoms of the
plague The post-mortem eXamina-
ton of the body of the person who
died from the plague August q es-
tablished the disease as bubonic
plague.
-Four masked men held up the I'm
ion Pacific fast mail and express train,
near Table Rock, Wyo., on the night
of the Goth, and while the officials
claim that the amount of booty Sc
cured was small, there is a general
belief that they made a rich haul, as
81 900 reward is offered for each man
captured.
The British prisoners at Nooitged-
bacht. on the railroad east of Macha-
dodorp, have been released by the
Beers and sent to join Lord Roberts
forces at Watervalhoyen, near Macha-
dodorp.
As the windup of pugilistic contests
in the state of New York, under the
sanction of the Horton law, James D.
Corbett and "Kid" Mccoy, the two
best exponents of scientific boxing
met at Madison Square garden, New
York city, on the night OF the sum-
before a large audience. Corbet'
proved himself the most skillfui, ny
putting his opponent out in the hfth
round.
Richard Guenther, United States
consul general at Frankfort-on-the-
Main. left that city, on the 31st, with
his family, for the Parisexposition. lie
expects to sail, on the 18th, for New
York.
A Pensacola (Fla.) company closed
a contract, on the 31st, for 1oo'ooV tons
of Alabama coal to be shipped
through that port to Fiume' AUSTRIA
The Nicaraguan congress at Man
aqua, on the 91st, approved the com
mercial reciprocity treaty between
Nicaragua and the United States.
On the 1st r. G. Dun & Co. reported
"Failures for the week were NE in the
United States, against 14l last year
and 10 in Canada, against % ias'
year."