Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-09-01
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

NHI AND GENERAL.
The Chicago Tribune in its revio,v
OF the year 1899. gives the states and
territories where there were Ivncb.
ing and the number as follows. Ala
Dama, &; Arkansas, II; Georgia. 9s.
hahsas' j; North Carolina, 3: Penn.
sylvania, Il Tennessee, 4: Texas &.
kentucky, 3; Louisiana, Is: Mississin.
pi, ID; Missouri, 3; Virginia. l. West
Virginia, 7; Oklahoma, /. OF the VIC
inns "a were negroes and 90 whites.
Jefferson d. Hail. aged 43. we'll
known at Virginia, H., was adiudged
insane on the 23d, The intense heat
caused his insanity and made him
most violent. He whipped his wife
with buggy whip and threatened to
shoot his relatives.
Harry Davis, an aeronaut, di,are Il
Deiphos' o., on the 23d, as the rcmon
OF fall received in an ascension. .,scri
parachute failed to open and he fell
1000 feet.
during heavy thunder storm, on
lhe ga, the ordnance building at Fort
smelling, Mimi, was struck bv light
ning and almost DESTROYED, but the
stone powder magazine, IS feet away.
containing 22,00Q pounds of powder,
was uninjured.
William PethwiclS, formerly of
Brooklyn, NY, for many wears Earl
LIS secretary and confidential adj
wiser, of the Chinese government
says; Iii Hung Chang should be ig-
nored. lie represents the hostile
minority and will avert their lust
punishment by misrepresenting our
position il he can"
The United States government has
taken the lead in replying to China
That there will be no temporizing ne
gotations and there is every reason
to believe the powers will be united
in this same policy. The answer of
the United States was promptly fol.
lowed by similar action on the part
of the Germans.
Gen. Roberts cabled the British war
Office, on the Esd, that Gen. De Wet
had crossed the Magliesburg, with
few wounded, with the intention of
returning to the Orange River Col
ony. His guns have mostly been
buried and his personal following
dwindled to not more than 300.
After considering the afiidavts sub
mitted by both sides and hearing ar
guments, Judge Cantrill, at George
town, KY, oyerruled the motion for
new trial in the case of former Sec
retary of State Caleb Powers, con-
victed as an accomplice before the
fact in the murder of William Goebel
Mr.. NJ. S. n. Pierre, of 3lS West For
ty-tirst street, New York city, negro
from British Guiana, and 200 of his
fellow British subjects, prepared pc.
tition to Hon, Percy Sanderson, Brit
ish consul, asking him to take the
necessary steps for their projections
They aIlege that they were brutally
attacked by the mob in the recent
riots in that city, and that the police,
instead of giving them protection,
actually urged and melted the mob
to greater fury.
William i. Cox, chief engineer at
the Muneie (lnd) electric street light
works, was killed, on the night of the
24th, by falling on live wire in the
power house. He was alone with his
siX-year-old baby girl at the time. The
child went to him, lay down in his
arms and fell asleep beside the dead
man.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $l5O,OO0,0O0 gold reserve in the d.
vision of redemption, issued on the
Gath, showed: Available cash bal
ance, S137, ,156,4t9; gold $67,7S2, ,196,
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
struck a wagon one mile west of Ef-
fngham, Kas., on the 24th, killing
Alma and Closter Taylor, sisters, and
seriously injuring Mrs. John Black
Bethel Baptist church at Fairyiew
Ky, built as memorial on the site
of Jefferson Davis birthplace, was
struck by lightning, on the gath, and
destroyed.
The Japanese liner Futami Maru,
Capt. Thorn, bound from Australia to
Manila, with a cargo of stores for the
AD,nrioon frnEnrurppnt want n aurOun1
and broke in two on the Island of
Mindinao. There were no casualties
but the cargo, baggage and vessel will
possibly prove total loss.
X. G. Dun & Co., on the cath, report
ed: Failures for the week were III
in the United States, against 163 last
year, and 30 in Canada, against 16
last year"
Prof. Theodore Mommsen, the emf
nent German iurist and historian, has
an article in The Nation, urging the
abolition of the celebration of Sedan
day.
An organization having for its OBJ
iect the control of every electric plant
and system in Wisconsin has been in
corporated by Milwaukee capitalists.
The steamship Lueania, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 25th,
took out 1000 ounces of silver.
A special dispatch from Pretoria, on
the gath, said that Lieut.. Gordua had
been shot.
Incendiarics made an attempt to
burn down the big 100000 Marsden
cellulose factory at Linden, Ind. Five
ricks containing 1,S00 tons of corn
stalks were totally destroyed, entail
ing loss of $4,000. BY hard work the
factory buildings were saved.
After terrific storm at Nome,
Alaska, August 7, out of 6S steam
launches only five remained, aud Of
70 barges only seven were left atloat,
the others having been sunk or driven
ashore. Thirty-eight bodies were
washed ashore at various points.
A life insurance company, on the
cath, paid Mrs. Anna l.. Ingalls, $685.
5s3, Insurance upon the life OF her
deceased husband, John j, ingalls,.
Senator Ingalls, carried two policies
of $4,000 each, which provided for re-
turn of premiums.
Lord Roberts, on the gath, con-
firmed the death sentence of Lieut..
Hans Cordu, the German, who was
found guilty of breaking his parole
and conspiracy to lSidnap Lord Rob