Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-06-23
6PICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
personal AND GENERAL


ebt are suffering terribly from cold,
arrangements are being made to
byide them with shelter. Their ra-
bns are identical with the seanty fare
ryed out to the burghers.
trbe Minnesota grand lodge of Odd
blows. on the 18th, voted to exclude
,logists and hotel keepers from the
her in that state. William McGregor,
Minneapolis, was elected grand
arden.
Mrs. l.. N. NJ. Stevens, national pres
ent of the Woman's Christian Tenn
trance union, read IA paper, on the
n. before the temperance congress
london ON Prohibition in Name" p"
Mr., Wolmarans, cousin of the
ransyaal envoy of the same name,
Is arrived at Lourenzo Marquee, and
bclares that he intends to take no
arthcr part in the fighting.
d An agent from Colon is at Kingston,
hmaica, making arrangements to re-
r,lit laborers to work on the Panama
anal
A terrible accident occurred, on the
8tb. at the Hale mine, three miles
rom Giwabik, Mimi, in which five men
sere instantly killed, by an explosion
q dynamite.
A Richard Croker, leader of Tammany
Hal. sailed from England for New
York on the steamer Lucania, June 1G.
III Mrs. Catherine Gladstone, widow 1f
'Engand's Grand Old Man. William
Ewart Gladstone, died at lIawarden,
Wales, the family residence, on the
a4th aged SIS years. The funeral will
"a held in Westminster abbey.
Il Gen. Mcthuen's success in restoring
4he communications with Pretoria has
hot altered the fact that the Free
State raiders have taken more than
4, goo prisoners at Lindley and Roode-
5al, and have retreated with them and
4hcir guns, and that the raids may be
4epcated. The Bocr commanders are
8til intact.
Ry the action of the democratic
State conventions in California, Mis-
*ouri, Kentucky, Georgia and Vermont,
b. the 14th, W. j. Bryan is assured o!
hhe nomination for president on tho
ticket, considerably over the
avo thirds necessary to nominate him
Rbeing is sight.
The readiustment of postmasters'
Salaries, just completed, shows that
Ehe wonderful increase in the business
|at Offices of the presidential class
Shown last year has been eelipsed this
wear, making the present year in this
respect the banner year in the history
|of the postal service.
Within six hours ending at noon on
|the 18th, the rainfall at Memphis,
Ffenn., was over five inches, the great
fest on record. The rain has covered
|aIl of West Tennessee and Mississippi.
Cotton throughout Mississippi was Sc
|riously damaged.
Judge Belcher, at san Francisco, ON
|the lith, filed an opinion, in which ne
holds that marriages of persons di-
'yoreed in California, consummated
within II months after the decree of
.the divorce has been made, are invalid,
and that, in the eyes of the law, such
persons are unmarried.
The kentucky state Offices We're, on
the lith, formally turned over to the
democratic officers, and the records re-
moved from the Capitol hotel to the
statehouse, at Frankfort, and the dual
governments in Kentucky ceased.
\ miniature riot occurred, on the
18th, at the institute for feeble-mind-
ed at Beatrice, Neb., when the gov
emor's app6intee for superintendent,
Dr. Dccring, and constables armed
with repleyin papers, attempted to
g1m possession of the institute, books
and records.
\ new mahdi has appeared AT Wady-
halIa, in the Soudan, preaching this
proclamation, that Christ would soon
be seen upon earth. He was arrested
by the government, together with As
adherents.
IL G. Dun e. Co, reported, on the
18TH; Failures for the week have
been 1852 in the United States, against
l3b last year, and 23 in Canada, against
IS last year"
twenty additional congregations
were admitted to membership in the
general conference, at Minneapolis,
Mnn,,of the United Norwegian church,
on the 18th.
Admiral Dewey is satisfied to remain
aomlral lie says the people evidently
10 not want him for president or, at
'eaSt those who fix up the states in
advance of the conventions don't seem
10 want him, and he is satisfied to let
it go at that
IT. Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer,
Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Ala
oama, died at Mobile, on the 14th,
ased 81 years, Bishop Wilmer was
oorn in Alexandria, Va, March Is,
1910 He is remembered nationally for
ms recommendation to the clergy of
'he 'he diocese to omit the prayer, "For
'ne President of the United States lod
all the Others in authority"
The report of the signal defeat of the
colombian reyolutionists in the State
u !Santander is confirmed. The rebel
soneial Tribe escaped alone, and is
now fugitive.
ne municipality of Bremen has ap.
proprlated an additional 100000
uiarks or Tor deepening the Weser.
Inc introduction of the centigrade
thermometer into Prussia has been of,
oclally decreed
!, kentucky has suffered severely from
VIC recent heavy rains, the like of
""ieh mas not been known at this sea-
~" ~ ior years. Wheat has been almost
an,io'ileVahly :, ruined, the hay crop is
"oout worthless, and thousands of
a.res a oil corn and tobacco have been
drowned out.
%, ueh, Macabulos, with eight officers,
- a. enilSted men and 124 rifles, surren-
ne,ed I to Col. E. II. Liscum of the Ninth
mly mdr.fy at Tarlac, Luzon, on the 18th.
ln". e"ouios is the most important and
p ,asO msurgent leader in Tarlac and
Lay alei'ry Webbing, farmer, whose
.'oiie was near Cowling. ILL.,. while Mt.