Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-06-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The trial of pullman, Nolan and
Walsh, charged with attempting to de.
stroy Lock No. "a of the Welland
canal was begun at Welland, Ont, on
the cath.
in the Methodist general conference
On the gath, Homer Eaton and George
Mains were reelected as agents Of
tie Book Concern at New York, A. C.
Jennings, at Cincinnati, and Samuel
II Pye, at Chicago. Mr.. Pye for many
yoirs managed the agency at ST
Louis.
oklahoma will this year take her
place among the great fruit producing
sections of the country, Strawberrle,
have been shipped in large quantities
several hundred bushels a day going
from Guthrie alone. Cherry shipment,
to all the leading cities of the north
began on the oath.
Nearly 1000 men were thrown out 0i
work when, at noon, on the gath, the
converter and billet mills of the Hi
nois Steel Co., at Joliet, were closed fol
al indefinite period Only the blast
furnaces and merchant mills are now
running.
by the explosion of boiler in the
sawmill of Capt. James A. McFerrin, a,
;!urleston, Tenn, on the gath, six per
sons were killed. Capt, McFerrin him
self, the proprietor, aged 6j years
formerly in the internal revenue sery
ice. is among the dead. His body was
thrown $50 feet,
Among the mass of dispatches indi
eating the approach of the wars enl
n South Africa, is the intelligence that
referendum is in progress among the
I,ocr lighting men to decide whether
the war shall be continued.
Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, on the
.aii, issued to Hon. j. c. S. Blackburn
his commission as United States sena
Tor to succeed William Lindsay. The
commission is a certificate of election
by the last legislature on January
for the term beginning in March, 1901
The apartments of Mrs. +. NJ. Belts
wife of a well-known physician al
1882 Court place, Denver, Col, vert
entered by burglar, on the 25th, ant
diamonds and other jewelry valued al
$1,000 were stolen. Roy Brock, 1
young man living in the house, was
arrested on suspicion, but none of th'
stolen articles have been recovered.
A dispatch from Georgetown, Brit
ish Guiana, on the 25th, said that {
steamer, with three conveys, was car
ried over a cataract in the Potara river
British Guiana, 40 lives being lost.
The vault of the Bank OF Dover
Mimi, was blown open by burglars, oil
the night of the cath, and $4,000 taken
The burglars escaped.
Eleven thousand additional troops
will be sent to South Africa from Eng
land during June.
Gen. Chaffee and his wife sailed fo
the United States from Havana, on thi
e5th, on the transport Burnside, Prio
to his departure, Gen. Chalfee gave
reception at the palace, which wa
largely attended by Cubans and Amer
leans. The Cubans regret 10 have Gen
Chaffee leave.
A crisis in the fortunes of the nj
| lied Boer forces is believed to be a
hand. 1t is thought that Gen. De We
and Commandant Olivier will be una
BILE to hold the Free State forces to
gether if the Transvaalers cross TIN
vaal without making a final stand il
the Free State.
Late reports from the seat of wa
say that the British were rapidly al
vancing. Gen. Hamilton had effected
a junction with Lord Roberts. TIL
country in front of them was clea
of Beers to Viljoen's Drift. The Boer
were evacuating all their position
south of the Vaal river, and 5000 hat
already crossed to the north bank.
The president and members of hi
cabinet went to Fredicksburg, Va, OF
| the 25th to attend the memorial scrV
ices of the Society of the Army of tn
Potomac at the national cemetery and
incidentally, to assist at the laying o
| the corner stone of the Fifth corp
monument presented by Gen. Butter
field.