Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-10-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"N''hldlCN tOUUlllOn.
The state department, on the 18th,
received report from the consul at
NagaSahi, Japan, of the death at that
place ON September 10, of Bertrand
W. Ragsdale, vice-consul and marshal
OF the consular court at Tien Tsip.
China He had gone from Tien Tsin
TO Nogasaki in July for the benefit of
his health.
Prof Joseph Whitley, principal of
the Salt Lake City (Utah) school of
law, dropped dead out of his chair in
a restaurant, on the 18th, from hem
orrhage of the brain. lie had taken a
degree at ONford university, and, be-
fore coming to America, was clergy
man in the Church of England.
The Ohio Society of California has
received information of a definite ma
ture to the effect that President Nc
hinlcy will visit San Francisco next
April to witness the launching of the
battleship Ohio, which is now nearing
completion at the Union iron works in
that city.
The department Of education in the
Philippines has decided to place some
natives in United States schools so
that they may come in contact with
American social and political usages.
The first lot of students probably will
not be sent over until next summer
The duke of Tetudn, Marquis Villa
verd, Senior Il. Olivier, director gener-
al of the civil register, and Senior Tor
res Campos, have been appointed
members, on the part of Spain, of The
Hague international arbitration
board.
1t is announced that the immcdi-
ate danger attaching to the illness of
King Oscar has passed, but that he
will require a long rest.
Rabbi lIeyman Schwarz, Il we'll
known Jewish litterateur, died at
Houston, Tex, on the 18th, aged 7G.
he bad an International reputation as
a writer on the Jewis religion
a home Tor wolpr 4tuts at the
Berlin university win erected, fol-
lowing the general plan Of college
dormitories in the United States.
Hard coal prices will never be re-
duccd to the point where they were
before the Pennsylvania strike in the
opinion of retail coal dealers. They
say that the strike has permanently
raised the price of coal at least SC
cents on the ton.
William Millham, of Solomon City.
Kas, a veteran Of the civil war, ana
hrloughcd inmate of the national
military home at Leavenworth, Kas.,
was killed, on the 18th, at st, Louis,
by the Kinloch special on the Wa
bash railroad.
United States Marshal Hammac'l, mt
Eureka, Springs, Ark, has just com
pleted the capture of an entire band
of counterfeiters who have been OPP
Grating in that neighborhood for
many years. Their headquarters were
in a cavern known as Bennet,s cave,
four miles from Eureka Springs.
Maj Mott K. Peterson, chief com
missary of Cuba, died of yellow fever
at Las Animas, on the 18TH An hour
later his wife shot herself fatally,
The remains were inferred the same
day with military honors. The Gags
at El Moro and on all the public
buildings were half-masted.
The town Of Guadalupe, Mexico, was
swept away by a cloudburst, on the
night of the 18th. The water swept
through the little town in Il torrent
five feet deep, leveling everything in
its way. An old man and two children
are missing.
Paul Kruger, former president of
the Transvaal Republic, embarked, Sc
crctly, carly on the morning of the
10Th on board the Dutch cruiser Gel
dcrlaud, at Lorenzo Marquee 1t is
said he feared the Beers would attack
him if they saw him departing.
Rev. A. Nelson Ilolliiield, retiring
moderator of the New Jersey Presby-
teran synod, dropped dead at Haddon
hall, Atlantic City, n. j., of heart dis
ease. DR.. IIolifield was about sixty
years of age, and apparently in good
health.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen,
eral Bristow received a dispatch
from Havana, ON the 10th, informing
him that ONar Fcyt, clerk in the
registry department of the Havana
post office, had been apprehended by
post Office inspectors for tampering
with international registered mail.
The settlement of the anthracite
coal miners strike is temporarily
blocked by the powder question, the
operators insisting on figuring on the
reduction in the price of powder in
adjusting the ten per cent. increase
in wages.
John scruggs the Wells-Fargo EN-
press Co.'s agent at Escelon, Mexico,
has disappeared, together with
package of Mexican currency contain
ing $4,000. The company offers re-
ward for Scruegs' apprehension
Withing a few feet Of his wife, and
in the same room where she was sew
ing and singing, John Pfeiifer, of Chi