Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-10-27

Gee department that he mas opened a
niobt school for native postal en-
nl0ves at Samolpec, where they may
study English.
Ten thousand Alabamans greeted
Con Wheeler and Lieut.. Hobson in
MONTGOMERY, on the 10th, when Gen.
wheeler presented a loving cup to
1icpt. IIobson, in behalf of the people
of Alabama
Prof. Pickering, of Harvard arrived
o KINGSTON, Jamaica, on the 10th, to
establish an astronomical observatory
At Vaudeville Immediately. He says
tbe surroundings there are favorable
for special researches.
conservative estimate Of Florida's S
orange crop this year places the yield
At 10oo000 boxes. The groves are in
healthy condition. Fruit will begin to
be marketed about the 1st. The av-
eroge price per box is two dollars.
Prof. Wilhelm Oncllen, of the Uni
ycrsty of Gessen CIIesse), who was
Intimately acquainted with the late
Prince Bismarck, writes to a Dresden
iournal that Bismarck's last prayer
# was, Lord, | believe. Help Thou
ID mine unbelef."
@ /. Morris was arrested in Chca-
20, on the 10Th, for an alleged attempt
III mon the life of John w. Gates, cX-
81 president of the American Steel and
Wire Go. When searched at the po-
lice station, two large Teyolyers we're
al found concealed in his pockets
II is regarded in Pekin as certain
# that the alleged imperial edict order.
ing the punishment of high officials
q was forged, and was concocted with
Il the object Of preventing the advance
II of the allies on Pao Ting Flu Botn
II Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang deny
its authenticity.
Il Nicholas Scalp, a Swedish naval
4 cook, who was on the battleship
Maine when she was blown up in ia-
Nana harbor, shot and killed himself
in Brooklyn on the 10Th, His Jaw
was shattered by flying iron in the
Maine explosion, and he had been un.
able TO eat solid food since.
The comptroller of the currency
says that applications have been re-
ceiycd under the act of March II, 1900
for the organization of 496 new ma
tional banks, with a total capacity of
S22jOjo00. OF this number 313 will
have a capacity Of less than S50.000
each, and 123 of $50 GOO or more.
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The report that the nowagcr En-
press Frederick was married, last
April, TO Baron SecltendorI, wao was
hoImcister under Emperor Frederick,
although widely circulated abroad,
had always been strenuously denied in
EcIin until the present crisis in her
disease, Now, however, it is being
circulated again and accepted as true.
Former cabinet officer and senator,
John sherman, is dangerously i'll at
mgton city The attack has taier
the form of a general collapse, in
part due to the debility incident to
Old age and to the effects of the seri-
Gus illness which he suffered while
ona trip to the West Indies two years
ago.
Mo.
homeless Galveston orphans, which
began in New York city on the night
OF the 18TH in the Waldrof-Astoria,
was closed, on the nth, by Marx
Twain, who spoke for about ten min.
utes. The management of the bazaar
estimated the net receipts for the
three nights at between $4,000 and
EOO00
Hor. Saycrs of Texas was among the
presidents callers on the 10Th. He
was ON his way back to Texas from
Ne" York, where nc went to attend
the charity bazar for the benefit of
The orphans of the Galveston disaster,
0Ed stopped in Washington to pay his
respects to the president and to thank
nm Tor the aid the government had
extended the victims of the storm.
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Secretary Long kas ordered that
there be no further proceedings in
The case of Capt. Wilde of the Ore
Eon, who was being Investigated by IL
rourt of inquiry to determine the re-
sponsibility for the grounding of the
bailIeshipin the Gulf of Pc Chi Ii, last
summer, while hurrying to Taku
from Shanghai, This action finally
diSposes of the case.
ten. j. w. Fisher died at his home
III cheyenne, Wyo., on the 18th, at the
age OF Sc years. lie was one of Wy
o"lUgs pioneers, going to Cheyenne
IN 1871 as associate justice of the ter
IIollal court, appointed by President
orant' He was afterward chief JUS
''e OF the supreme court for over
'lSht years, His war record was par
ucularly brilliant, rising from the
ranks of the volunteers to be brga-
der general.
"oN' Mount of Indiana, on the 18th, |
received deed to the 16 acres of land !
N spencer county, Indiana surround |
tlg the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
lh' mother of Abraham Lincoln. The
ueed conveys the land from the coun-
y commissioners of Spencer county
10 the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial |
association, of which the governor is
president, The work on the monu-
nent has begun, and WILL it is be-
ItNed, be completed this fall, when
oedlcatory services will be held.
seven masked men wrecked the safe
OF the Farmers bank at Bronaugh
MO-, at about half-past one o'clock on
'he morning of the 10th. Dynamite
was used, and the report was heard
ny Constable William 4. Morren and
'he proprietor of the Bronaugh house,
across the street from the bank. Con-
STABLE Morren fired several times in
me darkness in the direction of the
report and shot after shot was re-
turned by the robbers, one of which
struck Morren and killed him. He was