Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-11-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
oeosoNAL AND GENERAL.

There were INt NllhES9 g. 'o
noItical disputes IN various por'
u '.Is n Kentucky on election doy,
'vT' ~r, most Offices at Atchison, Neb.,
Il i"I porkyille, Mo-, have been adj
'nr "oad from the fourth to the third
'presidentiaD class
,rcbdeacon Reginald Heber Weller
as " copsecrated coadjutor bishop of
rond du Lac, Wis, on the Sth' Six
bishops we're in attendance.
william j. Bryan, on the Sth, sent
ho following dispatch to President
,lnnIev: "Hon. William Mckinley,
President of the United Statcs-At
,be close of another presidential cam
a,ign it is my lot to congratulate you
an A second victory"
owing to the defeat, at the recent
election, of q proposition to raise the
necessary amount to finish paying for
tbc Peoria 1ll,) soldiers monument,
hy taxation, their is danger of its be-
mo removed and sold, The monument
il rare work Of art, and was dedi-
caed October 6, 1898, by President
Mckinley
A Pretoria dispatch, via Charles
town Natal. November 7, says; Gen,
DcWet has been wounded in the leg
in A fght with the troops Of Gen,
Knox at Rensbcrg Drift. According to
native reports the Bocr commander
narrowly escaped capture
The banquet given at the Waldorf
Astoria, New York, on the night
Of the Sth, to Gen. o. o. How
ord in honor of his SEVENTEEN birth
day anniversary, was attended by 800
/ men prominent in business and pro-
iesionol life Chauncey NJ. Depew
presided.
Admiral Dewey has removed his col.
lecticn Of gifts, which occupied the
most prominent place in the Hall of
American History in the national
museum, to his home in Rhode Isl
and avenue, Washington. The collec-
ton has assumed very large proper.
tons
Ii Hung Chang telegraphs the
Shanghai correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph that he despairs
Of a settlement, and that it is useless
10 eypecr the Chinese court to consent
to the execution of Yu Hsien or Tung
fu Slang.
Complete unofficial returns from II.
nois, show the total vote for presi.
dent to have been: Mckinley, 593,-
O23; Bryan, 49Lg3O plurality, 05,003.
The plurality of Yates for governor
isfj.lli.
William j. Bryan, in statement is.
sued on the Sth, says: "The result
was surprise to me, and the magni-
tude Of the republican victory was a
surprise to our opponents as well as
70 those who voted our ticket II is
impossible for me TO analyze the re.
turns until they are more complete"
A new case of yellow fever is re.
ported from Natchez, Miss. Mrs. But
Ter, the first patient reported, Is dead.
She was a ncice of former Gov.
longino 4 surgeon of the Marine
hospital is ondraroring to trace the
source of infection.
Broken in health by reason of the
hnrdships and privations of the fear
tul famine in India. Bishop J. NJ. Tho
NorM of Bombay, representative Of
the Methodist Episcopal church in In.
dla and oceanica, has returned to this
country after Al wears of service in
Iotor Jo.o,.
steam collier City of Vienna. which
sank in the English channel Thursday.
While bound from Swansea 70 Rotor.
dam, after collision with an nm.
known vessel show that 10 of her
crew were drowned
At Morysville, O.. Judge Melborn.
on the 9th, overruled the motion for a
new trial, and sentenced Rosslvn Fer.
rel to be clectrocuted on Friday.
March l, 1901, for the murder of Ex-
press Messenger Lane. August 10 last.
The statement of the treasury bal
IA.
ahces in the general fund, exclusive of
'le $ll0,OOO,O0O gold reserve in the di-
VISION of redemption. issued ON the
s' s,h' showed; Available cash balance,
oh the 9th II. G. Dun g. Co. report
w. :, Failures for the week were POI
:" ,,, 'He United States, against 157 last
year and Is in Canada, against 90 last
war
ton ane united States turret ship Mon
ha,S htS mas returned to Hong Kong,
80 h1,u8 lalled to reach Canton, owing
cn an accident to her machinery.
diO1 80 frederick Ellsworth Mather
on t 81, AZ IN ms home, in New York city,
last I'll. oyi, aged W years. He was the
f1n,, surviving member of the original
p,n tu''eeh who formed the Skull and
pHs., IS Soc,e,y OF Yale university.
,asnr,S A'' MISS one Of the prettiest
bg ~ H % on The gulf coast, was swept
nath v, .1 On the 9th, destroying in its
lnnsos @0ou' loo dwellings and business