Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-10-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND GENERAL.

are slaughtered and sold every wear
m that city, their flesh being made in
to "corned beef" hamburger steak"
sausage and other products for cheap
restaurants and the free lunch trade
The Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial
appeal and the Scimitar violently crit
lcise President Roosevelt for having
dined with Booker r. Washington,
the negro educator and reformer. at
the White House, on the evening Of
] the 10th.
The British having surprised sew
eral camps, the Beers are now in the
habit of shifting camp by night. Late.
ly the British columns, after long
night marches, have arrived at their
objectiyes only to find the Beers
gone.
President Roosevelt, in his message
to congress, will confine himself to
personal comment on administrative
and legislative problems, and will not
incorporate in it abstracts of the re-
ports of different heads of depart.
ments, as has hitherto been the Gus
| tom.
At the regular weekly meeting Of
the Council of Apostles, held in the
temple at Salt Lake City, on the nth,
Joseph Il. Smith was chosen as presi.
dent of the Church of Jesus Christ Of
Latter Day Saints, in succession 10
the late Lorenzo Snow, with John r.
Winder and Anthony II. Lund as his
first and second counselors.
Miss Theophile Noonan, the beauti-
full 1S-year-old daughter of State
Factory Inspector Noonan, who was
Goddess of Labor, leading a big DEM
onstration at Nashville, Tenn, has
mysteriously disappeared from her
home, and it is feared she has been
abducted.
The battleship Maine relief fund has
been exhausted. This fund was turned
over to Capt, Sigsbee, chief intelli-
gence officer Of the navy, for disburse-
ment, and he has distributed it to de-
serving applicants.
A gorgeous Chinese fancy ball will
be given by Minister WI Ting-fang at
the Chinese legation to celebrate the
return from China of Nine. WI Three
Of the daintiest little maids of China
that the minister's wife could select
will make their American debut at the
ball.
Herr Maurer, editor of the Neus-
Leben, an anarchist sheet, was
sentenced, in Berlin, on the nth, to
four months Imprisonment, owing to
the publication of an article APPROX
ing of the assassination of President
Mckinley,
Officers of the German field hospital
in China, just arrived at Wilhclms-
haven, brought with them the mead
of the Chinaman who murdered Baron
Won Kettcler the German minister,
and who was executed in Pekin for
the crime.
A committee has been formed in
London to give a banquet to Sir
Thomas Upton on his return from the
United States. Among the members
of the committee are, Lord Mayor
Frank Green, Lord Charles Beresford, |
Lord Langattocll, Sir John Monck- |
ton, Sir James Thompson and r. p.
0'Connor.
The British admiralty has sent in
struction to Devonport to prepare for
the construction of a battlcship larg- |
er than any now existing. Her dis
placement will be 16,5OO tons, and her
length 42j feet. She will be the first |
vessel of the King Edward class.
w. X. Nelson, proprietor of the Kan.
sas City (Mo) Star, has purchased |
the Kansas City Times, and will con-
tinue its publication, both papers to
be issued from the Star building. The
Sunday edition of the Times will be
merged with that of the Star.
The Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of Amer
lea is planning general reorganza-
ton tending to strengthen itself at-
ter the losses accruing in membership
due to the settlement of the late
strike.
The autumn crops in the unirrigated
soil throughout the Punjab, India,
have entirely withered, the monsoon
having failed.
Judge Jacob Scales, aged 70 years,
died at his home in .Webber's Falls,
|. r., on the 18th. Judge Scales was
one of the most prominent citizens OF
the Cherokee nation, and had held
many offices under tho tribal govern
ment.
On the 18th Il. G. Dun d Co., OF
New York, reported: Failures Tor
the week numbered 229i in the United
States. against 2O9 last year, and 81 in
Canada, against 20 last tear.
1t is reported in goverhment circles
in Munich that Count Won Buelow, ut
the wish of Bavaria and NurtemburS,
has decided 10 drop the minimal du-
ties from the new tariff hill.
The British war office has ordered
the immediate payment 70 the yeo-
manry of arrears of pay, thus remoV-
ing serious grievance.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund exclusive
of the $1500O0000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issted on the
te+b eboyed. Available cash bal
ances, Sl6s, ,714,O74; gold, SlOf,474,OSS'
A detachment of 46 men OF Com
pany +, Ninth infantry under Lieut.
Wallace, was attacked by 5O4 bolomen
at Lower Gandara, Samar Island, on
the 10th. and suffered a loss of ten
men killed, and six wounded. Tho
enemy was beaten off, leavinGSl dead
on the fed.
John S. Pillsbury, former governor
of Minnesota, and one of the1states
foremost citizens, died at Minneapolis,
on the 18th, of Bright's disease. after
n brief illness. He was over 1Syears
years of age, Mr.. Pillsbury ieft mum
erous monuments of his public spirit
and philanthropy
The official period Of mourning or
dered as mark of respect 70 the
Of President Mckinley ex-
.,;,aa on tho 10Th. The White House