Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-07-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

great exposition,
At the Yale alumni dinner, on the
Goth, it was announced that the So
100000 required rs the amount of the
bicentennial fund had all been pro-
vided, the principal new pledgers be-
ing Frederick Vanderbilt and james
}, Hill, of New York, and Matthew
Borden, of Fall River, Mass.
Official business at the cabinet meet
Ing, on the 25th, gave way to express
sions Of sympathy with Secretary Hay
in his bereavement.
A German firm has secured the con-
tract for the electric lighting Of Pc
kin.
At Seattle, Wash, on the 27th, the
coroner's jury entered a verdict that
William j. Meredith was murdered by
John Considne, assisted by Tom Con-
sidine. Warrants were issued chnrg-
ing both the Considines with murder.
A dispatch from Rome, on the eth,
announced the pope to be seriously
ill., and said that his attending ply
sician did not leave the pontfr's bed
side. Vactican officials were anxious
concerning the pope's health,
Gen. Maxine Gomez sailed from IIa-
vana for New York, on the goth, by
way of Tampa, Fla, accompanied by
the private secretary of Gov.-Gcn,
Wood.
The governors of the New York
stock exchange voted, on the 2Gth, not
to close the exchange on July ) and 6.
At meeting of the Harvard Alum.
nj association at Cambridge, Mass,
on the Goth, Hon. John d. Long was
elected president.
A portrait Of Louisa, Lady Manners,
afterwards countess of Dysart by
Soppner, was sold at auction, in Lon
don, on the 2-th, for 1880 guneas.
Max Kershaw, formerly Of Denver,
and who at one time was one of Yale s
best-knoNyn athletes, died in San Fran
cisco, on the 9Th, aged 20 years.
The secretary OF the treasury, on
the 27th, purchased 100000 short
term four-per-cent. bonds at ll3.0l33.
Boer invaders, under Malan and
Smit, about three thousand strong,
attacked Richmond, Cape Colony,
early on the morning of the 2jth, The
town was defended by detachment
of the North Stailordshire militia
under Capt Hawkshaw and the town
guard. After fight lasting IL hours
the Beers withdrew.
The Seventh national bank of New
York city was placed in the hands OF
temporary receiver by the comp
troller of the currency, on the 27th,
because of the indebtedness of bor-
rover, approNmating Sl,6OO,OOO, Sc
cured by doubtful collateral.
La Lucha 1layana), referring edi-
torially to the annexation movement
warns its agitators to proceed slowly
saving premature action will prove
harmful to themselves and that their
efforts should be saved for that time
in the future when the problem o.
annexation comes up.
The jury at Eldorado, kas" after
wrangling for 80 hours, found Miss
Jessie Morrison guilty of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree for the kill
ing of Mrs. Olin d. Castle. The penal
tv is not more than five years nor
less than three years imprisonment
The jury at Springfield, O., in the
case of George w. Thatcher, charged
with forging the name of the late
millionaire, P. p. Mast, to notes ag'
gregatng S296,O0O, returned a verdict
of acquittal.
While Alfred Norlin, the county
treasurer, was working in his office in
the courthouse, at Minden, Neb, on
the night of the 27th, some one en-
tered and knocked him senseless, and
after rihing his pockets and the
money drawer, set fire to the build
ing.
The grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln
mother of Abraham Lincoln, in Spen'
Ger county, Ind, is at last marked by
n creditable monument. 1t has Jus'
been completed and is now ready to
turn over to the commission created
by the last general assembly
Thomas G. Barker, who shot keV
John Keller, and who was found gull
ty by jury at Jersey City, n. J'' was
sentenced, on the 27th. to five years
imprisonment and to pay the costs oi
| the trial
AS a result of the breaking OF
temporary platform built on seal
folding inside and bridging the top OF
n monstrous tank in the Eastern ele
yator at Buffalo, N, Y, six men tel
a distance of so feet. Four were
killed, one instantly, and the Others
died within few hours. Another II
not expected to live.
There arrived at Ashcroft, b. Cr OF
the a7th, a gold brick weighing LOU
pounds, representing the greater por
| ton of the years clean up OF 'h'
Cariboo Mining Co.
All the flint glass factories OF th'
country operated under the scales o
the American Flint Glass workers
union, closed down, on the 29th' tol
periods ranging from four weeks t'
two months. Fully forty thousan'
men and boys will enjoy the custom
ary summer vacation.
At Christies' auction rooms in Lon
don, on the 2Sth, "A pair OF smai
Louis XIV. cabinets,with brass mounts
and executed by Caflieri, which Wer'
formerly the property of the duke o
Leeds, were sold at auction for 4 To-
900.
Miss Minnie A. Stoner, dean OF th'
woman's department and professor .
domestic science in the Kansas stat'
Agricultural college, has been eleete'
professor of domestic science N 'n'
Ohio state university.