Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-08-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| '''' VI 'Ht IJtni appointed
temporary receiver for the George II.
Phillips Grain Co, Bond in the sum
of 100000 was given.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, ON the 18th, per steam.
er Lain, from Bremen and Soutbamp-
ton, were Gen. Fred. D. Grant. bis
wife and son Ulysses S. Grant.
a severe tropical storm swept over
the gulf coast, on the 18th, accompa-
med by what amounted to a tidal
wave. Thousands OF persons were emf
OIL from the mainland in Louisiana.
Alabama and other coast states, ana
1t is feared there was some loss of life.
The New York Tribune, of the 10th.
asserts chat news has been received
IN this country involving Venezuela,
Nicaragua and Ecuador in The at
tempt of Gen. Rafael Tribe Tribe. the
Colombian rebel leader, to overthrow
the government of Colombia"
Mrs. Carrie Nation, while taking
pleasure trip on the st. Lawrence, out
Watertown, N, Y, on the 18th, began
crusade against cigar smokers. She
undcrtook to snatch cigar from the
mouth of Eugene Foley, travelling
nina, who promptly slapped her face,
and the crusade came to an end. Fo-
ley afterwards apologi2ed.
Mrs. Eliza Stotlar, of Peoria coun-
ty, ILL.,, mother of William Stotlar. Of
near Carthage, claims to be the oldest
woman in America. She celebrated
her one hundredth and eighteenth
birthday anniversary August 7, 1901.
She was born in Pennsylvania.
In match race at Brighton Beach,
on the 18th, for purse of $4,000,
offered by the New York Trotting as
sociation, George II. Ketcham's stal.
lion Cresceus defeated John j. Sean
nelrs The Abbot, taking the first heat
in 2:O3A and distancing his competi-
tor in the second heat. Fully 10000
persons witnessed the event.
Shamrock II. was put in dry dock,
at New York, on the 18th, to have her
hull cleaned. Experts who saw her
say the cup challenger resembles the
Columbia very much, so far as her
undcrbody and fin are concerned.
That Shamrock II, is a dangerous OPP
ponent is conceded by all.
At GorcviIlc, a little town on the
Chicago a Eastern Illinois railroad,
near Metropolis, Ill.,, no rain has fall
en since last April, and all the wells
and springs in the neighborhood have
dried up, Water is selling at 81 per
barrel.
The postmaster-generai received a
cablegram from Havana on the 18th,
stating hat the trlaI OF T. T. Ihomp-
son, formerly postmaster at Havana,
charged with embezzllng money or
der funds, had been concluded and
Thompson convicted, He was SEN
fenced to pay = fine of S40o or serve
six months IN prison.
The ministers of the various powers
at Pckin Unexpectedly signed the pro-
tocol on the 18th, Copies were later
sent to the Chinese plenipotcntiaries,
to receive their signatures.
The bill for the construction of
Pacific cable from British Columbia
to Australia, by the imperial govern
ment and the Australasan colonies,
was passed by the British house of
lords, on its final reading, on the 18th.
State Building aud Loan Inspector
Maucll of Ohio, on the 18th, swore ont
n warrant for the arrest of j. A.
Blodt late secretary of the Guaran-
fee Savings and Loan association,
at Cleveland. upon the charge of en-
bc2zling funds oftheinstitution. Blodt
recently resigned his position with
the bank as the result of an inyest-
cation by state officials.
On the 10th detectives arrested
Gerhart Terlinden, alias Theodore
Crate, at boarding house in Milwau-
kee. He is charged with cmbezzling
100000 marks from a large manufac-
turing concern in Germany which is
copitalized at 12,O0O,O00 marks. Ter
linden, it is alleged, duplicated the
concerns stock, had it stamped and
scaled and sold if.
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