Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-09-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL. :
1t is estimated that nearly fifty
million yards of black cotton cloth, c
not to mention the fabrics of more t
costly make, We're used in mourning I
drapings incident TO the death OF l
President Mckinley, thus relieving the
glut in the Massachusetts and other
mills.
D. j. Brown, miner, who lives at
Carlinville, III, shot his wife and his
fatber-in-law, James p. Fitzgerald,
and then shot himself in the head.
What was almost triple tragedy is
said to have been the result of differ
ences between Brown and his wife.
President Roosevelt, in conformity
with his policy to carry out, as far
as possible, the plans of President
Mckinley, announced, on the 10Th, the
appointment of w. b. Ridgley, of |
Springfield, Ill.,, as comptroller of the
currency.
The British torpedo-boat destroyer,
the Cobra, fOundercd in the North |
sea, the result Of an explosion, on the
18th. The ship was en- route from the
yard of her builders, the Armstrong;,
of Newcastle, to Portsmouth, Sixty
seven lives We're lost.
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener
| from Pretoria, dated September Is,
announces that the Beers, September
II, ambushed three companies OF
mounted infantry, with three guns,
commanded by Maj. Cough, in the Vi
cinity of Scheeper's Mex. All were
killed, wounded or captured,
The Illinois pardon board, on the
| 10Th, after mature deliberation de-
clined to extend clemency to Charles
| w. Spaulding, sentenced TO ten years
Imprisonment for embe2zling funds of
the University of Illinois aggregating
| S3O0,000
1t is understood that negotiations
have already been concluded with the
Rothschilds for large Russian loan,
to be issued at about the end OF the
,, wear. The czar's visit to France is eN-
pccted to facilitate the placing Of the
loan. The sum mentioned is billion
francs. 1t was understood soon after
! the last loan that it was merely
). first installment.
d Rioting upon the part of the locked
e out fishermen at Grimsby, England
c continued on the 10th. The pollc'
II charged the crowds, and about htt,
= presons were injured. A detachmen
of regular troops was sent to III
:, scene.
II The Schley court of inquiry recon
i'' yened in Washington, on the 2oth, an
le before adjournment examined lou
d witnesses. The most important inc
a dent of the day was the decision q
A the court withdrawing question pl
IL by the court itself, asking Wthe'
TO give his opinion concerning a pon
in under controversy This, and IL
n. fact that irrelevant questions Will |
he strictly barred will greatly short'
r. the proceedings.
O The fall carnival at Omaha Nel
n. closed, on the night Of the 2O'h' win
-. ball at the "dcn" Of the knights
Ak-sar-Ben. 1t was Travelling MeI
day, and they celebrated it W''h a ?
X rade of an unique order Nearly
ia ery man in the line of march wore
of large badge proclaiming his paruc
in lar line. The marchers wore unliori
ry. of tissue paper painted in rainbow Ct
to ors. d
lrt Golden eagles to the value OF ,
, 4 100000 were shipped from farlS
New York, on the @lst, ana 'here
no doubt that this consignment W
Ia be followed by others
on Eugene Brooks, Xionite elder d
We, John Rogers, one of his loLo"'
wn were committed for trial at NleVoi
the r G.. on the 2Oth, on two charges
nts manslaughter, two of Rogers q I.
ose dren having died of diphtherIa' II
ven alleged without medical trea.nen
Secretary Root, on the sV'n,
nroyed the final draft of the fhl n
y u. pine tariff, and so inforlneu y
No Taft. WI,
nds Mrs. Mckinley visited Westla
van '. cemetery, at Canton, o. on 'he ~
'l"n and expressed qualification "nen
'i' heheId the beautiful array Oh nv II,
pre- nieees that almost hid her husoa'
VINO temporary tomb. DR., RiXey saio'
AZ terward, that the drive ana WISH
benefited his patient
, ~ Katherine Kupfer, a young a
s+h whom the late George f. ull'n"n
!, n Bridgeport, Conn, befriendeo' eo on Oh
r;rg 2otb, filed a claim of Sl9'ooo w a
2nis. his estate for services as an ar'iS'
ath- six years. ..oosrrv
80 90 The statement of the treasury
aaa lue ance in the general fund.- eSclus''
80. eon The Sl5o,OoO, 900 gold reserve III
~ division of redemption, issued oi
''' ooth showed: Available eash pa''
;nos S1s7 400, ,o14; gold, $1o5,649'1''' o.,
lnes' p q Dun & Co., on the 2oth
80 80 norted. "Failures for the week
!, , ". bercd 157 in the United States as'
,niao Ia 91t last year, and 20 IN 'a'
am,t against 80 last year" nm,
@ aul.' The secretary of the treasury
o1vi r,o the Goth, purchased $i,6oo, lVo u
IL. u. form {our-per-cent. bonds at l4o'
) pu' At Winchester, England on
su. goth, Lord Rosebery unveliea 'he
lohu' nment 10 King Alfred as the CT
;ng event of the three days mili'
,,n l,ing n as holding a shield WITH
I'M y ',,., hand and as lifting high win 'h'
'aaiy 49, = reversed sword transformed
, 10 On the symbol of the Christian re'. te.
- on Tbc duke and duchess oil oot
noiu and York reached Ottawa oh' I,
l'ni.s Canadian capital, ON the Sotn
'na n', ~ there was another great ou'pJ
, NY IVY of people to give them gree"
; n,, .n LOYALTY and cordial welcome,
sleep, Inc - of inouiry, O
'iei Goth was the fact that the q
cd at cruiser Colon, aground IN 'he
m the hnrbor of Santiago, might nav, nav,
,latiye DESTROYED by the flying squa
H. - - sch,ey's command, ou'