Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-06-22
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND GENERAL

Ai"hN ENdhS, OIL oargeant Bluffs
Ia, after living ten weeks with n
broken neck, died on the 18th. His
neck was dislocated while playing
ball.
The Improvement in Mrs. McKin.
ley's condition enables the president
to spend more time in his office. On
the 18th he saw quite a number OF
people,
NJ. DE Aspire, Mexican ambassador,
and Jose Godoy, arrived at Buffalo,
n. Y, on the 18th, from Washing
ton. The Mexican building was. dedi-
Gated on the l4th
President Loubet of France re-
ceived Mr., Henderson, speaker of the
United States house of representa-
tives, and Representative Gillet on
the 18th
Sir Claude MacDould, British min
ister to Japan, arrived at San Francis
co. on the 18th, on the steamer Hong
Kong MaTu, en- route to London.
John w. Booge, a prominent citi-
zen of Pocahontas county, Ia, said
to be worth $4,000 was convicted in
the United States court at Fort
Dodge, on the 18th, of fraudulently
receiving pension money under the
name OF Jonn NJ. Brown.
Multi-Milionaire Henry NJ. Flagler
has made application, under the new
divorce law of Florida, for divorce
from his insane wife, who is in a san
itarium in Westchcster county, n. y.
After July / all clergymen east of
the Mississippi river and west of
Pittsburgh and Buffalo must pay 25
cents for permits to buy railroad
tickets at half fare. This was agreed
upon by general passenger agents Of
all roads in the territory named, at
a meeting in Chicago.
Charles B. Wilson, of Kansas City,
Mo-, was placed under $4,000 bonds
at Galesburg, H., charged with at.
tempting to swindle Pleasant Marks,
a Knox county farmer, out of $4,000
on u fake card game. The officers are
searching for his companion.
The Cuban constitutional conven-
tion, having accepted the Platt
amendment, will now proceed to for
mulate an election law and prepare
for the election of an independent
unyprumpni
DR.. San Yet Sen, the Chinese re-
former, left Honolulu, Jnne 5, for
China, fer the purpose of starting a
revolution. His intention is to over
throw the empress dowager and the
mnndarins His idea is to have China
ruled by a government on the Amer
lean plan.
Secretary of the Treasury Gage, on
the 18th, accepted the United States
mint which has just been completed
at Philadelphia, at cost of more
than two million dollars, and which is
said to be the finest and best equipped
building of its kind in the world.
Mrs, Lynn H. Pullman has begun
suit in the circuit couia ~ Chioago
for divorce from George NJ. Pullman,
alleging that he is anything but 4
saint, and that he has added deser-
tion to the list of undesirable things
he has done.
On instructions from Washington,
District Attorney Sullivan has brought
suit against Lieut.. Il. d. Chase, Of
Sandusliy, o., who is charged with
converting to his use government sup
plies to the amount of $1,000 while
serving with the Sixth Ohio in the
war with Spain.
Heat and humidity caused seven
deaths in Chicago, on the 18th, as
follows Patrick Buckley, John Carl
son, Thomas CWla, Otto Hecller,
Fritz Stabler, W. White, Mrs. j. Wolo-
Cosli.
The Pennsylvania limited, east
bound, was wrecked near Rochester,
Pa, on the 1Ith, by rear-end colli-
sion with freight train. Mrs. Amos
Mnlngcr, Of Dubuque, Ia. was the
only person hurt, She was slightly
cut and bruised by being thrown
against a mirror.
II. G. Dun q Co. reported on the
18th: "Failures for the week num-
bered 179 in the United States, against
1G2 last year, and % in Canada,
against q last year.
BY courtesy of the navy department
the yacht Independence was placed in
the drydock at the Boston navy yard
on the 14th, to have her rudder
changed and her hull cleaned.
The wooden side-wheeler North
field, which had been in the service
of the Staten Island Ferry Go. for the
past IS years, was rammed on the
night of the 14th, in North river, by
the stecl.hullcd propeller Mauch
Chunk. used as a ferry boat by the
Central Railroad of New Jersey In Il
minutes the Northfeld, which was
crowded with hundreds of passengers
went to the bottom. The loss of life
was varously estimated, the highest
figure being 100, but latest reports
said that only one person was miss
ing.
An obscure official of the Russian
ministry of the interior, was attack
ed, but not injured, in st. Petersburg
on the 18th, by q man who was no
identified. The incident gave rise t'
Il report that a nihilist outrage hat
been committed.
The Cleveland (O.) Punch and Shear
Co., on the ilth, commenced lqunc
ton proceedings against their strik
ing machinists, asking that the mel
be restrained from picketing th'
works of the company.
The Mineral springs notef, :; Yves
Baden, Ind, was burned, early ON IN
morning of the 14th, involving los
of quarter of million dollars eN
clusiye of the losses sustained b,
gnests. Who were all rescued minn
everything except their night clothes
The United States transport lngaii'
Timed over in the floating dry dock
,he Erie basin, New York, on t'
tlth where she was awaiting repq}S
One life was lost and twenty-five o
thirty men we're seriously iniured'
A powerful organization has be-
effected among the Chinese MT
oh,nts oG New York and other larS