Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-07-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Town at The resignation of James q !
Stowe, United States consul genera
there
About six hundred men employed in
saw and planning mills at Tupper Lake
n. v, went out on strike, on the nth
demanding nine-hour day instead O.
II. The trouble was occasioned by 4;
factory inspector insisting that {,
dozen boys under eighteen years ole
should not be compelled to work oyel
ten hours. No attempt has been mad,
to start the mills.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones, on the l1th, received an en-.
Yelope postmarked Denver Col, con.
taining $40 in bank notes, with sim.
pie memorandum; please give this
to any tribe Of Indians. From a frienC
of the Indians" It was forwarded To
a representative Of the Indian Indus
trial league for use in its work.
DIR. Murdock, the physician who is
attending Gen. Daniel Butterfield al
his summer home in Cold Springs, n
y, said, on the 18th, that for ten DAYS
the general had been very weak and
unable to leave his bed without as
sistance and that he realized that the
end was drawing near
On the nth the secretary Of tbr
treasury purchased short-tcrm bonds
as follows; $40 Goo tbrccs ot 100 oof4.
So 600 fyes at Iogl379 and s2s AM
fours. at 112go9
Mrs, Helen AltboY widow and be,
two-yeor-old danohter were bprno,
to death in fire. ,yhirh dostrovodI
their home at Vallejo Cal ON tbp
nth.
The will Of ,bo Iatr Pierre Tori,Iord
was read. ON tbc 1Itb. in q law ofBcp
in Jersey CITY 40 statement as IN if,
contents WIS made nnhIic
Warden Wolfer If tbc Nirnesoto
nrison ot Saltwater, dacidnd not fol
mako known tbo timn vbcn be|
younpers would he released IN order
that no demonstration rriordI,, or
hostile miobt occur or the outside
MIS- jefferson Doyis widow of tho
former president of fine confederacy
is orite IN nj thc Willard hotoI in
Portland Me whore She wont re-.
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Gently 10 spend the summer
"A bos'ol, u'SPo'ch "I 'ht ll'h SaIo
'Faddy hreeh was uhuer arrest
there charged with the thelt OF gcld
Walch from KEY Mlrha'l hurhhah'
OF ST. Louis which was taken from
the priests pocket While waiting for a
tram
FIRE. on the j I'h' destroyed the en-,
tire crop OF wheat on the farm OF
Mrs. A. W. Nhaihen' two miles nor'9
of henderson, NY \ separator had
just completed ihrcshlng the crop
and was moving away When spark
irola the engine set Nre 10 the straw
conservative men VINO nave c"re'uI'
" studied the disastrous e1iects OF the
prevailing drought IN Kansas say the
people Of the state nave suffered
loss in all crops except wheat to the
u',oU'' VI ''''''' T'''''0''''' ''''N,
July !.
The continued intense neat ana ac-
companying drought is assuming me me
form of a calamity as uhhar'eS'to
crops of all kinds are drying up III
the fields ana wafer III many PIaceS'
is becoming exceedingly scarce.
The Berliner TagehIott' speaking OF
the rumorcd retirement OF NInoaSSa-
dor White says; Mr. White is the
recipient of such confidence and ven
GRAFTON from al ''.v''S III ''', Ut, ''"'
his departure would cause the Keen
est regret
William Butler, one OF the most
prominent grocers in the east, dled IN
the German hospital at PmladeIphla
on the nth, from shock following an
operation for appendicitis Mr.. But
Ter owned Sc grocery stores in PmIa-
delphia and Camden, n. j.
Postmaster-General Smith is de-
tcrmincd to weed out the fake publ
cations that are burdening the mo.s
as second-class matter Instead OF is
suing a general order speclhc cases
will be taken up ana teS'e" o" '''e''
merits.
While the Marine hospital service IS
NOT nrcpared TO rive out specific re-