Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-04-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

eral factories We're among the estab-
lishments burned out.
The American Ice Co., on the 27th,
filed papers at Trenton, n. j., reducing
its authorized capital stock from
$6O,00O 900 to $40, 100000.
The board of governors of the New
York stock exchange will suspend
business on Good Friday and on the
Saturday following,
At Kansas City, Mo, on the 2Sth,
VIM. DeardrulT, aged 20 years, pleaded
guilty to stealing $500 worth of dia-
monds frcm his employers, Edwards
& Sloane, wholesale jewellers, aud was
sentenced 10 two years in the peni-
tentiary Deardruifs father with |
tears streaming down his cheeks, |
pleaded for his SON The elder Dear
druil is a Kansas City Kas.) jeweler,
and the boy had previously borne a
good reputation.
The Argentine government has ac-
cepted in principle the proposal of
| European bankers for the unification
of all the public indebtedness of Ar
gentina.
The physicians OF James Hackctt,
the actor, who is i'll at Cincinnati,
! have decreed that he must retire FROM
the stage for a month.
The Pixies Peak cog road opened,
on the 2Sth, for the season. There was
great deal of snow or the mountain
but the track was comparatively
clear. Daily trains are run to the
summit.
4 dispatch from Salonica announces
that nine men were sculded to death,
ON the 2sth, ny the bursting of a
steam pipe on the Turkish torpedo
boat Shehab.
Theodore Walert, who murdered
his wife and four of her children,
was hanged at the county jail at
Henderson, Mimi, early on the morn
inp of the 29th. The murderer dis
PLAYED no nervousness, aud during
the last few. hours of his life he
laughed and iollcd with his relatives
Thomas Nichols, of Danyllc, kyn
3 dropped dead of heart disease. Mich
: ole was in Louisville. Ky. last winter
and attracted considerable attention,
as it was developed, on examination,
; that his heart was located on his
right side.
l. The nrcsident assured callers who
2, enaI,o 70 him regarding the disposal
r If ApninoIdo, that he would be gov
r eI.ned largely bv the advice of Judge
l. T,ft chairman of the Philippine com
mission
The senatorial deadlock in Nebras
la was broken. on the 2sth, by The
withdrawal Of the republican candl
II dates whereupon the caucus place,
y IN nomination Joseph II. Mllard, o
d Omaha for the short term and tn,
: nominations we're promptly ratified
10 in the Joint session of the Legislature
The Kentucl,y court of appeals, .ol
# the 2sth, granted ne" ltlols - ,",,
!. Powers and James ilo""'"' "'".
:. sentence as having been rohher.r
=. with the Gocbel oSSaSs'ha ''on' IT, IT,
a reversal in the Howard case was =
~ the WhoIe couI" - 49,, yy~hi+,
y Judges llobson, Paynter and Nh't'
" democrats, dissented
\ patrol OF the coIonlaI "'',"' ,".
= force has been captured IN 'he M,' I
"a - land district of Cape Colony, ny ~
IT. troocberous usr of the white ha
ha The British mlstooN 'ne ''o,ia 'n ~ y,
~ portion of their own co'"nl,'
ne Boers advanced, waving Wh'le n'
ia until resistance was useless ,
III The Odessa correspondent "' ~
er London Graphic, remarklng 'haa u
facts we're suppressed in the o'nel
IN accounts of the recen! 'lo'i"b' LIZ "'l n,r
W, o1 that IS students, including ~,
~ u" girls, were killed in kharkoh anu "
re- It, in 81. Petersburg.
ns From October /, 1919, 10 'he Wv Wv,
,o of the nineteenth century '''
~ Of immigration at the port OF y. y,
:" York aggregated l3,1o3'l62' WIZ
q" ranresented nearly scven-tenthS
the total arrivals during 'he "a. "a.
ma, period at all ports III wv
moo Tho RICHARDSON shoe factory at
ra m - ,,nano Ia was destroyed by fire
Of Of g"'|,' the evening of the 2Sth. The faet(
,cr- empIoyed 14o hands. The loss Is
no timnted At S125.OOO. Thirty thouS1
i' po ,''no. ,,.',, o.s" ,.or,h ." Of goods were j
ready for shipment.
nonie, Krick, a farmer, living IN
was ,,,iIos cast of Montrose, Ill"
,lle- found dead on the 2sth. lie was
9th, gaged in hauling timber ana
vent found living beside his team ne
had tba last Of a large family, all OF WI
Ike a W.. I'sa ,.ory suddenly.
oore NV Tta directors of the Calumet
real uscla Mining Co., at meeting m
II in ton on the goth. declared d'Slo
o. of o s,s ner share. The last dividend
clared was $50. ,..o
'1th, RG. Dun & Co. reporiea'o" '''' =
dar- .,,oi,nres for the week numbered
.gui- :, u,o United States against 2o3
'rov- ~ nond 90 in Canada against 81
has So" on"
Agui- ) 4 seat on the New York stoeN
arch ,honge was sold on the goth Tor
icks- 400 ,,b;cb is $500 more than
with ,,,oheet nrice previously PAD
oard, Tho oneration of gastrectomN
,a,.,I of the stomach, was