Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-07-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Up IHc Hon ore HeluS OF kentucky,
Sixty thousand acres of land in Trigg
county have already been acquired.
The trial of Robert S. Fosburgh, for
the alleged killing of his sister MAY
L, Fosburgh, on August 20, 1900, was
fairly gotten under way at Pittsfeld
Mass, on the 18th.
Paris, ON the 18th, recorded TEN.
perature of IS; Brussels, "a; Amster.
dam, ~; Lisbon, 81. Frosty weather
prevailed in the Austrian Alps
Naval Constructor Gilmore will visit
Havana, shortly, to make a careful
examination of the big floating dry
dock, which has been acquired by
the government by purchase from
Spain.
The Orient liner Ormuz, Capt. Coad,
from Sydney, n. S, W., for London.
which left Colombo, Ceylon, June 2s,
arrived off Gibraltar, on the 18th, with
two cases of bubonic plague on board
In the course of an inquiry, CON
Quoted under oath, at johannesburg,
various non-commissioned officers and
men of the British army confirmed
the statement that the Beers shot the
British wounded at Nlalifontein.
Francis Truth, the divine healer"
was again arrested at Denver, Col,
on the 18th, on a warrant charging him
with assault and battery. The com.
plainant is Miss Lenore Elma Ladd, a
| former patient.
A Shanghai dispatch to the London
Globe, dated July II, confirms pre-
vious reports of the rising of the
Yang Use river, and says millions Of
acres Of land are under water, and
that the city of Hanlow is threat
| ened.
The supreme tent Knights of the
Maccabees has decided that all old
members must be rerated on the same
plan as new members at the age at
which they joined the order.
A bulletin issued by the census Of
fee shows that there has been a de-
crease of the Chinses population in
the United States since 1890 Of 1865,
the number now here being S9,s00.
Francis Schatter, known as "di-
vine healer" was arrested on com
plant of the Central Union mission
authorities, at Washington, on the
18th, for creating a disturbance in the
rooms of the mission. He was charged
with vagrancy.
Gov Hill of Maine has designated
Miss Mary Preble Anderson, of Port
land, to christen the new United
State battleship Maine, which is being
built by the Cramps at Philadelphia.
The heat in London, on the 18th,
exceeded all previous records Of the
season, the official record being 81
degrees. The entire absence of any
breeze added to the discomfort of the
heat.
Arthur Orr builder of the coming
presses used for many years in the
United States mints in Philadelphia,
Carson City, San Francisco and New
Orleans, died at his summer home at
Morrstown, n. y, on the 18th, aged
81.
The feature of the Epworth League
meetings at San Francisco, on the
10Th, was missionary work, the day
winding up with a great missionary
mass meeting at Mechanics pavilion,
at which addresses were made by sew
eral prominent ministers of the Unit
ed States and Canada.
w. CLAYTON Pickersgill, British con
sui general for the Pacific coast states
and territories, died, on the 10th, a
sanitarium in Alameda, Call tC
which he was conveyed few days be
fore suffering from malarial troubles
After being robbed on ChoctaV
train, returning from El Reno OKLA
on the 10th, accompanied by his wife
and daughter, L. Il. Smith, an ageC
man from Bonham, TeXo dropped
dead in Il crowded coach.
Kansas farmers are plowing VI
their ruined corn fields preparatory tc
sowing wheat and alfalfa to make
pasture fields for stock in the fall apt
winter.
Cave g. Sons shoe factory at Rush
len, England, was burned, on the 18TH
involving loss of 100000.
A work train ON the Cotton Bel
broke in two, three miles north o
Texarkana. Ark, on the night OF th
10Th, and of the 3OC laborers who wer
on board 40 were more or less injured
Mrs. Urquhart Lee, of Chicago ha
accepted the chair of parliamentary
law, an addition to the Allied WON
ans club of the University of Califor
MIA. established by Mrs. =. A. hears'
The municipality of Berlin has re
ceiyed 1000, 900 marks, for beneVoleh
purposes, under the will of DR.. Georg'
Verling, the composer who dled a
IWeisbaden last month.
Robert Folger Westcott the head o
the Westcott Express Co., and father
in-law of former Capt. 0berlin NJ. Car
Ter. United States engineers, died sud
denly at Richfield Springs, ~ Y, oI
the 10th.
Lord Kitchener has commuted TN
sentence of death passed upon "a boe
prisoners to penal servitude for NE Il
Bermuda.
Tho word "Christian" remains
tbe Virginia bill of rights, as lar u
the constitutional committee on Una
document is concerned, the vote fo
it's retention being seven to four
e. s, McHale, foreman in the sho
department of the Indiana state prl'
on ot Jeffersonville, was branded, o
the 18th, by lie Kelly convict, with
piece of shafting, in the presence Oh
number of lady visitors
DR.. Joseph A, Chandler, vetera
of tbe One Hundred and Fifty-Secon
Indiana infantry, died, on the nlgn
of the 10th, having been overcome D
bent while returning from profe'
, sional call.
Indiana has just completed her SCI
, sons lob of packing French Pease'
, having put away about "a, 100000 can N,
! which will add nearly $1,OOo,OOO to tn