Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-08-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A special dispatch from Rotterdam
says the mental condition of Mr.. Kru'
ger is arousing serious apprehension
A specialist in nervous diseases has
been summoned by telegraph from
Berlin.
4 disastrous wind storm passed |
over Portsmouth, N. H., on the Sth
causing the death of two persons on
Seayers island, and injuring half
dozen others.
Nearly a hundred members of the
Kentucky Press association arrived at
Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 18th, on
special train over the Rio Grande-
Western, intending to spend three
days in short excursions from that
point.
Emperor William, reciprocating
recent courtesy of the sultan OF Mo-
rocco, has presented to Abdul El Azlz,
for the new geological garden at Fez,
a lion, Bengal tiger, leopards, bears,
stays, Indian and japanese cranes and
parrots, all purchased through Ger
man dealer.
Tive hundred Lawton (Okln.) busi.
ness men have signed contest papers
against James r. Wood, who they de-
clare, violated both the spirit and let
ter of the homestead act in filing on
land running the entire length of tho
town site, thus shutting out Miss Mat
lie Beals.
President Mckinley has approved
the death sentence pronouncedagalns'
Private Phineas Fout2, Nineteenth in
fantry, convicted by general court
martial of the murder of Genevly'
Torres, a Filipino girl, by stabbinI
her to death with sword cane in he
home. at Mandane, Cebu, Novembe
$ Is, 1900.
, Oscar l.. Triggs, the University o
p Chicago professor who compare
= Rockefeller with Shakespeare, an
characterized church hymns as dos
gerel, told his class in English hter'
e ture, on the Sth, that the poetry
l, LonUfellow is trivial and unworthy
Il consideration.
r Mrs. Theresa Wilcox, wife OF II
n Hawaiian delegate to congress, co
d sjders herself insulted by the capita
d of the steamship Zealandia becau
l. he refused to allow her to conduct
lIula Hula dance on board the Yess
on IFS last trip from San Francisco
h' Honolulu.
y, Lord Kitchener, in dispatch fro
is Pretoria. on the Sth announced tn
r. q post of 25 men, belonging to Stei
n. oci,er's Horse, on the Sabi river, h
la been surprised and captured oy |
up Beers.
M Chicago housewives, as a result
the organization of the servant ulr
union. orc hiring men servants 1T
on wherever they can, in preference
by mnid servants, Men cooks, men p'
sr- trymen, men laundrymen and eve
he ,binp else except men maids are
demand
ey Nicaragua is left for the prest'
IRE without a single banking lnstltu'l
icy through ruling of the supre
'ry court of that country that the l.
don Bank of Central America
., has no legal status in Nicaragua,
w. Th, statement of the treasury
90" no. ances in the general fund, exclusive
~. 'o' the Sl5o, 900 gold reserve in the
,'5 n's vision of redemption, issued on
lou 9th showed: Available cash balal
- rs 80 SITS, ,s12,511; gold, $1O2 ,398,760.
-" 90 A party of capitalists, headed by
A. bert r. Smith, of Milwaukee, e'~
'H1 deal at Omaha, Neb., on the
with the Union Pacific Railroad
,ila land depgr tnent, whereby tGeS
af- GENE rosscssors of so GOO ares ares
,,is. gra1inr land N Lincoln county
+. "a that state. n1o land is located
res- the Gothersburg irrigation cana
~ fo,v miles north of Gothcrsburg'
nth August 81 will be "Shrine Day
,rc. the BufTalo exposition, and NJ
low sbriners from all parts of the u
the States will gather there Each ON
viii wear his fez to display the
mertcal strength of the organ'1a
the An elaborate programme has oeei
.tlon ranged.
NAL Victor, Col, gave an enthuSi
lfer- ,yoIcome TO Vice-President Roos'
sting on the 9th, fully ten thousand
$, he SONS participating. When the
lold- president and party arrived on d
ated n;,I train over the Short Line
,oral thew we're greeted by blasts OF
dera- nowder and hundreds of steam
ainst tles from shaft houses all oNei
on. district.
Cen Richard L. Page, OF MOI
anu "a. died at his summer nome aU
bet' Lidge Summit, Va, on the n's
LOUIS the 9th. in the ninety-fourth
e inc of his age. He commanded the
d eX- defopses of Mobile bay, at Fort
c uh- gan, and, with 400 men, heio :,
Ger cuts fleet at bay for two weeks
's' III If YOU want to sell your corp
Il .ii0 $40 end will promise to die WIN
she sh months. a Chicago doctor wlil p'
g !. oe ~ cash to you in advance, lie Is
'Va'eS tccpathic surgeon and has DO
written except the pictures. ia
n OF Grafton he describes must DC
rland. trated by series of pictures o
Tho self with knife in ms manu-
Igreed ing over his SUBJECT
anded The San Francisco poiice o,
'afted. yinced that John winters VI
Wen Taylor, as he is sometimes
.ricans Who is now in custody, is tn
n Far who planned and executed th'
Prof, moo rold bar robbery oi ',,e
+; Mr.. smelter at Vallejo. Some tn
!. Muir. hod no accomplices in the 1or
stolen bullion is thought to DC
near Winters cabin
sh'F Lord Kitchener has 'ssueo
Iawley, ). aaation warning all burgh
hips AZ arms to surrender prior TO oep
nastlhg IL as all found in arms Nv
OF 'he date win be permanently y
was rs' from South Africa