Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-10-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

best-knOwn railway contractors OF =
The United States, died at St. Joseph,
Mo-, on the nth, after a short i'll
ness, from heart disease. He was
the builder of a considerable part OF
the Burlington railway lines west of
the Missouri river,
Sente2"e of death was, on the 18th,
passed Upon Commandant Lotter, the
Cape rebel whose commando, COM
posed almost wholly of rebels, waa
captured by Maj Scobel, south of Pc
tersburg, early last month. Lord
Kitchener has confirmed the sentence.
A report from Hebron, South Afri-
ca, says "Thirteen of Lord Kitchen
er's scouts were captured in "a Boer
ambush"
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, Exclusive
of the Si5O,OOO,O00 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
1lth. showed: Available cash balance,
Sl61, ,55O,037; gold. SlOl ,464,2OS,
Emperor William, in consequence oi
crop failure, has RENTED more than
half the reuts payable by peasants on
crown lands near Colmar, Prussia
Prof. Thomas Shaw, Of Minnesota
was, on the nth, elected to the char
of animal susbandry in the agricul'
tural college at Brookings, S. d. Prol.
Show enjoys national reputation
and is leader of his profession in
this country and Canada.
On the nth R,G.Dun q Co.. OF Nc"
York, reported; Failures for the
week numbered 23l in the United
States, against 232 last year, and u
in Canada, against 80 last year
Prof. Waldeyer left Berlin, on 1he
18th. TO attend the Yale bi-centen-
nary, AS a representative of the Unl-
yersity of Berlin and the Berlin Acad'
envy OF Arts.
The supreme court of Indiana, on
the 10th, in the case of the receiver
Of the defuuct Citizens bank OF
Union City against its former di. &C.
tors. declared IN emphatic terms that
the defendants, on account of thelf
negligence, were liable for damages Ia
,, the amount asked for, $4,000.
Can't Lemly, Judge advocate in the
sehiev court of inquiry, was com
peued TO admit, on the 10th, tha'
,here WAS a failure in the evidence
= 10 show that Commodore schley hat
received the message from Capt Me
Gala in regard to the signal cod'
with the Cubans.
Charles Watson Armour, younge
, trother of the late Kirkland b. AT
. mour. and the nephew OF the pioneer
y ~ the welI-known f2mily, is no" d
d the head of the Armour Interests
a He is "A years OF age and but il'V'
q known in western society
10 NIavor Carter Harrison OF Chleag
a. ls onoted as saying: "lf the senate
# rial nomination is ever handed TO III
in ON a silver platter, they'll be lucky
get the platter back
While cleaning furnace pipes
,c Hickory church, nine mlIes iru ~
" Reardstown, H., David Carr ana u
IN SEXTON found two one pound STICKS
lis dynamite seereted above the pup
ee and connected with % feet OF 1us
h, yhicb led to the outside OF u
Az church. .,,. waldo
m It is said that William waldo
" Astor's gift of $5o,eOO to the 9oe'' ,,.
by for thc Prevention OF Nruel,S
for the Prevention OF Cruel'y
m children will be followed by IKE I, :,
II tr;hntions to nine other eharita'
h' institntions of London, and that
~ -, s5ooooo thus dispensed VIII WIN h'''
he title at the time OF the coroh0 .,,,.,, ''o",
90 Ninety indictments were re'u, I,.,, ,
w. w. aoainst Centralia Qll.) saloonNe'P'
o. o. and alleged gamblers by the g''
81 iury at Salem as the result u g.,
i'm. crusade conducted by M'S.
,na m welch Fourteen of the twenty
'"' ~ Gloon men are included "
five gambling-house propFie'oi9,
,is- Nv vatnrinarians of Bloomington
hes Mclean county, H., have their II"
on Snu Of late lighting pink eye
cen clonders. No such outoreaN i'"S
ain Cured previously in years :; -
ys; Paris dispatch says there ls 3 Z
for authority for stating that the go,' s"',,.
nat ,opt will send warshlpS w
hat ,,,,ns ,,n,ass the porte promptly agrees
! Of nh the French demands ,;ao
ex- u" renort comes from Washing
.eri- - pros;dept Roosevelt will app
nna 'n prodie governor of Arizona
m tha retirement of Gov. Murphy,
Sep. naa;o ,ne was second in command Oh
OF, Rough Riders when h'0''
last co,V Ithaca. N. Y, on the iith' Ih'
; de- Narr;s car inspector foi tne ~ ~
w. valley railroad, was arreSteu ie,Selry
per ,,;th s the theft of bonds, lewe,aS nco
ssSs. ,tber property valued AZ $,T, rhom
, O., anginr to Mrs. DenmaR lhoni =,
pei Nd Mrs. Franklin Thompson nf,ot a.
wen old H1' Homestead company, ad Ma[N
the property has been Fes Chicago a
I'd y" The servant girls OF ohlc"su sr
, CITY ,nrade rnH the weekly newspaper ,l..
:, n a., r. Is to be devoted to the 'nO' n los
faDly ,.orking ~ y in women. The fist +, 'ss !,
prac, &c. sxneeted Mv,as to appear about 'he III
m Of of November. .n;4arx fore
nary, Aware ',., 'n" and Turk.Ah 60
w@.h v AN nsn,s .me are prepared to attack ,;'s
n u rs = at favorable opportunity, siS, .a.sS
~ ,ha stones abductors mos' ,,sa
!, 'ns y, sausom u without delay or 'ise
ny y VIII will Kill ,heir captive. :, o. =,
n the ,vyi,le, ILL.,, has disappeafea, -" :
0 the shortage Of $500 IN. IN "s = 'is d !
gland, pierson adressed letter 70 -, -
ndles. men e' 81 saying he was short "'', =, ~
nuary structing them to take VA"'s
nuary Office