Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-11-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ihiiG away iCi NaiNAs anu bFtblF
she returned the house was in ruins
The fourth-class post Offices at Erie !
H.; Eufalia, |. r., and Lexington,
Okla, will become presidential Janu.
ary /.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
vault of the First national bank at
Mondovi. Wis, on the night of the
18th, and secured between $4,000 and
$4,000.
A deal for 9s,S25 acres of land in
Logan county, w. Va, was closed. on
the Goth, for an English syndicate,
The price is said to be 100000.
Charles T. Yerkes, in the course OF
an interview published in the London
Daily Mail on the GOTH revealed
scheme to run a deep level express
line underneath the existing Metro,
politan district lines OF London. He
said the contracts had been signed
and that the work would be begun
shortly.
There has been an alarming spread |
of the plague in south Russia, ac'
cording to dispatches from Lemberg, |
hundreds of fatal eases being report
ed in Moscow, Odessa, Kherson and
other towns.
w. D. Stearns, leader of the Caney
| 1. IT, train robbers, pleaded guilty
at Antlers, |. H., on the goth, and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
penitentiary at Fort Leayenworth,
Kas.
Lieut.-Col. Henry II. Whitney, aide
de.camp to Gen. Miles, on the goth.
inspected Fort Russell. at Cheyenne,
Wyo., as to it's suitability for perma'
nent garrisoning for field artillery. 1t
is understood Col. Whitney will rec
ommend Fort Russell as an artillery
post.
The administrative council OF
the court of arbitration at The
Hague decided, on the goth, that 1t
was incompentent to consider the
Boer appeal for Intervention in the
: war in soutn Africa.
The National Grange, In session at
Lewiston, Me-, on the goth, elected
Aaron Jones, Of Indiana, as national
worthy master.
There was terrible explosion OF
artillery in the barracks at Corunna
J Spain, on the Goth. while the soldier
/ were emptying cartridges. The bar
d racks were burned. Three soldiers
}, we're killed and II others seriously
. injured.
A fatal wreck occurred on the San
IS ia Fe railroad one mile west of Fran
l. COMA, Ariz., on the Goth. Seven tram
J men were killed and three passenger
o and fourteen trainmen injured
n The military governmentestabhshe'
n over the native city of Tien Tsin con
Sc tinues in effect, the military commaN
ders refusing to yield the eoilectlo
of taxes to the Chinese. They ais
:, decline to submit the question O
- their control of the native city TO III
90 ministers of the foreign powers !
"' Pekin, holding that continuance G
'' the military government there IS wa
- 10 the maintenance of communicate
IN between Pekin Pekin and Taku.
T. The navy department, on the us
received telegram announcing III
is arrival of the cruiser Buffalo qt "a
e. Juan. p. II. Considerable anxiety ha
- been felt over the safety of this We
II. sci, owing to n report that she nd
ms been wrecked. -,
w. The Berlin Boersen Courier, on Il
' 21st said: M. Van Rooy, the slnge
,e' ,e is very i'll, and has consequently ca
celled all future engagements
Germany and Russia are toBeth
in, prenaring a common circular no
or proposing an anti-anarchist come
re- ence.
Ir. Manitoba will have fully 5o'ooo'o
,th bushels of wheat for export THIS ye'
,es King Edward has checkmated l
he thrifty British mobiles who propos
for To line their pockets with Americ
k" and continental gold by the SAFE
their seats in Westminster aopey
US the coronation, by decreeing that'
the cept In official capacity none
Irs. british subjects are to be present
will In the recent disastrous wreck
rhc the Santa Fe near Needles, Ariz''
ght entire mail carried by poth H 'la
for was burned At least 3O,oso le'''
at mailed in Los Angeles, Call LOT
too east, were destroyed.
Adyices from Pagosa Springs y
where a company has been drlli.he
nia oil for some time, announce 1n"s
'uo ousher has been struck al ooo ~
o.ai # is not known yet what the eN'
!, Of the flow is. -
~. !" Harvey S. Dale, of Chicago, wa
NV Wv sist the authorities OF New 'e.'eS . Z,
,r,S nmS every possible way to punish ms ", W
anu Mrs Elizabeth Dale, now under "ri
ip's in Hoboken, charged with the iiu, -
of their fve-year-oid d"usn'''
rom line. o,,o, i'm
Mr.. A member OF the '"n"''. .,oro
indi. Grafton department, says there
not movement from the un
ason States OF not far snort u
fu. cons 70 the Dominion next year
ence Dominion has gained tins year
indi. 600 settlers from across .,,o =,
ands The election, on the 81.
parliamentary contest IL. '@.'
ireland, between Coi' ~ NV,
gent who fought as colonel in the
has army, and Horace Plunkett' "n,o M,
ople. ro.nlted in a victory for the 'or
It OF oe. ~. a. ara
duct Ths winter quarters of Wall'
sonis show at Peru, Ind, were our
upon On tbe a1st. The fire started =
II y, 10 elephant house, and spread rap i
MI THE animals became panic s.,' ~,
and their cries of terror h','
cleo. with the shouts OF traih.is .., -,
royed nloye, trying to drive them ." ~
ecep, danger. The animals were al s'
pality removed ,,,;o, in
that High diplomat'c M. an
500. aop i substantially unl' on on
ident proposition that recent oese,tt aoatri,
D reg have placed the Moilioo , ,he do
The the United States beyond 'n' ~
100 ir of practical dispute ~.
The French senate, on .n1 !,
adopted proposals 'nppons.u .aon !
oy the premier, NJ. Waldeck'nouSa,S 81 n