Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-04-12
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Topeka, Kas,, has been chosen as
the place for the populist state cen
yentian TO meet on June "a.
the Northern Pacific, ON the 81 |
filed two mortgages with the register
Of deeds, at Minneapolis, Mimi, a
prior ben mortgage of $l30,0oo,OOO tc !
the Mercantile Trust Co, and a gen
eral Hen mortgage of $l9O,0OO,oO0 toI
the Farmers Loan and Trust Co.
Gnder the name of the "AIlied Peo'
pies Party of the United States al
new political organizationwas formed
atLonisyille, Ky, on the Sd, composed
Ut reform elements opposed to the
de1nocratic and republican parties.
When Rev. Granville Louther re-
turned to Mcpherson, Kas., from the
confernce, where he was tried for
hercsy and expelled from the min
istry.kthe women of the NJ. L. church
gave d reception for him, and from
that church it spread to all the
churrhcs, everyone expressing faith
In Hlm ana his lcdChlllSS.
The hotels totally destroyed by the
fire Ill Atlantic City, N. j., on the Sd
were the Luray, the Berkeley, the
!. New Holland, the Norwood, the Stick
ney. the Stratford, the Rio Grande.
The Meryine, the Bryn Mawr, the
Evord and the Tarlton. In addition
ID these, the Windsor, the Traymore
and Bic Kenilworth We're damaged.
II. G. Dun & CO., of New York, re,
ported on the 4th: Failures in the
United States this week were l67
against 1875 last year, and - in Cana
tla, against % last year"
Foxhall Keene, the American sports
nlan was riding with the Guerra
honnfls near "BulTough Hill," Melton
Mowbray, on the Ath, when his horse
fell at the FIRST fence and rolled oyel
him.. Mr. Keene, who was uncon
scious for considerable time, recov
cred sufficiently to be removed to Dal
by Hall, the residence of the master
of the fox hounds.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
ut the $l50,0o0,000 gold reserve in th'
division of redemption, issued, ON th'
Ath, Showed: Available gold balance
$f7B.a53, 1888; gold, $96,5i7,121.
report from Washington, on tn
Ath, sad "rhere was u slight i'm
proyement, to-day, in the condition o
Rev T. De Witt Talmage.'
Indianapolis, Ind, was, on the All
selected as the place of the mex
meeting of the Grand Arch coune
Phi Kappa Psi,
The navy department has been II
formed of the death of Pay Directo
IL. III Wright, at Port Said, Egypt, o
the 2sth ult.
Ina recent all-day battle with th
Beers, under Generals Delarey an
Kemp, in the western Transvaal,
iletachment of Canadian Rifles, unde
Lieut.. Bruce Carruthers, held pos
tion until every man was killed
wounded,
Cecil Rhodes will provides a thr(
year scholarship in Oxford universl'
every year for every state and lerr
tory in the United States and 1'
every British colony, and five schola
ships for students of German BIRTH
Keports from almost every whea
EroWing county in Nebraska Sho
Tint the acreage Of winter wheat
iiearly 20 per cent. greater man Oh
yeaF ago, and that prospects q
much better for full yield than
tlliH time last year.
sJndge William Il. Day. president
the Mckinley Memorial associate
h.as maGe request that nil CONTRIB
tions to the memorial fund now
hand be forwarded TO Myfon Il ht
rieh treasurer, at Cleveland