Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-07-30
NUMBER 81.
NEWS ITEMS.

Twcnty-four-pound catfish are being
caught in the Ohio river near Bell
airc, O. v-%4
The Sixth Missouri district repub.
leans have nominated o. l.. llouts, OF
Warrensburg for congress.
A Chicago paper states that not one
firm in twenty on the board of trade Of
that city is paying expenses Business
is very dull
A Muncic Gnd.) girl threw rcd pep
per in the eyes of Il young man named
Saylor for talking about her. Saylo
will go blind.
Mrs Chew, wife of Mr.. J. j. Chew,
secretary of the American legation in
Vienna, died at Marfanbad, bohemia,
from peritonitis.
Capt. +. Vehling has arrived at San
Francisco, the sole captain, pilot and
crew of the little steam launch Kussi-
| loft from Alaska.
Fifty employesof the Xcnia (O.) Shoe =
Manufacturing Co. went out on strike
Friday morning. They objected to the
employment Of two girls.
Telcgraphic reports from all parts of
Manitoba state that the crops are in
magnificent condition, not u single
draw back being reported.
b. i. Crandall brought to Buffalo,
n. Y, from Los Angeles, Cal, and put
eli trial for dcfrauding insurance COM
panies, has been acquitted.
The senate has confirmed the nomi'
nation of George shiras, jr., Of Penn.
sylyania to be associate justice .ef the
United States supreme court. =
The entry into Austria Of all Jewish
refugees has been prohibited. The
| government has adopted elaborate pre-
| cautions to prevent The introduction of
| cholera.
A branch of the Norfolk q Western
road now runs in front of "Old Anse'
lIalicld's home, in Logan county, W.
| Va, where many murders have been
committed,
| The statement having been made that
cx-Gov. IIoadly would appear for the
| Homestead rioters, his partner, Edgar
NJ. johnson, Thursday denied it in
public letter.
Cardinal Giuseppe d'Annibate, project
of the congregatioe>Sf Indulgenccs and
Sacred Relics, is dead. lie was born at
Barbona in 1915, and was created car
dinal in 1889.
Mr.. Henry j., Ryder, the United
States consul at Copenhagen, was ar
rested. charged with fraud in connec-
ton with the liquidation of a tcsta-
mcntary estate.
A marriage license was issued at Chi
cago to John Overholt and Miss Kate
Smith, aged II years The girls mother
| saws it is common for Italian girls to
marry 50 young
A collision took place ON the Bay of
Quinto railroad Thursday morning near
Ernsyile, Ont, in which Engineer
Christv, Fireman Hardy and Others not
known were killed.
Chicago surgeons removed the fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh ribs of the
veteran Mai O. c. Townc. The patient
Is d..;p,sr .t.s-ll. nd that's- l. aAcrI r'i1ys
pect of his recovery.
Owing to the discovery of smallpox
in a Block Island hotel Newport, H. l.,
there has been herira and in few
days the hotels of that place will be
practically deserted
\ judgment against Andrew Carnc-
gie, the Homestead millionaire, for
- 800 in favor of the Continental Trust
! Co., receiver for the American Opera
Co., was filed in New York
| A -, h, N,tlit Grimm lntpl
Chicago. objected to Col. Louis Ciark's
remark that all Chicagoans are robbers
and was promptly made to apologize to
the colonel at the point Of a gun.
Moses Pollct, who butchered his wife
two weeks ago at st. Louis, because he
was Jealous has been indicted by the
grand jury for murder in the first de-
| gree.
EX-Gov Henry j. Gardner, who was
governor Of Massachusetts from 1850 to
1853. inclusive, died at his residence in
Milton from cancer He was the old
est. or next to the oldest, living eX-gov-
crnor
The Paris Figaro of Thursday says
that the police have discovered an an
arehist plot to blow up the bourse and
other public buildings. The paper adds
that two of the conspirators have been
I arrested.
Susie Kirwin, the wcll-5nown opera
singer and her sister, Mrs. Wm. Blair,
were severely injured by the omnibus
in which they We're the only passengers,
5 being crushed between two cable cars
in Philadelphia
Surgeons L. W. Andrews and c. W.
/ Cary, of the medical board of pension
I examiners, at Chicago, performed a re-
markable surgical operation on Maj Q.
c. Towne, the veteran, removing an en-
tire diseased lung.
The treasury department now holds
/ Sll2, 800, 900 in free gold and is gradu'
y, ally accumulating gold coin at the CONS
. mercial centers for the purpose of meet.
ing the demand for small notes in the
West for the movement of the crops.
The eruption of Mount Etna con-
-, tinues. Throughout Tuesday night vic.
lent rumblingS We're heard accompanied
q byan increased discharge from the diff
- ferent craters. Stones and ashes were
projected to height of fully 1900 feet
The Fort Payne (Ala,) Coal and Iron
;. Co. stockholders in Boston voted to re-
= duce the capital stock from S5,0OooO0 to
q 50, 500, 900, and issue Sl,00000O new
"a bonds to pay on the $3.50, 600 present in
debtcdncss and give a working capital.
Three men stealing ride on the side
~ ladders of Missouri freight train were
=, knocked off the ears while crossing Il
u bridge near Pleasant Hill, Mo, Thurs
l. dav. Two of them We're killed out
:, right. while the third was badly hurt.
;, The men We're evidently tralnps and
have not been identified.
Az jackson, Mich, early Friday
10 morning four men, supposed to be eN-
:, convicts, attempted To gain entrance to
,f the prison and aid in procuring the
Ia escape of the prisoners. Two of the
;, men climbed ON the prison wall and
"A were seen by guards. -Four shots wets
exchanged and the men escaped.
Chicaroans werc considerably put out
m by the action Of the house IN refusing
70 to concur ia the senate amendment to
m the sundry civil bill appropriatins