Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS,

COLLECTOR BLACK, OF Portland, Ore,
examined twenty-five out of the Chinese
who came on the steamship Haytien
Republic, from Victoria, British Column
bia. Eight of the number were rejected
| and seventeen landed.
THE Dithridge Bros, leading glass
factory Of Marion, Ind, was destroyed
-, by fire. Loss $50, 900; insurance, SIG, 900.
THE negro fiend who mutilated a
young woman, killing her and her lit
tie sister near Bardwell, KY, was
captured across the river at Sikeston,
Mo-, and sent back to the scene of his
crime. 1t was thought he would be
burned.
Two of the condemned Armenians are
said to have been pardoned by the
sultan through British remonstrance.
THE riots in Paris broke out again
on the 9th, there being n very bitter
feeling against the police.
Gov. JONES respitcd the condemned
Choctaws for one month, in response to
imperative demands from Washington.
1t was thought the respite was tanta'
mount to pardon as the executions
would certainly not be allowed.
A TORNADO swept through Cherokee
county and other parts of Iowa on the
afternoon of the 9Th. Meager reports
had it that 100 persons were killed.
EVERY foreign corporation with a
state agency must file its charter in
Tennessee.
THE trial of ex-Treasurer Woodruff,
Of Arkansas, has been continued to
October.
THE Lancet says that there have been
seventy-five deaths from cholera In the
southern part of France since May, and
during the past four weeks l3s deaths
from the same disease IN Marseilles,
thirteen in Cctte and fifty-one in Tou-
lon.
THE Baltimore & Ohio is rebuilding
its line from Pennsylvania to the Ohio
river.
THE Cherokee commission has sue
ceeded in etfccting an agreement with
the Kaw Indians for the cession OF their
lands to the United States and they
will soon be opened to settlement,
A JUDGMENT was rendered in the New
York supreme court in favor OF the
First National bank of Chicago against
ex-Gov. Campbell, Of Ohio, with inter-
est. The suit was brought on prom
issory note for $4,000
THE people of Washington are petit
tioning the government to give them
the Ford theater building for public
library.
THE schooner Horace b. Parker, OF
Gloucester Mass, has been seized at
Port Royal, Newfoundland, because IL
refused to pay an extra premium on
silver certificates with which it paid
for its license.
lr has been decided that it will be
best to leave troops at AEtlers l. l.'
for while yet.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July showed an average de-
crease of S.2 compared with the cores
ponding week Of last year In ne"
York the decrease was 81.
MosT of the Cherokees entitled 10
allotments on the strip have MADE their
selections. About two-thirds OF them
take farms in the eastern neck OF the
strip east of the Pawnec reservation
The rest will be near the Santa fe
railway. -,
d. s. KREEDER, his wife and four chill
dren were murdered at Cando' M D''
by a hired man named Bomburgh.
THE directors of the Denver " MO
Grandc have passed the quarterly div-
idend of per cent.
ARAB slave traders have been twico
defeated in the Congo Free STATE
THE riots in Paris broke out afresn
IN the night OF the 7th, the police ana
The mob having bloody encounter III
the Boulevard Voltaire.
r. g. DuN's weekly review OF trade
saws that there is perceptlble improve
ment in the business situation.
Ar Bardwell, Ky, the murderer ol
the two Ray girls was hanged ana iiis
body afterwards burned.
A correspondent in Tegucigaipa,
Honduras, telegraphs to Panama tna'
nineteen prominent partisans OF bon'i'a
were shot in that city, under orders
from President vasques; many o'ners
who are in prison, suspected OF oou'.
plicity In Donilla's schemes, rear 'hey