Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-08

We" 'ho cd"ac VI tnc SINKING OF his
ship, having signaled to the Camper.
down to turn in too narrow waters.
A DISPATCH from Mecca states that
$50 deaths from cholera occurred in that
city on the 2sth.
THE bullion value of a silver dollar
went down to AS cents ut New York
PROMINENT citizens of Denver, Col,
condemn the silver panic as hurtful to
the state, which is not dependent en-.
tirely on mining, as the silver men
would make out. The state would do
well if it had no silver-in fact, it was
doing well anterior to mining,
CANADA is seeking closer trade with
Australia.
THE duke of Sake Meiningen has Civ
en- $4,000 marks from his private purse
for the relief of the peasants from the
distress caused by the drought
THE German opera artist Stagno and
his secretary have been arrested on the
charge Of forging the name of a corrc-
spondent to bogus dispatch.
THE government has made consider
able reductions in land office expenses
w. A. PINKNEY and Daniel Barber
were executed at Marlborough, Md,
recently for the murder of Francis NJ.
Bowie, wealthy farmer of Prince
George county, on the evening of March
90 last.
THE Pawnee allotments in the Indian
territory have been completed.
WHEAT took another big tumble on
the 30th and again the low price record
on the Chicago market was broken.
THE government has learned lesson
from the Ford theater tragedy, and is
moving clerks out of unsafe buildings.
AMONG recent appointments aresthe
following: Scott Wille, of Illinois, to
be assistant secretary Of the treasury;
James +. Tillman, OF Tennessee, to be
register of the treasury; Overton Cade
of Louisiana, to be superintendent OF
the mint at New Orleans; Theodore S
Wilkinson, to be collector of customs al
New Orleans; s. B. Ellis, to be surveyor
of customs at New Orleans; George p
Finley, to be collector of customs al
Galveston, Tex.
The public debt statement for th'
month of June shows decrease of 81,
250,0
CHARLES MCCLURE, the train robbie
captured at Omaha, has been sent tt
the penitentiary for fifteen years. HI
turned out to be an old Missouri con
vict who was once sent up from Jack
son county.
A FIRE at Park place and Churc
street, New York, destroyed propcrt
valued at sl06,0 600
THE late A. j. Drexel left propcrt
valued at s3O,OOO,O00 The printers
home and other charities are remcn
bered in the will.
HARVARD defeated Yale in the base
ball game at New York. Score, to
THE Peary ship Falcon left Brookly
on the I'd fer the Arctic regions
) THE Empire Manufacturing 20
burned out at Keokuk, la.
A HOT fight was on between the cit
authorities OF Austin, Tex, and .Josep
Nalle, president of the Water and Ele
,, trio Light Co., and the council refuse
to pay his bill in full, Nalle immed
ately issued orders to shut off the ligh
REAR ADM. MARKHAM has submittt
the official report of the terrible al
after to the Victoria, showing that IL
! accident was due to the error OF VII
Adm. Tryon.
Mrs. JANE HuGHEs, of Port Huro
Mich. while boarding the eXcnrsl'
a steamer Edwards at Chicago caug
l. her dress in revolving shaft on de-
'' and was sent spinning through the Il
Her injuries resulted in death.
IS THE commission to negotiate WI
G .be five civilized tribes is soon to
named.
The supreme court at New York h
% handed down decision affirming '
e verdict by jury at its April ~
l, term of Justice Patterson's cou
l. awarding 1863, $50 damages to Col
ward c. James in his suit agai'
i'd James Henry Work. The suit gr'
TO ont of the famous profits paid
e. Grant & Ward.
WHEAT took an ~ turn at Chlca
and there was strong feeling
r. CAPT. ANDERSON, of the Viking sh
had a narrow escape from drowning
n Clyde, n. \. ;.
h New York bankers were unit
al saving that the money market VIII
easier no ~ that the extra session
IN been called.