Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ON tiN ctu hhpNio' boNtDH
formally accepted the civic marriage
law, which has caused much clerical
and other opposition in hungary, to
which country the bill applies.
SIGNOR Francisco GENELA, Italian
minister for public works, was stricken
with apoplexy on the sth. 1t was cx-
pected that the stroke would prove
fatal.
A MEETING OF liberal Presbyterians.
called to consider affairs in what they
believe to be crisis in the church's
history, began in Cleveland, O., on the
Sth.
The county high school building at
Effingham, the first of the kind in Kan
sas. was destroyed by fire on the night
of the Tth. Loss, so. 900; no insurance.
The United States cruiser Olympia,
under command of Capt Goodall, put
| to sea from San Francisco, on the Sth,
for her contractors trial trip.
JosHuA JrMr, of Terre lIaute. has
been appointed by the president TO he
collector OF internal revenue for the
Seventh district in Indiana.
| A STEAMER in the harbor at Kiel
rammcd the steam pinnace belonging
to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, on
the sth, cutting it in halves and send
ing it TO the bottom. The crew were
rescued.
THE steamer Burlington. with two
barges, bound up, light, sprung leak
when 10 miles off Sand Beach, Mich,
on the sth. She was picked up imme-
diately by the steam barge Tempest,
which started to tow her into Sand
Beach. but she sank just as she got in
side the piers. She was built in 1857.
SIX men and nine women were killed
by the explosion of a bomb thrown by
anarchists in the Liceo theater, in Bar
celona, Spain, on the night of the 18th.
4 number Of others We're injured by
splinters of wood, pieces Of glass and
fragments OF iron.
The house of J. Long. at Stanchtield.
Mimi, caught fire from prairie fie
on the 9th, and was consumed. One
child about three weeks old was
burned to death. The mother was
burned SO badly that she is not ex
pected to live. Another child was
burned quite severely.
FRANK |. DARLING, of Michigan. anc
John G. Townsend, of Illinois, have
been appointed special examiners il
the pension Office.
Hon. II. Il. TAscnEEEAu,j judge of th'
Dominion supreme court, died sudden
ly in Quebec on the 9Th
THf Quebec legislature opened, oi
the 9th. with the customary ccre
{ monies. In his speech from the thron'
Lieut.. -Gov. Cha pleau made kindly allu
| sion to the term Of service and the de
$ parture of the earl of Derby, flatter
: ing mention was also made of Lore
Aberdeen.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has ordered tina
ten military officers who were impli
ted in the Hanover gambling cas-
> be cashcred.
Mr.. FRANCIS PARKMAN, the eminen
: historian. died at his home in Jamaic
Plain Boston, on the 9th. of periton
n It's.
The Panhandle glass works at Wells
burg. W. Va, resumed operations OF
the 9th. employing 200 men, after sc'
!, eral months idleness.
A GAS motor in the North Side stree
railway barns in Chicago exploded o
= the 9th, and the explosion OF ten MOI
. motors Immediately followed. di
" astrous fire followed, resulting in IN
~ total destruction of the eleven motol
and the buildings, with forty stree
T. cars The total loss will probab
n reach 100000; covered by insurance
d RArIFIcArloNs of the extraditio
" treaty between the United States an
ID Sweden and Norway were exchange
" on the 9th. by Secretary Gresham an
lie Minister Grip The provisions ot II
treaty will go into effect thirty oa.
from the date of exchange,
u .loHN c. ENO was arrested III Ne
" York city, on the night OF the "th'
Sc n warrant sworn out by United Stat
II District. Mitchell, on the
Il indictment charging him with m'sa
p propration of the funds of the Secol
'e national bank of New York in 1854
w rave bond and was released
On the 9th the birthday anniversa
rs of the prince Of Wales was cele ora'
II. at Sandringham. The church be
IS were rung during the morning ho"
in and flags were displayed everywhere
&c the vicinity of the residence OF the hi
an ppparent to the British crown,
he THE big marshes bordering the IA
to l,akec river in Indiana were report
N. burning. on the 9th, aud the fire thre'
ened to sweep over the tracks OF
Lake Erie 4 Western railway ana ou
DC over large contiguous territory y
is eral hundred men were out batting
ie. flames.
of Tur annual circus parade p
he vided by the city of London On
lin occasion of the installation OF the n
lord mavor was witnessed by tens
we thousands of people on the 'th'
'u- dcrman George Robert Taylor rep
senting the Queenhithe ward Is
new chief magistrate of the city'
-: DrR,NG the Ave months the fei
av wheel revolved on Midway pia'sa'
',,a Mt the Worlds fair l,45a,6ll pers,
m 4, paid a total of s7a6, S0j.5O to ride
acc m company paid off bonds amounting
,. @ $500 600. and after paying operat
"e expenses and dividing with the exp
@ So tion over $3.50, 900 was left for the sto
in holders.
GroReE l.. CRAMER, for thirty
years secretary OF the Mutual tire
the surance Co. of Frederick county "
I'm. committed suicide on the 9th a q
res. mittee had reported that he was a
his faulter to the extent OF sll,ooo.
airs OK the 9th the announcement.
MIS- made, and later confirmed tn"1 y,
ime Carnegie Steel Co., limited. OF II
and burph. Pa. had broken away fro"
ems steel combine and cut the prices
of steel rails s5 per ton, from WV "
AIRY and sa5. .,,
FIRE of unknown origin des.ro
=, the residence OF Mrs. Eliza oe'"
~ rows, in Chicago, on the io'"'
SEQ burrows and the police sncceeue'
'osl- rescuing six of the children on. u
!, a. .',s a .-year-old boy, was burned 10 w m
Ml'so M THE Pittsburgh and Lake Ange
:, m,ne at lshpeming, Mich, emplo.
'h u 500 men, suspended work for the