Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-06-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

gone to the corn, and promise to play
havoc with that crop.
THE supreme court Of Indiana has de-
cided that women may be admitted to
practice at the bar in that state.
Mr.. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, Of New
York, accompanied by his family, left
London, on the 18th, for Paris by way
of the Dover route.
A CABLE from Managua. Nicaragua,
states that United States Minister
Baker and Senior Castillo, the Mica
raguan minister of war, deny the re-
port that the marines have been landed
from the cruiser Atlanta at Greytown
to protect the interests of citizens of
the United States.
SHERIFF b. A. DENNIS, of Culbertson,
Neb., in attendance at the interstate
sheriffs' convention, was found dead in
his bed at Council Bluffs, Ia, on the
18th, asphyxiated by gas.
HELENA Mont. officials are looking
| for Loren Is. Olds, eX-state senator and
one of the best-known mining men in
| the state. who is wanted on a charge
of swindling.
THE latest advices from Mecca, where
cholera is raging, show that there had
been $50 deaths from the disease dur
ing five days
TIE annual convention of the Christ.
ian Endeavor society of Ohio will be
held in Cincinnati on the Goth, 27th,
2sth and 29th.
| Irp to2 o'clock on the morning of the
10th returns of the German election
from seventy districts indicated that
thirty-six had been carried by par
ties opposed to the army bill, iif-
teen for the parties favoring the bill
and nineteen in doubt between the
government and the opposition parties,
with the chances in the majority of
them strongly in favor of the govern
ment. Not 10 per cent. of the votes
cast in Berlin were in favor OF the army
bill.
Ar Buchanan, Ga, on the 18th, Nes'
. lev Shaw ordered an old woman, be-
l licved by the negroes to be a witch, oh
: his land. She followed him to ''picl
I'D his track" lie, to prevent being
), bcwitched, attempted to cut her "witcl
VEIN" Instead he struck her lugula1
vein, and. at last accounts, She wa
diving and he was in jail,
q Az almost incredible story of cruelt,
came to the notice of the Brooklyn pc
4 lice. on the 18TH and led to the arres
!. of Eliphalet Stratton, Il mise' " year
J., of age. on charge of having tired u
a kill his wife bya slow process OF abuse
|. starvation and neglect.
W. b. PRESCOTT was, for the th'r
time. elected president of the lnterna
" tional Typographical union at ehleag
ID on the 18th.
n THE builders of the torpedo boa
,c Ericsson. under construction at Dl
I'd buoue, Ia, announce that the veSS'
s. will be launched next month. II
SIS governors of every state in the MISS
sippi valley will be invited to pare'c
nate in the ceremonies. The boat
a. one of the finest in the country ana
x construction has required nearly wv
. years labor. ,,, >,
n 18th said: "Thcre is good authori'
Ie' for the statement that under the kr
Is sian-American extradition treaty n
body will he surrendered to Russia G
cept on evidence that will SATISFY
Iet American jury, by which the accus
les NAV claim trial before being cX'l
" dited."
ne Ak attempt was made, on the mug
ie- of tho 18th. to rob the mail stage fro
NJ lone to Jackson, Col, bya lone hiS
'rc wayman. Wells Fargos guard, Mlch'
Tov.v. was killed and the drls
wounded and two horses shot i
me wounded driver with the remain
:. two horses, got away win inc s'"'
on The robber took to the brush
rh S. j. JULIAN, a retired merch"
Vi committed suicide at Lincoln, Neo''
ing the 18th. by hanging himself from
JIG tree by means of piece OF Il WI
rbe old man recently lost portion
his fortune in a real estate transact
~ and became imbucd with the 'oea VI
he was to be ruined.
.ha M meeting of the board OF direct
A.. of the Union seminary in New
wy @ IN the 18th, it was decided that II
I ;m G. A. Briggs, D. D., will continue
work In the department OF oioi'
theology as hitherto ihe ; o'ree'
,, also decided that speci@ Pro','
'n'; ' should be made SO that none Oh
-" students of Union seminary VIII b"
IONS fuam the restriction which has b
on ,nt r,on the board of education.
nan CoNrRAcroR DANr, who was o'
49,, Tho work which resulted in the
lanse of Fords opera house. III W.
;m,tor and the awful loss oi
!. among the government clerks emp'o
con. there, is in a serious cohu,',on' @a, S
ori. is feared that his mind wiil DC aiie'
,ra. NV the disaster. His doctor mas !,
~ h;b;ted his leaving the house anu
's Ia the presence Of all save the n
nav. hers of his family.
a CLEARlNGHOtS Sh 'N'" ,S..
five principal cities OF the un,seu M, GOV o.'
,ro, as reported by Bradstreets' ioi
= mn weel, ended on the 18th, aggregate,
nall. osl 1854, ,aa7, of which amour, nem w,
j Isl. city returned s5so,ss',5lo oh'rasD ~, -,
,ong sOs, ,sse, Boston ss6,7!o''oi' .,, nna, ran
its It's mia SEQ, ,ss7. .oloand st. Louis So. r
and IT is given out that Princess II"
r;s; I will sail for Europe on the s4th,
ON the 18th the supreme co"r. Oh "
diana declared the law assessing y
\ the insure insurance companies on their prem n m
,,her for the beneat of relief funds 10 10
con. ranized fire departments uncon' @ -
20 t;onal in half dozen diftereh
tsth snccts A great dealof money mao
ound yiously been collected under 'ne m
GOV. JOSEPH JEFFERSON the @ as.oi =,
that taken suddenly i'll, on the night o.
oners i5th. w lille en- route by steane' ne.
New York city to Buzzards Bay, y,
Although very weak MS co'''''''
Il the not considered dangerous
was pnrs,nrNr CARNoT OF france
\ the ,ered relapse, on the 10TH ana
ir on anxiety was felt for his recovery, y
sitors THE mining towns OF ;. MS
spoke Mesaba, Virginia and Mountain
She IN the iron range in Minnesota,
ri NA ~. -. almost entirely