Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-22
PRELIMINARY work to the opening of


FIRE destroyed 1000, 900 feet of lum-
Der in Taber e. Co. S .;ards, at Dubuque,
Ia Loss, $4,000; fully insured
ALcEs A. Lour and wife, of st. John
Baptist parish, La, were taken from
their home and horribly whipped by
white caps, Both were fearfully
lacerated
ALEXANDER McCooK, brigadier-gcn-
eral Of the new military department Of
Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mex
leo, has arrived at Denver for the pur-
pose of establishing the headquarters
of the department
AT Baltimore application was made
for receiver of the Equitable League
of America, seven year term order,
and an injunction to restrain officers
from collecting assessments was grant
ed and hearing set for September 8.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
ECKELs has authorized the First ma
tional bank, of Los Angeles, Cal, the
National Bank of Commerce, of Provo,
U. T., and the Second national bank, of
Ashland, KY, to resume business. All
these banks have resumed with plenty
of money, none of which was bor-
rowed, but obtained by the collection
of amounts due on notes or supplied by
the directors.
THE latest advices from Honolulu are
to the effect that the rebellious lepcrs
have been subdued, and that all is
quiet there now.
S. N. DusENBKRRE, cashier of the de-
funct bank of Puyallup, Wash, has
been arrested,
PRESIDENT VAN Horn of the Canadian
Pacific has been indicted by the federal
grand jury at Tacoma, Wash, for vio-
lating the interstate commerce law in
sale of tickets
THE dead body of Min Sheppard, the
notorious dcsperado, who recently es.
capped from custody in Arkansas, was
found lodged in some driftwood In the
Arkansas river.
Mrs. MEYER, held a prisoner at De.
troit, Mich, with her husband, charged
with wholesale poisoning of husbands
for insurance, has given birth to boy
THE Mississippi river commission has
ordered work in the harbor of Vicks
burg, Miss, abandoned.
REAPER and harvesting men who are
exhibitors at the worlds fair with ONT
exception, will decline to make thu
field trials which have at the last mo
ment been demanded of them.
THE great Columbian handicap stalk
at Chicago was won by Rudolph,
western horse.
SPECIAL INSPECTOR SwINFoRD de
clares that the Cherokee strip will b
opened to settlement not later tina,
September 10.
A TORNADO struck Lima, O., destroy
ing the Catholic church and unrootin
a number of buildings, but iniuring n
I one,
| TIMELY arrival of troops at Houck
Tank, A. r., saved two railroad d'
tectives from death at the hands
angry Navajos.
THE hay crop in Europe is a failure
:. and as consequence this country WI
be called upon to furnish an immen'
quantity at a high price.
: J. j. BUSH, cashier of the defun'
bank at Elmira, N. Y, has been plact
u under arrest.
AT an Italian picnic at Chicago fo'
e persons were killed by premature e.
5 plosion of fireworks.
S JOHN VlcK and his son Walter we
drowned at Detroit, Mich, by gettiI
II out OF their depth.
e THREE colored children, locked IN
4 cabin by their parents at Durant' MIS-
were burned to death
n Tun Glen house at Mount Washin
It ton. N. H., was destroyed by fire. Lo'
! 500, 600.
OyE.pRIcE round-trip tickets to I
le worlds fair, good on any train, is
IN order in Central Traffic association tt
ly ritorv, following the cut made by t
IL Big Four.
A COURAGEOUS boy saved two you
I'd ladies from being carried over a cl
rt bv A runaway horse at Long Branch.
Ex-lNplAN AGENT BENNETT has pt
Il lisbed a communication sstting for
d. the present condition of the Indians
OF the five civilized tribes and showi
their need for statehood.
T., A RUSSIAN exhibitor at the worl
&c fair sold some jewelry which had be
n. admitted free of duty and came n,
n getting himself in serious trou
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