Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-18
THERE was a heavy fall Of snow

ah explosion In the shop of chemist
IN Brest-.itovok, a town OF Russian
Poland, on the llth. The building in
which the shop was located was com
pletely shattered, as were also the
adjacent houses, each OF which con.
tanned several families.
The weekly statement of the New
York associated banks for the week
ended on the llth shows the following
changes; Reserve, decrease, s5,sl5.27s;
loans, increase, s6O9, 700; specie. in.
crease, 81 ,j2S, 400; legal tenders, increase,
s6,Sos, 700; deposits, increase, ss,327..
500 circulation, decrease, s53, 800
HARLOW n. liIGGlNnoTHAM, president
OF the Worlds Columbian exposition.
has given 800, 900 of his private fortune
to the endowment fund of the Colum.
bian museum, which practically assures
the fultillment of the conditions at.
tached to Marshall Fields gift of ST.
o0o,oo0 made two weeks before.
TIE chief and executive council of
the Usage nation have issued a procla-
nation ordering all negroes to leave
the reservation in thirty days, and no.
tlfying them that any negro found in
the country after that time will be
given fifty laShes.
KING OSCAR of Sweden has decorated
Nine Meb Melba. the opera singer
with the gold medal for art and sci
ence.
OK the llth the banks of New York
held s51, ,s!S,125 in excess of the re
quirements of the 95-pcr cent. rule.
BARON ALEXANDER yoN BACH. tn,
Austrian statesman, died in Vienna, OF
the 18th, in his seventy.ninth year.
WILLIAM HABAcK's mysterious dis
appearance from his home near Edgar
Wis, was cleared up, on the nth, by
the neighbors finding his body abou
eighty rods from his house in th'
woods in a newly-made grave, with
tree fallen across and the brush pilet
over it. His son, Herman, aged 10
confessed to killing him with an AK
assisted by his brother, Otto, aged II
in secreting the body.
ON the l9th the largest cargo Of cof
fee ever carried to New York on a singl
ship arrived from northern Brazilian
ports on the big freighter Melbourne
Of the I.amport ~ Holt line. Her uneN
ampled cargo is in 81, 49l bags, and
valued at II. 400, 600 The cargo was 5
big that it could not be all unloade
on one pier
If Noah Raby, of New Brunswick, \
j., is to he believed he is III years ole
He tells his story to all listeners will
ont varying particular. lie is an II
mate of the poor farm about a mil
from Steltou. MiddleseX county. Rah
saws his father was an American II
dian and his mother South Carolin
woman.
Fully 10000 persons visited the Mo
ran iron works, at the foot OF Ea'
Ninth street. New York, on the l2tI
TO take last look at the FL Cid and tt
britannia before they sail away to gl'
battle to Admiral Mcllo's insurgel
fleet in brazilian waters The cro"
was SO great at one time that work WI
practically suspended
PRESIDENT PElXoro of Brazil is n
trusting to the United States alone
supply him with navy A oarga
was concluded on the 18th whereby u
Brazilian government became prac
callv possessed of nine torpedo boa
built by leading continental mr.
These are guaranteed to steam tWeh'
eirht knots an hour and are to be Il
patched Immediately.
AvGrsr Law. n citizen OF lnrn'
Kas.. committed suicide at that pla'
ON the l?th, by throwing himself
front of a south-bound Santa re pi
!, senger train. He was killed instant
He was despondent over his hnane
condition.
DR. DAVID JrpklNs, who has be
j connected with the Cincinnati hospi'
l since 1867. and was chief of Abrah;
, Iincoln's medical staff during the WI
d;cd in Cincinnati on the l9th' fr'
t III. effects of Il fall which occurred
) ycor opo. He was u years old.
Axnprw SouysoS. who was in JAM
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