Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-10-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

HEEBERr V. RooT, president, in 1889,
of the Travellers Protective ASSOCIATION
of the United States, died suddenly in
Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 10th, OF heart
disease, aged 40 years
The fourth race in the contest be-
tween the champion English and
American yachts, the Nalkyrie and the
Vigilant, for the Americas cup, sailed
on the llth, over 30-mile course on
Sandy Hook, N. j., Is miles to wind
ward or leeward and return, failed Tor
want of wind. The Valliyrie led at the
start. but was soon overhauled by the
Yankee craft, which was well in the
lead when the race was abandoned.
HENRY WHITE, secretary of the
United States embassy IN London
sailed for New York, on the llth, on
the steamer Teutonic, on a leave OF
absence for several weeks Many
friends were at the Euston station TO
say rood-by to him and his family.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president of the
National Red Cross association, mas Is
sued a second appeal in behalf OF the
sufferers from the great storm on 'he
southeastern coast. She says there
will be %, 900 people to feed daily and
clothe for eight months, and 5000 cao-
| ms to rebuild. else the world Will ring
with the humilating announcement
| that famine exists in America.
julius FALK, q naval cadet at the
Annapolis academy, has resigned ana
returned to his home in New York
city, preferring to enter business NE
to submitting to the degrading hazlng
practiced on young cadets AT the
academy. ,.
A CENSORSHIP of all 'telegraphic mat
ter sent out from Hamburg concerning
the cholera has been declared by the
municipal authorities in order to pre-.
vent the dissemination OF false anu
sensational reports, the director o,
teleprams is empowered to demand
from nybody who sends a dispatch as
to the epidemic veriiication OF all 'he
statements contained in it.
| PosrMAsTER-GENERAL BIssELL mas
authorized standing rewards 1or 'he
arrest and conviction of mail robbers
committing offenscs during the hseal
wear ending June 80, 1894, ranging from
81, 900 to $3.50.
louisville, coal-mining town o'
700 inhabitants, and situated twen'y'
| Ave miles north of Denver, COL, is SINK
| inc. The town is built over the Weisn
| coal mines, and It's destruction is oeihe
caused by the sinking OF the SURFACE
above the mine. ,,o 20,
On the nth Edward Blake, Yale %
died of consumption at New iiaven
Conn. He was the first invalid IN thi
country to try Koch's lymph ior ", con
sumption. He was son OF froi iie"'
r. Blake, of New Haven.
In compliance with Senator leiier
resolution of inquiry, the secretary .
the treasury, on the 18th, sent 10 'n'
: senate a statement which shows tha'
, In order to relieve monetary stri,'
; oency. since July I, 1880. interest 10 w VI,
: amount Of $50, ,767.Sss has oeen ~. ao
vanced from time to time before ou
and without deducting Interest," eN''p
to the amount of sores. .;,
A TRAIN on the Transcaucasiah ra,'
!, road in Russia, on which was peln
= carried a large sum of money 10 pa "a
! the soldiers Of the garrison at ba.oun ~
/ was attacked at Nigoita on the nlgn
J, of the 10th by briganda, who succeeue
. in securing the money after a despe' %a ! Pc
: ate fiVht with the gendarmes IN c"a, ~ - T.,
IN which four of the robbers anu 'n'e
Of the gendarmes were killed
}. THE schooners Corinthian ana a. a
bion collided off the town OF Aloiol
p Cal. on the isth. The captai,nI,, Oh w y.
!, latter vessel was drowned. Inc 70 20
q inthjan was badly damaged ana W.
. run ashore. p...r Iredal
J. heavily laden with wheat, was drive ,
It ashore at Astoria, Ore, during "s"
on the 12th., ona
CAPT VALENTINE +. GuRNEy' one !,
* the four remaining survivors OF ,'e !,
" nous "Six Hundred" who mau1 psa y
tt charge at Balaklava, died q. 'ne .s.r = !
. byterian hospital, New YORK c,.y, a. !
Il, lie niuht of the 10th, lie was sa"'
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