Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-07-29


A DISASTROUS fire at Long Island City
destroyed two blocks of business build
lngs and caused a loss of $500, 900.
SEVERAL points in Illinois report
farmers working night and day cutting
oats comparatively green to escape K e
army worm, which is now taking the
fields
CUT of IS in round-trip worlds fair
rates has been made from points south
OF the Ohio river.
TEXAS railroad passenger earnings
for the quarter ended June 3 last show
slight increase over last year
THREE of a gang of Hebrew robbers
were captured by the New York police
The gang would entice members of
their race to their room and beat and
rob them
TIE report of Internal Revenue In
spector Hart is that sugar planters will
lose nearly 100000 by the Rescue
crevassc in Iberville parish, La.
GENERAL shutdown of the textile
mills of New England on account of
the financial stringency is in progress.
The Minnesota supreme court has de-
cided that boycott directed against
an offending member of an association
is not only lawful but laudablc.
A PRIVATE letter from Ounalaska
states that the whaling steamer Belve-
dere was caught in the ice and after
being somewhat crushed was released
from her perilous position and taken to
Ounalaska for repairs.
THE Canadian government has ap.
piled to this country for the extradi-
ton of Alfred Morsett, at one time a
broker in Quebec, but who committed
forgery and fed to the United States.
The Dominion government was the
loser on his transactions,
LARGE consignments of the best
wrapper tobacco have been seized at
Quebec, after passing through the Phil
adelpia custom house as filters The
losses at the last place alone are said to
reach million and a half dollars.
5 In the United States court at Atlanta,
Ga, the attorney for the Central Trust
Co. filed a bill to foreclose a S14 100000
mortgage on the Georgia Pacific rail
E road. This is part of the reorganiza-
. ton scheme.
THE passengers on the Guion line
, steamer Arizona. from New York, re-
, port that that vessel had very narrow
escape from a Red Star line steamer
during thick fog, The latter steamer
+ crossed the Arizona's bows not fifty
S yards distant.
= OWING to the extreme heat the popt
has suspended for time the granting
y of audiences
/. THE State national bank, of Knox
n Vile, Tenn, has assigned.
y The closing of two banks at Milwau
kee on the I'D caused runs upon thos'
:. remaining open.
LOUIS PETERSON and John Dunn
Z painters while watching a procession
', at Milwaukee, saw two pickpocket
u working the crowd and frustra ted thei
y attempt to rob woman. One OF tn
thieves disemboweled Peterson, an
', the other struck Dunn over the hea
:. with blunt instrument. Peterso
70 died. The thieves escaped.
II THE Kentucky national bank a
Louisville has assigned.
SLAMS reply to France was conslt
:" cred unsatisfactory, and it was COZ
IN sidered on the gath that hostilitit
" were inevitable.
10 FIRES were devastating the fores
" and burning the grass near Fort NJ
Kinney and Buffalo, Wyo.
O. THE ruins of a prehistoric city hay
&c been found by party of mine prospec
IN ors in the Colorado desert.
N The Newly pension case ended
y Springfield. ILL.,, in favor of the Cover
H. ment. Had Newly won he would ha'
et received s22 900 arrears, etc. The go
IT. ernment claimed that Newby died du
ng ing the war and that the claimant W
an impostor named Benton
A MASS meeting in the cause OF silv
,r. was held in San Francisco. A series
or resolutions were adopted in which t
od ..secret demonstration of silver
II. 1873 is denounced as "a crime whl
as can never be expiated, except in
to complete rehabilitation. j.
on A DISPATCH from Rio Grande do 81
via Montevideo, says: An importa
,st battle with the insurgents at Jaguar
,oo ,o has resulted in the complete overtime
N. of the government troops. The co
of manding general of the governme
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