Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-10-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PAID admissions to the Worlds fair
on the 5th were ljI, 15a.
The missing furs, valued at $40, 600,
stolen from the exhibit of Pavel Green
waldt, Of Russia, at the Worlds fair
were found by detective, on the ith
nicely rolled upand placed in "a chest
found standing against a wall in Man
ufactures building. Five employees of
the Russian section were arrested on
suspicion of completely in the theft
THE contract of Wells, Fargo & Co,
with the Southern Express Co., will
expire in little more than a month.
Half a dozen express companies are
preparing bids for the contract, among
them the Adams Express Co. The
Wells, Fargo Co. have for nearly half
a century had the control of the busi-
ness of the Pacific coast
THE Ncwshy infantry barracks at
Roslavl, province of Smolensk, Russia,
were burned on the night of the ith.
A bout 400 men ran ont in their night
clothes. OF sixty who were driven to
the roof and were obliged TO jump for
their lives, eleven were killed and eight
were injured so that they will die.
Twenty-threc men and five non-com-
missioned officers were burned todcath
and many others are missing,
Ar an early hour on the morning OF
the 4th the prisoners confined in the
Wood county Jail at Bowling Green,
c.. made their escape. There were five
of them, one murderer, three desper-
ate crooks and one thief.
WITHIN radius Of 10 miles from the
government lighthouse at the mouth
of Pascagoula river in Mississippi
partial list of vessels shows thirteen
schooners, barks and briggs and many
small craft wrecked or seriously dis
abled. AS a result of the late cyclone
The steamer Manin went ashore at ship
island. The government lighthouse at
Pascagoula was greatly damaged, and
is unsafe.
The British steamer City Camp from
st. Johns. n. f.. was off the coast OF
Cork, on the 9Th, waterloggcd, having
encountered terrible storm on Sep
tember q. Her cabins were filed with
water and all on board had been living
on the poop deck of the vessel ever
since. Tugs were sent to her assist
ancc.
WILLIAM c. DAY, superintendent OF
Badstrcet's in st. Louis, died suddenly
at his residence, on the 9TH, OF hear'
failure. Mr.. Day was a Virginian by
birth and was in his tifty-ninth year
His remains were taken to Lexington,
Ky.
AS action of much interest to pen
sioncrs was begun in the District OF
Columbia supreme court on the 4th'
The plaintiff, Judge Charles I'D, Long
of Detroit, Mich, a member OF the SUI
preme bench of the state. filed pet-
ton for mandamus to compel the com
missioner of pensions to pay plaint'f,s
pension. which he holds was illegally
suspended.
As A result OF the recent 'hazing AZ
Princeton (N. .I,) college two faculty
meetings were held on the 9TH eiA
sophomorcs were suspended tempo
rarilv. and more suspensions VIII prop
ably follow another faculty meeting
The students are indignant that 'he'r
M shines are to be intcrfcred with.
Ex.t;ov. JAMES BLACK GRooME' OF
Maryland. died in Baltimore, on tne
night of the 4th, Of bowel trouole'
aged 80 years. Aha
In Trinity church, Boston, on 'he
18th. in the presence of the h'ghcs,
dignitarics of the Protestant Episeopa,
church in this country multituoe u
people, among them many dlS.ln
ruishcd personages, Rev. DR.. william,
Lawrence was consecrated bishoP VI
Massachusetts,.
SEVERAL prisoners escaped from .ne
st. Joseph county (nd.) Jail on 'ne
morning of the 9th. They tore nole
with their hands in the iron moor .,
the first tier of cells and desceh"."
into the basement, escaping oy v"e
cellar door. A murderer was among
the gang. They were aided y per
sons on the outside.
The great yacht race for the Aver. w,l..
ca,s cun between the Yankee sloop Vig-
liant and the British cutter Naikyrie:
on the sth, proved failure Tor iach ~ "
wind, neither vessel making the % o's-
tance within the time limit prescrioea.
A REAR-ESp collision between '"o
freight trains on the Pittsburgh ~
Lake Erie railroad occurred near Ea,n'
burch station. Pa, on the 9th r'sm. ,s,
cen cars of merchandise were oa",y
wrecked, The tainmen ese'peo u"
jury,