Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-08-12

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thrower is reported to be living in
Springfield, o.
JOSEPH w. HOWELL, who murdered
woman and four children near Brook
Held, Mo-, January o, 1889, was exc
cutcd at Trenton, Mo-, on the 4th.
WALKER & Co., dry goods, Chicago
have failed.
1iE condition of the silver market
created financial panic in Costa Rica
Many houses have failed and great dis
tress prevails.
OLIVER p. MINK, of Boston, comptrol-
Ter of the Union Pacific has declared
that retrenchment will be the watch
word of the management all along the
line.
The American Loan & Trust Co has
resumed business at Omaha under the
old officers.
The Choctaw elections resulted in
victory for the Locke faction.
MEssRs. PARRorr Bros, members of
the New York Cotton exchange, have
announced their inability to meet their
engagements.
A FIRE at Princeton, Mimi, destroyed
the First national bank building,
hotel and six business houses, causing
loss of $50, 900; insurance only partial.
The steamship Straits of Gibraltar
has been lost in the straits of Belle Isle
by a collision with icebergs. Value,
100000 No lives were lost.
The Lebanon Trust q Safe Deposit
bank, of Lebanon, Pa, failed to open
its doors The bank is IA state insttu-
tion with Il capital of $4,000 1t is be-
lieyed that the suspension is only tenn
porary.
The grand jury at Memphis indicted
Sheriff McLendon, Deputy Sheriff j. A,
Perkins, Jailer Harold and Police
Captains Ohaver and IIackett for fail
ing to do their duty in permitting Lee
Walker to be taken from the Jail and
lynched and burned two weeks ago,
Several Of the members Of the mob
were also indicted.
THE Texas national bank at San An
tonic is now in the hands of the United
States bank examiner. 1t is the small
est bank in the city; capital stock $780,
00O The closing caused no excitement.
FIFTEEN hundred of the depositors of
the Akron, o., Savings bank unani-
mously agreed to plan whereby the
institution will be enabled to discharge
the receiver and open its doors for
business.
THREE boys were drowned in Red
Lake river near Grand Forks n. ID.
Two were swimming a race and both
went down. The third lost his life in
a brave attempt at rescue
THE greed of the lobbyists who are
making a fat thing out Of percentages
for collecting their claims is all that
prevents the Choctaws from giving up
their separate government and coming
in as part of the United States,
Ar Corydon, Ind, a mob approached
the house of William and Edward Con-
rad with the intention of lynching him,
but they fired into the mob, killing
and fatally wounding several.
Two freight trains on the Big -Four
collided on a bridge near Danville, Ill,
and the reeults were loss of life and
great destruction of property
THE wreck on the Lake Shore at
Lindsey, O., was terrible one, three
persons being instantly killed and a
number fatally and seriously injured.
THE gates of the worlds fair were
open last Sunday, but the visitors were
few and there was little for them tt
look at.
THE New Bedford, Mass, Safe 4
Trust Co. closed its doors, 1t was in
corporated in 1883 with a capital OF
5000, 900.
THE great reservoir of the water
works at Portland Me, burst. Two
houses were swept away and four oi
the inmates drowned, Other buildings
were destroyed but no further loss o.
life resulted.
A HEAyuY-LoADED suburban tran
on the Illinois Central was derailed a
Chicago by running into an opeI
switch. Three or four cars were badly
damaged but only one passenger, MISS
Nvro bradshaw, was seriously hurt.
THE American liner New York ha
arrived. Among her passengers wer
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and he
three children, Algernon, Vivien an
Rose. She will reside permanently Il
this country. =,
THE Union Pacific has retrenched b.
discharging many men and discontinu
5 ing train service