Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE report that the United States
government will reopen negotiations
for the acquisition of the Mole st,
Nicholas, IIayti, has caused considera-
BILE discussion in West Indian ncwspa-
pers. The majority of the papers can
see no good reason why the United
States should not obtain the mole for
coaling station.
FRANCIS II. WEEKS, the embe2ller
whose extradition the Costa Rican gov
ernment has decreed, applied for
writ Of habeas corpus on the 25th.
Thirty new eases of yellow fever
were reported at Brunswiek' Ga, on
the 2sth. but no deaths.
REv. j. c. PRIcE, d. d., the eminent
southern negro orator and president ol
Livingstone college at Salisbury, NC.
! died on the 25th DR.. Price was not
! quite 40 years old. He was appointed
| by President Cleveland during his first
| term as minister to Liberia. but de-
clued, preferring to devote hlS ener-
pies to the advancement of the youth
I
of his race,
A CONFERENCE of the sixteen Meth
odist bishops of the United States
! opened in Milwaukee on the 95th'
THE secretary of the navy, on the
25th, after consultation with the preSi-
dent, ordered the detachment from his
| command of Rear-Admiral Stanton, in
command of the United States naval
forces at Rio Janeiro, for having so Tar
forgotten his duty to a friendly nation
as to salute the flag of the rebel Adj
miral Mello.
| IT was reported, on the 25th, thatoiii'
GERS were en- route from Arizona win
"Uncle Dick" Tate, Kentuckys iugl'
tive embezzling treasurer. The prison.
| or was said to be heavily ironed, and
| his captors, who caught him 80 miles
from Yuma, were expecting to rear
s25. 600 reward for landing him safely
in Kentucky. =.
Gov. HuGnEs of Arizona, who Is II
Washington on official business ma
concluded negotiations with responsl
HE parties for the establishment IN ne
territory of large colony of Europeai
apricnlturists, viticulturists, frui'
growers, silk weavers, cotton splnher'
and mechanics
WHEN Col. r. Bruce Picketts' o
Gettysburg fame, returned rom 'n'
war he bought up vast tracts OF WIZ
land in Sullivan and Pike counties ia
On the a5th he transferred lS'ooo acre
to Boston syndicate, and thereby oe
comes millionaire. The or'glhai III
vestment did not exceed 81 500 :,
Gov. MARKHAM of Cah1orn'a oe
clined to interfere with the execution
i of DR.. Vincent, sentenced to De hanst
for wife murder in Fresno ON the 2'tn
Louis ]. SILVA, the trusted cashie
and secretary of the Rainwater- brao
ford Hat Co., of st. Louis, is deiaui'
: or to an extent exceeding Sloo,ooo' an
detectives are searching for him "a
= Rainwater-B Bradford Hat Go, mas l"''e 4,
IN business as result of thlsoglgaht'
/, embezz,ement, and its affairs have pee
! tnrned over to Christopher 7, Ellerot
g as assignee. -, c;.,.
THE Pacific Mail steamship oi.y
! New York, which sailed from san /"
cisco on the Goth, went on the ROCKS /.
Point Bonito in a dense fog ana WI
I probably be a total wreck ,..,,
n Hon. THEODORE RUNYoN, America
\ ambassador to Germany, presenteo
q Emneror william his credentials
e ambassador on the Goth. Theauoieh'
e was held behind closed DOORS
s FREDERICK A. LovECRAFr' n'an"s
5 of Palmer's theater in New YORK a.
IS secretary of the Coney Island 'o'H'
/ c;ub. shot himself twice in the heao {
the 26th. wo,
,e THE national convention OF the Wo, ,,
rs ans Home Missionary society oi "
a, Methodist Episcopal church openou
s. Toledo, O., on the 2eth. .,u.,
le PRIME MINISTER DuruY mas , .u'sd =,
" ened to resign unless the raolca. .,;n e.
ly ment in the French caolne' 10 vim
N mated. It, ,y,r,d,s fs
r. PAID admissions to the "of'o ''
a. on the oeth were l99.6A|' 40 ..,
IN Miss DAISY GARLAND ageo 20 :, y1s q,
- a,rrh.er Of ex-Attorney-Generai W
land committed suicide at ner nolas .,
Washington, on the s7th' oy snoo.' %"r
er herself through the heart with her
II, theirs revolver. ..,4 o,t
yn THE tluatemalan troops sen. ~. y,
ne ter bandits returned, on .he s.'a' .a ha; W..
Is. having attacked the bandits anu ,a ps, fn,
he re pulscd with three officers anu anti, ~ =.
teen soldiers killed and many w''HN'