Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-24

the 18th, from Rio de Janeiro said that
Admiral Saldanha da Cana. with SOC
OF the insurgent sailors and marines,
was on board the Portuguese corvette
Mindello. 1t was added that the refu.
gees would be brought to Portugal by
the Mindello and by the Alfonso de
Albuquerque.
CAPT. FRANK BRowNELI, who shed
the first southern blood in the war on
Virginia soil, shooting and killing
jackson who had the moment before
killed Col. Ellsworth, after the latter
had torn down the confederate flag
from Jackson's hotel in Alexandria,
died in Washington on the 18th.
On the l5th the Bland seigniorage
silver coinage bill was passed by the
senate by majority Of thirteen, the
vote being: Ayes, a; nays, 81. The bill
was passed exactly as received from the
house.
ADvIcEs from Miller, Is. d., on the
18th were to the effect that the country
was being swept by fearful prairie
fire, which had burned much timber,
two or three schoolhouses and farm
buildings in several places.
CHEvALIER MOLARoNI, for twenty
years an official in the department of
public works at Rome, died, on the
10th, from the effects of injuries re-
ceived on the occasion of the explosion
of bomb in front of the chamber of
deputies on March S.
The coroner's jury in the case of the
lynching of the negro Richard Pur-
year, at Stroudsburgh, Pa, returned
verdict, on the 18th, finding that the
murderer came to his death by being
hung by parties not known to the jury.
The ravages of yellow fever are
alarming everybody in Rio Janeiro
The number of deaths amount to sixty
daily. All sorts of rumors are in circu-
lation. One of them is that the Aauida.
ban. one of the vessels seized by de
Mello when he sought to set up gov
ernment on his own account, has been
found abandoned in southern waters.
BY the explosion of a boiler in the
province of Yekaterinoslav, Russia.
on the 10Th, fifteen men were killed
and many others badly injured.
john WEST, the leader of notorious
gang of burglars, was arrested in Sid
ney, O., on the 10Th.
THE reichstag passed the RussoGer-
man commercial treaty on the 10th.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th
fire started in the stable of Ii. A.
Poingdestre, near the race track, south
of Leavenworth, Kas., and burned it to
the ground. Two valuable horses were
cremated. One of them, Altitude, was
a noted stallion with fast record. He
was recently purchased for $1,000.
There was an insurance of s., 600, which
nearly covers the loss.
A TRAMP, whose name is unknown,
was found hanging from limb of
tree by Il piece of barbed fencing wire
in the outskirts of Wabash, Ind, on
the 10th. He had evidently walked up
the trunk of a leaning tree, fastened
the wire to a limb, adjusted the moose
around his neck and jumped off, his
death resulting from strangulation.
COMMODORE WILLIAM ID. WHITING, re-
tired, of the United States navy, was
reported, on the 10th, as lying at the
point of death az his home in New York
city. His illness resulted from an acci-
dent which befell him several weeks
ago. Commodore Whiting is blind.
The green flag of Ireland which
was carried by the steamboat Hazel
Kirke during the naval parade last
year, and which was saluted by the
visiting war ships, was raised at sun
rise, on st. Patricli's day. on a line be-
tween the staffs on which the state
and municipal flags float over the New
York city hall building
On the 18th Queen Emma signed q
decree dissolvng the Dutch parlia-
ment. This step is supposed to be the
outcome of the recent action of the
second chamber in adopting an amend
ment to the principal clause of the
government reform bill
THE anniversary of the commune
was celebrated in Paris, on the 18th,
without disturbance of any kind. The
cemetery of Pere la Chaise was crowd
ed. but no unusual demonstration was
made.
THE associated banks of New York
held S77, 3O2, 900 IN excess of the require
ments of the 25-per-cent. rule on the
18th.