Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-30


Monroe county, Ind, on the night of
the 2lst. Standing grain was beaten
into the ground and farm stock killed.
-Four horses were killed by stroke of
lightning. The loss to farmers is
enormous.
THE bodies of Harry and Frank Rice,
10-year-old twins, were found in HUI
ber's lake, near Lima, O., on the I'D.
The boys had run away from home to
go swimming.
Rev. ORLANDO WATKIN WELD For.
ESTER, the fourth Baron Forester, dind
at his residence in York, England, on
the ed. He was in his fifty-fourth
year.
SIXTY cases of cholera and fifteen
deaths at Jemoppe, village of Bel
gium near Liege, were reported on the
I'D.
THE family of the late ex-senator
Bishop w. Perkins, of Kansas, will con.
tinue to make their home in Washing
ton city. The remains of the dead
jurist and statesman were laid to rest
in Rock Creek cemetery on the 23d.
REV. CHARLES WARMKEssLE. of the
Evangelical denomination, committed
suicide at Shamokin, Pa, on the 22d,
by hanging. His nephew, Eli Warm
kessle, was killed near Port Carbon
on the Reading road about the same
time.
THE torpedo boat Ericsson left Du.
buque, Ia, on the night of the 22d. The
construction will be completed in Rock
Island, when she will be manned by a
crew of Mississippi steamboat men,
who will take her to New York.
JOHN CoREIGAN, 90 years old, was ia
tally shot at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
on the night of the 22d, by one of his
boarders, who mistook him for bur-
glar. Corrigan's daughter gave the
alarm, pointing ont her fathers form
IN the darkness, and the boardcr fred
In the United States district court in
New York, on the ed, Judge Beers, of
Bridgeport, Conn, was given decree
of 500 damages against the Hamburg
American Steamship Co. on account of
deten tion at quarantine during the
cholera scare in 1892. lie took passage
on the Normannia, having been as
sured that no steerage passe ngers
would be taken.
The Minnesota street car vestibule
law was. on the 22d, declared constitu-
tional and valid by the supreme court.
1t was passed two years ago, and re-
quires that all street railway com
panies shall build vestibules upon their
ears to protect motormen from storms.
PETER LUHN, the first merchant that
settled in Newton, Kas., in the early
days, committed suicide, on the 22d, by
taking sixty grains of morphine. He
said that he had long contemplated the
act, believing that he was better dead
than alive.
GRIFFITH HUGHES, stockman at
Vinton, Ia. who recently returned
from trip Chicago, is said by his ply
sicians to have smallpox. A great
many have been exposed, and there is
great excitement there.
THE imports exclusive of specie, at the
port of New York for the week ended
on the 23d, were $6,343,Ss5, of which
S957, $50 were dry goods and S5,3s6,o55
general merchandise. For the CORE
spending week of 1898 the imports were
ST., 1854, 1888, of which Sl,s71,210 were dry
goods and $40, IT'S general merchan-
disc.
Rev. A. +. KLoszwsKI, the head of
the rebellious Roman Catholic Poles in
Cleveland, O.. was formally excom-
municated by Bishop IIorstman on the
23d
On the 23d the associated banks OF
New York city held S76, 1856, 375 in excess
of the requirements of the 25-per-cent.
rule.
THE duchess of York gave birth to a
son on the 23d.
TIE imports of specie at the port OF
New York for the week ended on the
23d, were S233,7O5, of which sos, ,96'
was gold and S27,741 silver. For the
corresponding week of 1898 the imports
were Sa5, 596.
THE weekly statement of the associ.
ated banks of New York city for the
week ended on the 23d shows the fol.
lowing changes: Reserve, decrease,
81, 200; loans, increase, s2, 249, 900; specie
decrease, S1,426, 700; legal tenders, in
crease, S2,1s3, 700; deposits, increase
So, 15o, 500; circulation, decrease, $751;.
400.