Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EMPEROR WILLIAM, in his speech at
the annual dinner of the Brandenburg
diet, referring to the great electors,
said that the fact that they were en-
ablcd TO accomplish SO much was due
to the mutual confidence between ruler
and people. and, above all. to the
knowledge that the ruling house of
lIohenzollern was animated by high
tense of duty, derived from the con
seriousness that it was only answer
able to God and to its own conscience.
ilows that for assurance?
ERAsrUs WYMAN, the well-known
capitalist and railroad man, and ex-
manager for Il. q. Dun e. Co., was com
mitted to the Tombs prison, in New
York city, on the 21st, in default of
Ha5 900 bopds, to answer two indict-
mcnts for forgery, found at the in
stance of K. q. Dun & Co., who claim
that he has cmbezzlcd from the con-
rern, by forgery and otherwise, S329
DlS.00.
The dynamite factory of James S.
Miller, at Sumneytown, Pa, exploded,
on the alst, with heavy, loss and a de-
tonaton heard for ten miles. man
named Fritch was blown to atoms.
NJ. NICHOLAS DE GIERs, Russian mins
lister of foreign affairs, was reported,
on the 2lst, very seriously i'll with
asthma.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Nickel Plate east-bound fast train No.
g. hall a mile west of McComb. o., on
the night of the Goth, by piling ties on
the track. The distractions were
found and removed by a farmer named
Lynn.
REAR-ADMIRAL STANTON and nine
teen officers and Isl men of the
wrecked corvette kearsarge arrived at
Quarantine, S. l., on the 2lst, on the
steamer City of Para after seven
days passage from Colon
ACTING SECRETARY MCADoo, on the
e1st, appointed court of inquiry to
examine into and report upon the facts
connected with the wreck of the Kear-
sarge, on Roncador reef. The court
will consist of Admiral Ghcrardi, Capt.
Miller and Capt Kane, Lieut.. Com.
Joseph Kelly will act as recorder.
THE Otoc county (Neb.) grand jury
promptly and thoroughly investigated
the recent hanging in eiiigy of J. Ster-
ling Morton and son and found only
two persons implicated Stack White
and Henry W. Hocrath, one a constable
and the other a painter They have
been indicted under the statute for
what all term dastardly act.
From the views expressed by men,
bers of the house committee on agri-
culture, the prospect of a favorable re-
port upon one of the bills for a govern
ment appropriation TO exterminate the
Russian thistle from the wheat lands of
the northern middle states is not bright.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND offered Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, through Secretary
Gresham, the place of minister to
Stockholm, Sweden. The offer has
been declined. The ex-governor is
busily engaged in his work on the life
of his uncle. Robert f. Lee.
The president has informed members
of congress. who have approached him
on the subject, that he proposed, so far
as possible, TO appoint the sons of army
and navy officers as cadets-at-large to
the military and naval academies This
is in accordance with his policy of eight
years ago
1T was ascertaincd, on the 3lst, be-
yond all doubt that the Depauw uni
versity at Greencastlc, Ind, was caught
for at least $50, 900, and probably $780,
900, in the recent Depauw plate glass
failure at Alexander.
ANexpert accountant has been check
ing up the accounts of Adjutant-Gen-
eral Artz of Kansas, by direction of
Gov. Lewelling. The governor has in
timated that, under the showing, Artz
would nave TO go.
CHARLES A. GARDNER, the we'll
known German comedian, who was
playing the leading role in the prize
Winners" was left critically i'll in
Kcnton, O., with Inflammation of the
bowels, by his company which, on the
ed proceeded without him.
COMMISSIONER MILLER of the internal
revenue bureau has decided to issue a
new series of revenue stamps to take
the place of those now in use. The
new stamps will be smaller in size,
more artistic in finish and different in
color from the old ones.
JoE HARDIN, the Centralia (lll.)
train robher, who escaped from the
prison at Chester, on the 10th, was
caught. on the ed within . niles ot
Menanl, H., where he was in hidin1