Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-02-17


\ wnLrAM ZIMMERMAN, aged ~, and
his son George, aged ~, were horribly
burned by M explosion Of gas In the
Nottingham mine Of the Dodson Coal
Co, at Plymouth. Pa, on the 9th
The failures for the week ended tho
eth were SS5 In the United States
against a2e last year, and go in Canada,
against A last year, several being of
more than ordinary Importance. Out
of a,1ss commercial failures reported
by telegraph in January, against i,400
for the same period last year, liabili-
ties have reported for 2,O00, amounting
to s29,s43, OPS, of which Gil $50, 7i6 were
Of manufacturing and ti7,234,5s7 Of
trading concerns.
cholera at Warsaw. Russia, and many
deaths have occurred.
AT the Lynn schoolhouse. large
brick building near Wabash, Ind, DUR
ing the wind storm on the 9th, all of
the gable end above the front door was
blown in, scattering the bricks promis-
cuously over teacher and pupils.
Strange to say not single one ives
hurt in any way, although they were
panic-striclxen from fright. The storm
was accompanied by a heavy rainfall.
The democratic congressional cam
paign committee held meeting in
Washington on the 9th. Senator
Faulkner, of Virginia, was elected
president; Hon. Lawrence Gardiner, of
Washington, secretary, and John L..
Norris, of Washington, treasurer.
The National Farmers Alliance ad-
journed its session in Topeka, Kas., ON
the 9th. The officers elected are as
follows: President, Marion Butler, of
North Carolina; vice president, J. l..
Gilbert, of California; secretary and
treasurer, ID. L. Duncan, OF South Caro-
lima. Executive committee. +.
Dean, of New York; Mann Page, of
Virginia.; II. G. Demming, of Pennsyl-
vania, and II. L. Louclxs, of South Da-
kota.
PHYSICIANS report a great ihany cases
of mumps, especially among students,
both at the state no, NAL and the public
school, in Emporia, Kas Out Of class
of twenty -four at the state normal, on
the 9th, only tw elve were present, the
others being confined to their homes
with the prevalent epidemic. Among
those ON the sick list were the orator
and the alternate who are to represent
the school at the state oratorical con.
test at Topeka.
J. J. MCBRIDE, an electrician who at
tempted about year ago to throw his
wife out of fifth-story window in the
Boston hotel, Chicago, after he had
been through her efforts pardoned out
of the pcnitentiary, where he was
serving term for forgery, committed
suicide in Denver, COL, on the 9th. He
left letter to his former wife, now
Mrs. E. v. Meyers, telling her he conld
not live without her.
A REQUIsITIoN was issued, on the 9th,
by Gov. Matthews of Indiana on the
governor of Kansas for H. A. Saclsett,
who is wanted at Elkhart, Ind, on ac-
count of the part he took in an elope-
ment with Frances Davenport.
TESTS of a new magnetic telephone
WCrC uudtic OCJWCtn AtCW Ioth anu
chicago, on the 10th, in the presence Of
representatives of the Western Tele-
phone Construction Co. and officials of
tue several telegraph and telephone
companies. The result is said to have
shown vast superiority Of the mag
neto over the Bell system.
IT is stated that the Russian govern
will give notice to France that the
Franco Russian commercial treaty will
be terminated at the end of 1894 if
France persists in putting into effect,
as against Russia, the proposed new
duties on imported grain.
FRANK MUssER, young man of Lam
caster, Pa, who a yearhad lost an arm,
It being torn off by broken cable
OF the Lancaster Traction Co., was
wardcd $40, 500 damages by arbitrators
on the 10th.
The French government has ap-
pointed Counsellor Siemeisser, of
Magdeburg, a delegate to the silver in
quiry commission.
The Russo-German commercial
trea ty was finally signed, on the 10th,
by representatives of the two contract
ing powers.
MORE than 5000 English Qualsers
have signed protest against the vivi-
section of animals