Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-31

PRINCESS MAUD, the youngest daugh.
ter Of the prince of Wales, and Prime
Minister Rosebery will shortly be mar
ried. An official announcement of the
engagement will be made within few
days. The princess is the prettiest and
most vivacious member of the royal
family. She is "a years old and is a
general favorite.
DURING a quarrel over some pasture
land at Lebanon, Ind, on the 2lst, Sey.
mour Thompson drew revolver and
attempted to shoot his father-in-law,
Hartley Smith, but the latter was too
quick for him and Thompson received
blow on the head which may prove
fatal.
DIR. A. J. HoUsER, of Indianapolis,
Ind, who some weeks ago directed u
message to ex-Queen Liliuokalani ask
ing her royal highness to accompany
him on lecture tour through the
United States, claims to have informa-
tion indirectly from the queen through
a Washington friend that she has de-
cided to accept his Offer
On the 2lst Sweet Perry, negro boy,
aged l6, was found guilty at Guthrie,
Okla, of murder and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the stoning to
death of j. w. Chamblish, a cowboy,
about six months ago.
REV. THOMAS STURGEON was, on the
2lst, elected pastor of the London
tabernacle. No mention was made of
Rev. DR.. Arthur P. Pierson, the Amer
lean minister, who was a candidate for
the place.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE NEWTON, of
Brooklyn, was, on the a2d sentenced
to nine months imprisonment and to
pay fine of $500 for completely in the
Gravesend election frauds. He then
withdrew his appeal in the contempt
of court case and received an addi-
tional sentence of thirty days impris-
onment in Raymond.street Jail and a
fine of $3.50 in that case.
SENIOR 1DIARr BoRBEr has been
elected president of Uruguay and will
assume the duties of the office at once.
He belongs to the official party and
was elected by narrow majority.
FIVE members of wealthy Jewish
family residing in Smorgoni, Russian
Poland, were murdered, on the 2lst,
by peasants, whose motive was rob-
berry.
OK the 22d the senate confirmed the
nomination of Marshal II. Williams to
be associate justice of the supreme
court of Arizona.
Mrs. SIDNEY SCHULZ, ofMuncie, Ind,
aged 70 years, while attending the
funeral of neighbor, on the Odd, be-
came greatly grieved, was attacked
with fit of coughing. and died in a
few minutes.
Mrs. GEO. MCOMBER, of Chicago,
claims to have been guided by her
spirit mother to independence, Mo-,
where she located her runaway hus-
band, who left her year ago in COM
pany with Mrs. r. D. Brown.
COMMODORE KIRKLAND has been as.
signed to succeed Admiral Benham
in command of the South Atlantic sta
tion.
AN application made to Judge
O'Brien, of New York, on the 2Sd, for
writ of habcas corpus for John Y.
Mckane, was denied.
THE body of James Kingdom, the
fifth of the victims of the Gaylord mine
disaster at Plymouth, Pa, was taken
from the mine on the night of the ed.
A COMMITTEE of the followers of NJ
Jules Gusede, the well-known socialist
member of the French chamber of
deputies, have arranged for holding
two immense mass meetings on April
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ii. A. NJ. GLENEN, for many years
business manager of the Boston the
ater, died on the cath. He was vet
eran of the Mexican war.
Mrs. Ross and her 5-months-old in
FAINT perished in the flames of their
burning home in San Francisco on the
gath.
On the oath tine New York associated
banks held $79,O77, $50 in excess Of the
requirements of the 25-per-cent rule.
THE coke ovens at Black Lick and
Cobetown, Pa, employing $50 men,
have resumed operations. ..
SToNEwALL DE FRANCE, convicted of
having obtained $1,000 from the First
national bank of Kalamazoo, Mich, by
means of forged draft, was, on the
24th, sentenced to eleven years in
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