Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-09-01

hbh HAZER.
late minister of public works in the
ontario government and recently an.
pointed inspector of registry offices for
ontario, was found dead in his room al
the parliament building in Toronto,
Ont, on the cath.
NEGRO who calls himself Anderson
BOYD was arrested at Knoxville. Tenn.
on the a3d, on the supposition that he
Is identical with Jacob Haltz, who
killed Edward Uhl, in Marion county,
o., ten years ago
THE chief executive of Ecuador has
prolonged the session of congress in
order that it may pass the budget and
arrange for French syndicate to build
railway from Guayaquil to Quito.
THIRTYsEvEN miners, white and col
ored, perished in mine explosion and
fire in the Franklin mine at Franklin.
Wash, on the cath.
Two MEN were killed and eleven in
Jured by an explosion of gas in the
Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa,
on the gath.
ALoNzo KENDALL, Of Kalamazoo
made balloon ascension at School
craft, Mich, on the 25th, and after he
had cut loose with the parachute a
sandbag became detached from the bal
loon, falling down through the para
chute. Kendall fell 800 feet and was
nearly cut in two by barbed-wire
fence.
On the 25th the associated banks of
New York city held S66, rs, $50 in ex.
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
OK the island of Formosa the Chinese
authorities are decapitating Japanese
subjects, supposed to be spies, in large
numbers.
QUEEN VICTORIA prorogued parlia-
ment on the 25th.
A GORDON of Cossaclts has been placed
around the town of Bendzin, Russian
Poland, owing to the prevalence of
cholera there.
GEN. DANIEL Z. SICKLEs has scheme
for the creation of IA grand national
park which will include the battlefield
and other historic points of interest at
Gettysburg. The purchase of some
thing like 1000 acres in and around
Gettysburg is embraced in the plan.
The government already owns several
hundred acres at the scene of the
tAt h,.t ,,f
Sickles proposes to acquire about $500
acres more.
An earthquake was felt in Athens on
the morning of the 26th. The shock
was also felt in Corinth, Vastizsa,
Iantc, Thebes, Chalcis and Atalanta,
The inhabitants of some of the places
affected were terribly frightened,
thinking there was about to be rep
etition of the disaster that occurred
some time ago,
HEAVY forest fires have swept over
Alcona county, Mich, doing great dam
age to lumber mills and standing pine
destroying crops of all kindsand burn
ing the homes of many settlers. The
fires were started in the huckleberry
swamps in the interior by berry pickers
A SINGLE flash of lightning coming
from an almost cloudless sky. on the
Goth, killed Vim. Carr aged 20 of At
lantic City, n. j.. who was bathing
near the foot of Georgia avenue, anG
seriously shocked Mrs. Rachel Faemer
who was bathing with him.
HuGo c. METzEL, a leading jeweler o1
st. Cloud, Mimi, shot himself dead il
| the cellar of his store during the night
of the ?6th. He was driven to the deed
by several unfortunate speculations
Upon an envelope in his coat pocket
were these words: August 25, o.
have lost nearly everything and this is
my last step
DIR. SYDNEY JOHNSON, aged so, fel
dead at indianapolis, Ind, on the after
noon of the Goth, from heart disease
The doctor had been lying down ant
was called to dinner. He fell as hi
| walked from the lounge to the dining
room, and died instantly.
WILLIAM SPENCER, noted charac
ter. known as "Frenchy, the Hermit,
who for fifteen years has led solitar,
life upon the outskirts of Phoenix
| Ariz, was found dead in his hut on thu
| 26th.
JoHN NEWELL, president and genera
manager of the Lake Shore e Michi
gan Southern Railway Co., died a.
Youngstown, O., on the 96th, of apo
plexy.