Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THOMAS MAST. the American cartoon
lst, has entered the employ of the Pail
Mall Gazette. His work will be de-
voted to political cartoons.
Miss MAGGIE KREPs fatally shot Will
liam Wilburn at Des Moines. Ia, on
the 23d, in an alteration over pas
ture lot for cows.
b. +. HUGHES, R. +. Weed and Charles
0'Brien, leaders among the common
wealers who stole Union Pacific train
at Montpelier, Idaho, and run it to Coke
vile, Wyo., where they We're captured,
were sentenced by Judge Riner, of the
United States court, at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
on the 23d, to five months Imprisonment
in the Laramie county Jail. Twelve
others were sentenced to four months
Imprisonment.
Ar 3p. IN. on the 23d the First ma
tional bank of Longview, Tex, was
robbed by four men, resulting in the
death of one robber, named Geo. Ben
nett, and one citizen, Geo. Bucl1ing-
ham, and the mortal wounding of J. w.
Mcqueen and City Marshal Matt Neil
roy and the. serious wounding of II. {.
Summers and c. 5. Leonard.
Gov. WERTs of New Jersey has signed
the bill which recognizes the state med
ical examiners and prevents any person
or number of persons from practising
the so-called system of faithcurism.
mind-healing and laying on of hands.
THE trial by court-martial of Lieut..
Nancy, on charges growing out of the
killing of Capt, Hedberg, began at Fort
Smelling, MINI on the 23d.
c. ii. j. TAYLOR the colored Kansas
man whose confirmation to be recorder
of deeds for the District of Columbia
has been hanging fire in the senate,
was confirmed in executive session, on
the Esd, the vote standing "a to Is
THE yawl of the missing schooner
Lem Ellsworth, supposed to have
foundered in the center Of Lake Michi.
gan during the recent terrible storm,
was recovered, on the cath, near
Waukegan, ILL.,
AN incendiary fire, supposed to have
been in revenge for sending Mansfield
valley rioters to Jail, completely de-
stroyed the Schutt Coal Co.'S store, AT
Bridgeville. Pa, on the 23d.
The condition of Emma Juch. who
had been seriously but not dangerously
i'll at Ann Arbor, Mich, was SO much
improved that she was enabled to leave
for her home on the 25th. All her en-
gagements for the present trip had
been cancelled.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL
CRAWFORD at st. Petersburg has made
an exhaustive report to the state de-
partment upon the new Siberian rail
road connecting the Pacific with Euro
pean Russia. He says the principal
sections will be completed within tW .
years.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's right eye was sue
cessfully operated on for cataract in
London on the 2ith.
On the cath there were nine murder
ers in the Polk county Jail at Des
Moines, la.
THE banquet rendered to Admiral Err
ben, Capt. Mahan and the officers of the
United States cruiser Chicago, by Off
GERS of the English navy and army and
distinguished citizens of Great Britain
was held on the night of the '24th In
St. James hall, London. Two British
naval officers escorted each officer Of
the Chicago to his allotted seat. The
officers We're in uniform. The Other
guests were in evening dress.
FRANK STANARp. of Lawrence com
Fly, Ind. who is under $4,000 bond to tn,
United States court for attempting t.
bribe Juror Armstrong, in the 1ndi
annapolis national bank case, has skip
ped, leaving his bondsmen in the lurch
On the 24th. in the federal court a
San Antonio, Tex, Jack Davis, a well
known citizen of Eagle Pass, was fount
guilty of attempting to bribe Bob Dow
a customhouse official, to smuggle thir
teen Chinese into the United States from
Mexico.
The police of Belgrade, Servia, hav'
discovered secret cartridge manufac
tory where ammunition for the Peabod,
rife. with which the Servian militia il
armed, has been turned out in larg'
quantities. It is estimated that 1900,
900 cartridges have already been set Il
the provinces.
MICHAEL bash and wife. an aget
couple, started. on the 24th, from Clin
ton, Ia, in a road cart drawn by ,
single mule for an overland trip to New
I York city.
! AFRICAN advices of the 26th stat
f. that the British garrison of 200 men a
Fort Mcguire, on Lake Yassa, repulse,
1000 Arabs under the. slave trade
Malxanjifa. The Arabs fed. lcavinI
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