Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A RAINMAKER in India has an appara-
tus consisting of Il rocket capable of
rising to the height of a mile, contain
ing reservoir of ether; in its descent
it opens parachute, which causes it to
come down slowly. The ether is thrown
out in fine spray, and its absorption of
heat is said to lower the temperature
about it sufficiently to condense the
vapor and produce limited shower.
On the Goth the czarowitz, on board
the imperial yacht Polar Star, arrived
at tGravesend, England. He was received
by the queens equerry.
EFFORTS to float the steamer Plym-
outh, aground off spindle Rock, r. l.,
had yet been successful up to the Goth.
On the goth c. p Leland, "The King
of Figures" auditor of the Lake Shore
road, died at Cleveland, o. He was 5S
years old, and had been auditor of the
Lake Shore since the consolidation with
the Michigan Southern in 1869.
On the Goth the steamer Meath Alb
bey, of Swansea, Wales, was wrecked
off Nash Point. The captain and three
sailors were drowned.
Hon. BISHOP PERKINS, ex-senator
from Kansas, died in Washington, on
the Goth, from the effects of cholera
morbus contracted during recent
visit to the Indian territory. Mr.. Per-
kins was in his fifty-third year.
JUDGE INGRAHAM, in the New York
court of oyer and terminer, on the Goth,
sentenced Erastus Wiman, convicted of
forgery in the second degree and recon-
mended to mercy by the jury, to five
years and six months in the state peni-
tentiary at Sing Sing.
Four leading members of the Usage
Indians have been arrested for con-
spring with a syndicate of white men
to rob the tribe of millions of feet of
fine timber from their reservation.
Two-thirds of million feet of Walnut
en- route to market has been seized.
THE Peary relief expedition, under
the leadership of Mr.. Henry G. Bryant,
of Philadelphia, left New York, on the
goth, on the steamer Portia, of the Red
Cross line, for st. Johns, N. f., where
they expected to arrive about June %.
They will embark on the steam whaler
Falcon for North Greenland the first
week in July.
THE lexington hotel, in the suburbs
of Washington city, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, which broke out about
midnight of the 10th. The hotel con-
tanned about sixty guests, including
several congressman and their families,
all of whom escaped without panic.
Many of them, however. lost their cloth
ing and effects.
IT is said that steps are being taken
looking to the amalgamation of the
| American Railway union, the Knights
of Labor and the Farmers Alliance into
a great political alliance. This, if per-
fected, would bring into line 1,5oO,o ooC
men with an object in view.
EMIL c. KNAPP, assistant teller Of
the Chicopee national bank of Spring
field, Mass, was arrested, on the 2lst,
charged with the embezzlement of $49,.
GOO from that bank.
| A MAN and little child were killed
many persons injured and fourteen
houses demolished by tornado al
Bangor, s. D., on the Goth.
The weekly statement Of the Bank
of France, issued on the 21st, shows ar
increase Of 2,4O0,OOO francs gold and
975, 900 francs silver.
DURING severe storm at Faribault
Mimi, on the Goth, the tent of Rey.
nolds' circus blew over, injuring fifteer
persons, one fatally.
JACOB HING, a well-known sigr
painter and decorator, was instantly
killed, on the 21st, by the breaking o.
scaffold upon which he was working
in the Schultz opera house at Zanes
vile, o. He fell 40 feet.
On the 22d detachment of gen
darmes attempted to seize the belong
ings Of some peasants near Ponte
vedra, the capital Of the French prov
ince Of that name, in satisfaction O.
tax arrears. They were set upon BY
a crowd of armed peasants, and in thu
fght which ensued three peasants, on,
. boy Of 10, were killed and severa
were wounded.
FIRE of unknown origin destroyed
almost the entire city Of Exeter, Neb.
on the 22d. The losses will be far III
in the thousands.