Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-23


June 90, confer the degree of LID. on
Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, commander of
the United States cruiser Chicago.
WHILE on their way home from
Dunkard love feast at Wooster, o., on
the night of the i4th, Grant Baum,
aged IS, shot Mile Zimmerman, II,
only daughter Of widowed mother,
through the heart. Baum claims the
weapon was accidentally discharged.
JOHN DUKE CoLERlDGE lord chief JUS
tice of England died at $50 o'clock on
the evening of the 14th, aged ~ years.
BY the upsetting of flatboat in the
Kentucky rivernear Waco, KY, on the
l4th a fishing party of fourteen boys
and girls were thrown out in eight
feet of water. All but one were res
cued by Jack Sewell, who was work.
ing in field near by. Miss Carrie
Bush, a handsome young lady, sank be-
fore she could be reached.
FIRE destroyed portion of the
Studebaker wagon works at South
Bend, Ind, t an early hour on the
morning of tietsth. ass not stated.
The imports of specie at the port Of
New York for the week ended on the
18th, were S66,97s, of which Sl3,57l
was gold and $53,4 silver. For the
corresponding week of 1898 the imports
were $1s:,425.
THE number of deaths in Hong Kong
from the plague is becoming smaller,
only fifty-one having been reported on
the 10th. Among those who died on
the 18th was British soldier.
TIE opening of the intercolonial
conference at Ottawa, Ont, has been
postponed until the 2sth. 1t was to
have begun on the 2lst.
THE japanese troops which were or
dered to Corea have re-embarked for
Japan, no further trouble being feared.
TIE United States will bring suit
against the Central Pacific railroad as
a corporation for the sum Of scr, S55, $50,
with interest thereon at the rate of 6
per cent. for period of thirty years,
the total amount of the suit being foI
SIS, ,095, ,9O4. The government will also
bring suit against the Union Pacific
the Kansas Pacific railroads, as two
associated corporations, for a total of
S33, 5S9, ,5l2, with interest at 6 per cent,
also for thirty years, the amount due
from these roads being $92, ,9l0, $500.
AT Pixies Peak, Ind, on the night of
the 10th, lightning struck the frame
barn of John Altis, tearing it to pieces
and burning it, with $1,000 worth Of
farming implements. At Stonehead,
near by, during a terrific thunder.
storm, on the 17th lightning struck
the residence of Dolk Shoemaker, in
stantly killing his l7-year-old daugh-
ter
FELIX S. SEAMAN. former resident
of New York. writes from Limerick,
Ireland, that Richard Croker, through
an agent is negotiating quietly for the
purchase of an estate in the county
Limerick, called Lisnagry, adjoining
I}allnagar, the country seat of the
Crokers of the Cromwellian period, his
ancestors,
The treasury officials are in almost
daily receipt of information showing
that the law of August 2, 1886, as to
the sale of oleomargarine, is being vio-
lated by dealers in all parts of the
country. These violations consist prin-
cipally in selling oleomargarine at re-
tail in packages not properly marked
and branded.
WILLIAM HART, a noted landscape
painter, who for many years has been
prominent in the art world, died at his
residence on Chester Hill. Mount Ver-
non, n. Y, on the 18th. Mr. Hart was
born seventy-two years ago in Scot
land, coming to America in his youth,
where he entered the trade OF carriage
painting.
THE old but extensive abattoir of
the Central Stock e. Transit Co. in
Harsimus Cove, Jersey City, N. j., was
totally destroyed by fire on the even
ing of the 10th, the total loss reaching
almost 81 ,OOO,0OO Over 5000 sheep and
lambs were roasted alive, and 5000
dressed beeves and 200 dressed hogs
added fuel to the flames.
Hon. WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS died
at his home in Englewood, N. j., early
on the morning of the 17th, aged IS
years.
TIE total number of deaths resulting
from the explosion that occurred in a
mine near Troppau, in Austrian Silesia,
recently, was 232