Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-08-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

THE notoriously poor roads of the
United States are the cause, according
to Gen. Roy Stone, of loss of sixty
millions of dollars annually. Such an
amount us this it is worth good deal
OF trouble aud expense to save, and the
country should wake up to the fact,
The average of our roads, as whole,
is low, and probably we have the
meanest highways in the world. This
is not creditable to the intelligence OF
the people of the republic which makes
its boast of so many excellencics.
PROF. JAMES A. ARMsLEy, the emf
nent Syrian scholar, died at Glendora,
Cal, on the 18th, aged ~ years.
THERE is reason to believe that the
the governments claim against the es-
tate of ex-senator Leland Stanford will
be tested in the courts before there has
been any actual default in the pay
ments. Attorney-General Olney's no.
tice to the executrix of the governments
claim has interfered somewhat with
the closing up of the estate, and may
result in the closing up of the univer-
sity.
Hon. CLIFTON II. BRECKENRIDGE, of
Arkansas, qualified as minister to Rus
sia on the l4th. Mr.. Creckinridge ex-
poets to leave the United State in
about a month and will make several
stops en- route.
THE cyclone which swept over the
province of Cuidad Real, Spain, on the
13th, was accompanied by a terrific,
storm of hail. Over 200 persons were
injured, and several thousand domestic
animals were killed. The damage to
crops in the province is estimated at
$500, 900.
JOHN MCDONALD, employed in the
ginroom of the Galveston (rex. cotton
seed oil mill. in attempting to prevent
the seed from clogging in the gin, on
the evening of the 18th, got his right
arm caught in the gearing and was al
most instantly killed. His arm, chest
and side were horribly lacerated, and
his neck was broken.
FREDERICK NAGLE, lately the mayor
of Leoptschafen, village in Baden,
Germany, was arrested at New York. on
the 14th, on the steamer Westernland,
on the charge of forgery. The arrest
was made on complaint from the act
ing German consul. The prisoner is
charged with forging the name OF his
brother for something like $4,000.
on the l4th Dennis Norton, a promi-
nent Irish-American citizen, dropped
dead on the street in Burlington, Ia,
Of heart disease. He was aged 65 years.
The police of Rome say that three OF
the anarchists arrested in the suburbs
of that city, on the l4th, were in plot
to assassinate Premier Crispi Inc
bomb to be used by the assassins had
been prepared, and Giganti, one OF
those arrested, had been chosen to
throw it at the premier.
On the night of the l4th, Frank
Proteous, a farmer living seven miles
from Kalamazoo, Mich, mistook MS
young wife, who had arisen to close a
window, for burglar, and shot her
through the heart.
FIRE broke out in the general ware
houses at Fiume, Austria, on the l4tn'
causing loss Of 81, 100000.
The tariff bill was delivered to Pri-
vate Secretary Thurber at the execu-
tive mansion at 1:l0 p. m. OF the loth
by Representative Pearson, chairman
OF the house committee on enrolled
bills.
IT has developed that the Ninth dis
trict delegates at the democratic state
convention at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the 18th, had prepared a long and
highly euloglstic resolution indors-
ing Gov. Matthews for the presidency
in 1895, but the governor demanded
that it be suppressed as embarrassing
JoHS E1sMINeER, the convicted mur-
de~er Of Samuel Mccoy, who had been
confined in the county Jail at Waynes-
burg, Pa, since his sentence to death,
escaped, on the night Of the 18th, ieav-
iur no truce OF his going.
SCHOOL INSPECTORS WALSH, Lichten-
berg, Davis and Liphart, OF Detroit
Mich, under arrest charged with re.
,eivine bribes. were released sp H,e00 !
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