Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WALTER NICHOLS, 80 years of age, q
steeple jack, in the employ of p. W
Hassett, was precipitated inside sec
ton of smokestack, which was being
taken down, distance of ninety feet
from the top of the burned ;'dell wood.
cnware building in st. Louis, on the
Sth. and instantly killed
The steamer Normannia. which
sailed from New York on the 9th.
took $1,000. 900 in gold.
THE Kingston mills. cotton spin
ming company of Hull. England, failed,
on the 9th. with unsecured liabilities
estimated at $4O0,000
len striking miners were killed and
twelve wounded in an attack upon the
gendarmes guarding the Theresa mine
Mt Ostrau, Moravia, on the 9th.
Two-rIilRDs of the town of Norway,
Me, was laid waste by fire, on the
Eth, and many of the people who could
not hnd shelter in the two hotels
which were saved or unburned dwell
Ing houses, spent the night in tents or
shelters made of cloth from the stores
or sheets from beds. The total loss is
over 800, 900.
THE bank at Southwest CITY. Mo-.
was raided by a gang of robbers in reg.
hlnr Jesse James style on the after
noon of the 10th. They secured all the
money on hand between $1,000 and
$1,000. In II battle with citizens four
ot the latter were badly wounded.
lmong them United States Marshal s.
i Melton.
THE countess of Clarendon, wife of
he fifth earl of Clarendon, died in
london, on the 9th. She was the
ldest daugl ter of the earl of Nor.
nanton.
In the French chamber of deputies
N the nth, the bill providing that the
Nccuton of criminals shall herca fter
'e conducted privately instead of in
ubllc, as now, passed its second read
ng by a majority of one. The vote
TODD lj9 to lbs.
THouGH the tests of the bullet pro of
oat invented by Herr Dove, the Mann.
elm (Baden) tailor, have been salts
lctory as far as they have been pur-
ued, the authorities of the war Office
ntertain doubts of its practical utility
l the army
ABRAHAM GARRISON. Il millionaire of
ittsburgh, Pa, brother of the late
Garrison, died, on the 10th, L
the age of 80 years.
AT st. Henri, suburb of Montreal.
an, early on the morning of the 10th,
re destroyed whole block of dwell
ngs and their contents. Twenty fam
les were rendered homeless. Loss,
Y, 900; insurance, Sl5, 900.
FIREBUGs applied the torch to the
arn of John Dunslan, of Red Jacket.
ich., at Il. m. on the lth, and before a
'e lire was gotten under control ten !
lsncss buildings were DESTROYED. @
'vernl families lost all their house.
bid goods. j,
WILLIAM WEIsLER, who Joined the :,
KEY army at llagerstown, Md, was :
lied with cramps and drowned while y
thing in the Potomac at Washing. p
n river on the 10th.
DAYTON, O., was struck by tornado l.
the 10th. The streets were covered v
tn debris Trees were blown down, /,
ndows smashed, houses wrecked h
OFFS torn off, and the pottery of L.
'ughton was demolished Rov Obcrlin :,
IS struck by lightning and killed. :, y
HE imports, exclusive of specie at O.
g port OF New York for the week y
ded on the 18th were 50, 175, 40, of ~
lich sl,263,OS0 were dry goods and u
9ll,696 general merchandise. For
corresponding week of last year IA
imports were Sl2,3lO,54s, Of which II
lOO,212 were dry goods and sl0,2 h'
general merchandise.
HE statement of the associated w
nks OF New York city for the week r,
led the 18th showed the following v;
lnges: Reserve, decrease, Ss,l73,575; 81
ms, increase, 2,s32, 100; specie, in. W
ase, s36s,sO0: legal tenders, de- -,
ase, s2,434,6Oo; deposits, increase, "
100; circulation. decrease, ST., 700.
WHILE the British war ship Ga.atea ri
firing salute to the German fleet pa
,he Firth of Forth, on the 18th, one Sc
n was killed and'another fatally in sh
ed by the premature discharge of av
OF the ships small guns. on
HE imports of specie at the port Of
" York for the week ended on the at,
l were 81, 30a, 5sl, Of which 81, PSI. .s03 N
gold and $780, silver. For the 10,
responding week last year the i'm
is were $50, 76s.
HE associated banks Of New Yorl, r.
held $50, ,654,575 in excess of the re. W. W.
of the a5-per. r.cent. rule on Nl'
18th. we
EN-. ROBERT p. DEcHERT who had
n i'll for several months from nm af. no
ion of the liver, died in Philadel- VIII
/ on the 18th. TO