Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SuPT. FILLMORE feopencd the rail-
road shops at Sacramento, Cal, on the
18th, with force of about 800 men. The
shops were strongly guarded and strik-
ers made no demonstration.
On the 10th Representative Clifton
r. Breckenridge, who has represented
the Second district of Arkansas in con-
gress for twelve years, was nominated
to be minister to Russia to succeed An
drew ID. White, resigned.
TIE republic of Hawaii was pro-
claimed on the Fourth of July, with
Sanford B. Dole as president.
NELLIE KENNE, 9-year-old child,
hung herself at Bradshaw, w. Va, on
the 18th, because she had been kept
home from school by her mother to
care for two children. She was dead
when found.
A POWDER explosion occurred on
board a British government vessel en-
gagged in blowing up an old wreck in
| the Solent, on the 10th, killing four
men and injuring several others, three
of whom died soon after.
IT was officially announced, on the
10th, that in consequence of the preva-
lence of the cholera, the mobilizing of
the reserves and the customary au-
tumn military maneuvers in the vicini-
ty of st. Petersburg will not take place
this year.
WILMoRE, small town in Jessamine
county, KY, was very badly damaged
by tornado, on the 10th, which trav'
eled with great velocity About l p,
m. an oval-shaped cloud was noticed
approaching the town and as it reached
the edge of the village it suddenly
swooped down and began to wreck
and break into kindling wood every
house in its path.
A THREsHING boiler blew up on The
farm of John Case, near Hudson, o., OF
the 10Th. John Crousley, owner of thu
threshing apparatus, was instantl,
killed. Barney Morgan, a farm hand
and another man were fatally injured
The barn caught fire and, with th
threshing machine and AL the othe
contents, was destroyed. The total los
will amount TO $1,000.
WHILE the senate committee on ter
ritories has virtually decided to repor
bills for the admission of the territorie
of Arizona and New Mexico, the pre-
vailing opinion about the senate is tina
the bills will not be considered durin
the present session of congress, unles
the session should be prolonged beyon
; present expectations.
LETTERS from Rio Grande do Su
Brazil, confirm the reports of the brr
tai slaughter of prisoners by both tn
rebels and the loyal troops. NJ. Buett'
French engineer, who was capture
by Peixotos men, was first employed !
raising the sunken war-ship Aquid'
, ban. He was then made to dig his ow
grave, after which he was shot by h
tcaptors.
THE body of Enrique de Bourbon, du
/ de Seville, who died at sea while r.
turning to Spain from the Philippir
islands, arrived at Barcelona on tn
18th.
Z Mrs. MADALEN PoLK-BuEIL, who's
!. engagement to Charles Cramp, head
$ the great Philadelphia ship-buildin
firm, was recently announced, has bee
I given permission by Judge Hagner,
:. the equity court in Washington, to r
q sumo her maiden name of Polk. 81
was divorced from Augustus c. Bue
q in May, 1s93
The bottom Of converter at tt
Homestead steel works of Carnegie
n Co., at Homestead, Pa, blew out,
) the 10th, scattering $500 pounds
n molten metal in every direction. Fo'
o workmen who were in the pit were te
n ribly burned. two of them fatally.
|. A STATEMENT was cabled, on the lot
!. that the Russian petroleum merchan
d have failed at the last moment to con
d to an agreement with the Standard c
4 Co., and the Russian Oil Co. will fig
the Standard. They will try TO bui
a pipe line through Persia.
i'll The information was made public
"a st. Louis, op the 10th, that Joseph
er Cinnochio, aged %, native OF !
"a Louis, had bGh arrested near Gene
n | Italy, and forced by the Italian antht
Il | tiles 10 enter the military service, und
ths charge that N was . dsssstst