Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-07

ptcoiucuJ VI tiic cTuNldH TtpuUllc, Is
seriously i'll, and thought to be dying.
He was. elected president in 1890 and
his term expires this year.
In executive session, on the 2Sth,
the Chinese treaty was reported to the
senate and laid on the table for delib.
Grafton.
EX-CITY TREASURER ADoLPH KRue,
of Seattle, Wash, who was convicted
of unlawfully using 100000 of the
citys money in completely with Henry
Thurman, was sentenced, ON the 27th.
by Judge Moore to seven years at hard
labor in the penitentiary and to pay
all costs.
THE eight children and hired girl of
W. b. Wilt, of McKendree, W. Va,
were burned to death in their home, on
the night of the 2sth, during the abb
sence of Wilt, on duty as watchman.
The proposed removal of the Indian
warehouse from New York to Chicago
will be resisted by the mercantile COM
munity of New York.
THE weekly statement OF the bank
of France, issued on the Goth, shows an
increase OF 1,3OO,O francs gold and
1,750,0o francs silver.
THE International iygenic congress
opened at Rome on the Goth. King
Humbert and other nota bles were pres
ent.
SIX masked men entered the Lake
Shore depot at Olmsted Falls, o., early
on the morning of the 10th, ovcrpow-
cred the operator and blew the safe
open. They We're chased miles by
farmers and captured.
IN fight between dispensary con-
stables and citizens at Darlington, S.
c., on the 3Oth, two constablcs and two
citizens were shot to death. The mi
litia refused to respond to the gov
ernor's call.
THE standpipe at Peoria, H., 100
feet high, and containing COO, 900 gal
Ions of water, collapsed on the 3Oth,
killing one boy and injuring number
of other persons.
THE announcement Of the marriage
of Lord Francis Hope to May Yohc,
the American actress, was made in the
London Pecrage issued on the 3Oth.
The house judiciary committee has
favorably reported bill fixing the
salaries Of United States district at
torneys, clerks of courts and marshals
at $4,000 a year and abolishing the fee
system.
THE remains of the Hungarian pa
triot, Louis kossuth, were inferred at
Buda-Pesth on the lst. Over 800, 900
liungarians visited the capital to do
honor to his memory.
LATE advices from Honolulu state
that the natives, despairing of Liliou-
kalanis restoration, are coming ont
for annexation, with pension for the
ex-queen.
MAJ. LIE CARoN, alias Beach. who
was once employed by the British gov
ernment as Il spy upon lrishmen in
America, died in London on the list.
SUNDAY, the 1st, was the seventy
ninth anniversary of the birthday of
Prince Bismarck. Constant streams of
kilograms, letters, gifts and presents
OF flowers flowed in Friedrichsruhe.
Count Won MoltlSe, the emperor's aide
dc-camp, arrived bearing to the ex-
chancellor an autograph letter from
the emperor congratulating him upon
the occasion. He took as gift from
the emperor a splendid cuirass with
epaulct>.
LESLIE G. NIBLACK, city editor of the
Guthrie tOkla. Daily Leader, was stab
bed in the back as he was returning
home at 3 o'clock on the morning of
the 1st. His heavy ovcrcoat seam
turned the knife blade to one side and
saved his life. he receiving only pain
full flesh wound. The attempted as
sassination is believed to be the result
of the bitter political campaign.
ApvIcEs have been received at San
Francisco that Capt. o. e. Hansen,
known best as the Flying Dutch
man. daring seal poachcr, and the
crew of the schooner Emma, have been
captured by the Russian authorities
and are in prison at Vladivostock. The
schooner has been confscated.
Col. TuoHAs p. OCHILTREE has been
served with papers in suit, in New
York city, for 100000 damages for libel
and false Imprisonment. The plaintiff
is James +. Lynch, the nurse who was
recently acquitted Of a charge Ot lar
ceny preferred by the colonel.