Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-12-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE committee of the Indiana State
League of Tin and Iron Workers
adopted a resolution, on the 10Th, con-
demning Judge Woods for sentencing
Debs and denying him trial by jury.
SERVICES in memory Of the late Sir
John Thompson, premier, were held in
the basilica at Ottawa, Ont, on the
the Goth. All the government offices
were closed in order to give employees
an opportunity to attend the services.
john Cox attempted to kill his wife
at Gray's, KY, on the 18th. Cox was
drunk, and fired two shots at his wife,
but missed her. Selling an ak, he
threw it at her head, but missed her.
The woman picked up the AK and at
tackled her husband, almost chopping
his head from his body.
JOHN ScHUsTER, farmer. living in
Macomb county, Mich, was burned to
death, on the night of the 10Th, while
trying to rescue cattle from a burning
barn. 1t is supposed he was overcome
by the smoke.
PROF. f. l.. G.. MORSE, principal of
the Phil Sheridan public school in Chi
cago, was arrested, on the Goth, on
warrant sworn out by the mother of
Alexander Becherman, an S-year-old
pupil, charging him with assault in
whipping the boy. The rules prohibit
corporal punishment
The friends of Judge Kicks, of Ohio.
who had been little nervous over the
attempt to impeach him, have con-
cluded that there is little probability
of definite action being taken against
him.
THERE is little chance in the senate
for the defeat of the ratification of the
new japanese treaty on account of any
of the recent war happenings. There
has been an undoubtcd exercise of Chi
nese influence in this country to defeat
the treaty, which even before the pres
ent hostilities was bitter pill for Chi
nese mouths.
Nj. DE GuERREvILLE, a veteran war
correspondent, who has served the New
York Herald on a number of battle
fields, and is familiar with warfare in
all its multtudinous phases, takes the
view that the slaughter of the Chinese
by the Japanese soldiers at Port Ar
thur was fully justified, in view of the
barbarous atrocities committed by the
Chinese upon captured Japanese scout
ing parties, whose mutilated remains
were in full view of the Japanese sol
diers as they marched into Port Ar
thur.
On the Goth Senator Quay introduced
a bill authorizing the secretary of the
treasury topurchase theland contained
in block 80, of Columbia Heights, a sub
urb of Washington, as site for resi-
dence of the president of the United
States. The bill limits the price to
three dollars a square foot, and the
total appropriation to 81, 100000
THE New York World printed dis
patch from Minister DENLY at Pekin,
on the Goth, saying that there was nc
truth in the report recently printed
that Yo-lIo-La-Na, the young wife OF
the emperor Of China, had committed
suicide.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN, at the quar-
terly meeting of the trustees of the
diocese Of New York. on the Goth, an.
nounced the introduction by the pope
on the recommendation of the Ameri-
can bishops of the Odd Fellows. the
Knights Of Pythias and the Sons Of
Temperance.
The smallest child on record was
born of Norwegian parents at West
Creek, Ind, on the 10th. The child is
male, is perfectly formed as babe
could be, and at its birth weighed only
nine ounces.
COUNT BoTHo EuLENBERe, ex-presi.
dent OF the Prussian council of minis
tiers, was the guest Of the emperor al
the royal hunta at Koenigswasterhouscn
on the a1st Some Of the other guests
surmised that the ex-premicr of Prus
sia would before long succeed Prince
Hohenlohe as chancellor.
EDWARD P. HARRINGTON; of Brewer
Me-, treasurer of the Brewer savings
bank, committed suicide, on the 2lst
by shooting himself through the tenn
pie. He had been prominent mer
chant and business man for many years.
He was IS years old. There was nc
shortage in his accounts.
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