Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-02-24


Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th, of depriv-
ing citizens Of their legal rights of
access to the registry lists IN the Graves.
end district over which he has for
years reigned as an autocrat, manipu.
lating elections to suit his will.
GEN. JpBAL A. EARLY fell down the
steps of the Lynchburg (Va,l pos: Of
fee, on the evening Of the l5ih. and
received injuries that may prove fatal.
Mrs. ANDREW Foy, who has been the
principal witness against Daniel Cough.
lin in Chicago, has sued her husband
for divorce. She claims he has desert.
ed her ever since she testified at the
trial.
THE notorious Zella Nicolaus was
again invited to move on" on the
18th, this time from the fashionable
apartment house of Miss Dickson in
West Twenty-sixth street, New York
city. Zella is said to have q most
magnificent wardrobe, which she
brought back with her from Europe.
She is getting tired Of AL" Ruhman
diICuuts
THE large wholesale drug house of
Farrand, Williams & Co., in Detroit,
Mich, was completely destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 10Th, entail.
ing loss of 800, ,O00 partially covered
by insurance
The American line steamship Paris
returned to Queenstown, Ireland, on
the morning of the 10Th, with her rud-
der disabled. The accident occurred
1856 miles west Of Queenstown, and the
return trip was accomplished by the
use of the twin screws in steering.
A SOUTHERN Pacific passenger train
was wrecked at Roscoe, Cal, about /
o'clock on the morning of the 10Th, by
three masked men. The express car
was then blown open by dynamite and
looted. The robbers got away, but a
posse was soon in pursuit. Fireman
Masters and tramp named Granger
were killed. The engineer was badly
hurt.
Two TRAINS collidcd near Jclan, be-
tween Samara and Slaviansk, in east
crn Russia, on the 18th, and thirteen
persons were killed and several badly
injured.
FORTY cases of yellow fever are re-
ported daily in Rio dc Janeiro.
A srEAMpIPE on the German iron.
clad Brandenburg, lying at Kiel, cx-
ploded, on the 18th, killing thirty-nine
persons. and injuring nine others.
CHANCELLOR Won CArRIvI, OF Ger
many, gives official dinners with in
creasing frequency. He has limited
the cost to twenty marks plate
including wine and beer. His aide-de-
camp, who keeps the purse, has the
most rigid orders to spend no more
than the chancellor's annual salary Of
$4,000 marks, less the amount exacted
for state taxes. The chancellor, while
not wishing to save anything, will in.
cur no debts.
TIE jury in the case Of the Mansfield
(Pa.) rioters returned verdict on the
nth. Twcnty-one of the tifty.eight
prisoners were acquitted, thirty-two
were found guilty, two had entered
pleas of guilty and three were ac-
quilted by order of the court.
CHAs. YouNG alias Lonsdalc, released,
on the Eth, from an English prison, is
wanted in Rochester, n. Y, for mur-
der. Detectives were awaiting him
outside the prison.
IT is reported in Rome that Marquis
Curtopassi at present Italian minister
Roumania, will succeed Baron Fava
as Italian ambassador to the United
States.
The statue OF Napoleon, which was
erected at Boulogne in 1854 by En-.
glishmen, has been blown down and
broken to pieces
GOV. MARKHAM of California has
brought suit to secure the cscheat of
the Blythe estate, valued at $4,000, 600,
to the state.
On the 18th tine New York associa ted
banks held s14.'36, s25 in excess of the
requirements of the 25-pcr-ccnt. rule
The treasury department has been
advised that the circuit court Of D.
peals has decided that holy waters, as
used in the Catholic church, are en-
titled to free entry as waters unmedi.
Gated
The river and harbo bill will be re-
ported to the house on the 1st. The
bill will carry an appropriation of
about $4,000, 900 exclusive of about
$1,000. 900 in round numbers in the sun.
dry civil bill.