Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-08-04
THE Bennington sailed from La Lib

ertad, on the 26th, for San Francisco,
via Acapulco, with Gen. Ezeta and three
other Salvadorean refugees on board.
PROF. FALB, the Vienna earthquake
expert, prophecies that New York city
will be destroyed by seismic disturb
ance August Is.
CoXEY has abandoned his deluded
followers and gone back to Ohio, where
his private affairs imperatively demand
his attention.
Three men were arrested in Denver,
and three at Colorado Springs, Col, on
the 25th, for completely in the tarring
and feathering of Adjt. Gen. Tarsney
at Colorado Springs,
BY the explosion of the boiler of
traction engine, which went through a
bridge near Reedsburg, o., on the 9th,
Henry Garnes was instantly killed.
In similar accident near Lodi, o., on
the Goth, George Hart was killed.
In the general term of the New York
suprca;e court, 90 the g7th,assAt ssslsss.
Brown, Cullen and Dykman denied the
motion for new trial for John Y.
McKane, the ex-boss of Gravesend, N.
Y, thereby affirming the decision of
the lower court.
MAYOR HOPKINS of Chicago said, on
the 27th, that if the Pullman works
were not started within few days he
would withdraw the militia.
HOLDERS of New Yorks municipal
bonds received shock, an the 9th,
when they read in the newspapers the
story of Maj. Matthew j. O'Rourke to
the effect that the city had been pay
| ing interest on $l5,000,000 fraudulent
bonds for quarter of century, and
that the bonds were held by people in
the city ignorant of their worthless
character.
ONE of the most disastrous effects of
the great strike to Chicago, it is feared,
will be the disintcgration of the great
plants at the Union stock yards. On
account of the labor unions which exist
here it is said that the intention is to
scatter the packing-houses.
Mrs TRUxToN BEALE, daughter OF
the late James G. Blaine, while bath.
ing at Santa Monica Beach, CAL, on
the 25th, narrowly escaped drowning,
She ventured beyond her depth, and
was only saved from death by the eff
forts of Proprietor Jones.
THE venerable Ellen l.. Bowman Vail
widow of the late Bishop Vail, the first
bishop of the Episcopal church in Kan
sas, and daughter of the late Samue
Bowman, of Pennsylvania, died at To
peka, Kas., on the 27th. Mrs Vail was
for fifteen years totally blind.
FOREST fires have been producing
great suffering and loss Throughout
Wisconsin, and railroad companies hav,
never before experienced such damag,
from fires. On the Wisconsin Contra
road, for several days, it was impossi
Bile to move trains.
RUMoR has it that there has been ;
second fight at sea between Japanes
and Chinese warships. A Japanes,
cruiser is said to have engaged Chi
nese cruiser on the 25th, while the lat
ter was conveying transport, sinkin,
the cruiser
EARTHQUAKE shocks were felt il
Macedonia, Old Servia and Easter
Bulgaria on the 9th. MANY houses a
Varna, Bulgaria, were dar,aged and
number of people killed as result q
the shocks.
THE representatives of the Hawaiia
royalists, en- route to Washington I
endeavor to induce the United State
government to refuse to recognize tn
new Hawaiian republic, arrived i
Chicago, on the Goth, too late to tax
the evening train for Washington, an
remained over for one day. While ar
ticipating respectful hearing the
were not oversanguine of the success
of their mission.
THE French senate and chamber c
deputies were formally prorogued o.
the 2sth.
On the 2sth the associated banks {
New York city held s7l 1904, 721 in exces
of the requirements of the 25-per-cen
rule.
BLANCHE TURNER, a young colore
woman of Quincy, attempted suicid
: at Monmouth, H., on the 2Sth. Sh
placed the muzzle of revolver to he
forehead and pulled the trigger. A
? explosion followed, and the bullet wa
found on the surface of the skull. fla
tened like pancake. The woman wi
not die.