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

JHE French courts which had dc
clared their incompetcncy to try the
suit of the Princess Colonna, daughter
of Mrs. John W. Mackay, against her
husband, Prince Colonna, for ii legal
separation and the custody of her chill
aren, made an order, on the 18th,
giving the children, Professionally, into
the custody of their father The or.
der will not be obeycd, as the princess
had some days previously landed with
her children at New York.
The twenty-siXth annual convcn-
tion of the National American Woma II
Suffrage association met in Washing
ton, on the 18th. with large attend
Gnce of delegates, representing all
parts of the country.
A ROUTE for the proposed cable from
Labuan to Hong-kong, China, has
been surveyed. In all the soundings
taken The greatest depth was shown
to be 1900 fathoms, and the tempcra-
ture at this depth was registered at 32
degrees.
GEORGE n. JERAULD died at Prince
ton, Ind, on the 18th, aged So years,
He had been engaged in the general
mercantile business for fifty years on
the same lot, and was the pioneer mer-
chant Of the city and probably of the
state. The value of his estate is $780,
DO0
A SENSATION was created at Harrods-
burg, KY, on the 18th, by the arrest of
William Graves and John Commingo
for whitecarping, They are charged
with being members Of the band that
recently called Josh Mitchell to his
door, near Nevada. and shot him to
death, and who have also whipped and
terrorized many other residents in the
west end. The two young men are
members of leading families.
On the 18th carload of corn re-
ccived at Terrc Haute, Ind, from Chi
cago, was found TO contain in one cor
ncr large heap of mail that had been
rifled from some mail pouch and opened.
The mail was turned over by the police
w tuC pustdl dutiipiltitS'
MAY BRookLYN, one of the leading
ladies of the Palmer stock company,
playing at the Baldwin theatcr, San
Francisco, committed suicide on the
night of the 18th, by taking poison.
She played the part Of Mrs. Page in
Alabama.
On the 18th the board of managers
Of the San Francisco Press club cited
N. II. DeYoung, proprietor of the
Chronicle and director-gcneral of the
Mid-Winter exposition, TO appear before
them on the Goth to show cause why he
should not be expelled for pnprofes'
sional conduct
AT meeting in Honolulu, on the Sd,
Of the Annexation club, u resolution
declaring that IL is the opinion Of the
officers and executive committee that
q representative form of government
bc esta blished as soon as possible after
it is asccrtained that the present con.
gress will take no definite action
toward annexation, was passed.
JAMES STONE, the murderer of the
Wratten family near Washington, Ind,
was hanged at the Jeffersonville Gnd. J
prison shortly after midnight on the
morning Of the 10th. II was the first
legal hanging in Indiana for several
years.
By exercising his prcrogativc for the
first time, Vice-President Stevenson,
on the 18th, saved the Oklahoma town.
site bill, requiring railroad companies
to maintain stations at town sites in.
dicated by the interior department,
from defeat by breaking tie with an
affirmative vote.
TEE wholesale dry goods house oi
Jones, Witter e. Co. at Columbus, o.,
together with several adjoining tene'
ments was destroyed by fire on the
18th, involving q loss estimated Al
| e240, 1000.
A xUMBER Of families Of farmers IN
the vicinity OF Hebron, Ind, are about
to move to Henrico county, Va, where
they say they are able to buy land al
lower prices than in Indiana.
The boiler In Lockwood's elevator a,
Kelly, L., exploded, on the 18th, kill,
ing John Tanner and fatally injuring
William Sells.
THE General Electric Co. started UP
their factories at Lynn, Mass, on the
18th. ON full time. This means a ffty.
six hour schedule and the employment
/, Of some 1900 hands.