Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-09-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

men anu War supplies demanded Dy the
government.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON and Mrs
Mckee arrived at Elkins, w. Va, on
the 5th, to visit ex-Secretary Elkins.
They were rendered an ovation at the
depot by delegates to the republican
congressional convention in session
there.
The town OF Churchill. o., had mar
row escape from burning, on the 4th,
caused by boys setting fire to grass in
a pasture where they were playing.
GEN. GEORGE SToNEMAN, ex-governor
of California, died, on the 5th, at the
residence of his sister, Mrs. Benjamin
Williams, of Buffalo, N. Y.
THE town of Fisher, Wis, was wiped
out Of existence by forest fires on the
5th.
The fishing schooner Rigel, of Glouces-
ter, Mass, Capt. George W. Dixon, ar
rived at North Sydney, G. b., on the 5th,
with the passengers and crew of the
Inflated steamship Miranda which left
New York July Z, carrying DR.. Cooks
Arctic expedition.
News from Honolulu to August 2s,
| per steamer Belgic, announced that
Minister Willis had presented an auto
graph letter from President Cleveland
| to President Dole, acknowledging The
Hawaiian republic, and congratulating
the people of the midpacifc state
The c. II. Over window glass works
at Munice, Ind, and the Muncie flint
glass works resumed work, on the 9th,
with nearly 800 hands. All the Muncie
glass factories are preparing to start
this month.
THE Orestes window glass factory at
Anderson, Ind employing 200 hands,
was put IN operation, on the 9Th. for
the first time Shis season, under the
22% per cent. cut in labor made in the
settlement at Pittsburgh on the Sd. 1t
is thought that every plant in the gas
belt will be running full blast in a
short time.
On the evening of the 5th, AS the
steamer City of the Straits was starting
out from Cleveland, O., for moonlight
excursion, she was run into and badly
injured by the schooner Emma llutchin-
SON. There were 1000 passengers on
the City Of the Straits at the time and
it was a miracle that no one was seri-
ously hurt.
Col. HENRY O. KENT was nominated
for governor by acclamaton by the
democratic convention at Concord, n
H., on the 9th.
Ar indianapolis, Ind, on the 9TH
Robert j. broke the worlds pacing rec
ord, travelling one mile in 2:0a]a.
POLICE CAPTAIN JOHN 7. STEPHEN
son, of New York city, was fount
guilty of bribe-taking and dismissed
from the force. The verdict of guilt.
was an unanimous one on the part o
, the police commissioners.
TIE supreme grand lodge, Knight
: of Pythias, adopted the report of tn
! special committee of the uniform rank
the result of which is to practically di
yorce the uniform rank from the su
pgtlut lotRC'
1 In Difference to the wishes OF Presl
@ dent Cleveland. buchanan Schley. SUI
: yevor of the port of Baltimore, has re
G signed as chairman of the democratl
n committee of Washington county, Nc
y TIE steamer Peru arrived at Sa
Francisco. on the 9th, bringing Chimes
advices to August and Japanese at
vices to August %.
n Posr OFFICE officials, on the 9th, cal
s- tured A. l.. Naples in Fort Scott, kas
) who has long been wanted for carryln
II on an extensive green goods bushes
S, in Kansas and Missouri, He is charge
l. with sending circulars advertisin
cheap money through the mails. q
his premises were found thousands
= dollars of confederate money and bog'
- coming utensils, ,
~ THE Chicago police, on the 9th,
70 Gated a remarkable fence and reco
;. " cred several thousand dollars worth
=. stolen property. The place was mite
'' up with double floors, trap-doors al
secret closets, and the goods found h;
of been stored at various times for ye
"a mast. Six men and two women we
ne captured.
q. DURING a running race at the On
;s state fair at Columbus, on the 7th' OF
ar of the horses. Col. Bliss, was crowd'
\ auainst the fence and fell. His ride
Ed Murray. was thrown fully fifty fe'
and. it is thought, fatally injured.
of Tur Wisconsin democratic state &C
at vcntion, on the 9Th, ,renominated Geor
ST. w. Peck for governor,
lie THE body of Mrs. Il, A. France W
nd found, on the 9th, in the river near
go ganburg, st. Lawrence county, A..
he Murder is suspected. The authorit
nd are looking for Louis Paul, who h
been living with her.
ON the 9Th the much-mooted Germ
ir- question was decided by the supre
by lodge Knights of Pythias by decis
al vote against permitting the use OF
IN ritual in other than the English Ii
th' guage in the United States. =,
M HUGu PORTER, IA visitor at Lcadvil
in Col, shot and instantly killed hims
to at the home of his sister, Mrs. Il.
Dickeman, on the evening of the o
!, He left a sealed letter to be forwart
-" TO his father. Porter was about
wv. ,ne wears of age and prominently @
ily nected. His home was in Bridgepe
tho Conn. -,
lne THE Pullman strike was formally
@ ~, clared off on the 9Th.
.% MRS. AUGUSTA WEBSTER, the move
'"o and poet, died at Kew, miles II
London, on the 9Th. She was the ga"
a. ter of the late Vice-Admiral oeo
.. Davies.
~ ANTON Won KoRAB, an Austrian
lns noble birth, and formerly an oificer
ooo S the Austrian army, was on the
wv wv adiudged insane in Chicago ana
~ - committed to the Jefferson asyl'
~. Anton Won Korab is the son OF 20
os Won Korab, member OF the cao'pe'
" the emperor Of Austria.
The laying Of the corner stone Oh
,,s Iowa Soldiers and Sailors monum
..o took place at Des Moines on the
~ =. The parade was second only 10
,;oS great battle-hag day celebration
, rh. A YOKOHAMA dispatch says that n
etv. s shal Yamagata started for Cores
I =. the 9Th. to assume command OF the
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