Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The deatho of Most Rev. Joseph Sid
ney Hill, bishop of the Niger region in
Weft Africa, and wife was announced
on the Sth.
THE president hasapproved the joint
resolution providing for the reimporta-
ton OF cattle and horses transported
into Mexico.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the North
e,n Railroad Of New Jersey went
through a temporary trestle near Fair
view n. j., on the l7th. falling on
twenty or thirty Italians who We're at
work under the trestle. Two of the
men were crushed to death. and nearly
every one of the others was more or
less injured of them, it is feared,
fatally.
FIRE, on the 18th, destroyed the
plant of the American Cereal Co., at
Minneapolis, Mimi, involving Il loss of
about $4,000, and throwing over 100
persons out Of employment.
A ROYAL decree. dated the 10th,
countersigned by all the ministers, has
been issued, proclaiming a state of
siege at Carrara and Massa di Carrara,
Italy.
A CHICAGO man has invented shield
for vaccinated arms. The invention
consists of an aluminium disc, with rim
beveled and center raised and perforat-
ed. and is so constructed that it can be
fastened securely,
1T has been learned that the Ed
Moorell, alias Frank Moorell, who as
sisted Chris Evans. the California out
law, in his escape from the Fresno
Cali Jail, is Frank Morris, Fort
Scott (Kas.) young man. His father is
well-to-do farmer, and was formerly
in the mail service.
A. r. WHITLEY, one Of the leading
real estate dealers of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
was convicted on the charge Of at
tempting to suborn Jurors in an i'm
portant civil case. He was sentenced
to thirty days in the county Jail, on the
nth, and to pay fine Of $3.50 The
case created a great sensation there, as
Whitley had heretofore borne an ex-
cellent reputation.
NEWTON p, FAssETT, father OF J.
Sloat Fassett, died at his home in Ell
mira, N. Y, on the 18th, aged II years.
BENJAMIN EARNsHAw, one of the most
prominent politicians in West Virginia,
and for ten years member of the Wet
eel county court, was arrested in
Wheeling. on the nth, while attempt
ing to negotiate forged county orders.
lie was caught by officers who were
lying in wait, and when arrested at
tempted to swallow a $1,000 order he
held in his hand.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has invited the
duke of York to visit Berlin to attend
the annual banquet OF the knights Of
the Black Eagle.
THE mystery concerning the death of
Henry Shrivcrs, who was shot on the
night of 14th at Salem. Ia, was explain.
ed on the 18th. by the confession of his
brot her Charles, who says that while
he was cleaninga large gun it was ac-
cidentally discharged, the load enter
ing Henry's head. killing him instantly
| The Jury returned verdict of acci-
dental death.
JENNIE LEGGIN, negress, stabbed
William Haywood, with whom she had
formerly lived, to the heart in ST. Louis,
| on the night Of the nth, because Hay
wood wouldn't give her fifty cents with
which to buy beer.
The appraisement of the Stanford
estate was fled in San Francisco on
the 18th. The total valuation of San
Francisco property is sl7,669,3lo. 1t is
as follows: Stocks, 1852, ,4S6; bonds.
81, ,S33, 100; house and effects, $4,000;
notes and accounts, 1896, 500; real es-
| tate, 90, $685. This does not include
the Palo Alto, vina and Gridley prop.
critics, whicS were decided to the uni
versity.
By a unanimous vote of the alder
men at a special meeting, on the nth,
| the notorious ''muzzein' or "kouta-
kouta" dance, arranged to have been
performed by dancers from the Midway
plaisance of the Worlds fair, was Off
| cially declared immoral and banished
| from Boston.
FARMERS in Porter county, Ind, are
| feeding hundreds OF bushels Of wheat
to cattle and hogs. One farmer has fed
1900 bushels, another 500 bushels.
| Wheat is worth from so cents to 50
cents per 60-pound bushel in the mar