Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

TIE propeller William II. Barnum,
which left Chicago on the lst, loaded
| with 50, 600 bushels of corn, was lost in
the straits of Mackinac on the I'd.
A FREE-FoR-ALL fight between about
thirty-tive tramps on one side and rail.
road trainmen, under the leadership of
Detective Graday, occurred as the west.
bound mail train pulled out of Leb-
anon, Ind. on the ith Two of the
tramps were seriously hurt.
EX-SnERlrr LEONARD TEEssEL, re,
Gently convicted at Mansfield, O., of
embezzlement on the first of several
indictments found against him, was,
on the 4th, sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment in the penitentary.
PAUL j. SoRG, of Middleton, was
nominated by the Third Co.. district
democratic convention on the 4th, as
its candidate for congress to succeed
the late George W. Houk.
'"n.s t,vPU nat u fa1utiuB nt, on the
rallied, however, and showed no signs
of weakness thereafter.
THERE is deficit of Sl25, 900 in the
kentucky state treasury.
BY the caving-in of one of the shafts
of the koschelcu mine, near Breslau,
on the 9TH, eleven men were killed and
a large number injured The killed
were nearly all buried beneath the
ia lipfr nnrt h nd lnhric
lr leaked out, on the 18th, that the
Exchange national bank of Eldorado,
kas., had been robbed some davs be-
fore of Sla, 200. The robbery was kept
II secret in the hope of catching the
thieves
CARDINAL JosEpH BENEDICT Du SMET,
archbishop of Cantania, died on the
18th. He was born in 1918, and was
created a cardinal in 1889.
THE execution of Prendcrgast. the
Chicago assassin, has been further
postponed until July ..
TAFF's grain wharf at Woolwich,
England, was burned, on the 5th; loss,
$3.50, 900.
The United States cruiser Lancaster
arrived at Suez on the 5th.
The president, on the 9th, sent to the
senate the nomination of Lycurgus r.
Woodward, of California. to be COM
missioner in and Tor the district of
Alaska, to reside at Ounalaska.
ABOUT 200 of the striking carpenters
at indianapolis, Ind. went to work,
on the 9th, at the union scale.
KING HUMBERT, accompanied by Sig
Boselli, minister of commerce, in
dustry and agriculture, left Rome on
the 9TH, for Venice, to meet the Ger
man emperor.
FRANK p SLAviN, the pugilist, has
been formally adjudged bankrupt
by the London courts. His liabilities
are f700. and his assets nothing.
The sixty-fourth annual conference
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints convened in the Tabernacle
at Salt Lake city on the 9th. The
prominent leaders Of the church occu-
pying the stand were: Wilford Wood
ruff, George 9. Cannon, Joseph L.
Smith. Lorenzo Snow and others.
In lecture in Chic ago, on the night
Of the 9Th, Theodore Westmark,
young Scandinavian who made two OK
plorations of the Congo state in Central
Africa under the auspices Of King
Leopold H., Of Belgium, accused Henry
NJ. Stanley of having lunched on bu-
man flesh to satisfy n morbid curiosity.
WILLIAM II. WILSON. son of Chair
man Wilson of the house ways and
means committee, writes that his father
has progressed so well that he is in bet
ter condition than he was when he left
Washington.
FRANK SARGENT, grand master of the
of Locomotive Firemen,
has consented to the use of his name
before the republican convention for
the nomination for congress from the
Eighth district of Indiana.
The president, on the 9Th, received
the bill to carry into effect the report
of the Behring sea arbitration commits
sion and immediately affixed his sigma
ture to it. The bill has been forwarded
TO the state department and procla-
nation setting forth its provisions will
be issued forthwith.
Cot. c. s. MILLARD, one of the best
known citizens of indianapolis, Ind,
died. on the sth, of paralysis.
IT is believed that, the Costa Rica n
government has granted certain con-
cessions to the church. Many more
political prisoners have been released.
THREE men were killed outright and
three others seriously injured, on the
7th, by a premature explosion of giant
powder and dynamite near the new
works of the Westinghouse Electric
Co., now in course Of construction ut
Brinton. Pa