Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-28
REV. GEORGE burrows, D. D.. wide.

Rev. GEORGE BURROWS. ID. D., wide
ly known as a Greek and Hebrew
scholar, died at his home in San Fran.
cisco on the 10Th. He was the author
of IA well-known commentary or the
Song of Solomon, a portion q! Scrip
lures he is said to have read in the
original Hebrew 700 times. DR.. Bur-
rows had read the Greek Testament
AS times
Dock Bishop and Fyank Latham
were lynched, On the l9th by the set.
tiers living near Watonga, Okla, for
horse stealing. Both men belonged to
a gang that were systematically steal
ing horses from the settlers and driv-
ing them into the Panhandle of Texas.
The Wabash Railway Co. has settled
all its losses caused by the accident at
Kingsbury, Ind, last September, by
which twelve persons were killed and
large number injured. The company's
loss was $3.50, 600, of which 1850, 900 went
to satisfy claims for the deaths and in
juries.
A DISPATCH from Perry, Okla, on the
10th, announced that a desperate battle
had been fought between posse under
Chief of Police Tighlman of Perry and
the Dalton gang near ingalls,, Okla, in
which Bill Dalton and Others of the
gang and two of the possc-eight in
all--were killed. Confirmation of the
report was anxiously awaited at Perry.
THE Indiana state asylum for the
deaf and dumb at indianapolis caught
fire on the night of the 10Th. Seven
hundred deaf mutes are inmates, and
the fire caused much CONSERVATION
for awhile. No lives were lost, how
ever, and the damage will not exceed
$4,000.
PRIMROSE Day, the anniversary of
the death of Lord Beaconsfcld (Ben-
jamin Disracli, who died April 10, 1881,
was more generally observed than
usual in London. The Bcaconsfield
statue was lavishly decorated with
prmroses,
EX-Gov. J. T. JARVIS, of North Caro-
lima, has been appointed by Gov. Carr,
and has accepted, the United States
senatorship to succeed the late Sena-
tor Vance
A PROCESSION Of over 1000 working
men formed in Omaha, Neb., on the
Goth, and started to Council Bluffs to
demand of the railroads that they al.
low train to be chartered to take
Kelly's industrial army eastward. At
Council Bluffs the procession was
swclled by the addition of thousands,
but the company refused the demand,
and sent men to tear up the track to
prevent the possibility of captured
train moving out
WHILE Bell telephone linemen were
repairing wire in Philadelphia, on
the Goth, it became entangled with
live electric light wire. Two of the
workmen were killed and two seriously
injured.
The Berlin Spring fair, which was
intended to supplant the famous Easter
fair in Leipsic, proved IA failure. The
American buyers were conspicuous by
their absence. Most of them went to
Leipsic, where trade was as active as
ever
THE imports OF specie at the port of
New York for the week ended on the
2lst were s73l, ,l97, of which s7ll,SO4
was gold and s19,39S silver. For the
corresponding week last year the i'm
ports were Sal, ,254.
THERE was a run on the Sherman
bank of New York when it opened its
doors on the 2lst, and it was generally
believed in Wall street that the insti-
tuition would go into voluntary liquid
alton.
The New York city associated banks
held S1,OOS,025 in excess of the re-
qurements of the 25-per-cent. rule on
the 21st.
CHOLERA is epidemic in west Russia.
WILLIAM MoNsELI, the first Baron
Emily, died in London on the 2lst.
Born in 1872, he was created Il peer in
1874.
THE Imperial board of health re-
ports lcprosy in the Memel district of
east Prussia.
CATHOLICS expect that Berlin will
soon be made diocese, with DR.. Fab.
mel as bishop.
LATTER intelligence from the seismic
disturbances in Greece tell of awful
destruction of human life and the
practical annihilation of one or more
towns. Many of the victims lost their
lives by the falling of churches in