Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-23
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE bankrupt court of London, on
the 18th, granted receiving order
against Robert Buchanan, the play
wright and author.
IT is given out in New York that
Richard Croker's determination to go
abroad was taken within thirty-six
hours of the sailing of the steamer upon
which he was passenger, bound for
Germany. That he preferred to depart
unknown to the general public is un-
dcrstood to be shown by the fact that
he was booked as John Miles.
In the Rhode Island legislature, on
the l2th, George Peabody Wetmore was
unanimously elected United States
senator to succeed N. +. Dixon.
N. B. PARSONS was convicted at Sag
inaw, Mich, on the 18th, of stealing
railroad bonds valued at S463, 900 from
the Wells Stone Mercantile Co., his for
mer employer. Parsons had been a
trusted clerk of the company, and stood
high socially. He is also charged with
destroying certain books and papers of
the company.
A REPORT in favor of giving to Col.
II. l.. Moore, the democratic contest
ant, the seat in congress of the Second
Kansas district, held by Funston (rep.),
was made, on the 12th, by the subcom-
mittee to the house committee on cleo
tions.
The incident growing out of the tear
ing down of the United States flag
from the United States consulate at st.
Thomas, Ont, has been satisfactorily
closed by an explanation to the state
department that the perpetrators of
the outrage were drunk and irrespon-
sible, and would be properly dealt
with.
In the senior class of mathematics at
Cambridge university, England, a
young woman named johnson has won
the honor of sixth wrangler for 1893,
distancing all her male competitors.
SECRETARY GRESHAM left Washing
ton, on the 18th, for a brief visit to Chi
| cago.
MAJ. ROBERT HALL, of Baltimore,
Nd, died of old age on the 18th. He
was born in that city in 1907, and was
prominent figure for years in the his
tory of Maryiand's militia.
BARON GIOVANNI NICoTERA. ex-min-
lister of the interior and Italy's fore
most statesman, died at his home at
Vico Equense, near Naples, on the 18th.
ITwas sannounced in the Italian cham
| Der, on the l4th, that the former min
istry will remain in Office with the ex-
ception that Signor Barazzuoli, a men,
ber of the right. will assume the port
folio of agriculture in the place OF
| Sigmr Boselli, who had been appointed
minister of finance.
THE president, on the 18th, sent to
| the senate the nomination of John II.
Miller, of Kentucky, to be United
States consul at Port Stanley, Falk-
land islands.
The North German Gazette advo-
Gates the passage of bill by the
reichstag to punish boycotting by fine
and imprisonment.
THE khedive of Egypt has abandoned
his proposed tour of Europe owing to
the pressure brought to bear upon him
by the sultan of Turkey. He will, in
stead, pay visit to oConstantinople.
THE platform of the Wisconsin pro-
hibitionists calls for woman suffrage,
postal savings banks, that all money
be issued direct by the government and
that immigration be restricted.
THE due de Orleans, eldest son of
the comte de Paris, is betrothed to
Princess Henrietta, daughter of the
count of Flanders, brother of King
Leopold of Belgium
A BOAT containing 10 harvesters
crossing from Achill to Westport, Coun-
| ty Mayo, Ireland, on the 14th, was cap
sized, and thirty-five of its occupants
were drowned.
In the absence from the state of the
United States marshal for Nebraska
the authorities at Washington refused,
on the 14th, to order troops out to pro-
tect the Union Pacific from the indus
trials near Julesburg, the marshal's re-
quest being necessary.
INTERESTING ceremonies were held,
on the l4th, in the Philadelphia council
chamber, in historic old Independence
hall, in commemoration Of the adoption
by congress, on June IA, l777, of the flag
made by Betsy Ross, from the design
submitted to her by Gen. Washington
as the national emblem. alag day"
will hereafter be annually observed in
Philadelphia.
A ooMarrrEE Of the college of cardi-
nails has approved the pope's encyclical
letter, stamping 1t as his political tes.
lament. The encyclioal will shortly
ho promulgated,