Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

he oiioW dJ NOl UtTlduu anu
Bloomsbury, Pa, was two feet deep,
on the llth. and still falling.
THE Rock Island officials have COM
piimentcd Engineer j. d. Mckinney
and presented him with $3.50 gold
watch for ignoring the signal of train
robbers few months ago and prevent
ing hold-up. Six of the shots fired
at the engineer struck the cab.
The town of Belview, Mimi, had a
narrow escape from being completely
destroyed by fire on the 1ath. Elcva-
tors belonging to Mulford Elevator Co.
md the Interstate Grain Co., OF Min.
neapolis, were burned, with 5000
bushels of grain; loss, $4,000
MAJOR, the anarchist, who was ar,
rested in Paris, on the llth, on sus.
picion of having exploded bomb in
front of the house of Judge Pcle, in
Argeuntel, was liberated on the 18th,
for want of evidence.
A FINE article of glass sand has been
discovered near Lapel, Ind. in sufficient
quantities to supply the gas belt for
twenty years. A stock company will
be organized at once and the quarry
developed. 1t will be boom to the
glass interests of Indiana, as all sand
has been shipped from Ohio and Illi-
nois heretofore.
A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked
the home of William Malseed, of Nc
keesport Pa, on the l2th. Mrs. Nal
seed and her 12-year-old daughter EHie
were fatally burned by the explosion.
ALFRED ANDERSON, serving Il life
term in the Anamosa ia. penitentiary
for the murder of farmer near Fort
Madison last fall, escaped from the
prison on the night of the 1lth, his
fight not being detected until the next
morning. The state offers reward of
$50 for his capture.
Two NOTORIOUS anarchists having a
loaded bomb in their possession were
arrested in Rome on the 11th.
THE budget was approved by the
ministers at the British cabinet meet
ing on the 18th.
Il. r. DARRELL, who went to Port
land, Ore. last fall without cent, and
would have been working for the board
of charities since but for the kindness
of a clearinghouse keeper, who gave
him home, received word on the 18th
that he had fallen heir to over $500, 900
by the death of his uncle, j. P. Taylor,
at IIolcomb, Mo.
FIRE, on the l2th, destroyed the
United States marine hospital at Port
Townsend, Wash. There were no IA
talities. The loss is $1,000. The fire
originated in an clubhouse used MS an
oil room, and is supposed to have been
the work of an incendiary. The hos
pital was built in 1852.
AMONG the passengers who arrived
on board the Majestic from Liverpool,
on the l2th, were Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris and children and Capt. Gram
field and crew of twenty Of Lord Dun
ravens yacht Valkyrie.
PRINCE BISMARCK has decided to re-
main in Friedrichsruhe until June,
when he will go to Varzin and stay
there until August. Afterwards he
will perhaps. go to 'ingen and other
places in the Rhine country in response
to the urgent invitation of friends.
JUICE DUNDY, of Omaha, Neb., de-
cided, on the 18th, that the Office men
and other monthly-paid employees of
the Union Pacific railroad may have
their salaries restored if, in the judg-
ment of the receivers it ought to be
done.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, of New York,
the eminent lawer and jurist died
suddenly, on the morning of the
18th, Of pneumonia. He had just re-
turned from five-months' sojourn in
Europe. MIR. Field was so years old.
His estate is valued at between $500, 900
and 81 ,OOO,0 ,0Od.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE arrived in
London from Hawarden on the 18th.
They drove Immediately to the resi-.
dence of Lord Aberdeen, at DOLLS
Hill, where they were to. remain dur
ing their stay in the metropolis.
Mrs. HAMMOND, wife OF the late DR..
William g. Hammond, chancellor of
the st, Louis law school, has donated
her husbands entire private library of
historical legal works to the law de-
partment Of the state university Of
Iowa, OF which DR.. Hammond was
chancellor for thirteen years This is
one of the most complete and valua BILE
collections of its kind in existence.
The American L Union party, although
in complete control Of politics in Ha-
waii, has met with opposition on the
islands of Maui and Hawaii, the largest
islands Of the group. The eannexation-
lists who are connected with the planta-
tions have strenuously objected to the
part OF the platform that excludes Chi
nese labor, and have formed party
clubs under the old platform for Asiatic
In ,or under proner restrictions