Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-12

BY the new treaty between japan
and Hawaii Japanese subjects in Ha
waii are guaranteed the same treat
ment as that accorded to Hawaiian Git
liens, with the single exception of the
privilege It owning real estate.
EvERYrHINa is again running
smoothly on the Great Northern rail.
way. At every point along the line
there were demonstrations Of rejoic'
ing when the news was given out that
everything was settled.
Ar least 0a00 of the 800 Mexican
troops sent to quell an uprising Of the
Yaqui Indians in Lower California
were either killed or wounded by the
Indians in ambush.
THE steamer Faraday arrived at
Halifax, N. s., on the I'd, from Ballin-
skelling bay, Ireland, with the end OF
the Mackay- Bennett cable, which she
had successfully laid across the At.
lantic.
RECTOR AHLwARDT, the notorious
anti-Semite, who was released from the
Ploetzensee prison In March last. where
he had been confined after being con-
victed OF libeling the Loewe firm Of
Hebrew gunmakers, was sentenced in
Berlin, on the LIST, to three months i'm
rrisonment for insulting Prussiau Of.
ficials during recent speech.
The Kenwood mill, at Albany, N. Y,
owned by Mrs. Sarah Townsend, and
operated by Huyck & Argersinger In
the manufacture Of felt goods, was
completely destroyed by fire, on the
I'd, together with = storehouse Of the
firm and three tenement houses. The
mill employed 175 hands, and its out.
put was the greatest of any felt mill
in the United States Loss, $3.50, 900;
insurance, el30,000. @,f FN'
Thirty EIGHT OF the democratic
members of the senate met in caucus,
on the Sd, and with but one dissenting
voice--that of Senator Hill, Of New
York-passsed vote OF confidence In
the finance committee which asked
that no amendments TO the tariff bill
except those proposed by the commit
tee be offered. Mr.. Hill gave notice
that he should disregard the rule.
Dir. LEONARD ST. JOHN, who recen tly
visited the Chicago pesthouse, where
there were more than 300 patients lying
stricken with smallpox. calls it "A la.
zarhouse and disgrace to Chicago.
''In the den OF horrors" said the ply.
sician, "there is shameful lack OF
room and attendance for the sick, and
the whole reeks with filth"
On the I'd the Cedar Rapids (fa.) jury
in the case OF Grand chief Ramsey
of the order OF Railway telegrapher'
charged with unlawful einterferenc'
with telegraph wires during genera
strike OF the telegraphers some
months ago, found the defendant no
guilty. s
REUBEN koLB, of Alabama, has Is
sued card in which he says he viii
not be a candidate for United State
senator
The senate, on the Sd, confirmed
among others, the nomination o
Thomas E. Benedict, Of New York, u
be public printer.
CONSTABLE LINDSAY, one OF the best
known officers in Essex county, Ont.
was fatally shot by a farmer name'
Joseph Truski, on the night of the I'd
When about to be arrested Truski sho
and mortally wnnndrd himself. A
bout two months ago Lindsay ha
Truski convicted of cruelty to animals
and the latter vowed vengeance.
| ARNor's drapery warehouse an
three adjoining buildings in Dubli
were burned on the 4th; loss, fa0o, 00t
IT showed hard and the cold was ir
tense throughout Yorkshire, England
on the 18th.
| A FORCE of 200 sappers and miner
were put to work at Lugloch, Styri;
on the 5th, trying to divert the waite
from the cave in which party Of toul
lists were imprisoned by food.
The steamer Australia arrived at Sa
Francisco, on the 5th, from Honolul,
bringing advices up to the 9Sth ult
when all was quiet.
. THE New York city associated bank
held ss2, sos, $50 in excess of the require
nents Of the s5-per-cent. rule on I'll
5th. -
: The Salvadorean official report {
tremendous losses inflicted on the rel
els is denied.
The Worlds exposition at Antwer
was formally opened, on the 18th, b
King Leopold in person.