Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-05
PERSONAL AND. GENERAL.

SECRETARY SMITH, on the 9th, Or
dered the disbarment of six pension at
torneys from practice before the inte
rior department. They are John G.
Chapman, New Haven, Conn; +. II.
Barker, Kansas City, Kas; s. A. Hill,
alias Albert D. Hill, Pensacola, Fla. !;
Christian Quien, Danburv, Ia; James
Cooley, Richmond and York, O., and
William II. Bushfeld. Cambridge, 0.
All of them were charged with violat-
ing the pension laws.
A ROYAL decree has been issued in
Portugal organizing medical com
mission to advise the civil governor
in regard to measures to be taken in
order to check the spread of the chol-
era in Lisbon.
THE American North Polar expedi-
ton under command of Walter Well
man sailed, on the cath, from Alesund,
Norway, for the island of Spitzbergen
on the steamer Ragnvold Jarl, which
has been chartered for the purpose of
the expedition. Experts pronounce
the steamer to be the best ice.boat be-
longing in Norway.
FRANK HATToN, ex.assistant post
master-general, and one of the proprie-
tors and editors of the Washington
Post, was stricken with paralysis while
ut work at his desk.
W. j. ELLIOTT, the well-known edi-
tor'convict, serving life term in the
Ohio state prison, attempted suicide on
the 25th, by poison, while smarting
under punishment inflicted for infrac-
ton of prison rules.
II. RYKFoGEL, third officer of the
steamer Los Angeles, who was in
charge Of the vessel at the time of the
wreck, was held by the coroner's jury
in San Francisco, on the 24th, on a
charge of manslaughter.
LUKE II. MILLER, one of the oldest
iron safe manufacturers in the coun
try, widely known throughout the
United States, died in Baltimore, Nd,
on the 25th.
FIRE gutted the Union house, an old
two-story shell in Cheboygan, Mich,
on the 25th. Every room was occu-
pied, and most of the guests had to
jump for their lives. Dr. Howell, Il
horse doctor, and a woodsman named
Cluno, who occupied a room together,
and who, it is said, retired in an intox-
icated condition, were suffocated.
The Touring mill and elevator of C.
w. Mcdaniel, at Franklin, Ind, was
burned, on the 25th, together with a
large quantity of flour and grain.
With great difficulty other buildings
were saved. The loss is estimated at
s25,O 200; partially insured.
NAPOLEON GOLD SPORTY CAMPANA,
the pedestrian, applied in Chicago, on
the cath, for license to marry Miss
Mary J. Dalton. His request was
granted. "Old Sport is 66 years old,
he says, but at the marriage license
window he was just 5s.
JUDGE HENRY W. SCOTT, of the dis
trict court at Oklahoma City, on the
25th, sentenced J. ]. Burke and f. E,
Brown, publishers of the Daily Times
Journal of that city, to the county jail
for ten days and to pay fine of s2ot
each for contempt Of court in com
menting upon his judicial character
A great sensation was created.
SHEARING was begun in the three
sheep camps southwest of Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 25th. The sheer
were driven in from the desert where
they were wintered. 1t is estimated
that at the three camps fully 400, 0Qt
head of sheep will be sheared thi!
spring. Last season the record wal
325, 900, but the number of wool bear
ers in the western part of the territor.
has increased materially during tn,
year.
REPORTS received at the United State
geological survey from twenty-thre'
states and two territories give tota
production of 11,5O7,6O long tons o
iron ore in 1893. This amount is smalle
than that recorded for any year sine,
1887, and is decrease of almost 80 pc
cent. over 1902.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES has ordere,
that charges be preferred agains
Lieut. Nancy, recently acquitted o
the charge Of numbering Capt. He'd
berg at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, an,
that he be tried by court martial 10
conduct prejudicial to discipline in tn
service.
VIM. A. PENoE,,a prominent farme,
died near Huntington, Ind, on tn
25th, from peculiar trouble. A bon
substance had grown around and ir
cased his heart, causing heart failure
REV. NATHANIEL BUTLER, who wa
Vice President Hamlin's private secre
tary from 1851 to 1863, and who serve
, in the Maine legislature in 1880, die
at Burlington, Wis, on the s6th, age
7oyears