Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-17

AT the meeting of the house judici.
airy committee, on the 9th, Chairman
Culberson announced Representatives
Boatner, Terry and W. A. Stone as the
committee to Investigate Judge Jen.
kins' injunction against employees of
the Northern Pacificorailroad. The in
vestigation promises to have important
developments.
TILMAN II. FISHER, a member of the
New York consolidated stock exchange,
was suspended, on the 9th, for six
months because of alleged question
able business methods. Fisher adver-
tised extensively in the newspapers in
the south and west, and promised to
make fortunes for his clients on small
capital.
SENATOR ALLISON regards the APP
pointment by Germany of commission
to investigate the silver question as an
incident of great significance, particu-
larly because the commission, with the
exception of one, or at the most two
of its members, is comp posed Of bi-met-
allists.
MAJ, GEORGE c. CONVEX died at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on the 9th, aged so.
He was a native of Ireland Soon after
the war he became partner of Shell
don & Co., publishers, of New York,
and later southernsagent for the Ap-
pletons
The president, on the 9th appointed
Walter J.. Wilson, of West Virginia,
son of Chairman Wilson of the house
ways and means committee. and
Lewis G. Stevenson, of Illinois, son of
Vice-President Stevenson, among 9TH
ers assistant paymasters in the navy.
WAsHINGToN's birthday was gener-
ally observed among the Amcri-
cans in Hawaii. Minister Willis in
vited the officials of the government
to notice the day, which they cordially
complied with by closing public offices
for the afternoon. The celebration
was arranged nominally by the Amer
lean league. Salutes were fred by the
Philadelphia, Naniwa and the Cham
pion.
STATISTICS issued by Lloyds show
that within the last three months
twenty-eight vessels have been aban-
doned in the Atlantic. Nineteen of
them carried cargoes of timber and
must be dangerous dcrelicts.
IT is rumored at the court of st.
James that Car Alexander III. will be
the queens guest next summer, and
that preparations for his visit are al
ready making.
WILLIAM POTTER, formerly Emitted
States minister to Italy, left Rome for
Naples, on the 18th, en- route to the
United States.
On the 10th the New York associated
banks held 1888, 375 in excess of the
requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule.
QUEEN VICTORIA started for the con-
tinent on the 18th,
THE imports OF specie at the port Of
New York for the week ended on the
10th were s223,a15, of which s206, ,O56
was gold and sl7,.l9 silver. For the
corresponding week last year the i'm
ports were sl,S76, 1872
THE Indian troopship Mala bar sailed
from Portsmouth, England. on the
10th, with /, 1,24O soldiers on board, for
Bombay.
AT the Midwinter fair grounds in San
Francisco, on the night of the 10th, n
stage coach with twenty people on
board overturned while going around
corner at rapid rate. Fourteen per-
sons were injured, of whom three
women and four men were seriously
hurt.
A. S. JONES, the Missouri Pacific sta.
ton agent, who shot and killed J. +.
Peck, the section boss, at Sprague,
Neb., gave himself up to the police at
Lincoln on the 1lth. Jones had not
been suffering. apparently, as he is in
good health. he says he was tired OF
hiding out
An attempt was made, on the night
of the 10th, to blow up the Office of the
Ironclad Age, an intidel paper pub.
lished in indianapolis, Ind. The office
is located in large building, the up.
per floors of which are rented to fami.
lies.
TEN.YEAR-oLD Alfred Baker, son OF
George II. Baker, lodge janitor,
stood on the street car track at Terre
IIaute, Ind, on the evening of the
llth, looking up at a toy balloon, when
an electric car struck him. He lived
an hour.