Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-17

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'N the occasion Of the funeral of tho
ear 5000 ofSt. Petersburg's poor will
oe provided with dinners.
y DISPATCH TO the London Timos
from Yokohama says that the two
Americans who were arrested at Kobe
are torpedo experts who had con.
lracted with China to employ their
own inventions to destroy the Japa.
nese heet, China promised them 81
c'O'oOo FOR each warship they de.
stroyed and proportionate sum for
each merchantmen they succeeded in
blowing up.
hoMoRs are once more afloat concern
ing the reported engagement of Odette
Tyler, the actress, to Mr. Howard
uould, Gossip has it that the engage.
ment, which was declared off some
months ago, owing, it was said, to Mss
lyler's resenting an objection on the
part OF young Mr.. Gould's family, is
now on again.
AFTER half century Of commercial
prosperity the schulenburg- Boeckele,
Lumber Co. of st. Louis made an as.
slgnment, on the 9th, for the benefit OF
all Its creditors, making Eugene C. Tit.
man the assignee. The failing firm
places its assets at 5000, 900, but no in,
formation is given nor can be obtained
concerning its liabilities.
FIFTY pounds of dynamite exploded
on the Hallwood & Keffer sewer con.
tract at Huntington, Ind, on the 9th.
John Hartman and Norton Keffer were
killed and John Flynn was fatally in.
jured. Residences in close proximity
were badly wrecked.
In several Of the government depart.
ments question has arisen as to when
the recent order of the president ex.
tending the civil service rules went into
effect, and it has been definitely de-
cided that the day it was signed it was
operative as law.
ERNEST HUM superintendent of the
Eagle Bird mine at Maybert, Cal, fell
coo feet down the shaft, on the evening
of the 9th, and was instantly killed.
The body was horribly mangled. Huhn
was a mining expert well known
throughout the country.
BRIG, GEN. ALEXANDER McDowELL
McCooK has been appointed maior-gen-
eral OF the United States army, vice
Gen. o, o. Howard, retired, and Col.
James w. Forsyth of the Seventh cav.
airy has been promoted to brigadier-
general to succeed McCook.
THE long-pending case of certain
leaders, including George
Swift, who asked that the election of
Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, be set
aside and Mr.. Swift be declared the
mayor, came mp, on q motion to dis
miss the petition of the republicans, on
the 10th. Judge Scales granted the
motion, thus ending the matter as far
as the local courts are concerned,
TIE weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks, issued on
the 10th, shows the following changes:
Reserve, decrease, 81 ,534, 625; loans, de-
crease, 81, lo7, 500; specie, decrease, S75,-
500; legal tenders, decrease, 81, ,lSS, 900;
deposits, decrease, S2,92s,700; circula-
ton, decrease, $4,000.
SUpr. HAvvAN of the Nov Vol.
state department of public works has
ordered that the canals of that state
be closed for the season on the 30th,
at midnight, unless sooner closed by
ice.
THE schooner NJ. p Barlllow. of De-
troit, coal-ladcn, for Chatham, Ont.
ran into the Wheeling & Lake Erie
bridge at Toledo, o., and sank
in the Maumee river on the 10th.
Oh the 10th the associated banks Of
New York held Sol, ,669,650 in excess
of the requirements of the @5-per-cent.
rule.
The death of Capt. J. 7. Schindel, of
the Sixth infantry, from heart disease,
occurred at Fort Thomas, Ky, ON the
10th.
FIRE on the British steamship
IIaieen at New Orleans, on the 10th,
200 bales of cotton.
The power of Viceroy Ii Hung Chang
in China is gradually waning.
THE emperor of China has had Sc
we're attack of fever.
FIVE large warehouses in the Minor
les. London, filed with tea, tobacco
and other goods, were burned at an
early hour on the morning of the 10th;
loss estimated at goo 900.