Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-28


mirers of VIM. j. Scanlan. the once
popular Irish comedian, will regret to
learn that he is confined in strait
jacket at Bloomingdalc On. VI asylum
for the insane. He has become total
wreck, and, according to his nearest
friends, his time on earth is very short.
In the senate, on the Goth, a bill was
introduced by Mr.. Allen, of Nebraska,
and referred, requiring the interstate
commerce commission to hold at least
one session annually in Omaha, Neb.
On the Goth Comptroller OF the
Currency Eckels issued a call for re-
port of the condition of national
banks at the close of business on
Wednesday, July Is.
The Canadian parliament has passed
bill granting bonus of $4,000 per
mile to the Port Arthur, Duluth &
Western railroad for distance of $50
miles.
Hon. EDWARD V. CoNLEY, of Waters
meet, one of the best-known men in
northern Michigan, committed suicide,
on the night Of the 10th, by shooting
himself in the head. He had been
chairman of the county board of super
visors almost every term since the for
nation of the county.
The exports Of specie from the port
of New York for the week ended on
the 2lst were S3,sO6, ,O39, of which 50,
3O4, ,5s2 was gold and s5Ol, ,5O7 silver.
Of these amounts $3,30OO0O gold and
S4 S66 silver went to Europe and $4 5S2
gold and Sl4, ,557 silver to South Amer
lea. For the corresponding week Of
1898 the exports were 81, ,l29,5oO.
THE tenth race between the Vigilant
and the britannia was sailed ON the
2lst, and the Yankee yacht getting the
advantage, in the latter part of the
race, of a good fresh breeze, overhauleo
, her opponent and won with over two
minutes lead, corrected time.
A BAND of militant anarchists were
caught at work in their own bomb fac
, tory at Prague, Bohemia, on the 2lst
Seven men were arrested and a large
!, quantity of explosives was seized.
' COMMANDER BALLINGToN BOOTH, O.
a the Salvation army arrived in New
g York from Liverpool on the 2lst
THE business portion of the town o
2 Converse, Ind, was almost entirely de
G stroyed by fire on the 2lst.
$ A PETARD was exploded, on the 21st
a near the British embassy in Rome. N
y damage was done.
IT has been decreed by the car
government that Siberia is too good TO
= convicts, and as soon as the new Trans
q siberian railway has penetrated it
s gloomy depths it will be turned into
d paradise for agricultural settlers an
l, mining sharps, while nihilists and 9th
~ IL er refractory members of Russian Sc
=. ciety will in the future be accommt
dated on the island at Saghalin, off tn
coast of Russian Manchuria.
SoUTH-BoUND passenger train No.
on the Grand Rapids & Indiana WE
- wrecked at Laotto, Ind, at midnight (
" the 21st. Some miscreant had driven
beam in frog. The engine passed ov'
safely, but the tender, baggage car ar
- smoker jumped the track. The ira
a was loaded with Fort Wayne excu
sionistS, but officials of the road asse
"A that none were seriously injured.
~ THE police guard was withdraw
from one district at the Chicago stot
yards, on the 22d, and the result was
bloody riot between union and no
~ union butchers. When the police a
rived the trouble was almost over, al
" three men probably fatally stabbed al
~ ~ severely dubbed were picked up al
~ taken to the hospitals.
W A. &. RENsAw, a British capital.
~ has begun suit in the United Stat
district court at San Francisco to l
IA cover S245,0Oo. He charges that 4
u. sale of the Bears Nest group of min
~ in Alaska was accomplished by gigant
VI frauds. lie accuses the sellers of sa
eo ing the mines with gold-bearing ro
from the rich Treadwell mines.
ne DURING fire at Perry, Okla, on t
"a. night of the 2lst, Clay Davis, not
OF horse-thief and member of the Dalt
'u- gang, and Bud Appling, alias "Calif'
III MIA Cyclone" prize-fghter, broke ia
zee 1t is said that the prisoners had
sistance from the outside.
ne FREDERICK LOWE, governor OF Ca
eo fornia from 1868 to 1867, and we
W. known pioneer, died in San Francis
p at midnight of the 2lst. He had lar
eu corporate and banking interests.