Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-10-06
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

& o., was shot and killed by some un-
known assassin. Five bullets pierced
his body, and when found shortly after
he was dead.
JUDGE GREEN, of Pekin, H., on the
Goth, overruled the motion for change
of venue in the case of the Little mine
rioters, and gave notice to the defense
to prepare for trial. These are the
cases in which John Geher, an ex-
member of the Illinois legislature, led
mob which committed the murder
and destroyed the coal mine near
Peoria.
SAMUEL L. MORSE, United States con
ul-general at Paris, has sent to the
state department an abstract of the
official report on the wheat crop in
France for 1894. 1t is estimated by the
French statisticians, says Mr.. Morse,
that the crops of 1894 throughout the
world will be 35 per cent. in excess of
the worlds demands for consumption
and seed.
IT is reported from Tahiti that Count
Festich de Tolna, who, with his bride,
sailed from San Francisco in October,
last year, in a trading vessel bound for
the South seas, is dead. The countess
is the daughter Of j, b. Haggin, of San
Francisco.
The president, on the 25th, appointed
Gen. William Ward Dutiield, of Detroit,
Mich. superintendent of the coast and
geodetic survey, to succeed Prof. Il. c.
Mendenhall, resigned. The position is
worth $4,000 per annum.
The American Sugar Refining Co,
Sugar trust issued orders, on the 25th,
for the closing down of one-half of the
refneries under its control. 1t is said
the trust purposes to curtail produc-
ton and put up prices.
MRS. REBECCA A. CARNEY, widow of
Thomas Carney, second governor of
Kansas, died at her home in Leaven-
worth, on the 25th, of cancer. She was
Sc years old and removed to Leaven-
worth from Ohio in 1860.
The charge of forgery against Caro-
line Ellsworth, daughter of the Mil
waukee millionaire, Isaac Ellsworth,
was nolle pressed in Chicago on the
25th. Miss Ellsworth was charged by
several Chicago merchants with OBJ
tanning goods by forged checks. The
case is said to have been settled out
side of court by the girls father.
The steamer Ohio, down-bound, col.
lided with the schooner Ironton, up.
bound, in tow of the steamer Kcrshaw,
10 miles north of Presque Isle, Lake
| Huron, ut 1890 a. M, on the o6th, and
both boats sank in half an hour. Seven
members of the crew of the Ironton
were missing.
The stable of Daniel Moody, in Phil.
adelphia, was burned. on the 26th,
and twenty horses perished in the
flames. Five dwellings in the rear OF
the stable were badly damaged. the
occupants escaping in their night
clothes.
THE store-room attached to Justice
underwoOds courtroom, at l2S Clark
street, Chicago, was broken into
shortly before midnight of the s5th
and load of condemned gambling
tools, obtained in raid on No. IA
Quincy street week before, was re-
moved.
HUGH RoANE. son of the late Johr
Seldom Roanc, ex-governor of Arkan
sas, brakeman on the Cotton Bel,
railroad, was run over by a switch en-
gine at Buckner. Ark, on the night ot
the 25th, and fearfully mangled.
d. c. CALDWELL, prominent lu mbel
dealer of Frankfort, Ind, was arrest
ed, on the Goth, by Maj. Carter, of the
United States secret service, to answer
the charge of counterfeiting. The ar
rest of Caldwell created big sensation
at Frankfort, where his standing has
been first class.
WITHIN two months, when more
horses shall have been inoculated, thu
Pasteur institute at Paris will send on
an anti-diphtheria serum to the prov
inces. This serum will also be sup
piled to druggists in the form of pow
der.
FRED LAMoNTE, the well-known cir
Gus clown travelling with Robinson'
show, is lying at the point of death il
the house of John Robinson, at Ter
race Park. near Cincinnati, from IN
juries received at the hands of robbie
on the night of the 25th.
Mrs. MINNIE UTz, on the 26th, a
Fargo, n. d., secured legal separa
tion from H. J. Utz, the millionaire
shoe manufactures of Rochester, N. Y
She was granted $4,000 alimony ant
the custody Of their child.
A LIGHT earthquake shock occurred
at s a. IN. of the eth, at Chicoutim
and Bay st. Paul, east of Quebec, Can
The shock lasted about thirty sec
onds
IT was reported at Shanghai, on tn
o6th, that the native officials had re
ceived news that the Japanese attacke.
the Chinese forces at Anchow and VI
chow simultaneously, and were re
pulsed at both places. Capt. Fong 81
quen (Chinese) has been executed 10
cowardice.
On the 27th Judge McAdam, OF tn
superior court of New York, confirme
the report of Referee Edward Jacob
granting divorce in favor of kuehn'
Beveridge Coghlan in her suit agains'
Actor Charles f. Coghlan 1t is IN
usual form Of decree, permitting tn
plaintiff to marry again, but interdic'
ing Mr.. Coghlan from remarrying'
MANDAMUs proceedings were oegu
in Indianapolis, Ind, on the 27th' =
compel the school board to permit tn
colored child Of Benjamin Thornton
attend the public school in Thornton
district. The officials had expelled Tn
child and were attempting to force ne
to attend colored school some dis
tancc away.
THREE notorious desperadoes an
post-ofiice robbers, members OF the fa'
rell gang, broke Jail at Parkersoure
Va, on the 9th, and made their e'
cape. ., .
A BURSTING pipe at gas Wen !,
Clarion, Pa, on the 27th' killed
Weitze and seriously injured IT, oai
ners and J. II. Cook. 80,
A STATEMENT prepared at the inte'
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