Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ralysis in industrial affairs through
out the United States during the nine
months of the fiscal year ended March |
| 81, the balance sheet in the annual re-
port of the Westinghouse Electric and |
Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa,
discloses net profits amounting to $l,-
| $40, 500. II.
| The enforcement of an autonomous
customs tariff against Spain by Ger
many began at midnight Of the 18th.
| ADvIcEs reached London, on the 10th,
that the yacht Valkyrie had been
wrecked off the coast of Africa, all
hands being lost.
| Mr. WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT has
rented Lord Lovetts deer forest at
llranden, Scotland, and will soon visit
that place with hunting party.
BARON ROBERT OPpENHEIM, the Paris
tinancier, has ordered built IN frano~
a racing yacht to cost 100000 francs.
The boat is intended to compete with
the Viglant and other yachts of that
class
The jury in the case of Dr. Henry
Meyer, of New York, charged with
having poisoned Ludwig Brandt to Sc
cure insurance money on his life, re-
turned a verdict, on the 18th, finding
defendant guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree. The verdict is equivalent
to a sentence to life imprisonment.
VERY REV. THOMAS NJ. A. BURKE. vi
car-general of the diocese Of Albany,
has been nominated bishop of that di'
ocese to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Fran
els McNierney.
DIR. CALVIN WARNER, of Carroll
county, Md, has brought suit against
Mrs. Emma s. Powell, for breach Of
: promise. Mrs. Powell was Miss Wey-
) bright but was married few weeks
ago to Mr.. William IL. Powell. Mr..
Warner claims 5000 damages.
DIR. B. X. WATKINS was struck by
lightning, on the 18th, while standing
in the door of his well-house at Spring
City, Tenn, during severe thunder
storm, and his life was despaired of.
A colored boy, who stood near, was
also struck, falling dead by the doc
tors side.
A pEFAICATIoN which is officially
sta ted at $50, ,O00 and may increase tc
s25, 900 or $50, 900, has been discovered
!. in the accounts of the defunct Harlem
). River bank of New York city, and Q
:, warrant for the officer accused of the
~ embezzlement was issued on the 18th
" A MAN and woman who registered a
~ the Dellone hotel, Omaha, on the 18th
as Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Sheerar, ALE
=. gheny City, Pa, quarreled at night
- and the man shot the woman and him
a self, inflicting probably fatal wounds
~ The womans name proved to be Mis-
n. Aurora McClintock.
=. A BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN
a. railway passenger train ran over a GOV
at Belpre, O., on the 18th, and was de
rallied. The train rolled down hig
n. bank, and six personswere severely in
"a jured.
The celebration at Breeze Cottage
Garden City, Long Island, on the 1Stl
: by the Society OF Colonial Danes. of tn
80 % two hundred and first anniversary {
- the establishment of the first'post offic
~ in America, was notable affair
Al IOWtI, VII thS iVti' h'".
,d Nee, one of the most prominent Ian
,o attorneys Of Duluth; W. l.. Morrison
VI an explorer, and W. II. Cook were ru
nj out of town by large mob OF me
~. who are claimants to land. They Il
r. legc that for II year Nee and his me
~ have been jumping claims and contes
lLa ing. men who enter in good faith.
A DAMAGE suit was filed by A.
Snider, plumber in the distri
-. court at Topeka, Kas., claiming e2t
70. 900 from the individual and corpora
IN members of the Master Plumbers a
nd sociation of the state of Kansas on Il
m. ground that the association is a cor
II bine, and that by reason of co
ar. spiracy to freeze out all nonmembc
be of the association the defendants brol
up the plaintiffs business and ruin'
him.
ia The soundness Of the commerci
~, world is shown in the diminished II
- portance Of failures, the liabilities !
- ported for tho second week of MI
an. amounting to only sl,937,5Ss, OF whi'
IL l,490. .932 were of trading and s432, 6
,at of manufacturing concerns. The ia
I'd ures for the week were 22O in &
he United States, against s47 last yes
and "a IN Canada, against "A last yea
JAREs BENSON, one Of Minnesot,
:. first settlers, and one Of the repu blic
T. H. leaders of the state, died In st. Paul
~, the 18th. Mr.. Benson was r. years o.
Nv ~ lie was the clerk OF the first house
~. m representative in territorial days, a
,as fer three successive terms, from 1909
'''s 1868, was speaker Of the house.