Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A GRAIN-LADEN vessel was compelled
to put back to san Francisco the other
day, having struck bar on her way
out to sea, sustaining serious damage
in the encounter. This is not the
first time that a likely craft has seen a
promising voyage spoiled by failure to
steer clear of the bars in the way.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL error has made an
admirer Of Kossuth say: Ills mastery
Of the English language amazed me;
he was in touch with all the odiums" "
English idioms are doubtless odious to
foreigners, however, and the linotype
may not have been so far wrong as it
seems.
FORMAL notifications of the Russo
German commercial treaty were ex-
changed in Berlin on the 10th. The
treaty goes into effect at once.
THE arrest of w. L. Darrow, alias
W. f. Shaw, at Sioux City, Ia, Mon
day, for making counterfeit silver coin
was reported to the treasury depart
ment on the Goth. A large assortment
Of tools, files, lathes, etc, was cap
tured
IT was reported in Athens, on the
2lst, that an earthquake had occurred
at Tarissa, near the Gulf of Salonica,
destroying many houses. Particulars
were not obtainable.
INCENDIARIEs attempted to burn the
business portion of Clinton, Ia, on the
morning of the Goth. An alarm called
the department to the residence part
of the city, and Immediately after two
fires were discovered in the business
district. This necessitated a division
of the department, and, with high
wind prevailing, the fires were only
subdued after much hard work
The dwelling of the chief of the
Cherokee nation at Tahlequah, |. r.
was burned on the night of the 10th.
The structure was a two-story frame,
Nothing was saved. Chief Harris had
a narrow escape, barely escaping with
his babe, in his night clothes. His
hands were badly burned.
THIRTEEN persons were injured in
the wild rush of 400 men, women
and children, from the mixed Ale'
flats, big six-story double-decked
tenement house in New York, on the
2lst The panic was caused by fire
which destroyed the upper portion of
the building.
THE four-story public school build
ing in South Evanston, 13 miles north
of Chicago, was completely destroyed
by fire on the 21st; loss, $1,000.
Several pupils were severely injured
by jumping from the third and fourth
story windows.
On March 16, at : a. m, James Mel.
vile, aged so, a steerage passenger on
the steamer Anchoria, en- route to New
York, and an American citizen, in Il
moment of temporary insanity stab.
bed Charles Macklehom, also a steer
age passenger, causing slight flesh
wound, and then jumped overheard.
THE eighth annual convention OF the
Michigan Christian Endeavor union
met in Detroit. on the 21st, about
l,500 delegates being present.
Ar st. Paul, Ind, on the 2lst, An
drew Gayheimer, an aged and re-
spected citizen, ,clim bed to the top of the
railway bridge which spans Flat Rock
river, the top of which is so feet from
the river bed, which is solid limestone
rock. and without saying a word de-
liberately walked to the edge and
jumped. Every bone in his body mus,
have been broken.
JOHN II. PERKINS, of Lebanon, Ind.
received a letter, on the 2lst, contain
ing SEQ and a note saying: 81 sent
this for Jesus Christ's sake" There
was no signature to the note. About
eight years ago Mr., Perkins store wa,
robbed and about $50 worth of good.
taken, and the supposition is that the
money he received was sent by the rob
Der.
On the 9lst il was given out thai
Senator Colquitt's bowels were par
alyzed, and his physicians reluctantly
admitted that his death was but mat
ter Of hours. The absent members o.
the senator's family were telegraphet
for.
1'AE residence of Eli Clark, 6 mile.
south OF Hartford City, Ind, was de
stroyed by an explosion of natural gas
on the 2lst, and an infant child was SC
badly burned that it died. Six Other
persons were seriously burned.
THE coronor's jury at Troy, N. ", or
the 2lst in the case Of Robert Ross
who was killed at the riot at the polll
on election day, rendered q verdict thai
the murder was committed by Barthol
omew shea.