Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-08-25

was, on the 10th, declared off Tha
men agreed to return to work at tbs
former wages. Out of 1000 men who
applied for work only fifty were EN-.
ployed ~
PARTY of moonshiner, in Russell
county, Va, attempted to lynch Deputy
marshal c. +. Capp, but he escaped.
ahd' returning with force of officers.
succeeded in arresting and jailing some
of his prosecutors.
IHE failures for the week ended on
the 18th were 226 in the United States.
against ASS last year, and As in Canada l.
against 81 last year.
MR. CLIFFORD SMITH, consul of the
United States at Cartagena, Colom-
oia, has informed the department. of
state OF the completion and formal
opening for traffic of the Cartarena.
Magdalena railroad.
BANK EXAMINER MILLER, of Mercer.
Pa, shot himself through the temple
at Altoona. on the 18th, and instantly
expired.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND arrived at
tray tables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass, on
the 18th, in the lighthouse tender
John Rogers.
PRINCE EMANUEL OF ORLEANS was ar
rested at Bordeaux, on the nth, while
on his way to visit Emperor Franz Josef
of Austria.
BY an order issued by the secretary
OF war, on the 18th, the three great
army recruiting depots at David's
island, New York harbor, Columbus.
D., Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, are wiped
out, and in their places will stand
three large, neutrality-suspicious. mill
tary posts.
THE Japanese Patriotic society is the
namo OF new organization which has
already branches established in the
principal cities of the Pacific coast.
The object of the society is to collect
funds from willing japanese contribu-
tors to be used in the war now in prog
ress between China and Japan.
The report that the king of Siam is
dead is denied by Siamese officials in
London. The legation received word
from Bangkok on the 14th that the
king was recovering from recent i'll
ness. His death had been announced
in the japanese newspapers, but the
announcement was withdrawn.
GEORGE REED, the man under arrest
for numbering Daniel Henderson, the
farm hand whose body was found in
cornfield near Terre Hautc, Ind. con-
fessed, on the 18th, and according to
his own story, the murder was as cruel
and unprovoked as ever occurred in In
diana. 1t was committed for S6.25.
THEsenate committee on the judiciary
has made an adverse report to the SEN
ate on the nomination of Hon. James
ID. Porter to be United States Judge of
the eastern and middle districts of Ten
nessec. 1t is understood that the oppo-
sition is based on the ground that Mr..
Porter lives outside the district.
The Cunard line steamer Campania,
which arrived on the evening of the
18th, left Daunts Rock at 12:45 p. M on
August IL and arrived at the Sandy
Hook lightship at 5;45 p. IN. of the 18th.
Her time of passage was5 days, 9hours
and 90 minutes, which beats all previ-
Gus records by about hours and 10
minutes.
BY the special order of their king a
number of Coreans accompanied the
Japanese troops to Yashan and took
part in the fight there, showing that
the Corean king sides with Japan
against his former suzerain.
THE sudden appointment of Mr..
kurino as japanese minister to the
United States has elected much COM
ment from the vernacular press of ia
pan. which is inclined to connect it
with Corean affairs.
ON,the 18th the banks of New York
held S67, SOC, $50 in excess of the re-
quiremcnts of the 25-per-cent. rule.
CHEF MALABoCu and 200 of his fol-
lowers have been imprisoned at Pre-
toria, South Africa.
NUMEROUS cases of cholerine have
been reported in Paris.
The whole of the Servian cabinet
resigned on the 18th.
ADMIRAL RAzvozoFF, in command of
the Russian naval forces at Cronstadt,
was shot and killed, on the 10th, by
discharged cmploye, who fired upon
him with a revolver as he was driving
from his Office in st. Petersburg. The
assassin then blew his own brains out
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