Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-21
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ended on the 18th. The proportion
of the banks reserve to liability, which
Mt last report was 63.69 per cent, was
45.1 per cent. The rate of discount was
unchanged at per cent.
JUDGE GRossCUP, on the 18th, in
structed the federal grand jury at Chi
cago to widen the scope of it's inquiry
into violations of the United States
statutes to take in the conduct of the
higher railroad officials If evidence of
tangible nature warranting such action
were brought to their attention by the
district attorney.
Born China and Japan have accepted
in friendly spirit the offer of the earl
of Kimberly of the good Offices of the
British government to bring about a
settlement of the disputes regarding
Corea. Twelve representatives of both
China and Japan will shortly confer
with the earl of Kimberly with the view
of settling upon the basis of amicable
arrangement.
CHANCELLOR CANFIgLD, of the Ne
braska state university. has been
elected president of the Ohio state uni.
versity.
THE weekly statement of the Bank
of France, issued on the 12th, shows
an increase of l4,SOO,0oO francs gold
and decrease of 7,475, 900 francs silver
GEORGE II. GRAHAM, the veteran pub
Usher and journalist, died of disease Of
the heart, at the Orange On. J.) Me-
mortal hospital on the 13th. He was
identified with Charles J. Peterson in
the management of the Gentleman's
Magazine in 1910 and later established
Graham's Magazine. In 1864 he
bought the North American in Phila-
delphia, but financial reverses caused
him to lose control of all his publica-
tions.
Two BROTHERS, Tom and Calvin
Cooley, white men, aged 27 and 90
years, were hanged, on the 18th, at
Louisburg, N. C., for the murder, in
1892, of Charles Tucker, Jewish ped
dler. The rope used to hang Calvin
Cooley had been used on seven similar
occasions during the last ten years.
THE firm of Cunningham e. Miller,
sugar retiners, of Texas, have sent to
Washington protest against the con-
tinuation of the Hawaiian treaty re-
garding the admission to this country
of raw sugar duty free.
COMMENT is being caused by the
secrecy maintained relative to the alb
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representatives, who, under the law,
should be docked for their neglect of
public business, but many of whom put
in bills for full pay,
IT is announced in New Orleans as
one of the results of the late strike
that the erection of the bridge which
it was proposed to build over the Mis-
sissippi at that point, the survey of
which was begun and the plans pre-
pared, has been indefinitely postponed.
| ADJT.- GEN. ORENpoRFF of Illinois
said in the course of a conversation in
Chicago on the 18th, that if the gen.
eral managers would not accept the
proposition made by Debs he was in
favor of asking Gov Altgeld to with
draw the state troops from Chicago,
ROBERT A. ANDERSON, alias Field,
one of the murderers of Emanuel Elem.
ing, was hung at Livingston, Mont,
on the 18th. He protested his inno-
cence to the last.
A WRECK on the Chicago & Northern
Pacific railroad was caused, on the
18th, by the misplacing of switch by
j. II. Il. Hollister. reporter for Chi
cago morning paper who was acting as
switchman in order to be ''on the in.
side in getting news among railroad
employees He was promptly arrested
and jailed.
On her official trial trip, on the 18th,
the cruiser Minneapolis made 23Ol
knots, beating all records for heavy
steamships and earning her builders a
premium of S4O2, 200.
ANARCHIST NOEL MAIssoN, of Pitts.
burgh, Pa, became insane on learning
that he must die on September 6 for the
murder of Mrs. Sophie Roes.
| PARIS celebrated the fall of the bas.
tile, on the l4th, in a modified manner
owing to the recent assassination OF
President Carnot.
| THE total exports Of provisions for
the year ended June 30, 1894, were
STA, l31 GA against Sl6l 1884 for the
preceding year.