Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-02

Co., at Marion, Ind, was burned to the
ground on the cath, A gas pipe that
fed the fires in the hot-oven burst,
causing terrible explosion, and soon
covered the entire building with flames.
Loss, $4,000; fully covered by insur-
! ance.
BLANCHE MAcKEY climbed out Of the
window of her parents residence in
Dubuque, Ia, on the night of the 24th,
and eloped with True Spence, an cleo
trio lineman. The father and mother
gave chase, but she outran them and
climbed into waiting buggy, in which
was Spence, and they drove to Fair
play, where they were married.
THE 4-year-old daughter of Franz
Mueller, farmer living near West
Plains, Neb., was found by her little
brother, on the 25th, fatally shot.
Pending an investigation, the communi-
ty was disposed to hold the father re-
sponsible for the crime. and threats of
violence were freely uttered
Gov. FLOWER of New York has vetoed
tho bill prohibiting the display Of for
cign flags on public buildings.
The grand court of the United Com
mercial Travellers convened in Army
and Navy hall, at Cleveland, O., on the
a5th, for social session. A business
meeting followed, and at night the vis-
itors were rendered a banquet by the
local court.
GEN. LORD FREDERICK ROBERTS, for
merly commander-in-chief of the army
in India, will succeed Gen. Rt. Hon.
Viscount Wolseley in the autumn as
commander of the British forces in ire
land.
FRANCIS RAMACcIoTTI, a foundling, 7
years old, has been declared legal heir
to 100000 by the probate judge at Oma-
ha, Neb.
T. DE SousA Rosa, the Portuguese
minister at Washington, was, on the
25th, appointed to the Paris mission.
the highest diplomatic position in
Portugal.
THE Queens Own Rifles, of Toronto,
went to st. Thomas, Ont, on the cath,
to join in the celebrate of the queens
birthday. George ]. Wilds, United
States consul, displayed from the win
dows Of his Office an extra American
flag in honor of the day. Some OF the
members from Toronto became angered
at the American consul's act and tore
the flag from it's staff.
SUIT for damages of $780, 900 was be-
gun in the United States circuit court
in Chicago, on the 25th, by the French
republic against the Worlds Columbian
exposition. The litigation grows out of
the French governments claim for dam
ages to goods injured during the Manu-
factures' building fire.
ANAHUAc LODGE, No. 14l, Scottish
Rite Masons. held a lodge of sorrow in
the City of Mexico, on the 25th. in
memory of the late b. Il. Sanitz, of St.
Louis. who died of typhus at Zacatcras
a week previous. The deceased leaves
widowed mother in st. Louis.
GEN. SIR DONALD STEWART and Gen.
Lord Wolseley were, on the 25th, ga
zetted field marshals. This is an ex-
ceptional honor. There have only been
five such appointments previously, two
of the appointees being the prince OF
Wales and the duke of Cambridge.
THE American Baptist Publication
society began its seventeenth ami
versary at Saratoga, N. Y, on the 25th.
Forty-nine new publications have been
issued during the year.
The first consignment of the 10000
tons of soft coal ordered in Wales by
American concerns arrived in New Yorl,
on the 25th. The coal came on the
steamship Monomy from Cardiff.
Gov. PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania, ac-
companied by Adjt-Gen. Greenland.
visited the Clearfeld coal region, on
the a6th, to make a personal investiga.
tion of the miners strike situation in
that district.
REV. EDGAR H. GRAY, the1enerable
Baptist minister who was chaplain OF
| the United States senate at the time OF
President Lincoln's assassination, died
in San Francisco on the 25th. aged 80.
On the Goth the banks of New York
held S77. .60l. 700 in excess of the require
ments of the a5-per-cent. rule.
THE imports of specie at the port Of
New York for the week GUIDED on the
Goth. were Ss6,Sss, of which ST. ,O6s was
gold and 50. $50 silver. For the CORE
spending week for 1898 the imports
were S43,964.