Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-10-06

IN the cemeteries near Union Hill n
Y. On the night of the 95th two vaults
were found to have been opened in
urove Church cemetery and the bodies
removed, The authorities are ipvesti.
eating.
REPORTS from various points in the
middle and coast regions regarding the
west India cyclone indicate considera.
Die damage TO corn and cotton. very
serious damage to the rice crop, but no
loss of life. At Georgetown, S. c., and
vicinity the damage to the rice crop is
very great, and it is difficult yet to esti-
mate the loss, though many put it at 80
per cent
SUIT for $4,000 damages was begun
in sandusky (OD common pleas court,
on the 9th, by Houston Smith, of To
ledo, against the members of the family
OF the late ex-President r. Il. Hayes.
The plaintiff alleges that his wife re-
ceived permanent injuries in runaway
caused by a large dog owned. boarded
and harbored by the Hayes family at
Spiegel Grove.
ALLEN c. WILDE, of the firm of
James II. Wilde & Co., well-known
merchants of Chicago, has been adopt
ed by the widow of the late Prof. Gar
rison, of that city. Mrs Garrison, be-
fore her marriage, was Lady Mary
Berry, of England, and heiress to ex-
tensive estates there. Mr.. Wilde is 80
years old, and prominent society and
club man.
CHECKS to the number of 20. s39, ag-
gregating S4,s95, ,O59.2O, quarterly in.
terest on the United States registered
4-per-cent. consols of 1907, were mailed
to bondholders from the treasury de-
partment on the 2sth.
The president, on the eth, issued
proclamation granting pardons to all
Mormons convicted of polygamy.
On the 27th two Italian war ships
were ordered to Morocco on account of
the disturbed condition of affairs there.
KINGS hotel, at Eliza bethport, N.
D., was burned at an early hour on the
morning of the 2Sth; loss, $50, 900.
The guests escaped in their night
clothing
TIE Japanese have succeeded in en-
tering the Chinese province of Man
churia and, on the 2sth, were reported
advancing upon the capital, Moukden.
The Chinese warship Kwang CHA is
reported to have been lost while run.
ming from the fight off the mouth of the
1alu river.
ALTHOUGH the Canadian 500 canal
will be completed within month and
vessels will pass through it this fall, it
has been decided to defer the formal
opening until next spring.
Four men, two miners and two la
| borers, were killed under fall of rock
in the Northwestern colliery of Simp-
son d Watkins, at Simpson, near Car
| bondale, Pa, on the 27th.
THE county commissioners of Doug
las county, Neb.. in which Omaha is
situated have decided to submit to the
people proposition to vote $1,000, 900
subsidy to company for the construc-
tion of a canal to bring water power to
the city of Omaha. The enterprise has
been under discussion for more than a
year, and many thousands of dollars
have been expended in Investigations
and preliminary surveys. rem.
| RICHARD NAGEL, who wrecked an
Ohio & Mississippi train at Fish Lake,
H., resulting in the death of the fire.
man, was found guilty at Waterloo,
H., on the 10Th, and given sentence
of twenty years in the Illinois peni-
tentiary.
| A DEMONSTRATORS in behalf of uni
versal suffrage was held in Vienna on
the SOth. Fifteen thousand people took
part and marched in procession through
the streets. Ten arrests were made,
but there was no serious disorder
TIE Sagua river in Cuba overhowcd
its banks, on the 2sth, and the city of
Sarua la Grande was flooded. Many
of the residents of the city were
drowned. and the damage to property
is immense.
ON the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held $50, 79l .S07 in ex-
ccess of the requirements of the 25-per
cent rule.
JACOB XAIINT, a building contractor
who built several Worlds fair build.
ings in Chicago and lost money on sim
liar work at the MidWinter exposi-
ton, committed suicide in San Fran