Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-08-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE prince of Wales cutter Britain
mia arrived at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on
the lst, flying twenty-four prize flags
THE last report of the Interstate
commerce commission shows that the
number of railway corporations in the
United States is /, 800, of which only
752 are independent operating roads,
although 93e maintain operating ac-
counts. OF the 1,13s subsidiary COM
panics, 77s maintain financial accounts.
being leased dr operated under traffic
agreements, the remaining $3.50 appar-
emily having only nominal existence.
On the 3lst Vice-President Stevenson,
through his son Lewis, stated that
there was no truth in the statements
widely published that he had been com
peeled to interfere to prevent the mar
riage of his daughter to one George +.
Curtis, a clerk in the library of the
senate.
The wages of the men employed in
the ham department of Armours pack
ing house in Chicago were reduced fif-
teen cents per day on the 3lst. They
asked for return to the old wages,
which was refused and they were told
that they might strike if they wanted
to. II is not believed that they will
do So
SHORT in his accounts, his defalcation
discovered, requested to make good the
money he had taken and harassed by
demands for the payment of an old
debt in Evansville, Ind, George n.
Wells, booSkeeper for the Royal Cigar
Co. in st. Louis, ended his life, on the
3lst, by taking morphine.
ANAvAL battle was fought, on the
30th between the Chinese and Japan
ese fleets. The japanese sunk the Chi
nese warship Chen-Yuen, and two large
cruisers, supposed to be the Chin Yuan
and Foo-Ching, vessels built for China
by the Armstrong;. were captured or
destroyed by the Japanese
THE first hanging in Norfolk, Va,
for fifty years took place on the 3lst,
when Madison Brown, colored, was
hanged for the murder of John Dol
lard, about sixteen months ago.
A DISTRICT convention of miners of
the Pittsburgh district met in Pitts.
burgh Pa, on the LIST, sixty delegates,
representing about $4,000 miners, be-
ing in attendance. The object of the
convention was to try and force all the
operators in the district to live up to
the Columbus agreement.
THE official report of the German
health authorities, issued on the ed,
shows one death from cholera in Dant-
zig, two in Sagorsz and two in Kurze-
brack.
THE d. E. Stone furniture plant at
Indianapolis, Ind, which went into the
hands of receiver some time ago, was
completely destroyed, on the I'd, by fire
caused by lightning. Loss, $4,000,
with $4,000 insurance
LAMoURE, N. d., is in ashes. A great
fire broke out on Front street at an
early hour, on the I'd, and, famed by
strong wind, laid in waste the entire
business center Of the town.
| The house of Princess Soltykoff at
Slough, England, was entered by burg
lars, on the night of the lst. and robbed
of Jewels valued at 10000.
BoArs containing pleasure parties
were capsized by squall in the River
Mawddach near Barmouth, Wales, on
the I'd, and ten of the occupants were
drowned.
EDWARD O'KELLY, who is serving .
life sentence in the Colorado peniten-
tiary for the murder Of Bob Ford, the
slayer of the notorious bandit Jesse
James, has applied for pardon, claim
ing self.defense as justification for the
killing.
A SEVERE storm at Delaware, O., and
vicinity, on the cd, did much damage
Charles Boston's barn with sixty tons
Of hay, horses, cattle and machinery
was fred by lightning and consumed.
Il. Hills barn, with several horses,
hiQh.grade cattle, fifty tons Of hay and
farming machinery, was also struck by
lightning and burned. Mrs. Lewis
barn, filled with hay and farm tools,
was destroyed. Michael 0Brien's barn,
with hay crop and all his implements,
were burned.
CHARLES MEuSIra, the condemned
French anarchist, has been transported
/; 70 ths psnsl colony ID New Caledonia