Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13

sumptives, in London, caught fire from
a defective fiue in one of the attics on
the Sth, Sixty patients were hastily
removed to another ward. The fire
was extinguished before it had done
serious damage.
ELDER REUBEN A. WEBSTER died at
his home in Brazil, Ind, on the night
OF the 4th. When making preparations
Tor burial, on the 5th, large sums of
money and government bonds were
found on his person sewed up in sacks
-greenbacks and gold to the amount
of $4,000 and government bonds to the
extent Of $4,000. The deceased's wealth
is estimated at $4,000.
The special grand jury called to in.
vestigate the assassination of LAWYER
Hultz, at Sullivan, Ind, returned an
indictment, on the 5th, against ex-
Sheriff Lem H. Willis for murder in
the first degree, finding that the assas-
sination was premeditated and with
malice The date for the trial has not
been set.
EDWARD II. JONES was convicted at
Georgetown, o., on the 5th, of murder
in the first degree for killing his son.
Jones was previously convicted twice
at Batavia. A fourth trial, with an.
ether change of venue, will be sought,
on the ground of Prosecutor Griffith
addressing the jury while viewing the
scene of the murder at Olive Branch.
On the Isle of Wight the mercury,
on the 5th, registered Q degs, above zero
(Fahrenheit), which is the lowest
point reached there in 100 years.
THE hours of labor in the British
ordnance service are to be reduced to
forty-eight hours per week without
curtailment Of stipend. The ,change
will first be made in the Woolwich
dock-yard.
The newspapers of Berlin state that
the recent massacre of Catholics at
krosche, Russia, by Cossacks, was due
to the express order of Gen. Kakhanoff,
governor of Vitna. The papers declare
that sixty persons were killed and 100
injured by the Cossacks.
SECRETARY HEsTER's weekly New Or
leans cotton exchange statement, is
sued before the close of business on
the 5th, shows an excess in the move
mcnt of cotton into sight of 43,565, or
nearly 95 per cent over the seven days
ending January 5, 1898, and deficit of
62,s5S, or % per cent, under the same
seven days of 1892.
ONE of the Central Coal and Coke
Co.'S powder houses at shaft No. 3, Weir
City, kas., was blown up, on the 9TH,
and the powder man, James Turney,
was fatally burned. The house was a
frame building and had about twenty
kegs of powder in it.
The Latin & Rand powder mill at
Rifton, N. Y, blew up, on the morning
of the 9Th, and it was reported that
four men had been killed.
THE Central Relief association OF
Chicago has issued an appeal to the
wage-worlers of the city asking that
all contribute one days earnings or
income to the relief of the city's des-
titutc.
W. BOVINE MOORE, pension attor-
ney of Buffalo, n. Y, has been ar
rested on the charge of defrauding the
United States government through the
pension department Special cxami-
ners have investigated the case, and
the arrest was based on their report.
1t is said that the investigation has
brought out the most stupendous
frauds ever perpetrated on the pension
department, aggregating sl5O,OOO.
THE old ducal castle of l,ernburg,
Germany, which had recently been
used for the Offices of the district au-
thorities, was completely Quilted by
fire on the 9th. The district director
and a coachman were burned to death
in the building, and number of valu-
able documents and considerable sum
of money were destroyed.
J The Globe Iron Co.. of Cleveland, O.,
has decided to build freight steamer
and keep its workmen employed. 1t
] will be one of the largest on the lakes.
y Unless buyer is found the boat will
be put into commission by her build
ers as soon rs completed
8 Mrs. CoCKREIL, wife of Senator
ar Cockrell, of Missouri, died in Washing
v ton, on the 9th, after a short illness, of
hpneumonia.
I'M OK the 9th tine New York associated
banks held ss3, 70G.65O in excess of the
Of the 25-per-cent. rule.