Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| ana several ribs were broken. and he
| received internal injuries which are
likely to cause his death.
ORDERS have been issped ~ t,0
cruiser Montgomery directing that YES.
sci TO reach Mobile, Ala, ON November
w. she Will afterwards cruise in the
waters OF the gulf for the purpose ot
making tests with coal mined in the
southern states.
a DISPATCH from Tien-Tsin saws that
,he ohlnese officials report that a bat
We occurred near Yi-Chow, on the ODD
ana That the Japanese were renulsed
with loss Of 5000 men on each side
ON the I'D Chief Harris of the Cbero.
kee nation offered a reward of $500 for
the arrest of Bill Cook and his safe de-.
livery to Cherokee authorities.
IAE Big -Four railway shops at Wa.
bash, Ind, caught fire Just after mid
night on the 93d, and were completely
destroyed. The loss is over Sl0o, 900.
NEWS was received in London, on the
24th, OF the destruction of the schooner
Helen Supposed to be Danish vesseD
IN the North sea, by the explosion of
her cargo Of gunpowder. The entire
crew OF the schooner perished.
GEORGE SANDERsoN, of Limestone
township, Lycoming county, Pa, re-
Gently struck vein Of cement 100 feet
tnlck on his land. New York assayers
say 1T is the best in the world. A com.
pany OF eastern capitalists have been
organized and plant will be built to
turn out 1000 barrels Il day.
IIE big asbestos plant of the Philip
Carey Manufacturing Co. in Cincinnati
was completely destroyed by fire on
the aith. Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
about S33,oO0. Seventy-fve employees
were thrown out of work.
A SENSATION was created in Cincin-
natl, on the 24th, by the arrest of W.
W. and B. w. Bozeman, the largest
cigar makers in that city, for violation
CT the revenue laws They were held
under $1,000 bond each.
THE finance committee of the Span
ish cortes has decided to establish
gold standard of currency for Porto
Rico. The Mexican dollar will here
after be used only as a basis of weight
for the value of silver.
a DISPATCH from Livadia, on the
2ath, confirmed the report that Princess
AllX stcadfastly refused to anathema-
tize her former faith in obedience to
the rites of the orthodox Greek church,
which requires such remuneration as {,
prerequisite to baptism. Even the cf-
forts of the czar had not been success
full in changing her determination.
The Hotel de Normandie, at GA st. |
Gabriel street, Montreal, Can, was
gutted by fire early on the morning of
the 25th. The guests had to be rescued |
by tiremen by way of ladders. Twenty |
people were taken ont in a half-uncon-
scious condition.
JACOB ScHLoss, New York photog-
rapher, has begun suit in the United |
States circuit court against the w. d.
Royce Co., publishers OF the Chicago
Blade, for $a775,oo0 damages. The
Blade, in recent issue, published a
portrait on which Schloss has a copy
right, and the suit is for infringe
ment.
On the 25th Mr.. Justice Jackson, of
the United States supreme court, ac-
companied by his family, left Washing
ton for Thomasville, Ca, where he will
M hn py,lI IND In,, al |
health has been in IA serious condition
for some time.
FIVE of a band organized to kidnap
President Crespo of Venezuela were
killed in q riot at Maracaibo, and
seven were captured. The latter di'
vulgeda plan to proclaim Il provisional
government, with Gen. Pinango at its
head.
W. 5. SoMERs, of Charleston, w. Va,
n government inspector, dropped dead
at the works OF the Variety Iron Co.
in Cleveland, O., on the 23d, of heart
disease.
VICTOR OcuoA, the Mexican revolu-
zionist, was captured at Toyah sta
ton, on the Texas & Pacific road, on
the night of the 93d, by Deputy Sheriff
Leavel and State Ranger Smith.
THE new treatment by incubation
for diphtheria and Group, as practiced
in France, is the subject of a special re-
port to the state department by United
States Consul c. W. Chancellor at
llavre. He says that by this method of
treatment only one out of four diph-
thereto patients succumbs.
For several months the statistician
Of the United States department of ag-
riculture has been conducting an in
vestigation regarding the acreage and
product of cotton for the year 1893
His estimates are as follows; Acres
planted in 1893, l9,525,000 number OF
bales harvested. 100000. .ft ttt
PRAIRIE fires, which started in
Thomas county, Neb., on the esd, were
swept by a fierce gale into Cherry,
Grant, Hooker and Sheridan coun-
lies. Up to the 25th four lives were
known to have been lost, and thou
sands of cattle, driven from the south
,rn part of the state for better grazing,
we're caught by the on-sweeping flames
and destroyed. i.t
The Venezuelan cabinet, feeling that
t is impossible to sustain President
1respo, will yesign.
A BOND INVESTMENT COMPANY, dong
business at Toledo, o., has been de-
barred the use of the mails on the
ground that the company is conducted
IN the same basis as lottery.
DIR. II. r. HELMBoLD, of extract OF
ouchu fame, died suddenly of apoplexy
n the New Jersey asylum for the in
,ane, in Trenton, on the cath. He was =
u years OF age and had been an inmate a
# the institution about three years.
DR.. Helmbold became insane, sup
,osedly, through excesses, about fifteen !
years ago.
A STATEMENT prepared at the treas 4
Try department shows that during the .
period between March 1893, and Octo- .
,er |, 1894. the amount OF gold trans
ported between subtreasuries, hints
md banks at government expense, in
consequence OF expectations OF gold' :
vas sl47, ,so7, 800. The cost of trans
sorting this amount was sos, ,4S0. '
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