Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-11-17
NE VS. AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Evuts.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

. va, prohe out NJ o'clock on the morn.
ing OF the 26th, on the steamship
Whiteheld, lying besides the Dale.
garth, burned the previous nieht.
The flames were quickly subdued.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has instructed
the collector of customs at Port Town
send, Wash, that certificates of rcris-
tration issued to Chinese should he
taken up by the collector when uch
Chinese leave this country. This is
necessary to prevent the certificates
from being turned over to Chinese un-
lawfully entering the United States.
A DISPATCH from Tamatave, Moda-
gascar, dated November ,, SAYS that
the Hova government has refused TO
grant the demands of the government
OF France. NJ. Lempre de Villers, the
special French envoy to Madagascar,
and all the French residents of An.
tenanarivo, nave arrived at Tamatave
from the capital of Madagascar.
For years the granting of special
passports to persons going abroad has
been abused TO such an extent. and SO
many people have procured them, that
the state department has issued per-
emptory orders to refuse them here
after, except upon the special order of
the secretary.
NEAR Curtiss, in the Cherokee strip,
the bodies of James McGuin and Fred
Ward were found, on the 9Th, one shot,
the other stabbed to death. 1t is be-
lieved they were murdered by parties
who wanted to secure their claims. 0.
7. Jewell, farmer, has been arrested
charged with the murder and warrants
issued for several other men.
HERMAN ScHunBAcKER, of Hobart,
Ind, while hunting, on the 9th shot
himself His dogs were fighting, and
he struck at them with his loaded gun.
Both barrels were discharged into his
abdomen and he died in few minutes.
The tug Crusader was destroyed by
fire at her dock at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, early on the morning of the
9th. Firemen Henry Billings, of that
city, and Charles Williams, of Port
Huron, who were sleeping on the tug,
were burned to death.
ANOTHER smallpox case was reported
on the 9th. The victim is a schoolbov,
Herbert Burger, son of war depart
mcnt clerk. Two Of the patients at
the smallpox hospital died on the 9th,
They were James Brown and Samuel
Mundel both colored domestics.
NEWS comes of the lynching, near
Blackboard Crittenden county, Ky, by
whitecaps, of Gabc Nolla and his son
Ulysses. They were charged with burn
ing houses, together with Berry Rich,
who was lynched recently, and also for
other crimes.
JOHN f. O'MALLEY, an Illinois state
senator from Chicago, who was de-
feated for reelection, was drinking
with two companions in Il North Clark
street saloon, on the 7th, when the bar
teuler entered tneir private room 10
collect for drinks O'Malley took this
for an insult and fired a bullet through
the bartender's arm. Charles Shepard,
the driver of the cab in which the SEN
ator was taken home, was shot through
the knee and hand by OMalley be-
cause payment of fare was asked,
KATIE GILLESPIE, an ls-year-old sales
woman in the employ of Hilton,
Hughes e. Co., of New York, while
stepping from the elevator in the es-
tablishrnent, on the 7th, was caught
between the elevator and partition
and instantly killed. The accident
was caused by the poor girl, who was
in playful mood skylarlSing with the
elevator boy.
A DISASTROUS collision between a
passenger and freight train, result
ing in the loss of six lives, occurred,
on the 18th, at Rosen Steel siding, lOs
miles east of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
The 7-year-old daughter of Colhm-
bus Livingston, living at Logansport
H.. was accidentally burned to dealh,
on the 7th, while visiting relatives near
Dahlgren.
On the sth the ear and czarIi'a,
through the court minister, Count
Vorontsoff- Dachkof, thanked the Jew-
ish community of st. Petersburg for
their message of coincidence upon the
death of the czar, and for the loyal and
patriotic sentiments thereupon eX-
pressed by the Jews.
JOHN Il. RAmEAU, manager OF the Al
bemarle club Of Richmond, Va, shot
and mortally wounded Otto Frazer on
the sth. The tragedy was the result OF
a drunken quarrel originating over
game of dice between the parties the
previous night.
KID" THOMPSON and Col Hopper,
two of the Roscoe train robbers, were
captured at the foot of the Reno
mountains, on the 9th, and taken to
Phoenix. Ariz. The robbers fought
desperately, only surrendering on con-
dition of good treatment after over
fifty shots had been fired.
AT an early hour on the morning OF
the 18th, the residence of Charles I'LL
man. at Black Rock, Conn, was de-
stroyed by fire, and the occupants mar
rowly escaped with their lives; loss'
$4,000.
THE speed trial of the torpedo boat
Ericsson. built in Iowa, which was 10
have occurred at New London, Conn,
on the sth, was postponed to the hrst
fair day on account OF the prevalence
of fierce snow storm.
THE First ational bank OF oah
Bernardino, CAL, closed its doors Oh
the Sth,
TouR HUNDRED men employed al 'he
Canton copper works in baltimore
Md, were formally notified, on inc
9th, that on next payday their wages
will be increased 10 per cent. The pro-
prietors say the new schedule has oeeh
struck owing to the prospective ip
crease in the profits OF the concern
reduction was made in the wages OF
the employees in Novembr' lsas' il
mediately after the general election
GEORGE w. BoGGs, ex.city treasurer
of Tocoma, Wash, is under arres" res
charged with the cmbezzlement OF eao,
sOO.s7 public funds. He was reieaseu'
on the 9th, on $4,000 bail.
THE Spanish coast steamer fe,.
nando. foundered twenty miles por.n
of Bahia Honda, Cuba, on the 9Th len
Of her passengers and crew were
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