Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

MRS. EVA BLACKMAN, secretary OF
the Leavenworth (Kas) board of police
commissioners, has not only got her
husband an easy job on the police force
and banished all the bachelors from it,
but she has succeeded in driving all
variety shows out of town. What mere
man could have accomplished anything
like this?
|. The new antidote for laudanum
poisoning was successfully admins
tered in the Homeopathic hospital at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, to man
who had swallowed five ounces of the
deadly drug with suicidal intent, and
upon whom all the ordinary means of
rcsuscitation had been used without
avail.
A NUMBER of participants in the late
revolt at Costa Rico have taken steam
er from Port Limon for New Orleans.
Twenty-three of the prisoners taken
were shot.
RICHARD PuRYEAR, who murdered
Christian Ehlers, near Tannersville,
Pa, escaped from Jail at Stroudsburg
on the 18th. He was pursued by citi-
zens, captured and hanged to a tree.
THE weekly statement of the Bank
of France, issued on the 18th, showed
an increase of 1850, 900 francs gold and
a decrease of 900, 900 francs silver.
The conflict of authority between
Gov. Waite of Colorado, and the board
of fire and police of Denver, supported
by the sheriff of Arapahoe county, cul-
minated, on the 18th, in the governor
calling out several companies of mi
litia to take forcibe possession of
the city hall, in which the sheriff
with over 100 special deputies
and the city police were intrenched.
Both sides were oDdurate, and blood
shed would have followed had not Gen.
McCook, with United States troops
from Fort Logan, appeared on the
scene as peacemaker.
On the 18th United States Ambassa-
dor Bayard had an interview of nearly
an hours duration with the earl of
Kimberly, British secretary of state
for foreign affairs. 1t is understood
the interview had reference to the re-
cent interference on the part of Capt
A. G. Cuzon-Howe of the British war
ship Cleopatra in the matter of the
seizure of the Mosquito reservation in
Central America by the Nicaraguans,
For the first time in the history OF
the United States u Japanese has ap-
piled for naturalization papers in Bos-
ton. His name is Shebato Saito, aged
90. He is graduate of the State school
of South Carolina and the Washington
academy in Maine, and also attended
the Georgetown university at Wash
ington. He married an American
woman. The case will be decided on
the I'D.
A MITE of baby is thriving in an
incubator in New York, and though
she weighed scant two pounds when
she was born on February -. on the
18th she tipped the beam at five and
one-half pounds and was as fat as a
butter roll. So she promises to be a
credit to her mechanical foster moth.
er, the incubator. She is the daughter
of E. Clarence and Florence II. G.
Haight.
ELEVEN survivors of the company OF
800 which left Pittsburgh; Pa, for Cali
fornia during the gold excitement OF
1S49 met in that city, on the night OF
the 18th, to celebrate the forty fifth
anniversary of their departure. After
briet business meeting and the re-
election of the old officers "rhe 49erj'
sat down to an elaborate banquet.
FALSE teeth sold at one cent per set,
gold watches at $3.50 each, and seal
sacques at 4216 cents apiece, at the sale
of unidentified property held by the
lost and found department Of the
Worlds fair in Chicago on the 18th.
Other lost goods were sold at equally
low prices, and not over $500 was real
lied by the Exposition managers.
AFTER the shore batteries at Rio had
fred upon the insurgent ships for
thirty minutes, on the 18th, the latter
surrendered Internationally, Admiral
Da Cana having previously gone
aboard the Frenchman-of-war.
CLUNa MING SEE, treasurer of the
company of Chinese merchants which
owned and operated the Chinese thea
ter and village on the Worlds fail
grounds, is locked up in Chicago
charged with embezzling nearly $4,000
of the company's funds. He was arrest
ed by Chinese detective, Lem Dong
who brought the alleged embezzle,
back from China.
THE Floyd brothers, on trial at Min
neapolis, Mimi, were each sentenced
on the 18th. to five years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for completely In
the Minneapolis bank embezzlement.
ERASMUS w. PAYNE, who claimed Il
be the oldest odd fellow in the state
Of Michigan. dropped dead at his home
in Adairn on. the 10th. lie was q