Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events,
Personal AND GENERAL

9TH, run the gauntlet of the Chinese
tort on the Shan Tung promontorv and
captured Che Foo, treaty mort m tha
ieilow sea. Foo-Chow, another treaty
port 'oo miles south, is threatened.
INVESTIGATION by the police has 20
seaied the terrible fact that forty old
soldiers have been robbed and mur-
uered at the national military home at
Dayton, o., and only passing notice
taken OF the crimes. The grand army
mas taken the matter in hand.
GEORGE LAMORE, an acrobat fa,, =,
Instance OF forty feet during q per-
'ormance IN Chicago on the 9th. His
r'ght leg was broken in several places,
ana IL was thought it might be neces-
sary 10 amputate it to save his life.
MISS FRANCES e. WILLARD, worlds
presMent OF the W. c. T. u, who went
TO cincinnati to address the Ohio state
convention was reported seriously i'll
IN that city on the 10th. Lady Somer-
set was with her
lhE treasury department is prepar-
ing custom regulations to govern tba
entry OF exhibits for the Atlanta ga. J
exposition.
On the 10th the Hungarian house of
magnates passed the third reading of
the bill providing for civil MARRIAGES
PROF LEYDEN, of Berlin. was ag,ir
summoned by wire to attend thc czar
and started for Livadia, on the 10th. to
remain some time.
SIR JonN DUGDALE ASHLEY. baronet
the well-known sportsman, died in Lon.
don on the 10TH
AT 1890 o'clock on the mornino of
the 1lth, burglars blew omen tbe saf.
in the New Lexington 90 most of,ico
and secured $500 in money and st,mns
The explosion knocked ont thc whalo
front of the buildinp and awalenod
the entire populace. but the hurg,,rs
made their escano
A GpEAr temner.r,o ,o.;r
held in the Auditorium IN Cbioaao
the night of the 10th. to oive yoics "a
the opposition Of the bolv coo IN ,ho
saloon.
ONE man was killed and six mon n,rd
one woman were badly burn.d or IN.
iured bv iumpinp and dronn;no from
the windows of n four.starv tyoodop
tenement house which was burno1 in
Boston on the 11tb
In the United States circr;, oorr+ -,
| ~
son decided that the receivers NAV
not cut the salaries ~ tbe e,rl,ro. 81
the Omaha & st. Louis Wabash road
n. d. SMITH. an employe of the I'm.
reau of enpravinc and nrint;nr w,s
arrested in WASHINGTON. ON the nth
charged with stealing 10 ono tyvo.cent
stamps from the bureau.
The Minneapolis G. St Louis railroad
was sold in Minneapolis. Mimi. on tbe
1Ith. at sberitr's sale. and nnrchasea
| for the Stockholders committee for
81, ,OOO. 900 cash.
PRINCESS MARIE. wife of Prince Fer
dinand of BuLvaria. gave birth to n
daughter on the llth.
Two MEN were burned to death and
one probably fatally injured. on the
llth, by the burning of barn near
Fort Recovery. o.. which was fred by
sparl, from thrcshing machine
engine.
FoR the first time the naval con-
structors have undertaken to build
small torpedo boats to he carried on
the decks of the battleships Maine and
Texas. Two of these boats are being
built at the New York navy ward and
two at the Norfolk navy ward. These
little craft are marvels of lightness and
efficiency.
THE ameer of Afyhanistan was re-
ported. on the nth. TO be very ill.,.
Four earthquake shocks were felt at
Athens. Greece. on the night of the
nth.
JULIUS LlcurrNBNRe, "a member of the
board of education of Detroit, Mich,
charged with accepting bribe, made
an unsuccessful attempt at suicide on
tho 1ltb.
ir was reported in Shanghai. on the
nth. that the two Jamnesc spies ar
rested in that city had heen taken from
the Yamcn at Nanking. wearing only
trousers. bound hand and foot and car
ried to the place of execution, where
they were behladed.
BOYS digging along the banks of a
creek near Colburn. Ina, ON the llth
unearthed a portion of the remains of
n mastodon. A iawbone six feet long.
with mart of a hin bone. in fair state
| of nrescrvat;on were uncovered. The
homes win be nlaced in the museum of
purdue university. and search made
for the romaider Of the skeleton.
THE international Typographical
union on the nth. elected the follow
ing officers Mt Huntsville, Kv.: Presi-
dent w r Prescott. Toronto, Ont. !;
first vicc-nresident. Theodore Perry.
Nashville: second yice.president. Frank
G. Rovle. 81. Paul. third yice.president
Charles Il. Lain. Chicapo; secretary
treasurer. A. G. Wines, ST. Louis.
FRANK G. DARLINGTON, superintend-
ent of the Indianapolis division of the
PENNSYLVANIA lines was arrested at In
dianapolis. ON the 18th. on the dual
charge of having discharged William
Carroll and Jacob Walters, switchmen,
for being members of the American
Railway union and of having prevent
ed them from securing employment on
other lines by blacklisting them.
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