Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-04-27
CURRENT TOPICS
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERA,

| VIII De the facts of south,r,
prosperity which it will bring TO tbc
attention OF the rest of the world Th(
south Is In blossom. II is beontifrl
ana gracious region which invites IN,
poor man TO comfortable home and
she rich man to limiuess opportunitie,
Tor The investment of capital.
AS result of the advapoa !, a,
price of oil between 400 and zoo row,
wells had been started in the Jpai,na
heid IN Blackfork, Wells, Adams law
ana Randolph counties, up to the 10Th
IHE Ontario legislature was pro.
rogued, on the 10th, with the usu,,
ceremonies The lieutenant governor
IN his closing address referred to tbo
eiectrlc railway act, and said it wonld
no doubt encourage the construction
Oh system of light railways and thus
FURNISH cheap transportation for the
growing demands of the agricultural
and internal commerce of the country
ARTHUR son of President L. C. Clark
Seelye, of Smith college, at Northamp.
ton, Mass, Harvard postgraduate
student, was found dead on The rocks
at the foot of a steep bluff on the south
end OF Mount Tom on the nth. Two
parties OF $50 men were out SEARCHING
for him. He had started out two davs
before to explore the mountain.
MISS MARY VANCE, aged n, who
during the war was an assistant nurse
to Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix, sister TO
Gen. Dix, was reported, on the 18th. to
be dying as a dependent at the home of
Mrs. Robert Williams her niece, in
Pittsburgh, Pa She was one of the
most noted nurses in the Union
service.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent of
the Frankfurter Ieitung telegraphed
on the 18th, that the French and Rus.
sian governments were about to con.
woke meeting Of the powers for the
purpose of revising the terms of peace
agreed upon by the Chinese and
Japanese representatives
AT the meeting of the stockholders
of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding
Co., held in Peoria, ILL.,, on the 18th, j..
u. Greenhut was deposed from the
presidency and expelled from the d-
rectory. He refused to resign, and
when deposed threatened to take the
matter into the courts.
The Cunard liners Campania and
Lucania have been added to the list of
subsidized steamers agreed to be held
at the disposal of the British ad-
miralty. In the event of war they
will be equipped with five-inch breech-
loading guns and Nordenfedt machine
guns.
LAKE shipments from Chicago to the
seaboard began on the 18th, two
steamers leaving for Buffalo with
grain.
DISPATCHES from places in Bagot,
Stanstead, Sbefford and other counties
east of Montreal, Can, state that
severe shock of earthquake was felt
about 1890 a. III. on the 18th. No
damage was reported.
NOTICES were posted in the mills in
New Bedford. Mass, on the 18th, of
restoration of the former schedule of
wages, following the action of the
Fall River manufacturers.
THE bill recognizing the board of
public education in the city of New
York, known as the Compromise
BILL" passed the assembly at Albany,
on the 18th, by vote of n to 81.
The sailors of the Spanish navy have
unanimously agreed to contribute a
days pay to the relief of the families
Of the men of the lost cruiser Reina
Regenta.
DR.. JOSEPH n. Dickson, of Pitts
.burgh, Pa, aged A. years, recognized
leader among the skilled surgeons of
the country, was stricken with paraly-
sis..on the 18th, and his physicians did
not think he would live through the
night.
THE statement that the British for
eign Office declined to accept the reply
Of Nicaragua to the British ultimatum
was made. on the 18th, upon official
Euthority.
The annual meeting of the CONNER
cial Travellers Home Association of
America, will be held at Buffalo, N.
Y. October Q.
The steamer Ciudad de Cadiz, with
EGG troops on board, arrived at Havana
from Spain on the 18th.
MAJ.-GEN. MCCooK, commanding the
department of the Colorado, with head
quarters at Denver. has been placed on
the retired list. His retirement creates
vacancy in the list of ma jor generals.
and in case it is filed by promotion OF
a brigadier general two vacancies Will
exist in that grade.
ANDREW JOHNSTON, colored, was car
ried under by an alligator and lost his
life at Green Cove Springs, Fla, on
the 18TH while endeavoring to recover
pentlemans hat which had blown
overheard.
AT noon on the 18th President Dlaz
Of Mexico, in the presence OF full CAB
met, diplomatic corps and large con-
course of military.and civil personages'
received Mathew W. Ransom, the new
American minister. The customary
speeches were exchanged.
A DISPATCH received from Toxic, on
the 18th, says that, in addition to the
places mentioned in previous DIS
patches, the Japanese are to retain
possession of Wei-Hai-Wei, as guar
antee of the payment OF the war IN
demnity.
Mr.. PRESTON, the director OF the
mint, has ordered the Ss55,oOo in goia
bullion and 100000 ounces OF silver
now at the United States mint at oar'
son, New, shipped to the mint at ean
Francisco. The inference is that the
Carson mint will soon be dismantled
and its machinery shipped TO denver
for use In the new coinage mint 10 w
esta blished there.
WALTER S. HAYS, a State league oase-
ball player, was stabbed and killed ~
Bloomburg, Pa, on the night OF tne
nth, by Casper Thomas, 70 years oia;
Hays threatened to murder the oia
man. whereupon the latter turned
upon his would-be slayer and killed
him instead. ..a -
JANE BROOKS, aged 10, convicted OF
murder in the first degree in New oIS