Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-23

r,"ah' arrested at Meridian, Miss. ON
eharge OF "extortion in office" came mn
IN IN the United States court ON the 18th
ne prisoner pleaded guilty to the
charge and received sentence of six
months in the Lauderdale county iaiI
ana line of 500 and costs.
SECRETARY HERBERr has finally de.
c'oed that he will recognize and con-
hfm the nominations of naval cadets
received by him from outgoing mem
oers OF congress under the special pro-
vision contained in the naval apnro-
prlation IN those cases, numbering six
'een' which were handed into the de-
partment before noon on March 4 last.
IIE Hygiene sanitarium at Kalama-
ZOO Mich, owned by stock company,
Oh which DR.. c. A. Fletcher is president
and chief owner, caught fire, on the
10Th, from defective flue, and was
completely destroyed. The fire depart
ment could got no water within a thou.
sand feet. The patients were all re-
moved. Loss, $1,000; insurance, about
$1,000.
A SPECIAL train Of 100 farmers and
all their belongings left Clyde, Kas.,
on the 10th, for Edmonton, British Co.
lumbia, where all will settle. The
emlgrants are French colonists, who
located in Kansas many years ago. A
small colony left last year and all now
follow Some are very wealthy.
The body of an unknown man was
found on Fourtecn-Mile creek, 70 miles
northwest of Tahlequah, !. r., recent
ly. Hogs were devouring it when dis.
covered. Parties from there think the
body is that of Peddler Haggerty, who
Is missing and is thought was mur-
dered for his money.
THOMAS DARRAs, son OF a wealthy
steamboat owner of st. Louis, died at
San Antonio, Tex, on the 18th, of con-
sumption. lie was a very eccentric
man throughout life and spent about
$1,000 n month over gaming tables.
JAMES LANCASTER, a brother of Stat
Senator II, ID. Lancaster, committed
suicide at his home in st. Louis, on
the night of the l4th, by taking dose
of Rough on Rats" He died in terri.
bic agony, after suffering fully eight
hours,
A CONTRACT was closed in Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 10th, between the New
Norl Cant ral c. II,lp,, p;uo, -, ;1,.,,.,
and the Buffalo Car Manufacturing
Co., which calls for the construction
of 1900 box cars Of the latest and most
improved pattern, fully equipped
throughout with air brakes, auto
matte couplers and Street trucks. The
contract price amounts to $500 600, and
the job will give employment to 1000
men for five months.
BY the falling Of wall during the
burning of the Wabash railway round.
house at Toledo, o., on the 18th, three
men were killed and a large number
of others were more or less seriously
injured. Six locomotives were ruined,
and the total loss was estimated at
from $500 to 100000; fully covered
by insurance.
UP to the 18th forty-three dead
bodies had been taken from the mine
owned by the late Archduke Albrecht
at Troppau. Arckduke Frederick or.
dernd that an annual pension of 100
llorlns be paid the widow of each vic
tim, the first payment to be made at
once.
The newspaper building on Ontario
street in Cleveland, O., occupied by
The World, the A. N Kellogg News
paper Co. and the United Press, was
completely destroyed by fire on the
18th. The total loss was about $780,
600.
THE whole Spanish cabinet resigned,
on the Eth, and Gen. Martinez de
Campos was appointed captain general
of Madrid.
THE Litchfeld (Minn.) flour mill was
destroyed by fire on the 17th; loss,
10000. During the contlagration
high wind carried burning embers to a
great distance, and no less than TWEEN.
ty-seven incipient fires were kindled
thereby in various portions of the city.
They were all, however, extinguishcd
without serious damage.
ARTHUR p, PETERSON, attorney-gen-
eral of Hawaii under the monarchy,
died in exile in San Francisco, on the
10th.
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held Sl7,59S, 775 in ex'
cess of the 25-per-cent. rule