Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-16

AFTER repeated failures martial,
5uecessiui 5I' attempt was made by incen.
uiaries, ~ on the Sth, to burn the Sheed
nome Tor Friendless Children at Clcve.
ANU w. The entire second floor n
'he building, a large frame structure
was burned out. There were TWENTY
seven children in the home az the
time and many of them had narrow 40.
capes from incineration.
Tom MCCARTHY, who was concorred
IN The attack upon the Dawson fam.
n.y. near Omaha, Neb.. and for which
investigation :, was requested by the
pritlsh government, was sentenced.
On the 7th, to fifteen years ilnprison.
ment
lilE discovery has been made that
'ne courthouse at Brazil, Ind, a three
N'ory orlck structure, was rendered un.
SAFE by the recent earthquake.
InE British admiralty have decided
10 increase the strength of tie Medi.
terranean squadron by the addition to
the ileet of six ships
TIE political police of Berlin made
seizure, on the sth, of the entire edi.
e'on OF the newspaper Der Socialist be.
,ore The paper was issued to the pub.
ne upon the supposition that the pub
lication contained seditious article.
IHE British government has deputed
Mr.. Gerald Balfour, chief secretary for
ireland, to use his influence with the
belfast and Clyde ship builders to in
uuce them to arrange terms with their
ulssatlsiled employees, the Belfast strik.
ers and the loclted-out Clyde engineers
and other worllmen.
IHE management of the Birming.
ham (Ala,) Rolling Mills Co. and the
Alabama Rolling Co. have closed down
their mills, in conformity with an
agreement entered into with the Bar
Iron association. The mills will re-
main closed until trade conditions be-
come more settled.
Rev. CYRUS Il. BRADY, rector of St.
Paul's church, Manhattan, Kas., and
archdeacon of Kansas, has been named
by Bishop Whitaker to be archdeaeon
for the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Pennsylvania.
CONSUL RAWYEsE writes the depart
ment OF state from Warsaw, Poland,
that the second hygienic exposition of
Poland will be held at Warsaw from
May 15 to July Is, 1896.
On the 9TH the associated banks of
New York city held Sl9,26O,o50 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
The president has appointed Arthur
H. Delaney, Of Alaska, United States
Judge for the district of Alaska.
THE boiler of locomotive attached
to south-bound freight train on the
Lehigh e. Hudson River railroad ex-
ploded at Lake station, near Warwick,
n, Y. Engineer Cooper, Conductor
ONeill and the head brakeman, name
unknown, were instantly killed. Their
bodies were badly mangled.
THE young women of the Cambridge
(Nlass.) high school have decided to
organize football eleven. They will
get in condition to play practice
game on Thanksgiving day. That will
be the first onrn-air practice game-a
sort os dress rehearsal to prepare the
team to meet strangers eyes. on no
occasion will the general public view
the games.
FRANCES L. WILLARD is a convert to
the social settlement idea, and is now
pcrfecting plans to make it a feature
in the reform work of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union. This
step has already been taken in En-
gland under the leadership of Lady
Henry Somerset.
BECAUSE of the serious illness of his
wife at her home in this country, Rear.
Admiral c. c. Carpenter has, at his
own request, been detached from the
command of the Asiatic station and
Commodore L. V. McNair has been or
dered to that duty.
ST. MARY's Catholic church at Flem-
ington, N. j., was broken into by
burglars on the night of the 9th, who
made way with the contribution box.
The box had been left unopened for
rine years, and was supposed to be
well filed with money.
The property and plant OF the Illus
trated American Magazine, at First
avenue and East Twenty.thrd street,
New York city, was almost destroyed
by fire on the afternoon of the 10th;
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