Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-02
newsstand NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

has issued fraud order against ,h,
Kansas Mutual Coupon Investme Co
OF Kansas City, Kas An order has ais,
been issued against the British-Aner
lean Loan syndicate. of Chicago, fo,
obtaining money through the mails b,
false and fraudulent practices.
The works Of the Crescent Linsee,
Oil Co. on Goose island, Chicago, wer,
destroyed by fire on the night of tn,
22d. Loss, $4,000; fully covered b,
Insurance, One of the falling walls O
the building crushed a small cottap,
occupied by Polish family. None o
the inmates were hurt.
The steamer City of st. Augustine
Capt. Gaskill, which regularly TRADED
between New York and Jacksonville
Fla, bringing lumber from the latter
port, was burned at sea, eighteen miles
OF Hatteras, on tho 22d. Nothing /.
known OF the fate OF the crew.
THE queen regent of Spain has con
ferred on President Diaz of Mexico the
grand cross of the Order of Military
Merit, in recognition of the speciaI
services rendered by him to Spain.
IHE husbands of dozen Of the most
prominent women in Bay Shore, l.. l.,
arrayed themselves in female toggerv,
on the night of the ed, and prepared
an oyster supper for their wives in the
Congregational church, for the
church's benefit, The cooking was
not OF the best, but the affair was a
financial success.
In revenge for supposed wrongful
dismissal from the force an ex-police.
man of Leipsic fred five shots at Herr
Brettschneider, the chief of police, on
the 23d, most of which struck him, but
his life was saved by large pocket.
book in the breast pocket of his coat
which protected his heart
The Queens hotel, frame structure
at Hamilton, Ont, was burned at mid.
night of the ed. Anthony Koch, the
proprietor, was smothered while at.
tempting to rescue his three children.
The children were subsequently saved
by the firemen,
TIE supreme court of Arkansas, on
the 23d, overrnled Chancellor Leather
man OF Hot Springs, in the case
against James j. Corbett, and de-
clared the prize-tight law of the state
valid in all its parts.
THE Spanish cabinet has decided to
send the torpedo boats Ariete, Hal
con and Azor to Cuba, and also to pur.
chase Immediately 1890 Munser rifles
for the use OF the Spanish troops in
Cuba.
A NOVEL international contest in the
shape of a revolver shooting match by
cable between the crack shots of En-
gland and America is being projected.
lGNACE Y. PADEREwsKI, the famous
pianist, arrived in New York, on the
23d, on the steamer Teutonic.
Two MORE members of Zip Wyatts
band of desperadoes have answered for
their many deeds of lawlcssness. Jim
Umbra and Mexican John, Mexicans
who have been engaged in cattle-steal-
ing and various lawless enterprises,
were lynched by enraged cattle men, on
the esd, in Oklahoma.
FROM Havana comes the news that
1t is the daily practice of the Spanish
jailers to take several prisoners from
the forts and prisons and shoot them,
Each morning the prisoners are placed
In line. Ten men are selected for
heath Perhaps it is the first ten, per-
maps the last ten men, or the middle
ten. The names of the condemned
men are not ascertained. They are
simply penned up and slaughtered as
animals.
AFTER bitter legal struggle lasting
three months, the testimony in the
trial of Theodore Durrant, for the
murder of Blanche Lamont, at San
Francisco, was concluded on the 23d,
and argument of the case begun.
A TERRIBLE explosion in the drying
room OF the Fiberloid works located
1t Newburyport, Mass, on the @3d,
caused the death of one man and fatal
injuries to another. Three others
were seriously hurt; loss, $50, 600.
On the Esd the cry of the auctioneer
was heard throughout "lronsides." the
home OF Mrs. Della S. Parnell, at Bor-
dentown, N. j., and the house, which
was the birthplace of the mother of
Charles Stewart Parnell, and which
has been her residence for many years,
is practically dismantled' Notwith-
standing the historic value of Mrs. Par
nell's effects, they went for Il mere
.ong.
FRANCIS HlNTo,S, the Milwaukee iron
king, committed suicide in his hotel,
in Paris, on the 23d. The dispatch an
nouncing the event did not give the
manner or cause.
In the presence of gathering that
filed the editice Rev. L. Dewitt Tai
mage was, on t.he night of the 23d' es-
tablished as co-pastor of the Presby-
terian church OF Washington, to which
he had recently been called.
THE high school building at Delta,
Ia, was burned, on the Esd, and nine
people were injured. The school build
ing was valued at $4,000. All OF the
injured will recover. :.
A WRECK occurred on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad near Newport Pa az
o:l5 a. m., ON the gath, in which two
persons were killed and several IN
iured. The wreck was caused by a
broken axle on an east-bound freight
train, which threw several cars IN
front of q mill train on the west-bound
track. -. A..
THE city Of Lubin, capital OF the
OF that name in Russian
Poland, was visited, on the cath, by a
hurricane, which resulted in great
loss of life and much damage to prop
erty. A large number OF worshipers
were killed and injured by the coi-
lapse of the iron, roof of the cathedral,
The members of the Perry loF.ia') J
school board are threatened With i'm
pris onment for refusing to admit ne.
GRO children to the. schools established
for white children.
THE French ira usport Canton ar
rived at Algiers from Maaagascar' on
the Gath, with a Large number OF In
valid soldiers on board. Slxty-iour
died on the voyage, fourteen OF them
.tter the Canton pas sed Port Said. j..
CAPT. JOHN H. GA' xnL and wiie anu
,eventeen men comprising the crew
of the steamer City ,of St. Augustine,
which was burned - sea, were ianoea