Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-08-17
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Their work within one month of date
and this one was less than two month,
behind. At the close of the fsca
year 4,927 applications were awaiting
action
The state department distinct,
approves United States Ministe
Terrill's demand upon the porte fo
he punishment of the three Kur5
who murdered son-g Lentz, the bi
cyclist, who was making a tour of tn,
world.
AT a meeting of the high court o.
Foresters at Brighton, England, or
the 18th, the American subsidiary ex
ecutive appealed for the courts sane
lion for a new ritual, affirming that
the future success of the order in
America depended on the question of q
ritual The sanction was granted.
The last dispatches from the Ban.
mock country show that there was nc
cause for the outcry raised by the
Wyoming settlers against the Indians.
The Bannocks have returned quietly
to their reservation, and have begun
the making of hay, leaving their griev
ances to the Justice of the white man.
Mr.. PRESTON, the director of the
mint, in explanation of the recent ship,
ment of SO, 600, 900 in gold bullion from
New York to Philadelphia, said that it
was the present purpose of the govern
ment to coin with reasonable rapidity
all of its 500, 900, 900 stock Of gold bul.
ion.
IT was reported in Washington, or
the 18th, that there is a probability OF
combination being formed by which
the Chinese empire will be dismem-
bered and parceled between Russia,
England and France, Germany mean
while being appeascd by concessions
in Africa.
THE report from London that Sir
Julian Pauncefotc, British ambassador
to Washington is about to succeed Sir
Edward Baldwin Malct as ambassador
TO Berlin is discredited at the state de
bartment at Washington 1t would be
an unusual promotion.
In company with her father Miss
Elizabeth Flagler appeared before
Judge Cole of the criminal court in
Washington city, on the 18th, and gave
bond for her appearance before the
grand jury in September to answer the
charge of killing young Ernest Green,
the colored boy whom she shot re-
Gently while stealing apples in her IA
thcr's yard.
The United States civil-service com
mission will hold another special ex-
animation, on the 9sth, to secure eli
yibles for positions as compositor,
pressman, bookbinder, stereotyper and
slcctrotyper in the government print
ing Office.
The president. according to Mr.
Ballou, vice president of the American
Humane association, has reversed the
decision of Assistant Secretary Hamlin
and has instructed the treasury de-
oartment to prohibit the importation
If matadors, bulls, iances, swords and
,ther bull-fghting paraphernalia INTO
he United States.
The war department received tele'
gram from Gen. Coppinger on the
7th, dated Jackson's Hole, stating that
he had sent out two more scouting
narties. One had returned, leaving
three in the field, each in command OF
an officer He reported "all quiet ana
no Indians"
THE announcement, on the 9TH, That
William II. Crossman Il Bro, OF Ne"
York, would ship Sl,Ooo,oOO on the
steamship Augusta Victoria attracted
attention in financial circles, as TINS
,um brought the total shipments oi
The firm up to s3,OOO,oOo within two
weeks.
THOMAS MoBERLy, of Richmond, ky''
was drowned at Virginia Beach, va
IN the 7th, while trying to save ms
LAUGHTER. who went beyond her depth
while bathing. The young lady was
saved by another gentleman
Clpr HENDERSON, of the British
ship Prince Oscar, who, with sixteen
of his crew, arrived at Philadelphia on
the sth, on the British steamer Capac'
from Chilian and Peruvian ports re-
ported that on July 10, in lat deg'
10 min. south, and long. es2o west NE
vessel was sunk by collision wlth an
unknown vessel, which also went 'e
the bottom with all on board. ok o'
the crew of the Prince Oscar perisheo'
FouR men, all OF them prominent
we're Jailed at Kansas City, NO. on
the sth, charged with robblng tne
Brookfield (Mo. post office of sl'ooo "
iso4. They are w. 5. Day. who was
assistant postmaster at the time OF 'ne
robbery; Harry Strobe, j. f. faVeiy
and August Zevery. ,,.,
THE returns issued by the Lonaon
hoard of trade for July show that tne
;,nnorts increased eS,e9O,ooo' anu eA,
norts increased 81, 100000, as compare0
with those of July last year.
Tur Monongahela blast furnace at
McKeesport, Pa, shut down. on the
NIGHT of the sth, by reason OF a s'rrhe rn.
Of twenty.four metal carriers -. te
men demanded an advance of twenss
cents cent and per cent. tonnage in wages yes
mar dsy. Five hundred men are ae la,e
at the plant Repairs on the g. on1l iurnsOe ~ :
.r.r. started, on the 9th, and work can
NOT ms be resumed for several days
TUE Pan Iron Mining Co.. operating
East Vulcan, West Vulcan ana ~ su,..' o.h
mines nine at Norway, Mich. on the y s'n, ~
announced an increase OF wages y. ,,.d;' r.
= ss uer cent to take effect immeai, la:sas
ately. The Argon Co aiso ~
W. S'"r British steamer Argonant' ~ oap.. i'
Mc,iillivray, from Halifax July y, = ,or /,
pu p,.rt Morant, Jamaica, founderea le near u
port I u Morant on the sth' All on 0oa''
VI, T'ur stores Of the memocrs . .~.s sss
= mr. "a ss,.-s ,l,~s.la ass0cie ton were