Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-10-12

ior the now st. Mary's cathedral in
/ Lofain' o., ON the 9th, vas accom-
panied by an awful disaster, caused bv
me collapse OF Il platform upon which
|"oo PefSo"s were standing, 500 of
whom were precipitated into the base.
lhent. One person was killed and fftv
more or less severely injured.
lhE weekly statement OF the asso.
GATED banks of New York city for the
week ended on the 18th, showed the
following changes: Reserve, decrease
eo's24, 1850; loans, decrease, sl,754 900.
specie, decrease, s739, 600; legal tenders,
decrease, s7,3l4,S 800; deposits, decrease.
s9'O"T, 900; circulation, increase, s15l.
600
H. j. McCoYs, secretary Of the San
Francisco Y. NJ. c. A., who was fined
$3.50 by Judge Murphy, for making
the remark to one Of the Durrant
jurors; "lf you don't hang him we
Will hang yon," has been given by the
court until November in which to
pay the fine.
The LAWYERS claim to have diseov-
cred a fla" In the anti-prize- e-fght bill
enacted by the Texas legislature
on the 3D. and say that it is uncon-
sututional. However, they will not
try to have the Corbett. Fitzsim,nons
tg ht in that state
A RECENT consignment Of sheep from
this country to England were found to
be suffering from scab, IA fact that may
result in the exclusion of American
sheep from England,
GREAT BRITAIN, France and Italv
have decided upon plan Of com bined
action with view of obtaining salts
faction of their respective claims n
Brazil
HARRY HUKILL, manager OF Chi
cago shoe company, is said to be one OF
four heirs to an English estate valued
at Sl0O, 900, 600
On the 5th the banks of New York
city held Sl6,47l,57 in excess Of the
requirements of the 25-per-cent rule.
LORD SALISBURY has sold the chalet
Cecil, his property at Dieppe, France,
to the due d'Aumale.
THE first OF the new battle-ships will
shortly go into commission. The In
diana is ready for it's trial trip, which
is slated to take place October Is. A
32-mile course off the Massachusetts,
coast between Cape Ann and Cape Por.
poise has been selected. To meet the
requirements the Indiana must main.
tain speed Of Is knots for four hours
CHIEF HARRIS Of the Cherokee ma
tion is in Washington to urge the Sec
retary of the interior to get ready to
rush the intruders out of the Cherokee
country soon after January next.
Within a month he says that ali in.
truders will be paid for their improve
ments according to the appraisement
made by the commission appointed to
do the work.
IT will interest the non commissioned
officers of the army to learn that sew
eral of the members of the new
congress have expressed themselves
in favor OF the proposed effort to
secure to them an increase OF
monthly pay. The proposition Is to
make the pay Of first sergeants S45,
sergeants S35and corporals S25, which,
it is contended, will he more commen-
surutc with the duties they have 30
perform.
JUDGE GIBSON CLARK, United States
attorney for Wyoming, has received
formal instructions from the attorney.
general to apply for IA writ of habeas
corpus for the release of the two Ban
mock Indians arrested at Evanston for
violation of the state game laws, thus
making test case.
FARMERS in Eaton county, Mich,
will not make any cider this year, un.
less they take their apples outside of
the county. Prosecuting Attorney
Maynard has looked up the local op.
tion law OF the county, and finds that
1t precludes the manufacture of cider.
AFTER a chase extending over thou.
sands Of miles Detective John r.
Saville, of the Pnlserton agency in
Philadelphia, on the 9th caught John
Don Farden, alias J. I. Franklin, the
cashier who robbed the Adams Express
Co in Terre llaute, Ind, Of $4,000, at
Baltimore, Md.
On the evening Of the 9th, by a col
lision between an engine and crowd.
ed passenger train near Wavre, Bel
gium, ten persons were killed and forty
injured, several Of them seriously.