Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-02-23

oie military school for boys in Denver
Col',waS arrested, on the I4th forcruol'
y beating two pupils Spauldnp is
'ne son OF Bishop Spaulding, under
whose immediate control the Jarris
hall is. 0 ''' ID
oN the l4th the president signed the
o'li Tor new S4,OOo,oOO post Office
building at Chicago.
PRIVATE PATRICK V. FAGAN, of Troo,,
A. Sixth cavalry, Fort Leavenworth
met with instant death in Leayen.
WORTH kas., on the 14th, by falling
down the Home coal shaft, a distance
OF 40 feet. The man had been drink,
ing' and it is not known whether his
death is due to accident or suicide.
SINCE making his declaration of alb.
solntism, the car has received almos,
daily nihilist proclamations and threat.
enlng letters. 1t is rumored that nal.
ace Official has been arrested for nlac.
ing IN his majesty's study printed pic.
lures OF the assassination OF Alexan.
der II.
THREE men met death recently ON n
strip OF land added to Burt comfy,
Neb, by accretions from the Missouri
river, and the murderers cannot bo
punished, since neither Nebraska nc.
Iowa claim jurisdiction over the terri
tory.
A WRECK occurred on the Santa Fe
railroad, miles south of Guthrie.
OKLA few minutes before midnight
OF the l7th, oceasioned by a head.on
collision on curve in cut caused bv
the engineer of IA cattle train dsobey-
ing his orders and running on the
time of the Galveston express, loaded
with Texas eXcursionistS. The engi-
ncer of the cattle train was killed and
several train men of both crews were
injured, some of them fatally. None
OF the passengers were seriously in
jured,
The statement Of the associated banks
of New York city for the week ended
the 10th showed thefollowing changes:
Reserve, decrease, S259 500: loans, de.
crease, Si,2Oi, 600; specie, decrease.
s6ll 200; legal tender notes, decrease,
WI 500; deposits, decrease, 81, 520, 900;
circulation, decrease, Sl3G, 400.
EDWARD IlARmGAN, JR., the 17-year-
old son of the comedian of that name,
died, on the l7th, at his fathers resi-
dence in New York, of peritonitis. Up
toa few days before young Harrigan
had been appearing nightly as Gran
vile Bright with his father in
''The Major"
On the nth Charles Fair, of San
Francisco, received an anonymous let
ter Offering to restore his fathers will,
which was stolen some weeks ago, for
$4,000.
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held S33, ,5l3, 425 in ex-
cess of the 95-pcr-ccnt. rule.
The customs tariff committee e of the
German reichstag has approved the
proposal to increase the duty on cot
tonseed oil from four to ten marks.
A SUIT which promises sensational
developments has been begun in the
United States district court at Duluth,
Mimi, resulting from the Indictment,
at Grand Rapids, of George Lydick
The suit is the first of series involv-
ing the theft OF !. 300, 900 feet of timber,
supposed to have been stolen from the
government and reservation land in
the last two years.
TnE carelessncss Of the public is eX-
hibited in the fact that the number of
pieces of original matter received last
year at the dead letter office exceeded
1000, 600 This was substantial de-
crease in the figures of the preceding
year, but the showing is very discrcdit-
able to an enlightened country like
the United States.
SERVICES at Phoenix chapel, Indian
apolis, on the night of the 18th, had u
sudden and sensational termination.
While the preacher was in the act of
delivering his sermon Samuel Brooks
arose, threw up his hands and fell to
the floor corpse. Death is supposed
to have been caused by heart disease,
A NECESSARY record of the post office
department is that OF casualties to
clerks in cars Last year the number
of accidents was 362. The number of
clerks killed was four: seriously in
iured, iS, and 90 slightly injured,
These figures show an improvement
over the preceding year.