Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-08-31
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

small town near West Bend, Wis, was
wiped out by fire. on the goth. The
total loss is S95, ,0OO insurance, 81, 600;
Many residences were burned and
eight business places destroyed.
The preliminary trial OF John
Walker, J. NJ. Rodan, NJ. d., W. b.
Padgett and Thomas Phillips, white
men, charged with lynching the negro
preacher Robert Bennett, on July A.,
took place at Lake City, Fla, on the
Goth. There was little evidence intro
duced against the accused, and they
were discharged.
The temperature on Mount Wash
ington, n. IT,, went down to % de.
grees early on the afternoon of the
9lst. Snow was falling and the noun
tain submits were whise, suggestive
of midwinter,
Louis EEzrLs promising 4-year.old
sprinter Rap-a-Tap, dropped dead on
the track at Saratoga, n. Y, on the
2lst. Heart disease is believed to have
been the cause.
Miss MARY MANNING, youngest child
OF the late ex.Secretary of the Treas
ury Manning, was married in Albany,
n. y, on the 2lst, to Mr.. Julins Cor
ncliuS Won der Oudermeulon, OF The
Hague, Holland.
Ar the session OF the supreme coun-
ell Of the American Legion. held in
Detroit, Mich, on the 9lst, the ritual
committee reported that no drafts of
rituals had been submitted and recon-
mended, and that it was inexpedient
at the present time to make any
changes in secret work.
The big fly wheel in the lO-inch mill
at the Oliver iron and steel works in
Pittsburgh, Pa, burst with terrific
force on the 9ad. The mill was in full
operation dt.tho time, but the EN-
ploycs Hmiraculously escaped serious
injury Pieces of the wheel were
hurled in all directions, wrccISng the
rolls and engines and damaging the
whole mill,
On the 2lst the president issued an
order extending the civil,service rules
to include all printers and pressmen in
the executive departments.
THE town of Coin, in the province of
Malaga, Spain, was shaken by an
earthquake, on the 29d, which lasted
twenty-five seconds, The damage
done to buildings is very serious.
SINCE the outbreak of cholera in
Japan there have been -, 900 cases and
$1,000 deaths.
IN an Indian camp 40 miles from
Maniwaki village, on the bordcrland
of the great northern forests of the
Upper Gati ieau, an Indian named
Francois beat his lG-year-old daughter
to death. The provincial authorities
have the case in hand.
The expenditures of the government
for the first two-thirds of August eN-
ceeded the receipts by S7.009,293. but
only 81, go, 900 remains to be paid on
account of pensions, and the treasury
officials estimate that the deficit will
be reduced during the last third
to about s., 600, 900. The excess of ex-
penditures over receipts last month
was Las, 1866
Ar o'clock ON the morning OF the
2lst the Grand Rockland hotel at Con-
gers, n. Y, was destroyed by fire, with
all its contents. The building cost
S65, 900 and the furniture $4,000.
In response to representations made
by Mr. 4. T. OConnor in the British
house of commons, on the 22d, Sir
Matthew White Ridley, home sccre-
tarv, said he would consider it his duty
to inquire into the case OF Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick, serving life sentence
for the poisoning of her husband
PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, the
negro orator Of Alabama, has been in
yited to deliver an address at the OPEN
ing of the Cotton States exposition in
Atlanta, Ga, September IS. Washing
ton is president Of normal and m
dustrial school for blacks at Tuskegee,
Ala. He is one OF the ablest negroes
in this country.
On the ed the steamer Terre Bonne,
from Kingston for Montreal, Can, with
several communicates of Knights Tenn
plar on board, struck reef at the foot
of Cascade rapids and sank shortly
after in tho entrance to Lachine canal.
So far as reported no lives were lost
The Suffolk county (Mass.) superior
court decided, on the 92d, tn alta China
man has as much right to smoke opium
in his own house or apartments as an
American has to smoke cigars or pipe
in his residence.
."NIsn" DuGAN, proprietor OF the
American house. in Pittsburgh, Pa,
was assaulted by gang of toughs and
robbed of $3.50 in cash on an Allegheny
Valley railroad train on the night OF
the 22d -Four of the robbers were
captured, but the fifth made his es'
cape, carrying off the plunder.
AMONG the passengers returning frcm
Alaska by the steamer Queen, which
touched at Vancouver, B. c., on the
29d, was Vice-President Stevenson, ac-
companied by his two brothers, Messrs.
W. W. and j. c. Stevenson, and his
wife and two daughters.
MRS. LoRA PERKINS was arrested in
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the a3d, on
charge Of having killed her sister, Mrs
Lola Hawkins, by setting her on fire,
on the 9th, for the sake of 5000 life
insurance.
The schooner Wanderer, which pu,
IN Mt Sand Beach, Mich, on the 22d
reported the loss OF her captain, Alex
ander Spence, and seaman namet
James Body, during severe gale.
THE First national bank Of Frank
lin. O., closed its doors on the o8d.
A MEMORIAL was sent to Gov. Morton
of New York, on the Esd, by the Cen
tral w. c. I. u, Of Kansas City, Mo.
asking that he pardon Marie Barberi
the Italian now in Sing Sing prisol
awaiting electrocution for having mur
dered her false lover.
ATTORNEY. GENERAL HARMON, ON th
y3d. instructed United States District
Attorney Clarke Of Wyoming to SUI
out writs OF habeas corpus for th
Hammock and Shoshone Indians, VIII
are under arrest and Evanston, Wyo.
for violation OF the state game laws