Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-16
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Tor duck shooting in the North CARROLL
ma sounds.
Mrs. MouNsEIL BRApHuRsT. of New
Jersey, was presented to Queen Vic
toria at a drawingroom held by the
latter at buckingham palace on the
5th
The German reichstag, on the 9Th,
by vote OF l67 to 81, rejected the bill
to restrict Jewish emigration.
NEWS from Havana, on the 9th.
stated that the Guantanamo troops
had attacked and dispersed the insur-
gent band under Bcrez Brooks at Luzo.
Several OF the band were wounded. The
troops captured all their arms, ammu.
milton, etc. The provinces of Puerto
Principe, Matanzas, Pinar, Rio and
Havana were quiet.
SouTH-BoUND steamers arriving at
New Orleans, on the 5th, reported the
burning of the little steamer Laura
Banks in the Tennessee river with the
loss of several lives, the victims all be-
ing negroes, excepting a lad named
knight, the ls-year-old son of the cap
tain of the boat, who was in the boiler
room when the fire started and could
not escape.
THE city of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
suffered from $4,000,0OO connagra-
tion, on the 9th, and but for the as
sistance rendered by sailors landed
from American and British ships in
the harbor, the whole place would
doubtless have succumbed to the
flames.
Otis Il. JOHNSON, the Wisconsin lum-
herman and capitalist, died in Racine,
on the 9th, aged so years, leaving an
estate estimated AS high as SlO,Oo0,-
600. He was partner of the late Sen
ntor Stock bridge, of Michigan; Gen.
Russell A. Alger and ex-senator Saw.
yer, of Wisconsin. He owned millions
of dollars worth of property in the
California redwood country.
AN imperial edict has been issued
abolishing the knout in the inniction
of punishment in Russia Hitherto
the peasantry have been completely at
The mercy of the local judges. The is
suance of this edict is due to the fact
that statistics were submitted to the
czar, which showed that within the
last ten years 5000 persons convicted
Of petty thefts have died from the eff
fects of the knout.
On the 9th the French government
received information by cable from
Zanzibar that the French had seized
the island of Nossivey, lying south.
west Of Madagascar,
HERR ScHMlELE, the German gov
crnor of New Guinea, committed sui
eide at Batavia, Jamaica, on the 9Th
by shooting with a revolver. lie was
on his way to his home in Germany,
NoRvAL A. HAWKINS, eX-cashier OF
the Detroit (Mich.) branch Of the
Standard Oil Co., was found guilty by
n jury, on the 9th, OF having cmbez
Sled $2,7OO of the company's funds
The defendant admitted taking the
money, but claimed that he had in
vested $4,000 in the hope of increasing
his earning capacity and squaring his
accounts. 1t was claimed that he was
not a criminal, but a failing debtor.
ON the 7th Public Printer Benedict
dismissed 100 employees of the govern
ment printing office, the majority o
them being compositors. The remov
ais were caused by the adjournment
of congress, which made scarcity OF
work. Other dismissals will follow a>
the work of the bureau decreases.
GEORGE l.. SHouP was reelected
United States senator from Idaho, OF
the 7th, on the first ballot. He re
ceiycd the entire Mormon vote. There
was great rejoicing in Boise City alte'
the election, Senator Shoup being eX
cecdingly popular in Idaho.
THE steamer Rosedalc sank in th'
Wabash river, near New Haven, Ill.
on the sth. One deck hand was drowned
and {. 900 bushels of corn was lost
The seventeen passengers were res
cued.
AT South London, on the 7th, an un
employed plasterer named Taylor
having become respondent from loni
idleness, murdered his wife and iiv'
children and then killed himself.
AssEMBLYMAN BLAKEs bill abolish
ing capital punishment in New lorl
was lost on final passage, on the "h
by a vote of ayes 26, nays 6s.
A ROLLER at the b. L. Goodrich com
panys mill at Akron, o., exploded OF
the 7th, killing John Vance and Sc
yerely wounding John Somerville.
On the 7th the directors of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Co. declared quar-
tcrly dividend of 3 per cent.
TIE Cincinnati, Memphis and NeN
Orleans packet steamer Eongfellow, II
tow of the Hercules Carrell, struck
pier of the Chesapeake n Ohio railroa
bridge at Cincinnati, just after start
ing on her south-bound trip, on IN
sth, and went to pieces. Most OF he
messengers and crew were hurrle
aboard the Carrell and rescued bu
after the disaster twelve persons wer
found TO be drowned or missing
TuE boiler in Kenney's sawmlll, if
cntcd 6 miles east of Hillsdale, Men
exnloded, on the 18th, demolishipg IN
mill and instantly killing Al Kinney
the proprietor.
THE big cordage works OF "iilia'
Wall & Sons, on Bushwick aVehu'
Williamsburg, N. Y, have en'lrel
shut down, all the employees being ais
charged. The plant during the las
few years has been controlled ny VI
Cordage trust. 1t gave employment
nearly 1000 persons.
In the British house of commons o
the 18th, Mr.. Henry Gardner pres'ue'
Of the board of agriculture PROMISE
that the government would make ~ n
ouirv into the alleged packing oil an
cnscd meat in Chicago for export
At Louisville, KY, on the sth, IN
s,samer John X. Speed was blow
over the dam at the falls in the Vh'
riyer and considerably damaged Ia
: she not righted quickly she wo0'
have broken to pieces. ,o,,
po,Icr JUSTICE QuIGLEY, oil bfoo'
,cn was removed from Office on VI
Sth, by an order handed down .,,, oy u, y
, snec;al term of the supreme cour'
New York. ,.;, an tb
IT was reported from Paris on W VI