Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-04-20
NEWS AND NOTES,
Il Summary of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERA.

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n1gned bill Incorporating a board 70
DC called Trustees of Scenic and His.
torlc Places and Objects" with ,ptbor-
IVY TO aequlrc and hold real and ner.
sonal estate not exceeding 81 ooo oon ;r
value. The board includes some of tbo
oest-known citizens of the state and
1t is probable that their intellioent
work will lead to the creation of Sim.
alar bodies in other states.
BY the collapse of two five.storv
buildings in Wheeling, W. Va, on thc
9TH, six persons were killed and five
wounded, some Of them very seriouslv
and property, consisting of the build,
lngs ana their contents, to the amount
OF S2oo, o,ooO was destroyed. Fire in the
DEBRIS added TO the horror of the
wreck and retarded the work of rcscue
Inc accident was caused by faulty
construction.
IiIE international Navigation Co. s
steamship st. Paul was successfully
launched at Philadelphia, on the 10th,
Miss Frances c. Grscom, daughter of
the president of the company, did the
christening, A large crowd witnessed
the ceremony.
The London Times published on
the 10th, dispatch from its CORE.
Spondent at Shanghai, saying that n
Japanese man-of-war had seized the
British steamer Yik-Sang, outside
faltu, having on board 200, 600 cart
ridges, shipped to Shanghai by re.
spectacle German firm as "bamboo and
steel"
Miss EDNA MAY SHARPE, 90 wears
old and as pretty as Il picture, who has
been living with her parents at Kan.
has City, Mo-, went across the state
line, on the 9th, with Charlie Wing, a
well-to-do Chinaman, and was married
to him in Justice Belts court in Kan
sas City, Kas.
UNITED STATES CoNsUL-GENERAL KA-
REL. at st. Petersburg reports to the
state department that the Russian rov-
rrnment is making strong efforts to
extend the cultivation of tea in the
empire.
JOHN ii. KNOWLES, a sailor who made
himself famous during the naval en-
gagement in Mobile bay between the
Hartford and Tennessee by lashinr
Admiral Farragut to the rigging of the
Hartford died at Annapolis, Md, on
the 9th. He had been in the navy
forty-iivc years.
The entire lower portion of the large
plant of the Susquchanna Iron Co. at
Columbia, Pa, was destroyed by fire
at an early hour on the 10th. Loss
100000; covered by insurance. The
mill employed $50 men
DURING practice firing at the Woo
Sung forts in China, on the 10th, u
magazine accidentally exploded kill
ing forty men and injuring many more,
THE steamer Dean Richmond, which
went down off Dunkirk, n. y, over n
year ago, with eighteen souls, driftcd
ashore on the night of the 9th,
The steamer Tartar Prince, with
Jabez Spencer Balfour aboard, sailed
from Buenos Ayrcs for London on the
10th.
A SPECIAL from Washington, on the
l1th. said the Cuban rcvolutionists
would on that day formally announce
the independence of the island, estab-
lish republic, proclaim constitu-
tion, name their officers and ask recog-
tion, first of the United States, and
then of other nations.
STATE SENATOR GoEBEL shot and
killed Cashier John Sanford of the
Farmers and Traders national bank
of Covington, KY, on the llth. The
tragedy was the sequel of long
standing feud between the men, and
was the immediate result of an article
published by Gocbcl about Sanford
Sanford fired the first shot. After the
shooting Goebel delivered himself up
to the police.
The Cripple Creek and Grassy ex-
press wagon was held up, on the llth,
by two men who had asked permission
to ride, and who, after beating him,
forced the driver to hold the horses
while they cut open the mail bag and
rifled its contents. They secured one
package containing $4,000 and prob
ably others and made their escape. A
large posse Of men were soon in pur-
suit.
TIE outbreak of the plague in
Macao, in the Portuguese settlement
in China, was officially announced on
the llth.
FUNERAL services over the remains
of the late w. Jennings Demorest, the
wcll-known magazine publisher and
advocate of the principles OF the pro
hibition party, were held IN New
York city. on the l2th, and were large
ly attended by relatives, friends ana
admirers of the deceased. The body
was inferred in Mount Kenisco ceme-
terry.
A DISPATCH received from Havana,
on the l2th, said the reports circulated
in the United States that meeting OF
the insurgent leaders would be held IN
Guatnaro, in the province OF Puerto
Principe, for the purpose OF promui-
eating formally declaration OF inde-
pcndence were erroneous.
A BAND of $50 Cuban rebels entered
the camps of the Juruaga Mining Co
near Santiago on the night of the 10TH
and confscatcd all the arms when the
workingmen had.
A ST. PETERSBURG special says the
inspector of prisons at koonger' IN 'he
government of Perm, while drunk OF,
dered that three prisoners VINO hao
tried to escape be beaten to deatn py
the guards with the butts OF ,ne,r
rifles. One of the prisoners was Killed.
and the other two were fatally III
jured.
IT was stated on good authority on
the 18th, that j. s. Clarkson is organ
izing company to start newspaper
at Chicago to be called the keg's,er
after his old paper at Des MONIES, ia''
and that half of the capital had oeeh
raised. 1t will be free silver organ
OFFICIAL advices received in WASH
ington from Japan, on the lsth, mar
Gated that an understanding had oeeh
reached between the japanese ana oni-
nese plen;potentiaries, and thar tne
news OF the definite conclusion Oh d
treaty of peace might be looked ior a'