Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-23
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

hcr uock at New York, on the 13th tbo
tug M. +. Starbuck was capsizcd and
her crew thrown into the water Ar
were picked up little worse for their
immersion except the captain, Joseph
brandow' In whose case the efforts at
resuscitation proved unavailiry.
GEoRaE GRIDDAIL and Magoi,
Wachter, witnesses for Harry Hnv.
ward, the defendant in the Giny rnr.
der trial in Minneapolis, MINI. ar.
rested Tor perjury, were liberated, on
the lStn' because the grand jury re-
luse TO lndict them, believing convic-
tion impossib ble on the evidence sub.
mitted.
LIE Spanish cruiser Reina Repente
with 42O souls on board, was three davs
overdue st Cadiz, on the 18th. and
much anxiety was felt for the vessels
safety.
In London. on the 18th, the new
American loan opened at SO and closed
at5H.
AGENTS WHITNEY and bennett. Of
the Parkhurst society, were arrested
in New York city, on the 18th. on
charges of conspiracy to prosecute De-
tectives Jacobs and McManus War.
rants were also out for Samuel Cohen.
who figured in the cases.
NEWS was received from Shanghai.
on the 18th, that Col. Won Heneken,
the German commander, had left the
Chinese service.
ARTHUR SAUER, the bookkecper and
cashier of the Defiance (O.) national
bank, who disappeared January Is,
was arrested, on the 18th, in the Bre-
WORT house in Chicago, by Central de-
tectives who had long been on the
lookout for him.
JUDGE BAKER, of Chicago, on the
18th, discharged the last panel of twen-
ty-tliree jurors, after rendering a de-
cision that the system in vogue of
drawing citizens for jury service in
Cook county is illegal, and that every
jury serving in the courts to-day is do
ing so on an unlawful basis, and that
all verdicts rendered by them are,
therefore, illegal.
FIRE in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
18th, destroyed n four-story building
occupied by the English Supply Co.,
dealers in engine supplies and wrought
iron materials, and a ive-story build
ing occupied by the Western Newspa-
per Union and the Grcat'Wcstern type
foundry, causing a total loss of over
t300,0OO about One.half covered by in
surancc.
SIX ITALIANS and one American lad,
were killed (the last-named accident
ally), on the l2th, by mob in retalia-
tion for the murder of a saloon-keeper
Mt Rouse, Col. 1t is thought the ltal-
ians were all naturalized citizens.
AN order issued by Supt. James f.,
White of the railway mail service
denies postal clerks the privilege of
free transportation except over their
own routes All commissions and
passes which have heretofore been is
sued allowing clerks to ride free over
other lines have been called in.
Gov. MCINTYRE of Colorado received
telegram from Washington, on the
l4th, asking him to proceed at once
against the murderers of the Italians
at Walsenberg.
AN amended bill to abolish capital
punishment passed the Nebraska SEN
ate on the 18th. 1t had good pros
pect of passing the house, and the gov
trnor was said to favor it,
Four men were buried under the
walls of the Commercial Trading Co. S
building in Laramie, Wyo., which was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. James
Foster was taken out dead, and George
Cordinier, a university student, was
fatally injured,
A PHENOMENAL vote was cast at the
republican primaries in Cleveland, O.,
on the 18th. the total reaching 23,332.
Many women took advantage of their
recently-acquired franchise and at
tended the primaries.
CAPT. LEONARD &. SHEPARD, chief of
the revenue marine division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton city of pneumonia, on the l4th, af-
ter an illness of ten days, aged So.
A CONCURRENT resolution, proposing
an amendment to the New York con-
stitution giving women the right to
vote, passed the assembly, on the l4th,
so to 81.
A SYNDICATE is forming in Belgium
to import Canadian horses into that
country.
THE American loan opened In Lon
don, on the 18th, at 5% per cent. pre-
MUM and closed unchanged.
JupaE L. Il. MCKIslCK, acting ms
special counsel for the government, on
The 18th, fled his claim, involving Sl5,-
900, 900, in the case of the government
against Jane l.. Stanford, executrix of
the last will of the late Senator Stan
ford, to recover from the estate the
pro rata of taxes due the United States
from the Central Pacific Railway Co.
The women of Orange, N. j., will is
sue, on April 1, an extra edition OF the
Orange Chronicle for the benefit OF the
Orange free library. Preparations for
this edition are being made on very
extensive scale and it is expected that
this sample of purely women's work
will be one of the most unique OF its
kind.
THE failures in the United States,
for the week ended on the lsth' as re-
ported by r. G. Dun & Co., were soo'
against e64 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures numbered 81, against IS last year.
ALors FolDL killed himself on Logan
avenue, fashionable thoroughfare IN
Denver, Col, on the 18th, byexplodlng
a dynamite cartridge about an inch
and half in diameter and four inches
long. The entire left side OF his body
was blown into fragments.
QUEEN VIcToRIA arrived at Nice,
Italy, on the 18th, and was received
with great display of ceremony oy
the mayor and other municipal author
tiles. p.;
THE Red Star line steamer fries-
land, Capt. Nichols. having on ooara
45o American excursionists, arrived at
Smyrna on the l4th. ,,n
THE California senate, on the iatn'
defeated the woman suffrage ohi'
which had already passed the assem-
bly,. . s.rote