Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-05-11

| 'S nearly dozen towns md
useS'roylhg crops, buildings and other
arm property in its track, and cans.
ing loss Of human lives 10 tho as,;
mated number of 200. The work Of
rescue promptly entered upon by the
survivors, was greatly hampered bv
pa.cny darkness, deluging rain and
"reckage strewn evers&here.
NE mystery surrounding the disap.
Pearahce of Capitalist James G. Me-.
nan from Duluth, MINI. on April ,6
was cleared, on the I'd, by finding his
oody IN Lake Gnesen. 1t is supposed
10 nave been an accident.
ACCORDING to "a statement published
oy the Marine Hospital bureau tber,
We're l,620 deaths from SMALLPOX in tho
United States in 1894, SIT of which oc.
Cured in Illinois.
The Chinese officials of the maritime
province of Fo-Kien, in which the
island OF forlnosa is situated have
sent memorial to the throne protest.
ing against the cession of the island ,o
Japan. They offer to contribute the
purchase money instead of Liu-Kum.
VI '''
lliE pope has expressed his entire
approval of the conduct of Archbishop
'Agllardi, papal nuncio to Austria
whose attitude upon the Hungarian
ecclesiastical bill was denounced in
the lower house of the Hungarian diet
on May day.
llIE steamer N. X, Fairbanks, from
ohicago to Ogdensburg with 10000
bushels OF corn, ran ashore on Nor
gan point, about miles west of Port
'olborne, Ont, on the 3D.. She then
caught hre and was entirely consumed.
On the Sd the transport steamer An
tonic Lopez arrived at Santiago de
Cuba from Spain with 03i rcgula
troops.
WARREN 7. THOMPSON was arrested
IN Chicago, on the Sd, in connection
with the counterfciting postage stamp
case, He was held in S., 900 bail
SERApHINE CENETTE and Delphine
Chaput, two girls who jumped from
a fourth-story window during the
fire in the Mcdonald Tobacco Co. IS fac
tory in Montreal, Can, recently, and
received external and internal iniu-
ries, died, on the Sd, at Notre Dame
hospital
By an explosion at the American
Powder Co.'S works near Concord,
Mass, on the Sd, five lives were lost
and three buildings demolished The
companys big magazine narrowly es.
capped.
A REMARKABLE series of meetings,
which really commenced in Washing.
ton last February, will be resumed in
London in the week beginning June
l6, when the Worlds Women's Chris.
tian Temperance union will present a
gigantic polyglot petition bearing over
1000, 900 actual signatures in fifty diff
ferent languages, with the attestations
of certain great societies representing
in all 100000 persons, asking for the
prohibition of the sale of alcohol and
opium. The petition is 1882 yards
long and is mounted on over mile
of canvas, 1t will be successfully pre-
scnted to all the governments repre-
sented by signers.
uN the 4th a heavy windstorm blew
down one of the walls of the Lungren
& Wilson building at St. Charles, H.,
which was Quilted by fire month ago.
The wall fell on the Osgood building,
Il stone structure, totally demolishing
it and killing at least five persons and
injuring several.
CLAUS BLTXT, who was awaiting trial
in Minneapolis, Mimi, for the murder
of Catherine Cling, on the 4th changed
his plea of mot guilty to guilty"
and was sentenced to imprisonment
for life.
ACCORDING to advices received in
Washington the evacuation of Corinto
by the British feet was quietly ac
compished on the 5th, and the port
was restored to the Nicaraguan au
horities.
IN his speech to the tenantry on his
English estate after his return from
America with his fair bride, formerly
Miss Letter, of Washington, Hon.
George y. Gurzon said: "The ques
tion has been asked why ! went tc
America for bride. The answer
placing his hand atfectionately on her
shouder-"is before you" The re-
mari, and the bride were received with
cheers.