Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-05-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND cFNEpA,

origin OF The lire is unknown.
a CRUCIAL test of Carnegie Harvey
ized plate armor took place at the In.
dian Head proving grounds. ON the ,st
IN which, afterall the required tests
had been successfully resisted bv a
plate IL feet 9l4 inches long, fee,
Lilo inches wide, of tapering thick,
ness from is to 8 inches, and WEIGHING
79,3Oo pounds, l3-inch Carpente,
shell, weighing l,1OO pounds dis.
charged with velocity of ls,o foe,
per second with a striking energy OF
$4,000 foot tons, was almost pulverized
upon the plate, which was penetrated
only to the depth OF 10 inches.
TIE Baltimore railroad tunnel opo
OF the most remarkable engineering
feats of modern times, built under the
city OF Baltimore, Md, from Camden
station to Bayview junction, on the
Philadelphia division of the Baltimore
IL Ohio railroad, a distance of ~,
miles, was formally opened for busi.
ness on the lst.
ON the steamer Vigilancia, which ar.
rived at New York, on the ist, from
Havana, was Ramon c. Williams. con.
sul-general of the United States Il,
Havana. Mr.. Williams declined to
say anything about Cuban affairs.
a NoRTH'BouND passenger train on
the Chicago & Alton railroad was
boarded by three robbers at point
one mile north of Carlinville, H., on
the night OF the lst, and in the fight
which ensued with the train men.
Engineer Holman, one of the Oldest
engineers on the road, was killed. The
robbers were pursued and captured.
THE town of Patterson, Kas., was
visited by a death-dealing cyclone, on
the LIST, which destroyed property to
the value of of S295, 900 and caused the
death of many persons and injury to a
great many others.
GUATEMALA has united with Hondu-
ras in dispatch to Secretary Gresham
asking him to use his good offices to
bring about peaceablc solution of
the Nicaragua dispute with Great
Britain.
LARIMER, a small town in Union
county, Ia, was nearly wiped out by
fire on the lst. Seventeen business
houses were burned, The loss and in
surance are unknown. The fire is sup
posed to have been incendiarv.
The bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer
CAizek, of Mount Clemens, Mich, were
notified, on the lst, that there is a de-
falcation of funds amounting to about
$4,000, and they are requested to make
the shortage good,
THE department of state received a
cable message from Ambassador Bay
ard, on the I'd. stating that Great
Britain had accepted the guarantee
made by Salvador of the payment of
the indemnity by Nicaragua in Lon
don within Il fortnight and that so
soon as Nicaragua should confirm the
guarantee and so inform the British
admiral the latter had been instructed
to quit Corinto.
On the 4th Warden Sage of the Sing
Sing On. W state prison sent out invi-
tations to the witnesses selected to at
tend the electrocution of DR.. Buchan-
an, the wifc-murderer, the date of
whose execu ton had been twice post
poned through efforts of his attorneys
in his behalf.
LIEUT.. VALENTIN GALLEGE, who sur
rendered fifty Spanish soldiers to the
Cuban rebels, and who was afterward
arrested and turned over TO the Span
ish military authorities, was, after
trial by court-martial, shot, on the
lst, in the fortress of Cabana at lia-
vana.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, it is stated,
will enter the kentucky campaign
about the 18th of this month, and de-
liver two or more speeches, at points
vet to be selected, in favor of sound
currency.
JOHN HUFF, who is said to have fall
en- heir to Sl,500,O00 by the death OF
Charles Easthof, wealthy Califor-
nian. in 1893, died at Matcawan, n.
Y, on the I'd. Huff nurscd Easthotf
twenty years ago through an attack OF
typhoid fever, when no one else would
go near him, and the entire estate has
been his his reward,
GAIT. JoHN BROWN, Jr. died at hls
home on the island of Put-in-Bay,
Lake Erie, on the night OF the I'd.
Capt. Brown was "A years old and was
the son of John Brown, the hero OF the
historic scene at liarpcr's Ferry before
the civil war. Capt. Brown was fruit
raiser on the island, and spent his old
age very quietly.
Col. X. II. MCLEAN was passenger
on the steamer Alameda, which sailed
from San Francisco on the I'd, Tor
Honolulu. Col. Mclean was recently
appointed by President Dole to take
command of the Hawaiian army.
In the Cape Colony parliament
which opened in Cape Town on the
I'd, a proposition was submitted 10 ao-
sorb Bechuanaland.
THE preliminary examination OF ,or'
rant on the charge of numbering MISS
Lamont was commenced at San frah-
cisco on the I'd.
The secretary of war has ordered TWO
companies of the Fifth infantry, now
stationed at Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta
and the two troops of the Third caval-
rv. with the regimental band, now al
benton Barracks, Mo-. to attend tne
encampmcnt of the national guard 10
he held at Memphis, Tenn, beginning
Nav 1 | and ending May 81.
THERE is an alleged shortage OF
about ss5, ,OOOin the Office OF the county
treasurer in Doniphan county, mas
When the present treasurer d DeV-
eraux, took charge last October ne
discovered something was wrong anu
an investigation has revealed 'he d.
legged shortage. .
WILLIAM II. MEGQuIER, asslstan.
cashier of the First national bank Oh
Omaha, Neb., committed suicide on
the Cd, by shooting himself through
tho head at the residence OF George
Rarker president of the National Bank
~ Commerce. No cause for the act is
known. A.. so,ro,.
A TELEGRAM received at the secret
service bureau in Washington from
Hamilton, Ont, on the I'd stated 'iia' y
Mrs. M, T. Mack, charged with oeing
n member of the Chicago postage's'a'ilp