Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-05-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

officially stated, on the oath that ,b, M
three British war ships in the b,rhn,
OF corinto, Nicaragua, were there n,
the purpose of enforcing the demand.
OF Great Britain, set forth in ,he Ri,
tsh ultimatum. " ~
RECIPROCITY between the l'ni,ef
states and Hawaii in shipping repu
iations has recently been brough,
ABOUT by the action of the treasur,
department in giving to Hawaiiay
merchant vessels the same advantage,
enjoyed by American ships.
INSTEAD OF a few thousand dollars
as at first supposed, the defalca,ion ot
the late Paul Schultz, who was land
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad
at Tacoma, Wash, will amount te
$4,000, and may be more by 5000
ooo' according to the report of the ex.
perts who are engaged in examining
the accounts of the deceased This
shortage and disappointment in love
are believed to have led to his suicide
SIX Tons of nitro.glycerine in the
factory of the Ohio and Indiana Tor.
pedo Co, at Lima, o., exploded, on the
gath, doing considerable damage in the
neighborhood. No lives were lost.
ON the "4th the president made the
following appointments in the army,
Brig. -Gen. Wesley Merritt, to be major
general; Col. s. L. Bliss, Twenty-fourtb
infantry, to be brigadier-general Col.
John j. Coppinger, Twenty-third in.
fantry, to be brigadier-general
A RESOLUTION, presented by Mr. O..
Grady, was adopted by the New Yorl,
house OF representatives, on the cath,
favoring the annexation of the Domin.
ion of Canada to the United States and
inviting the Canadian people to cast in
their lot with us.
SECRETARY GRESHAM, on the cath. re.
ccived a dispatch from Mr., Hannis
Taylor. United States minister at Mad.
rid, assuring him that Spain would ac-
cede TO the demands of the United
States in the Alliance affair, and that
the commander OF the Conde Venadito
would be put on trial for his offense
for firing at an American vessel outside
the zone.
FIRE at Sylvania, o.. on the cath,
destroyed seven buildings and at one
time threatened TO sweep the whole
town. Tolcdo's fire department went
to the rescue and saved the town from
destruction.
Mrs. ANN NJ STANLEY, wife of Gen.
d. s. Stanley, governor Of the soldiers
home at Washington, d. c., died at
the Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
on the 23d, after a long illness, in the
presence of her husband and daughter.
A DISPATCH from Vienna says that
the Russian government has expelled
Nine. Modjeska, the well.known ac-
tress, from Warsaw, owing to violent
speech she made against Russia in Chi
cago. Nine. Modjeska has also been
notified that she may not again appear
on the Russian stage.
WHILE trying TO escape from pursu-
ing officers at Buckhannon, W. Va,
on the 95th, Everett Miller, a green.
goods man, jumped into the river and
was drowned. His partner, c. d. Lew
is, was arrested.
JOHN MCCABE. GO years old, ex-chicf
Of the New York fire department. COM
mitted suicide in the Milholland club
rooms, New York city, on the 2jth,
by shooting himselfin the right temple
with u revolver.
The Nicaragua canal board met at
the war department, on the 95th, and
organized No officers were elected,
as Col. Ludlow, it was understood. will
act as chairman and disbursing officer.
Application will be made for the at
taching to the commission of naval
surgeon.
The complaint sworn to before a
justice Of the peace on which Lord
Sholto Douglass was arrested for in
sanity at Bakersfield, CAL, was with.
drawn, on the 95th, before the case
was called up in the superior court,
and the judge at once discharged the
prisoner.
FIRE, on the Goth, destroyed the
greater portion of Minnewaukan, in
northern North Dakota, near the Man
itoba border. Only two business
houses were left. The aggregate loss
is SAC, 900, with SIS, 200 insurance.
EMILY THORNTON CHARLES died at
her home in Washington city, on the
25th, in her fifty-sixth year. She was
native of Indiana, having been born
and reared at Lafayette, in that state
She was writer of much force and a
poet of no little merit. She wrote al
most exclusively under the nom dc
plume of Emily Hawthorne.
JOHN PERKPILE, shot and killed his
wife at Sydney, O., on the 26th' Mrs
Perkpile had been arrested, IN com.
pany with several men, and sentenced
to fifteen days Imprisonment. Perk-
pile went to the Jail to pay her finc'
and calling his wife to the bars drew
revolver and shot her dead.
DURING the week ended the 10th
failures in the United States, as re-
ported by R. &. Dun & Co., we're "3o'
against 179 for the corresponding week
last year. For Canada the failures
numbered 81, against 20 last year
An explosion of fire damp took place
in a collicry at Denny, Carstcr,ing'
Scotland, on the 26th, while III men
were working in the pit. Thirteen 0,
the number were killed and several
were injured.
AN attempt was made to wreck a
Santa Fe cast-bound passenger tram
near Pasadena, Cal, on the night OF
the s5th. A bowlder and plank placed
across the track were discovered oy a
Young lady named Wilson, who dasl,eo
into her house, seized lamp from tne
table and succeeded in tagging 'he
,rain lust in time to avert a catas'
trophe. A..
A DISPATCH from Berlin says the
National Zcitung declares tha' ia
nan must not be allowed to drive oer'
man trade out of China, nor to acquire
permanent military footing IN ohina'
such as would enable her to shut 'ne
door in Germany's face, perhaps III
agreement with the United STATES
THE insurgents in the Manaan'ilo
district of Cuba have adopted tacVics
followed in previous risings ana arc
leyying on the ownership OF pian'a
,r.y and arms, Threats are