Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-16
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ceived a gift OF $1,000 900 library
music hall and art gallery from An.
drew Carnegie, but the pleasing an,
nouncement was made that Mr.. Car.
negie would endow the art gallery
with S!,O00,OoO, and also proposed
erecting for the greater Pittsburgh
free libraries at Duquesne, Carnegie
and Homestead.
MRS. FLORENCE MAVERICK, the Amer.
lean woman who is undergoing sen.
tence of imprisonment for life in En-.
gland after having been convicted in
1889 OF poisoning her husband, James
Maybrick, and on behalf of whom re.
peated efforts have been made to Sc.
cure a reopening of the ease, was
transferred, on the 5th, from Wosing
prison to the Jail at Aylesbury, with
other female convicts.
ANDREW ID. MELLTcK, author of the
"Story of the Old Farm" and writer
OF newspaper articles, died at his home
in Plainville, N. j., on the 9th, aged
81 years.
HERR LEDERER, once famous sing
or in Wagnerian opera, and also nota-
bic as the first to seize the would. be
murderer Kullmann when he fred at
and slightly wounded Prince Bismarck
at Kissengen, July 10, 1874, committed
suicide, on the 9th, at Franlsfort-on-
Main, by shooting himself with re.
volver. He was driven to the deed BIZ
extreme poverty, having lost the saw
ings of his life through the defalca-
tions OF the absconding banker Schoen-
field
| TIE New York, Lake Erie & West.
cru railroad was sold, on the 9th, at
Ramapo, N. Y, under foreclosure de-
cree to c. Ii. Costcr, Louis Fitzgerald
and Anthony j. Thomas, the reorgani-
zation committee, for SEQ, 100000.
FOREST fires raging near Ligonier,
Ind, have desolated number of farms
and made many families homeless
THE pope has fixed the 25th as the
date of the next secret consistory and
the 2sth as the time for holding the
kextspublic consistory-
) tMRs. D. p. Bowers, the well-known
Nress, died in Washington city, on
; th6th, of heart failure superinduced
by Neumonia.
IN canal boat w. II. Swift, loaded
WIN Wy, was burned at Whitehall,
n. i"N the 9th, and the captain,
Larry Ntton, Of Rondout, and the
steersmtn James Burke, of Water
ford' werSoth burned to death.
r JOHN u. CGoLDRlcK, clerk of the
, New YORK ey court, secretary of the
Iammany s&ety and n candidate for
the democraN nomination for con-
, gress in the N Nth district until he
: withdrew in fayr of Amos j. Cum
mings, was dang Arously stabbed, on
the 6th, by Wm' Awling, bartender.
THE final obsequs over the remains
of Eugene Field we performed on
/. the 9th. The sad, y& beautiful. serv-
, ices were held in th,Fourth Presby.
, terian church, at Run and Superior
streets, Chicago, and we attend ed by
hundreds OF the poets finds and ad-
mirers, and those "hopost dearly
, loved him.
? THE nuptial ceremony vt Joined
the houses Of Vanderbilt t and churchill
and made Miss Consuelo Nnderbilt
: duchess of Marlborough and,istress
: of the famous Blenheim estat,n En-.
7 gland, was performed in St. Aomas
!. church, New York city, on thNeth
The couple are spending the hey
moon at idle Hour" William X. n-
' derbilt's country seat on Long lslay.
0 THE Irish National league of Gro
, Britain held meeting, on the 7th, an
J, removed the name of Timothy Heal
. from their executive committee SUI
: stituting that of Michael Davitt there
: for.
|, lip to 6 o'clock on the evening
the 7th thirty-three of the thirty-nln
dead bodies had been removed lrol
8 the journal Office ruins in Detroit a
, that hour work was suspended un'
. the tottering walls of the rema'nin
; building could be shored up TO insur
7 the safety of the searchers'
HABIp RAFIL PAsHA, late Turks
. minister of the interior, has been az
$ pointed grand vizier, in place OF h''
mil Pasha. dismissed.
AurAvy snowfall, on the 9TH, tn
arst Of the season, quenched the fol
ast fires in the Black River Falls se'
tion of Wisconsin.
THE Greek vessel Mahdi was struc
nv a waterspout near Tunls, on I'll
! 7th, and sunk. Seven persons Wef
|. drowned.
on the eth the people OF the kanK'
kce, region in Indiana assembled =
the village churches and prayed !. ~
rain That night the distressing ST.
= tv.davs' drought was broken by q g
: pious downpour. !,
: REAR.ADMIRAL SHuTELDr aieu a' u, ~
:. residence in Washington city on u
!. | 18th. - III
The liquidating trustees OF W.
Standard Oil trust at the,r reg o.
Y quarterly meeting, held in new AR s;,
!. city. on the 7th, declared spec'ai j. a,; :;
I Z idend Of S per cent. in addition 70 'ne'
regular quarterly dividend. ..r
f,ur governments Of South Austr
:. ia west Australia and Iasman =,
{ have declined to cooperate WIN ~ "
other interested government, IN mp pri r;,
: Ing the project for Q Pacific sa0n'''-
, cable. ..od. retur,
! : Tor M October show an increase use iof ! =. :
!. month in imports Of 81. lso.ooo ooo aoo aoo
!. 4 increase in exports OF sl'osO'ooO, o. oO,r
. ] compared with those for inc S'''
\ \ sponding month last year -,.,.a
RDy. wA. z. HrysHAw, convicted = ,,css;v,
having % murdered his wife was .s'ssh receive )
/. % Il the Indiana state prison ..,soa soa'l Il !
\ tho TN. Chaplain WOOD lna"'
= !. principal @ Of the prison school, =. a.
I. TINS president has taken !, ,nS = : ~, ~
.tsp ~ toward putting fourth,eiass y :, eua ~
Il mssters in the civil serves ~ s,a ais''-'
siyll uorvioe yples y tnes su~