Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-09
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


A DISPATCH received from Seoul. on
the goth, says that the japanese Off.
cials have announced their intention
OF evacnating Corea at the time of the
evacuation ofthe Liao-Tung peninsula.
Dr. ORLANDO L. BRADFORD, a New
York city dentist, recently convicted of
having In his possession plates for coun.
terfeiting 500 bills. was, on the 8oth,
sentenced to six years in the Kings
county penitentiary.
AN explosion, supposed to have been
caused by escaping gas, wrecked a
house, reducing it to atoms, on New
Church Court, Strand, London, on the
evening OF the goth. Six persons were
killed and many injured by the col.
lapse of the house The building con-
sisted Of three floors and its tenants
were mostly Covent Garden market
porters.
The Lagonda hotel at Springfield,
O., caught fire early on the morning
of the 30th. The guests escaped. The
Western Union Telegraph Co., u cloth
Ing store, the hotel and drug store
were burned out. The loss is about
$500, 900.
THE Belfast and Sligo ship builders
have conceded the demands of their
employees for an increase of ) per cent.
in their wages, to go into effect Feb
ruary next.
REPORTS on the progress of the civil
war records show the completion of
the first volume of the first series,
covering the campaign of the war in
Virginia and the Carolinas, and in the
transmississippi region. The remain
ing volumes of this series will be in
type before the close of the current
calendar year.
The contract for the construction of
the new tobacco and cigarette factory
of Ligget & Meyers in st. Louis, has
been let to Thomas Clark e. Sons, Of
Chicago. The cost will exceed Sl,250,
600. There will be sixteen buildings,
mostly Of large proportions, ranging
from two to six stories high, and all
connected.
DURING the performance of the cap
tain Paul" company, on the night of
the Goth, at the Bijou theater in Mil
waulsee, Sol de Liser, the gunner of
the company, was fatally injured by
the premature discharge of his gun.
His right leg was shot off, and he died
in short time.
THOUSANDS of tons OF hay have been
burned by the marsh fires in Porter,
Laporte. Jasper and Stark counties,
Ind. Some farm houses have also
been burned, and many head of cat
tie. In some places the ground is
i'd to be burning to depth of three
feet.
THE South Carolina convention, on
the Goth, voted down the woman's suf-
frage amendment by most decisive
vote of l2l to 26. The whole morning
session was given up to the discussion
of the question. George d. Tillman
made a great speech in advocacy of the
idea.
Two STUDENTS have been expelled
from the State college at Bellefonte,
Pa, and fourteen indefinitely sus-
pended for hazing
The treasury deficit for October, from
figures officially announced, on the LIST,
is approximately s6,aoo,o0o. The re-
ceipts show S27,900,O00, and the eXpen-
ditures in round figures S34, 100000
J. LowENTRAuBs roller and ice skate
factory. a four-story brick stru cture
at Newark. N. j., was burned on the
3lst. Thousands of gross of skates
were destroyed, along with $4,000
worth of machinery. Loss, $780, 900;
insurance, $4,000. Three hundred
and fifty employees were thrown out OF
work.
A DISPATCH from Trebzond, on the
31st. said that three Armenians OF
prominence, one of them a notable &C.
clesiastic, had been summarily tried
and condemned upon charges connect,
ing them with the recent disturbances
There, and it was reported that the
government intended to execute them
without delay.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER and Hon. Mac
kenzie Bowel, who had been in wash
ington for several days in the ca,
pacity OF advisory counsel TO Sir Ju-
iian Pauncefote, British ambassador
returned to Canada, on the Slst, hav'
inr concluded their mission in con-
nection with the Behring sea negotia-
tions.
NUMEROUS cattle have died in south
ern Kansas from disease pronounced
TO be dry murrain, caused by feeding
on dry cornstalks ,,,
THE business portion OF Millers
calls. Mass, was burned on the nlgh'
of the s1st. Loss, $4,000; insurance
partial. =. ,.,,,..
IT was announced in st. Petersburg
nm the slst, that the condition OF the
czarowitz was steadily growing worse.
He was confined to his bed, and re-
mained in o completely apathetlc
state. Mt.
TIE body of Mrs. James b. Eustis'
wife Of the United States ambassador
to France, who died in ireland re-
Gently, left Queenstown for New YORK ,fs
on the slst, on board the steamer Ma
iestic, in charge Of her son, Mr. D. D.
Eustis, Ir. ,,vor;a
Railroad Co., on the 1st, declared .
semi.annual dividend of ~ per cen''
THE prince OF Wales attended q
r.ouiem mass celebration in the aus
Alan chapel in Welbeck street Lon, ois
don. on the lst, the service being hela ,
@ ~ observance OF the anniversary OF
IN death Of Car Alexander Ia. :
TIE province Of Rome was vls''eu eu
-, r;o,rnt shocks Of earthquake on
-. ~ ,st A. $40 q. m. In Rome people
80. -. aroused from their slumoers ana
~s5e Ssa - a.'Is the open squares, and tn the .
greatest consternation preva'ica' ~
conve,,t : of Santa Maria Massiole Was .,,.
ovs Cssstly damaged. A portion OF the :
s,,tcr wall was overthrown ana par o. !"
vS ~ calling fell. One Of the inmates .
monk. was injured -. p..,.
sr.r Ssiss federal council ~ nerno
rave 4 farewell dinner, on lne .ns s.s'' =. :.
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