Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-30

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Malsheld. O., fell in a faint while
walking home from an entertainment
ON The night of the slst, and, striking
her head on the curbstone, fractured
her skull, dying almost instantly.
oN the 2lst Secretary Smith decided
the case of j. Il. Otter and Others
against Daniel F. Stiles. involving the
Town site of Hartman, Okla. The de-
clslon is in favor of Stiles. and under il
eoo or 400 occupants of the site will
nave to obtain their title from him.
HE government of New Zealand
mas agreed to be represented at the
suggested monetary conference.
EX-CoNGREssMAN RICHARD VAux. of
fennsylvania, who had been i'll at his
nome, in Philadelphia, with the grip
tqf several days, died on the morning
p .t'r N aged "a years
~ siaQna legislature lapsed
y''fs''Bt tl',4ticn at IL o'clock on the
'57Ef - and adjourned an
hs Is wv 8at disorder .having
iailed - pess fhy appropriation bill.
Nearly ill territaiat institutions and
officers a.e thas left without funds for
the coming Two years Authorities
agree that the 1ply remedy lies in an
extra session, whicl can o4lv be called
by congress next iJocember
SOME weeks ago t!c iilliland 're,e.
phone Co. of Chicago wos gran.ed n
franchise at st. Joseph, fich.. under
which it was 10 charge S9ia year for 'he
use OF telephones in business ho ses. On
the 29d the Bell Telephone Co., which
had for years been charging $4S year,
announced redu elton to SIS. and still
lower rates were expected to be of.
fcred.
PErER HECK, who attempted to
wreck limited passenger train on the
Nickle Plate railroad near Valparaiso,
Ind, pleaded guilty, on the 22d, and
was sentenced to term of seven years
Imprisonment at hard labor.
THE first batch of heavy side armor
for the battle ship Massachusetts has
been completed at the Bethlehem pa,
plan, and typical cighteen-inch
harveyized nickel plate, representing
Ola tons OF product, was, on the ed
shipped 70 Washington FOR ballastic
ltss
tiss u ukn6wu origin destroyed
the gred.ee pogtipn = Reed Bros.
packing house e Arn.ar1ale, near
Kansas city No. t,,a eath
involving loss Of sometaias 984'
Sl,000,OJ3, un1n vAith there #g.
an insurance Of S7t0OG9 The hog
building, tbrce-story, r w no feet;
five ice houses, $50 by -yj and
the storage building, four-story. s0l
by $50 feet, and packed from top tc
bottom with pork, were burned bcfor,
the progress OF the flames was checked
DURING severe gale in the south o
England, on tye cath, three persons
in London were killed and three Others
/ injured severely by falling walls. 4
race boat on the Thames was upset an,
its two occupants drowned, and man,
| isolated eases of death in the storm
were reported from the provinces
| Several of the ancient and histori
trees at Rugby and Oxford were up
rooted, three of them being betweel
twenty.scven and thirty feet in cir
| conference.
ALL but one member Of Hose Com
pany No. lost their lives during tn
burning of the st. James hotel in Den
yer Col, on the ed. The company, eX
ccpting the captain, was composed o
| coiored men. The accident was cause
by the floor upon which they stoo'
giving way and precipitating then
into the basement, where they wer
mangled and sutfocated.
The statement Of the associates
banks of New York city for the wee
ended the 23d showed the followin
changes: Reserve, decrease, So, ,452,27;
loans, decrease, Sl,35l, 900; specie, d,
crease, s., ,l53, 200; legal tenders, de
crease, S3,36l, 400; deposits, decrease
50, ,44o, 300; circulation, increase, $40
| 500.
On the 23d the associated banks o
New York city held Sl4, li6,5oO in eS
cess of the 95-per-cent. rule.
LORD CLARENCE EDWARD PAGET die
in London on the odd
Otis CLEVELAND, aged 100, and Censi
Black, upon whose shoulders rests 8
summers, were granted naarriag
license at Crown Point, Ind. on th
22d, and were married on the 23d