Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-01-12

90 W. mil, superintendent of the
Napash llnd paper mill. dropped dead
OF heart disease at Marion, Ind, on the
evening OF the 4th. He was at the Big
-Four station awaiting freight train.
to return home, when he fell dead on
the platform E
liE secretary of war has written a
| letter to congress recommending the
appropriation of Sl5,774 to pav the
damage done by the explosion of an
ammunition chest in the streets of Chi
cago last July.
oN the accommodation of Postmas-
ter-General Bissell the president, on
the 4th, issued an order extending the
clvll-service regulations to all superin-
tenoents OF stations in the post offices
OF the United States. The order takes
effect Immediately on its promulgation.
SECRETARY HERBERT has decided to
send naval attache to the United
States legation at Toxic, and has se-
lected for the post Commander Francis
Nj. Barber.
1T is practically settled that the
naval appropriation bill, as reported
70 the hoascs viii contain provisions
Tor two and possibly three battleships,
at cost of about 81, ,0OO,O 600.
The United States post office de-
tectives made most important arrest
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th, when
they captured NJ. ?. Strayer, a sub
letter carrier, in the very act Of rifling
a letter containing money.
DETECTIVE PINKERToN has been
placed in charge of the work of ascer-
tanning the responsibility for the es-
cape of desperadoes from the jail at St.
Joseph, Mo-, New Years morning, as
the Burlington railroad officials are
determined to recapture Pat c. Rowe,
who helped to hold up the Eli train.
The man who passed revolvers to the
prisoners had been identified, and it
was expected would be placed under
arrest on the 18th.
The interruption of foreign trade
growing out of the alleged violation of
treaty obligations with Germany in re-
gard to beet sugar and consular pre-
negatives have become so alarming
that President Cleveland, Secretary
Gresham, Att'yGen, Olney and Secre-
tary Carlisle have taken the matter
under serious consideration.
On the 5th the banks of New York
held S35, 1862 $50 in excess of the require
ments of the 25-per-cent rule.
SEVERAL houses and farms were de.
stroyed by an avalanche at Orlu, near
Folk, France, at the foot of the Pyre-
nees, on the 5th: Fifteen persons were
killed and eight badly injured. Many
head Of cattle were buried.
GEN. PAILIp SIDNEY PosT, member of
congress from the Tenth Illinois dis.
trict, died in Washington, on the 9th,
after an illness of one day. death re-
sulting from heart failure induced by
acute gastritis.
TIE Toronto (Ont) Globe building
and some others in the immediate vi
cinity We're destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 9th, entailing loss of
about 100000. Chief Ardagah of the
fire department and four fremen were
seriously injured by falling cornice.
TIE New York press has looked up
the record of Samuel G. Seeley, and
concludes that Seeley lied when he
told President Crane of the Shoe and
Leather bank that he was penniless,
and that all but Sl2,0o of the sS54, 900
stolen from the bank had gone to
Frederick R. Baker, but the next thing
is to prove the conclusions.
MICHAEL LALLY, alias Thomas j.
Moore, alias Thomas Williams, one of
the most notorious diamond thieves in
the country, was arrested on the morn
ing of the 9th, in ST. Louis, on charge
of highway robbery, but it is supposed
that he is wanted in Chicago for the
more serious crime of murder.
EDWIN EINsTElN, the defeated repub-
lican candidate for mayor Of New
York in 1892, has resigned from the
Union League club because Of the anti
Semitic tendencies Of its members, and
for the first time in the history of the
club it is without q Hebrew member.
The fertilizer works of Griffith &
Boyd, the acid works of g, H. e c. T.
Davidson, and the stable. Office and
home trade warehouse in No. yard of
the Standard Oil Co., at Canton, Nd,
were destroyed by fire on the night of
the 9th. The total loss will run up
ward of 500, 900.