Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-06-22

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Sa,. S"a,a,; o. Alfred Merritt Y' vs., Johm r1'naF
at,o te".'eiler' the Standard on u l,ia
al.er after having been out over ronn W.. Hlne
returned verdict of soao ooI oo" nonr'
plaintiff " ''s''ooo Tor tit
FIVE miners employed in ,bs ,.,,,
NO = colliery, Old Force ,o"'s,, "erfnyl
ot On lne lith' by the explosion Of ',neo u na
81 powder around which thew r,o. "el
s't''ng' A spark from a lamn o,. mer'
a.r., ~y arlver boy, who was passinn Nc,
t"useo i'' The explosion, One of tha u
J"rea men died soon after. WV !"
EARLY on the MORNING Of ,ho ,o.,
tme uead body of Blase Mcdonald ar
,,as' Insane patient at the asylum, nt Tn, w.
rn"; ,raa :, nas'' , was found hanging to n
.ree % IN front of the building whers ~ ha
H H"u oeen confined, Mcdonald and m
ochaHer and Drusler, two other ' in
sane s' patents, escaped by removing =
window and letting themselves dne,' s :"
gether. wv 0'o''ies TO-
ihh howard Harrison Iron Co. 10.
cateo al Bessemer, Ala, and onar,,;a,
the largest iron.pipe works in ,be e
south employing 1900 men, postod
no'ices' on the l4th, that the wooes ~
thelr employees would be increased N ~
per cent, beginning on the 18TH Ths
advance is voluntary. 0
MARTIN GILLETr d Co., of Baltimo,o
Nd received a telegram from Amov
.hiha' on the l4th, stating that tho
latest advices from the island of Fnn
mosa were that business was ept;ro1,
suspended there, and that there w,s
much rloting in the PRODUCING dis.
tricts "'S'
'APT. HOOPER, in command of tL.,
cutter heet i'll the Behring sea has 70.
ported to the treasury department
nat his observations south of Jrnal,sr,.
convince him that the seal herds m,,.
hg north are far less numerous tina,
ormerly This scarcity, it is believed
$ entirely due to the indiscrimipo,o
laughter Of the last two or three
ears.
oNh HUNDRED ASD EIGHTEEN wears
go the continental congress adon,ed
he stars and Stripes as the emblem, ~
nc United States, and, on the l4th
ne anniversary of the event was celo.
rated as Flag day at many places
the country. In the pub.
C schools special exercises were oh.
'rved' while on public and business
ulldlngs the Stars and Stripes ware
ufurled to the breeze.
IlIE steamer Dakar from West Afri.
IN ports, arrived at Liverpool on the
tn, and reports that the gnnboat Bee.
oft was lately wrecked at night near
"a Nalabar by a tornado. Sir Gland
acDonald,a the Niger commissioner
S wife and about forty others. who
ere on board the gunboat, were res.
ed.
HARRY ELDRED, Clay Milard and ,
larles Cowie, aged Is, 20 and q, re-.
ectively, were drowned by the can.
ing OF Il sail boat on st. Louis bav
West Superior, Wis, on the night Il
the l4th. VIII Pinllham who was S
30 IN the party, escaped by 'cllnginr e
the boat until help arrived l.
MINISTER DENHy has notified the fl
tie department that there has been p
loss OF life among the missionaries
the province of Sechuen, China.
'lR. JoHN w. FOSTER has cabled from
kohama that he will sail for the b.
Iited States, on the 9lst, reaching al
ncouver July 3, and arriving at i>
,shington week later. W
|. II. DALziELL. collector Of customs 70
.he port of Crisheld, Md, died of it
Yrt failure on the 18th, while sit ",
7 at his desk in the customhousc. IN
was 6S years of age. Iva
DESPATCH from Hong Kong, on the ~,
1, said that the Black Flags in For $40
"a were menacing the foreign resi- ue
is on the island The situation was wv
ical. -
n the 18th the associated banks of Ids
v York city held S37, 95S,0Oo in en- ru
of the requirements of the 25-per- az
|. rule, on
IE flames which destroyed the livery wa
Is of John K. Shank in South Bend. ke
, on the 10th, cremated fourteen AM
able horses, and spread TO the am
hotel of Lewis johnson, under
truction, which was partly burned. cot
), $4,000 insurance partial. bra