Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-05-04

/ H., ''ha MARSHALL BRoWN
pnS oeen granted divorce from Archi.
~" y"'o plNon Brown, at Louisville. Kv.
- ne ueiendant is Gov John Young
% brown son and secretary, and the
p'a'ntit rs member OF one of IN.
most prominent families in the state
EN'OoNsuL JOHN L. WALLER has heen
Piaced IN the French civil prison of 81
nierre' the military authorities refus.
,eF TO keep him any longet in Fort St
N'ehoias' where he had been detained
since ms arrival. Mr.. Waller is now
awaiting his transfer to some fortified
place, probably to the island of Mar.
Suerlte, where the late Marshall Ia.
zane was interned.
A WAGON load of nitro-glycerin. con.
tanning 700 quarts, exploded 3 miles
from BIuffton, o., on the a6th, with a
shock that was felt for forty miles
WIN Elmer, the driver, was blown to
atoms and of the team only part of
one horses neck could be found
A NUMBER of American cattle dealers
are negotiating for the purchase of the
large herds which are held in The
Huasteca district, in the state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and which range over
portions of the states of Puebla and
Hidalgo,
OK the 26th Rev DR., W. +. Dinger a
well-known preacher of the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at Baltimore.
Md. lie was rs years old, and was born
IN Aarau, Switzerland, He was widely
known as writer of religious sub.
jects.
FOUR towns in Hungary,-Mosrin,
hutoz, Nillova and Rudolfsgrade-werc
almost destroyed by the recent floods.
lhe damage amounts to $1,000, 900.
On the 96th Sloan Hurst, colored.
who shot and killed Lamly Rapley on
December g. 1894 was hanged at A Abbey.
vile, $ c. He died exclaimng that he
would be in Heaven by dinner time.
ANOTHER battalion of infantry EN-.
barks at Cadiz on May in order to re.
enforce the Spanish troops on the
island OF Cuba.
THE report that the Allianca affair
has been settled by Spains concedinc
the American claims was confirmed
officially, on the 2sth, by dispatch
from Madrid. The Spanish government
will give the United States satisfaction
for the mistake, and admits the
Allianca was outside of territorial
waters when the Conde de Venadito
fired upon her. Commanders of war
ships in Cuban waters have been in
structcd precisely not to fire upon
vessels outside the three-milc limit.
BY the bursting of reservoir at
Bouzey, France, on the 97th, 1870 human
lives are known to have been lost and
many Others were reported missing.
More than 200 families were left home.
less and destitute, The path of the
food was strewn with wrecks OF build.
ings and covered with heavy layers of
mud which made the search for the
bodies of the victims very difficult.
No FURTHER shocks of earthquake
have been experienced at Laibach,
Austria, for some days, and the people
who had been camping in the open
fields are returning to their homes.
The whole town presents an aspect OF
activity which promises its complete
rehabilitation in short time.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, ,on the 2sth,
said; Capt. Gen. MARTINEZ de Campos
has telegraphed from Cuba for more
army surgeons. He will start in few
days for the eastern provinces, where,
it is said he will make haste to deal
the insurgents decisive blow before
the rainy season
The Pail Mall Gazette of London, in
an editorial on the China.Japan situa.
ton, says: "As Japan's troubles drop
asunder she moves nearer to America.
Let us also move nearer to America
AN uprising of half-breeds and In
dians is reported to have occurred at
st. Johns, n. d., near the Manitoba
boundary line,
On the 9th the associated banks oi
New York city held S2j, j,27O,67j in ex-
cess of the 95-pcr-cent. rule.
WILLARD fountain, which was pre-
sented to the city of Chicago by the
children of the Worlds W. c. L. T.,
was unveiled and dedicated on the
eth. The fountain is situated at the
Monroe-street entrance to the w. C.
T. L. temple and cost over 100000,
Over 80, 600 children, living in Europe
and America, contributed to the foun'
tain fund.