Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-12-14

oAiD fAsiIA, president Of the Turk.
'sn council OF state and formerly grand
Vizler, has taken refuge in the British
embassy at Constantinople, fearing that
he Will be arrested.
LIE bullion in the Bank of England
increased FL, 733, 4A during the week
ended on the 5th.
lhE Greenville hotel, located 6 miles
east OF Hortonville, Wis, was burned
10 The ground on the 9Th. WIN. Rem
ter, an employ of the hotel, was suffo.
Gated and taken from the burning
building dead. Several members of a
medicine troupe" escaped death bv
jumping from the second-fioor win.
dows, clad only in their night clothes.
iHE offices of the socialist party,
winch were recently closed in Berlin,
nave been removed to Hamburg, out.
side OF the jurisdiction of PRUSSIA.
WIN. }. MURRAY, aged 80, died in To-
ledo, O., on the 4th, after voluntarily
fasting forty-seven days.
DIR. r ]. Fox, . pfolnnent physician
OF Linnens, Mo, who was found
guilty OF stasling the. body Of Mrs.
Gates VAS on The S., sentenced to
stha penisentisFr for Il ee years.
hING lltAAGal, gave an audience to
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, the America n
ambassador to Italy, on the 5th.
SAM SEwELL, assistant cashier of the
First national bank Of McGregor, Tex.
was, on the 5th, indicted for the re-.
cent robbery Of that bank.
The American Catholic league was
incorporated at Baltimore, Nd, on the
9TH. 1t is founded on broad patriotic
lines, and based on the essential prin-
ciples of free institutions, and it is pro.
posed to make 1t one of the most inn
portant and patriotic organizations
that has ever existed among Catholics.
A TRUST, comprising almost every
carpet.tack factory in the country, has
been organized, and the price OF tacks
hassuddenly advanced to almost double
the former rates.
THE town OF Mariested, Sweden,
population 5000, was virtually de-
stroyed by fire, which started on the
night of the 5th.
REV. +. Y. SATERLEE, Of Calvary
church, New York city, was elected
bishop of the new Episcopal diocese of
Washington, d. c., on the 9th.
On the 5th the stage running be-
tween Ager, CAL, and Klamath Falls,
Ore, was robbed for the eighth time
within as many months.
On the 7th, while the students of
Chamberlain institute, at Randolph, N.
Y, were at supper in the dining hall,
fire was discovered in the main build
ing cupola. A high wind gave the
flames such headway that the fire de-
partment, which was on the scene in
five minutes, was powerless. The
flames communicated with the chapel,
and all were burned to the ground.
A REPORT is current in court circles
in London that Princess Victoria of
Schleswig- -Holstein, daughter of Prince
and Princess Christian, is about to be
bctrothed to Count Albert Mendorff,
who is related to the Moravian princely
house of Dietrichtstein, and who is
also distant relative of the queen
and an intimate friend of the prince OF
Wales.
TIE weekly statement of the New
York associated banks for the week
ended on the 7th showed the follow.
ing changes: Reserve, increase, ST.
ESQ, ,075; loans, decrease, S20S,s00 spe'
Gle, increase, 81. .22O, 400; legal tenders
increase, $685. 200; deposits, increase
ss9s, 500; circulation, increase, S4l, 100.
Mrs. LOUISE Dow BENTON, aged GO
widow of ex-Congressman Jacob Ben
ton, and daughter of Gen. Neal Dow
of Maine, died at her home in Lancas
ter, n. H., on the 7th, from the effects
of an operation for the removal OF
cancer.
OLIVER TARBERT, railroad switch
man, was instantly killed at Terr'
Haute, Ind. on the sth, in a mannet
perhaps never before recorded. Witt
a lighted lantern in his hand he wa
passing over an oil tank box car wheI
an explosion occurred and sent hi
body fifty feet in the air. 1t is sup
posed gas was generated in the oi
tank and, escaping into the ear. wa
ignited by his lantern.
On the 18th the associated banks o
New York city held SEQ, 294,275 in eS
cess of the requirements of the ss-per
cent. rule.