Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-06-15
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERA,

-, '"""" ihuictilenLS, on the
4th, against County Commissioners
knight and Gibson for SOLICITING
bribes from bidders on the new court.
house.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON was the
guest of ex-Postmaster-G General Wana.
maker in Philadelphia on the 5th.
In the New York court of over and
terminer, on the 5th, jury was So.
cured for the second trial of Police In.
spector William Mclaughlin on the
charge OF extortion. 1t took the court
and the counsel fourteen days to select
the jury.
The steamer Eectron arrived at
Port Tampa, Fla, on the 5th, loaded
with vegetables from the Manatee
country. The crew began unloading
ON one side, when the steamer timed
over and went to the bottom. No one
was drowned.
AN explosion of gas occurred in the
coal hole of the German ironclad Wur-
temberg, off Helgoland on the 5th.
Engineer Ghermann was fatally in
jured and three stokers were seriously
hurt.
SALvINA THOMAS, the daughter of
well-known parents, met George Nash
on the street at Portsmouth, Va, on
the 5th and, upon his refusal to re-
tract certain statements derogatory to
har ~ ., of vhnt I;,,, II
but he lived long enough to draw a re-
volver and shoot the girl, who died in
stantly. The ball pierced her heart.
Rev. FATHER MCMAHON, of cherry
Mound, Allamakee county, Ia. was
drowned, on the morning OF the 5th,
while bathing in the Mississippi at
Pictured Rock, near McGrcgor, Ia,
with Rev, Fathers O'Donell and Shee-
han, of McGregor
Miss MARY IRENE HoYT, the daugh-
ter of the late Jesse Hoyt, the million
aire steamboat owner, has brought an
action in the supreme court of New
York city to recover 500, 900 damages
from Mrs. Ilctty Green for alleged
SANDER
JonN MILLER, of Aurora H., while
en- route to Creston, Ia, on the 5th
was robbed on the train of bout 81, 600.
He went to sleep after leaving OF
tumwa and when he awolic he was
minus his pocketbook.
CAPT CLAvIJo, who, on the 3d, shot
and seriously wounded Capt-Gcn,
Prima- Rivera at Madrid, after the lat
ter had refused him the hand OF his
daughter, was shot by sentence of
conrt-martial on the morning of the
18th.
WHILE the Thermometer five feet
away registered 100 in the shade, on
the 9TH, Criah Matthews was nearly
frozen to death in his cold storage
room, at Massllon, o., the door to
which someone had closed behind
him and locked. lie was accidentally
rescued in time to save his life.
The steamer San Juan arrived at
San Francisco, on the 9Th, from Pana-
ma and way ports. She had some OF
the survivors of the ill-fated steamer
Colima on board, who gave graphic ac-
counts of the loss OF the vessel.
PARIS bankers have concluded Chi
nese 4-pcr-cent. gold loan of 9l6,OOO,-
900, guaranteed by Russia. The prob
able issue price, it is said, will be 9S.
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake were
felt in Florence, Italy, on the 9th, at
1870 a. m., and a number of shocks
were experienced through the com
partimento of Tuscany on the night
of the 5th.
The steamer Monarch, bound from
Rat Portage to Fort Frances, Rainy
lake, loaded with passengers ana
freight. was wrecked, on the 9th at
Long Sault rapids, The passengers
were rescued after some hardship, but
the freight was lost. This is the
third vessel wrecked at the same
place within eight months.
On the 9TH President Cleveland ap-
pointed Attorney-General Richard Vi
new, of Massachusetts, to be secretary
of state to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge Gresham, 10 MI
the vacancy caused by the promotion
of Attorney General 0lney Judson
Harmon, of Cincinnati. was appointed
to the latter office.
THE OAK and Pau districts of France
were flooded, on the 7th, by heaVy
rain.storns and overnowing streams
Large tracts of territory were SUD-
merged, factories stopped, and railway
traffic almost entirely suspended NO
loss of life was reported.
FAILURES in the United States dur'
ing the week ended the 7th' as re-
ported by r. e. Dun a Co.. were i'o'
against ZIG for the same week last year.
In Canada the failures were %, against
40 last year. II
THE entire family of August II,
Christensen, seven in all, and samuel
Wright, a guest, at Evanston, Chicago
were poisoned, on the 9th, by eatns
Frankfurter sausage. Two oil 'ne
children died.
ApylcEs from Formosa indicate ',a'
chaos is rapidly giving way 10 oruel
now that the Japanese troops h"ve
reached Taipehfu and established heau
quarters at that point. The natives ~
Formosa are submitting readily 10 'he
rule of the Japanese.
The jury in the case OF roi'oe ,, ia
spector Mclaughlin, tried before Jus
tice Barrett in the New York court OF
common pleas, returned a verde. .sa .,
entity of extortion, on the night OF 'ne
Eth. Mclaughlin was committed "
the Tombs pending argument OF nv
tion for q new trial. Ill,
MIR. W. H. PueH, Of Ohio recently
appointed auditor Of the treasury A..
the navy department, qualiheu' ou .,as W..
7th, and entered upon his new o"''ea.
THE British steamer Devaur weus
ashore, on the nth, on Briggs ree,, oa
the Donegahadee coast OF ir'," .'as.
Her passengers, 400 in NUMBER "'''
landed safely. ,.,.. ~ ,be |
Hon. ]. W. FORSTER, adviser OF .ne
chinese peace ENJOYS, has leit Shahs