Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-07-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

A Summary OF Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
SPAIN has concluded to pay the Mora {
indemnity to the amount of the 81, 500.
200 agreed upon some years ago The
value of the property coniscated was
shout double this sum, and forty per
rent. of the amount allowed goes to
lhe syndicate OF attorneys that prose-
'uted the case, leaving for the original
owners about one fourth of what right
W belongs to them after twenty years
o: litigation,
MARY FRosT ORMsBY, of New York,
who was appointed delegate for the
fifth time to the international peace
conference which was to have been
held at Brussels August 16, has re
teived cable dispatch stating that
The meeting has been postponed until |
Aext spring
THREE persons were killed and
twenty injured, on the nth, by the
collapse of a bridge just south of
Monument, Col, precipitating south
bound freight train on the Santa Fe
railroad to the bottom of the creek 80
Ieet below.
The jury in the case of Woodruff
parmelee, on trial at Traverse City,
Mich. charged with the murder of
Julia Curtis, after being out twenty
hours, returned verdict on the
ll7th, of murder in the first degree.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY GRAHAM, of
Philadelphia, stated, on the l6th that
ii. II. Holmes would not be surren-
,.ered to the Toronto authorities, sutli-
rient evidence having been gathered
to prove that the body found in the
uallow Hill-street house in Philadel-
. phia was that of Pitezel. lie had no
v doubt that Holmes would be CON
| victed of murder.
4 TWENTY-FIVE fremen were buried
n nnder falling walls during fire on
4 Front and Walnut streets in Cincin-
natl, on the 18th. OF these two were
taken out dead and all Of the Others
e more or less injured.
l. On the 18th the president appointed
4, Lieut. w. i. r. King, corps OF engi-
If ncers, u. S. A., a member of the Mis-
E. bouri River commission, and Hiram
y, seymour, second assistant engineer
rs TIE Cuban junta in New York city
has negotiated for 1000 pounds o
dynamite to be used by the insurgents
e. in Cuba next winter in their campaign
!" against the Spaniards,
10 Mr. JOHN MORLEY, formerly chie
y .ecretarv for Ireland, who was de
" feated for reelection in Newcastle
" left that city, on the 18th, to JOIN HI
u family in Scotland. Crowds OF his ac
mirers went to the station to bid mr.
he farewell and sang the song "Nill \
IS. No Come Back Again?' many OF thos
10. present shedding tears
il. REPRESENTATIVE of all the woole
OF and worsted concerns IN the clty
ry Woonsocket r., l., agreed, on III
tn 18th, to grant their help, whose wage
were reduced in 1893, small lncrea'
to take effect August LIST.
as, The Niagara Falls & Lewistown Eie
o., tric railroad, one OF the most marVe
In Gus pieces of engineering ana fop
ole building in the country, was lorna l,
tu- ,pened at Niagara Falls, ~ y, Oh u
OF 18th.
to AcABIE dispatch from Calcutta,
the 18th. announced the death at th
n,ace of Rev, James Liddell Philip
~. the widely-known Baptist miss'onar
''o M details of the event were gwen
en- No "e'"'A' .:, -.
we. SENTENCE of death by electricity W
ave nassed. in New York city, on the ls'
yer unou Maria Barbere, who' on Aprll
.ha ant tho throat of Dominica Cataldo
bootblack, with whom she hao oeep -,
np and who had cast her on /
ary rxecutiou was set for the week peg
ac- ming August 49, 49,,
her nrspATcu from Santiago de Cu'
'ass IN the 18th, said; "Ihe repor. ''',
rae lated that the insurgent leader
lin. ,on;o Maceo had been wounded
ver- captured by Spanish troops Is
true" .
..a HENRY IRVING, the actor; Walter
~ ~" SAINT the novelist, and Lewis Mor'
~, VI wort IN Windsor, ON the lSth'
rar M we're formally invested with 'he I'd
v;th of knighthood by the queen :.
,oss TRUSTED messenger neatly rop
eavy the New YORK iio' "'I .,ata in the day
'''e' ,he Chemical bank with check
s,o ooO signed by G. G. Rowland b
Du- ness manager. 1t was LOT 'no wy
nth. nav roll. The check was casheu
make The money slowed away In 'he '.
inst rarried by the messenger, VINO
Men disappeared. A.,
on, pulLApELrHlA advices OF the
olice stated that II. II. Holmes 'ntenue' ~
light plead guilty to the murder ,,o,na., oi me'
.ance in that state would prevent
,rime being extradited to stand 1rlai n.." u"
$3.50 charge of murder OF the ri,e1o. ~..
18th, dren in Toronto, Ont, anu os
Iicted means he might escape the gaiiow
1 ,tat
rning there is no capital punishment III ~
Jnion igan. Ia. rocoi,
had Tur state department has receiV
the report from Consul oliara az On oa, q :
S last d.l Norte, Greytown, inclosins
a. of decree prohibiting the lahai' M
chinese on the eastern coast 0, NV ~,
'corr, gua and providing for depor'a'''
n the chose arriving hereafter
ID by W. m',n n,orster gas well, near
. pre- ondria. ind, which has been oe,'
ge D. sarth over 4, ooO, 900 cubic feet Oh
ntlfs tural gas daily the past month";
evr last under control by means y, y
Gould iasV ~ large force OF wor
. that ch,no'S attached to one OF tn
I'M the mains Of the town, and It's a,,av, nasn
resistible power has th"S ''''
.r;buted over large area
AZ the SIX PERSONS lost their lives, o, ol
~ no ssed ,sth bv the capsizing OF the,r y, ~
of In. Ormsby broad, near "'
t held gland. o,rac,
he net WHILE workmen were engaR''
sos ap- work on a sewer ea1'' ,oo feet of
am amor. or son, 50 n.d Al in Two men, Dennis kya
"ppo. cave" r,.,.,,ao were killed out