Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-08-17

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rat Kun field. at Huntington, W. Va,
was drilled in, on the 9th, and proved
Ihe biggest gusher ever struck in that
territory. 1t is good for 200 barrels a
uay and probably more. The Cross
NO. l. OF the same company, Is good for
500 barrels per day.
HE ninety-nine-year lease of the
Lndell hotel property in ST. Lor;s
mas been Cancelled and the propert y
sold outright for S539. .j0l. st Louis
capitalists are said TO be the pur-
chaserS.
LADY ptNNING, a relative of Earl
spencer who was recently arrested in
London on charge OF forgery, was.
on the 9th, committed for trial at the
Bow-street police court
lHE post-ofiice department has in.
structed postmasters that ordinary let
ters addressed to any foreign conn
try except Canada and Mexico must
be forwarded whether postage is pre-.
paid or not, All other mailablc mat.
ter however, must be prepaid, at least
partially.
AN engine and twenty loaded coal
ears on the Ohio Southern railroad
went through bf.dge over the Paint
river, near Bainbridge, o., on the
llth, falling 25 feet to the water
below, which at that point is 80 feet
deep The engineer, fireman and a
brakeman were buried under 400 tons
OF coal, and it is thought that the re.
mains OF four tramps who were steal
ing ride are also at the bottom of
the river.
A DISCHARGED American seaman is
responsible for the statement that the
American steamer James Woodall,
which sailed frGic Baltimore, Md, on
July 10, ostensibly for Progress5, Mex,
successfully ran the blockade of rev.
enue cutters and war ships and landed
lj3 men and a quantity of munitions
on Cuban shores in the interest of the
revoutionists.
NJ p, MoLLER's organ works at Ha.
gerstown, Md, were completely de.
stroyed by fire on the 10th. The build
ing was two-story brick, and GOV.
cred an acre of ground. One hun
drcd reed organs, valued at $50 each,
were destroyed, Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance slight Fifty employees lost their
tools.
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held s3s, 94O,77 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-
percent rule.
A REPORT was current in Madrid, on
the llth, that the United States gov.
ernment had asked that interest be
paid on the Mora claim, and that the
Spanish government had decided to
refuse the request.
GE0EGE W. LoEHMER for several
years book keeper at the Cleveland Co.,
city workhOuse, was ARRESTED, on the
morning of the llth, on the charge OF
embezzement of city money. AT
o'clock in the evening he was found
dead in his cell at the Central police
station under circumstances which in.
dcated suicide.
HARVEY MERRITT, recently pardoned
out of the Georgia penitentiary has
entered suit against the penitentiary
lessees for damages for injuries in
hicted by treatment that would put to
blush some of the atrocities practiced
in Siberia. Merritt is permanently dis.
abed.
An American woman, booked as Mrs
Stanley was arrested on board the
steamship Etruria at Liverpool, on the
10TH charged with the theft Of jewel
ry valued at $4,000 from Mrs, Glib
bons whose guest she had been in
London The jewelry was recovered.
ADoTPH SUTRo, mayor of San Fran
cisco, has offered to the California state
university real estate to the value
of 81 800, 900 on which to erect buildings
for collegiate and library purposes,
New York city made record, on the
llth, of nine persons drowned by bath
ing and boating ca sualties, and four
teen others were rescued when in i'm
minent peril.
The Central Stamping Co, at New
ark, n. j., sustained loss of s500,0
on the llth, by fire, with insurance o.
about half that amount Other losses
incident to the conflagration will foot
up $50, 600,
OWING to the recent death OF his wife
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage did not preacl
on the l1th, the first time he has failed
to do so on the Sabbath in many years