Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-16

- 49, nv vi tIlt Olli, WHICH Is
reported to have caused much damage
III many localities.
HEALTH OFFICER WRIGHT, Of New
haven, tonn., and Dr. }. 7. G. Foster,
one Of the lecturers in the Yale med.
zeal school, gave orders, on the 10th,
tliat every student in Yale university
should be vaccinated at once unless he
could furnish proof Of having beer
vaccinated within two years.
DR. FREDERICK Cook, the well-known
explorer, has come forward with a new
plan Tor accomplishing the conquest of
The antarctic region. With Il small
oand OF scientists he expects to sail
irom New York September next and
1t may be three years before the expe,
dltion returns.
FIRE destroyed the shaft house oftha
old Abe mine at White Oaks, N. M, on
the 10th, the flames communicating to
The shafting in the mine which was
also completely destroyed. Eight of
the nine men at the time in the mine
were believed to have been suffocated
PAT SULLIVAN, aged 80, Of Fall
River, Mass, went to bed with silver
half dollar, quarter and a nickel IN
ms mouth, all of which he swallowed
during the night and, on the morning
OF the 10th, was found by his wife cold
in death.
A WHALE about seventy-fve feet in
length and evidently an old settler was
killed off Nahant, Mass, on the 9th,
by picked crew of experienced men
made up in Nahant for the purpose.
TIE Alice rubber mill at Woon-
socket, II. l., of the United States Rub
ber trust, and the works at MiGlvillc,
Mass, resumed operations on the llth.
THE associated banks of New York
city held S22, ,7sS,630 in excess of the
25-per-ccnt. rule on the 9th.
TnE Dominion comptroller of Gus
toms has decided that electricity GEN
Grated in the United States for use in
Canada, as proposed at Niagara, is sub
| ject to 20 per cent, duty.
! WILLIAM w. MAGUIRK, who disap-
pcared lnysteriously from Salem, Ind. j,
twenty-one years ago, and was sup
posed to have been murdered at New
Albany on Louisville, arrived home on
the 10th, Maguirlt left ostensibly to
procure his wedding. suit, but failed to
return or apprise anyone OF ihis where
aboutS.
THE father of John IIcitz, the dude
burglar who was arrested at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 10th, by the Ken
lucky authorities for breaking ont of
the penitentiary at Frankfort five years
ago, has employed some good lawyers
and will fight bitterly against his son
being taken back to Kentucky.
Mrs. SUSAN DAuTRtCH, aged 60 years,
who was bitten in the hand by a
strange dog which She took ont of the
cold during the February blizzard,
died at Rcading, Pa, on the 10th. She
showed all the symptoms of a person
atlii icted with rabies
Aunt BErsEy SAUNDERS, conspicu.
ous in the annals of Connecticut
longevity, celebrated the one hundred
and fifth anniversary of her birth on
the 1lth. She is ending, her long days
at the Norwalks salmshouse, in which
institution she sought refuge many
yeere ego. q,
SHORTLY after midnight of the 1oth
the Ohio river packet Andes, which
was intended for the excursion trade
in st. Louis next summer, took fire ly.
ing about . miles below Pittsburgh
Pa, and was burned to the waters
edge.
CuAuNcEy JONES, prominent farm
er, living near Battle Ground, Ind.
was gored TO death, on the morning o
the 10th by vicious cow. He wa,
found ifelcss in the cowshcd two hours
after he left the house. Mr.. Jones was
73 wears Old, and would have celebratcc
his golden wedding in May.
WILLIAM CURRY and John Crawford
Young men who have been spending
the winter at Juno, Fla, hunting, wer,
attacked by il panther on the evening
of the 9th. Curry received wounds
which are thought to be fatal, Will,
Crawford will lose an eye.
Ar 1870 a. m of the 18th an eXplo
sion blew out the whole front of The
high and manual training school n
IA, G,IS
The loss will be about $780, 900.