Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-09-21
lEWS AND NOTES,
4 Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

librarian IN Omaha is alleged TO have
died from consumption contracted in
handling books into which consumn.
Tive persons had coughed. Iflibrarians
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RS are also Ia peril. Perhaps n news.
paper, fresh from the press, is the
safest reading that can he INDUCED in
while the world is IN its present state
nf health.
lIiE Norwegian steamer Kama was
Junk in u collision with the Spanish
steamer Manila, near Flushing, on the
10th, and six of her crew were lost,
WALTER Scorr, a leading druggist
hnd business man OF Des Moines. Ia.
was forced to make an assignment on
the 10th. AS soon as the papers were
filed he went to his room and tool,
prussic acid and died shortly after.
His failure had been forced as result
of the drug store war.
PRINCE voN HoHEYLoHE, chancellor
OF the German empire, arrived in st.
Petersburg on the 10th. lie was re-
ceived at the railway station by Prince
Radolin, German ambassador to Rus
sla, and escorted to the German EN-
bassy.
The death Of Mr.. j. C. Ashbury. for
merly member of the British house
of commons and well-known yachts
man, was announced in London on the
llth. Mr.. Ashbury brought the yacht
Cambria to America in 1870 aud unsuc-
cessfully competed for tn. Americas
cup In 1871 he again contested for
the cup with the yacht Livonia and
won one out of the four races sailed
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer and author, recently elected n
member OF parliament, arrived IN New
York city, on the llth. He was met
at the dock by Maj Pond and Il
half dozen newspaper men,
By the ridiculous mistake Of band
OF train robbers in detaching the wrong
car, the robbery OF the express on a
Rio Grande Western train at Crevasse
siding, In Colorado, near the Utah state
line, at 2;35 o'clock on the morning of
the llth, was prevented. After the
robbers discovered their mistake they
became panic-striclten and took to the
woods.
A DISPATCH fran Christiana, on the
llth, said that the yacht Windward, OF
the Jackson-lIarmsworth expedition,
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the Arctic ocean, having broken out Of
the Ice belt between Franz Josef Land
and Barents sea.
By the explosion of ammunition in
caisson in Louisville, Ky. early on
the morning of the 1lth, four members
of Battery A Louisville Legion were
killed and two wounded,
THE Western Union Telegraph Co.,
on the llth, declared the regular
quarterly dividend OF "a per cent,
payable October Is.
THE grand lodge Of Good Templars
of Illinois, in session at Bloomington,
on the llth, entered upon the discus.
sion of the proposition to establish an
orphans home for the jurisdiction of
Illinois,
A DISPATCH from Athens, on the
llth, said severe shocks of earthquake
were felt on the island Of Euboea, in
the .fgcan sea, but no damage w"s
done.
The Marion county Qnd.) gra"d jury
returned an indictment, on one l-tl'
against II. Ii. Holmes for the murder
of little Howard Pitezel at lrVlnstoh,
On the same day the grand jury Of
Philadelphia county Pa indicted
Holmes, alias MudGett, for the murder
in philadelphia of Benjamin i. Pite-
eel.
OS the llth ex-Congressman John a.
McShane, of Omaha, and f. II. Culver,
a Chicago attorney, were arrested ii
the latter city, on warrants charging
them with fraud in real estate deal.
A REPORT from Havana, on the llth,
stated that a great battle had been
fought in Puerto Principe, and that
the Spanish had been defeated and the
capital captured by the insurgents
MIR. JAMES GORDON BENEFITS Au
Train won the international PriX Pol
kaicbick for harnessed trotters on The
Neully track in France, on the 1lth
and his mare Helen Leyburn, was
becond.
A pIsPArCH from Tegucigalpa, Hon
liuras, on the 18th, announced series
of the most horrible seismic convul-
sions ever known in that country
During the shocks of earthquake,
which continued for days, illuminated
at intervals, by flames which burst
from the mountain sides, hundreds OF
lives were lost, accompanied by great
destruction of property.
DURING terrible thunderstorm in
the vicinity of Scituate. R. l., on the
l2th, the famous Gen. Lafayette tree
was split in two. The tree is the one
under which the marquis ate his dim
ner while the continental troops were
marching from Rhode Island to Con-
necticut
A HEAVY earthquake, lasting ten
seconds. prevailed in lower east Ten
nesse, along the North Carolina state
line. at 8 o'clock on the morning OF
the 18th. The country in that section
being mountainous, but little damage
was done.
DIR. ORLANDO Il BRADFORD and John
II. Nixon, alleged counterfeiters who
were arrested in New York city, on
the 7th, were given an examination
on the l2th. Bradford was held in S2S,'
600 and Nixon in $4,000 bail.
TIE United States grand jury at Will
mington, Del, ,on the l9th, returned true
bills against the accused Cuban MI
busters, including Ralph de soto. the
cigar dealer and bondsman for num-
ber of the accused men. The case will
come up on the 18th, to which date the
petit jury was discharged.
A PARTY of nen went down Shaft
No. 4 of the Osceola mine at Houghton,
Mich. on the 18th, and found twenty
three dead miners at the fourteenth
level and two at the third level Five
were still missing
THE Columbia Liberty bell started
from Chicago, on the 13th, on It's trip
around the world. 1t lett on special
train, going first to Atlanta, Ca,
where IL will remain until the close OF
the exposition. After that it will be
taken through the southern states and
Mexico. From there it will GO to Eu'