Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-10-05
NEWS AND NOTES,
Personal AND GENERAL.

W AAi Poi uAub LNGuIS,
Personal AND GENERAL.
IN the ring built for the bull fights
at Atlanta, Ca, u fierce duel with
swords took place, on the cath, be-
tween two Mexican bull fighters, Gem
ero Zetnicko and Don Carlos Garcia.
rival aspirants for the smiles of pretty
American girl, who acts as cashier at
the Mexican village on the exposition
grounds. Garcia received several Sc
we're but not dangerous wounds.
SIR MCKENZIE BowELI, Dominion
premier, went to Winnipeg recently to
offer compromise to Mr. Greenway,
the Manitoba premier, on the paro-
chial school question, but the Mani
toba government refused to consider
any compromise measure.
For the first time in history Uncle
Sans publications are on the market.
They are advertised for sale at speci-
fed prices, and anybody who wants
them can buy them. The new bureau
OF documents will issue a catalogue
every month, giving list of whatever
has been printed by the government
during the previous thirty days.
SECRETARY lIoKE SMITH is RESPONSE
BILE for the announcement that Presi.
dent Cleveland will shortly set at rest
all talk of his ambition for a third
term. According to this story, the sec
rotary gives it out that Mr.. Cleveland
has no aspirations for another term
and that he will soon publicly announce
his position.
GEORGE Brown, the defaulting treas
urer of Springfield township, Muslsin-
gum county, o., has disappeared, and
Is supposed to have fled to Mexico
The deficit, it is thought, will amount
to nearly SEC, 900.
The king OF Corea has granted ex-
elusive mining rights in the provinces
of Pyong and DO for twenty-five years
to an American trading company. The
company is to pay one-fourth of its
profits into the royal treasury,
THE marked growth of Americas S
silk purchases from japan during the
past ten years is quite feature in the
japanese trade. These purchases in
creased from l5,5O0oO yen in 1885 to
70, 800, 900 yen in 1894
A DISPATCH from Kingston, Jamaica,
on the 25th, said that Capt. Williams,
commander of the British ship Lady
Blake. had been arrested by the au-
thorities at Cape Ilayti for alleged
smuggling. The officers who arrested
him handled him so roughly as to en-
danger his life; and in fact, he came
very near being murdered,
Mr.. MYoDo YUGtRo, Japanese jour.
nalist, has shown that n cele brated
Chinese poem, written several hun
dred years ago by Liu Ting Che,
bears really striking resemblance tc
"The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell
Holmes II is scarcely conceivable
that the American poet could have had
ANY luCd VI IlC tlliltpN ppCbp Nol"
A DISPATCH from Constantinople, o.:
the 25th, said the town of Huyeda, in
the province of Yemen, had been over
whclmed by IA landslide from noun
tain near by which killed 100 persons
THE steamer Sylvia, with the Peary
Arctic expedition party on board
sailed from st. Johns, n. T., on the
25th, for New York.
| A TERRIBLE wind and rain storm
struck Barnum & Bailey's circus tents
at Burlington, Ia, on the 25th, com
pletely wrecliing the main tent, an
imal tent and boarding tent The even
ing performance had just ended, and
the audience and employees escaped un
hurt.
ApyIcEs were received from Sar
Francisco, on the Goth, announcing Tho
arrest of L. Il. Clark, the diamond
broker, who last month ran away
with $4,000 worth of diamonds lef
with him by Denver (Col.l citizens
On the 25th United States Secre
Service Detective Louis Summers ar
rested Capt. Henry Il. Patton, foreman
of the Patton Manufacturing Co., 10
Gated in the Indiana penitentiary q
Jeffersonyille, on the charge of circu
latipp counterfeit money manufac
tured by the conyicts. Patton con
fessed.
Mrs. LANaTRY, who expects to re
cciye divorce from her husband abou
October 0, will thereafter take up he
residence on her Lake county (Cal'
ranch, and devote her time to tn
breeding of fine stock, the growing o
fruits and the cultivation of gardel
truck.
SIX MEN were killed outright an
five fatally injured by an explosion o
dynamite in the Belgian mine in AIDE
laidc park, 5 miles from Leadville, Col.
on the Goth. The explosion caused
cave-in under which the miners wer
crushed to death.
In the United States court at Gutl
rie, Okla, Mrs. w. c. Taylor was, o
the Goth, acquitted of the charge
murder, the jury being out but tw
minutes. Mrs. Taylor shot and kille
William Henry Harrison on Februar
% last, while the latter was trying
force an entrance to her house.
DURING recess in the Irish nationt
convention in Chicago, on the 26tl
nearly 1000 of those present signe
: petitions to congress In favor OF recof
nizing the Cuban patriots us belligel
ents.
THE Venezuelan authorities at Cars
cas- refused to interfere with a meetin
of Young men held for the purpose
organizing club to aid the Cuban il
surpents, and it is stated that til
Spanish minister to Venezuela will n
sign and leave the county. Thus Vel
ezucla may be the first to recognl'
the struggling Cubans.
THE Standard Oil Co. has lease
al. 900 acres of land in the Rugby tra'
in Tennessee, where oil and gas hay
recently been discovered in payif
quantities.
On the morning of the 9sth Mart
Adams, of Cincinnati, who caused u
death of John Dinner by putting stryc
nine into pail Of beer, was hanged
the Columbus penitcntiary annex
1905. His neck was not broken, al
he died Of strangulation in twelve al
one.half minutes. Adams was indlffe