Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-01-26

oNE man was killed and three in.
1ured by boiler explosion in the 4o-
men mill of the Carnegie steel works
at Homestead, Pa, on the 10th. The
boiler room was completely wrecked
entailing loss of $4,000
IiIE National Farmers Protective
Federation of the United States" was
organized in Chicago on the 10th. The
loliowlng officers were elected: Presi
dent, }. B. Furrow, of Iowa; vice-pres-
ldent' f. II. Palmer, of Illinois; secre,
tary, Milton George, of Chicago; treas.
urer, W. X. Hostetter, of Illinois. The
organization is to be nonpolitical and
nonsecret.
Two OF Judge Ricls' ATTORNEYS,
virgil +. Kline and Judge William b.
SKINNER, left Cleveland, O., forWashinp-
ton, on the 10th, to look after the inter-
ests OF their client. Itwas said that the
action OF the house judiciary commit
tee recommending impeachment pro-
ceedings prompted the trip.
SIXTEEN or seventeen car loads of
supplies had been donated at New Or
leans, up to the nth, for the relief of
Nebraska sufferers, and additional do
nations were still pouring in
The Idaho legislature passed rcso-
lntipn on the 18th, to submit the wom-
an suffrage question to vote of the
people of the state.
GOLD Withdrawals at New York, on
the 18th, for export, amounted to ST.
100000, reducing the gold reserve in
the United States treasury at the close
OF business on that day to S74, 1886.
PRESIDENT FAuRE, on the 18th, sum
moned MN. Brisson and Lacour for
the purpose of comforting with them
in regard to the formation of a new
ministry. Later in the day NJ. Bour-
geols consented to try to form a cabi-
net.
THE vatican is entirely satisfied with
the election of NJ. Felix Faure to the
French presidency, and tho pope, on
the 18th, instructed the papal nuncio
in Paris to congratulate him on his
success.
Miss MARY L. STEVENSON, the 81
year-old daughter of Vice President
Adlai E. Stevenson, died, after a lin
gering and painful illness, at Ashe-
vile, n. G., on the 18th.
On the 18th the miners organization
of Massillon, o., through its president,
issued an appeal to the public, in which
it said: "Our people have been exist
ing on light rations for months, and
the limit of endurance has been
reached. Our storekeepers have car
ried many along, until now they are
about bankrupt. 1t will be month
before the men have any pay. They
can not work when their stomachs are
empty; hence this appeal"
TIE first and second Japanese armies
are said to be working under a mu-
tual arrangement regarding operations
against New Chwang and King Kow.
THE weekly statement of the New
York associated banks for the week
ended on the 10Th shows the following
changes: Reserve, increase, 81, ,672, ,S75;
loans, increase, S640, 800; specie, in
crease, S2,442,6 900; legal tenders, in
crease, $500, 100; deposits, increase,
&c. 900, 300; circulation, increase, Sl4,-
400
GEORGE DEvoY, of London, Ont, died,
on the Goth, making the hfty-seventh
death from the terrible powder ex-
plosion at Butte, Mont. On the same
day an additional quantity of charred
bones were taken from the wreck,
The coroner began his investigation
on the 2lst.
The steamer State of Missouri struck
a rock and sank in the Ohio river, near
Alton, Ind, on the evening of the 18th.
Thirty-fve persons were reported to
have been drowned,
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says a
japanese war ship fired upon Tcng-
Chow-Foo on the 10Th. No damage
was done.
OK the 10th the banks of New York
city held Si5, ,465, O75 in excess of the re-
quircments of the 2j-per-cent rule.
THE Pullman Palace Car Co. has de-
clared dividend of two dollars, pay
able February Is,
THE president, on the 10th, nomi'
mated James Dillman, of Tennessee, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Ecuador.
THE Newcastle Pa) Tin Plate Co.,
having signed the scale, the mill
started up on the 2lst.