Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-09-07

WV A, HARPER, of Butler county.
confined in the Allegheny county iail
IN Pittsburgh, Pa, ona charge Of as.
Nault and battery preferred by his
VIE committed suicide, on the Soth.
oS jumping from the top tier of cells
TO 'he stone floor As feet below. lie
Struck squarely upon his head. and
death was almost instantaneous.
ADVIcEs from Behring sea by the
steamer Bertha, arrived at San Fran.
cisco on the Both, report the Whaling
catch as follows; Newport, s whales;
Rosario, A. Jesse II, Freeman, i; VIM
Baylies, I; Mary D. Hume, 5; Wander
er, |, and Triton 2
InE Americas cup committee an
nounced, on the night Of the 3Otb.
that it had selected the Yacht De.
fender as the representative of the
New York Yacht club in the contest
with Valkyrie III. The committee de-
cided without dissent that Defender
had too clearly demonstrated her SUI
pcriority over Vigilant to leave the
choice in doubt
hNIGHTs TEMrLAR arc said to be
planning the esta ablishment of great
national university for both sexes, to
be controlled by and in the interest of
all masons. with permanent endow-
ment OF $50 100000. The scheme con-
templates the erection of a sufficient
number of fire-proof university build
lngs to accommodate 10000 students.
The treasury department, on the
3oth, received telegram from the col
lector OF customs at Cedar Keys, Fla,
saying that at the instigation of the
Spanish consul at Tampa he had seized,
at point 90 miles from Cedar Keys,
$50 Remington rifles, a quantity of
cartridges and eleven kegs of powder,
which were to have been shipped TO
Cuba
CHOLERA is said to be spreading rap
idly and has appeared IN almost every
village in the government Of Volhynia,
Russia The peasants are taking refuge
in the woods and The burial of the
dead is made in common graves with
out funeral rites.
ALoNzoJ, WHlTEMAN. formerly mayor
of Duluth Mimi, ex-member of the
Minnesota legislature, ex-banker and
millionaire, who dissipated a fortune
in few years, was sentenced at San
Francisco on the 3Oth, to nine years
Imprisonment for forgery,
The steamer Monowai, which ar.
rived at San Francisco, on the night
of the 30th, did not stop at Honolulu,
as usual. When off that port the
steamer was hailed by the American
consul in a small boat, who announced
that cholera had broken out in Homo
lulu among the natives and Chinese.
OFFICIAL advices received in Paris,
on the 3Oth, were to the effect that
the Chinese government had granted
the French missions in the province of
Sze-Chuen an indemnity of 1000, 900
francs
THE associated banks of New York
city held $50, 149, ,925 in excess of the re-
quiremeuts of the 25-per-cent. rule on
the 3lst.
THE Russian minister OF the interior
has received reports that cholera pre-
walls in Vladivostock.
AUTHORITIES at San Sebastian, Spain,
are taking every precaution to prevent
foreign agitators from entering the
Basque provinces, many of them hav-
ing done so under the pretense that
the object of their coming was to attend
bull fights.
On the 3Ist the United States treas
urer mailed l,l07 checks, aggregating
SIG, s22. 80, in payment of the interest
due on the 1st on the bonds of the
funded loan of 1891, continued at . per
cent
TIE state department, on the 3lst, re-
ceived dispatch from Mr.. Cooper,
United States dispatch agent at San
Francisco, confirming the news that
cholera had broken out at Honolulu.
THE Kansas state sanitary board
and United States officials are wrest-
ling with several cases of Texas fever,
All the cases located have been quaran-
tined and an investigatio instituted
as to the origin of the various out
breaks.
EARLY on the morning of the lst
Buffalo, n. y, was visited by $780,
OO0 connagration. The fire started in
the Academy of Music, which, to-
gether with several business houses,
WAS consumed