Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-02-16

oil the sugar retineries In PhiladeI
phia cut the price of refined supar
one-slxteenth of cent on the 18th 'rb
reduction is said 20 have been causo
by Moelenhauer, the independent re
nneroi New York, and subseouen
reduction by lIavemcver.
oNthe sth Ex-Empress Frederick q
Germany invited Miss Anna Boecl,er
thc only woman saved from the wrecl
OF the Elbe, to visit Osborne, on th,
llth' 70 meet the queen and herself.
IhE British brig Nelson Price went
ashore, on the sth, near Douglas, Isle
OF Man. 1t was thought She would oo
to pieces and all her crew be drowned
before help could reach her.
lion John L. STEVENS, ex-minister
to Hawaii, died at his home in Angus.
Ia. Me-, at o'clock on the morning ot
the Sth, OF valvular disease of the
heart. ''e
A f11IMAN car was wrecked and, to-
gether with another coach, burned.
and number Of persons were injured
" q rear-end collision on q Grand
Trunk train about mile west Of
Weston, Ont, on the sth.
IHE storm that ragged all over the
United States on the 8th did more
damage to life and property than any
other in the last fifty years, not even
excepting the storm Of March, 1888. 1t
spread over four times as much terri.
tory, and there came with it an extra.
ordinary accompaniment of death and
wreck and fire. 1t impeded travel in
al directions and paralyzed railway
traffic in nearly every city in the coun.
try.
NO WORD had been received of the
French liner La Gascogne, seven davs
overdue, up to the morning of the 9th,
and the gravest fears We're entertained
Tor her safety. The marine under
writers had raised the rate of insurance
on the ships cargo to 20 and 90 per
cent, indicating palmer than words
can tell that these experienced men
We're alarmed.
ON the Sth the vacant rank of major
general, caused by the promoti IN of
Maj. Gen Schofeld to the grade of lien.
tenant-general of the army, was filed
oy the nomination of Brig Zen. Thomas
u. Knger. Gen. Ruger is in command
'f the department of the Missouri, with
headquarters in Chicago.
A TIDAL wave swept up the coasts O,
thode Island Massachusetts and
Maine, on the Sth, doing an immense
mount OF damage to coasting craft
md inundating many of the coast
owns and villages. Among the yes.
els broken up was the presidents boat
iuth, at Buzzard's Bay.
DISPATCHES of the sth announced
nat the Japanese, having captured
verything in sight at Wei.lIai.Wei
nd destroyed the Chinese fleet there.
Immediately turned their attention to
he-Foo, with the apparent intention
adding that place to the list of their I
onquests. {
MoroRMAN JOHN FIArLEY was fear ,
'lly and probably fatally injured at c
T. Louis, on the Sth, by being caught v
etween two cars and rolled their en- a
re length, the space being only eight
ten inches.
GONZALES DE QUEsADA, secretary of +,
e cuban revolutionary party, lately
rived at Tampa, Fla, says there will
successful revolution in Cubo
thin six months. Qucsada saws Cuba
nually pays $50, 100000 to Spain, and
ly one-tenth is spent on the island .
vernment. General dissatisfaction. y
a result of poor prices, bad crops, W
gh taxes and constant preying bv 10 10
ndits, has made the life of Cubans al. III
,st unbearable. al
lHE body on which was found docu- r.
'nts designating it as that of Ed ~ ~
rd Muscoritz, a seconded bin pas. q,
lger on the Elbe, was identified, on e.,
10th, by the true Edward Mus -
'ltz as that of Daniel Guttmann. one w
the three brothers who had embez.
q nearly 20o,O 900 tlorins in Hungary -,
were fleeing to America. Wv
HE Red Star liner Rhineland. scv- ~
days overdue, arrived at Quarap. 49,
e, ). L., on the 10th. She was n mass -,
Ice on the starboard side, which ,,;,
ched as high rs the lower mast, o.,
"a, and ropes in the rigging an inch th
diameter were ten inches thi.l, ~,
h ice. a''
N the 9th the associated banks of ~.
v York held S3S, 766, ,2225 in excess of ~:
25-per-cent. rule. ", W.