Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-04-04

FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 27th
as refsrtcd by 4. @. Dun & Co., were
250, asiieainst e34 for the correspond
Ing week Of last year. For Canada the
failures were 30, against AZ for the
Same week last year.
THE funeral service over the remains
Of the late Gen. Thomas Il. Casey, U.
Il III, took place, on the 27th, at the
fah9i ily residence In Washington city
THEs senate committee on public
buildings and grounds, on the 27th
ordered favorable reports on bills an.
thorizing public buildings at Oakland,
Call, to cost $3.50, 900, and at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, to cost 81, 100000.
CoUNr MoRTEKA, leader of the Cuban
reform party in Madrid, died on the
27th.
THE cut-down In few of the smaller
Rhode Island cotton mills Is not to be
general. The large corporations deny
that general reduction Of wages Ia
contemplated.
THF schooner Matte L. Ford was
capsized' and sunk in the Cohnansey y
river. near Bridgeton, N. J.. during a
squall on the 9Th. Two Of the crew,
Newell Dutch and Frank Mocre, were
PRESIDENT KURGER, ofthe Transvaal,
has issued an official denial of the re-
ports. which have found currency in
England, that a strained condition of
relations exists between himself and
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. Presi-
dent Kruger says further that he has
not declined to visit England.
A HANDSOME woman committed sui
eide by shooting, on the night of the
97th, near the Seventy-second street
entrance to Central park, New York
city. Her clothing wns of exception
ally rich quality, and the police be-
lieve that her position in society was
above the commonplace. She appeared
to be 25 years old.
CHEF OF POLICE CoNLIN, of New
York city, has issued some instructions
about enforcing the Raines liquor tax
law. The chief concluded to give sa-
loon-keepers a few days grace befor
putting the new law into operation.
EARLY on the morning of the Goth,
some fiend in human guise entered the
home of Alvin Stone, an aged, wealthy
and respected farmer living near the
village of Talmage, o., and with some
blunt instrument and knife, brutally
murdered the aged couple in their
beds. Two daughters and the family
chores man were then attacked in their
beds and fatally beaten about the
head. A third daughter escaped by
hiding. The eldest daughter, after re-
ceiving fatal injuries, ran quarter of
a mile to neighbor's and gave the
alarm.
DURING the burning of hospital
adjoining the Gothic church St Louvre,
at Lille, France, on the Goth, four of
the patients succumbed to fright and
died in their cots. Ten sappers, or
dered to save the medicines Of the
hospital, drank quantity of poison,
mistaken for schnapps, and four of them
died in great agony despite the efforts
of physicians.
MISS MARGARET RYAN, 60 years old,
was fatally injured by jumping from a
window, and died on her way to the
hospital, and one woman and two men
suffooaoud- tire burning of
brick dwelling and store
in New York city on the Goth.
WESTON, w. Vs., was visited by
conflagration, on the night of the
2sth, in which property, comprising
the principal portion of the city and
valued Mt from four to six hundred
dollars, was consumed.
A DISPATCH from Lima, on the goth,
severe earthquake in
Chill on the previous day.
News from Rome, on the Goth, de-
clared that Sig. Crispi's opposition had
become formidable and mem
aced the very existence of the Italian
cabinet. The only hope left for the
government was to carry out policy
that would draw off SO votes from the
On its success or failure in
doing this depended the fate of the
ACCORDING to advices received at
Cape Town, on the Goth, the rising
among the Matabeles is not SO serious
as the first dispatches portended, but
there is, nevertheless much anxiety as
TO what the final outcome will be.