Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
PER0oNAL AND GENERAL.

>ousln Gene "a lorioe and two nieors'
lin a<1i IA Anni1 niger. tIlrees girls 81
ten or twelve years, were struck BY a
train on the Massachusetts, Central
road near Worcester, Mass, on the
30th. They saw the train coming and
ran for their lives, and had almost
reached place of safety when the
engine struck them. The Anger girls
were instantly killed, the LaForme
girls leg was broken and the mans
head was badly injured.
Work on the largest fire engine in
the world was completed, on the both,
at the shops Of Cincinnati fire en-
CINE company. The boiler Is 70 inches
long and 40 inches in diameter. The
two steam cylinders and two pumps
are each, respectively, 10 inches long
and 0 inches In diameter The stroke
is 9 inches. At full speed the engines
capacity is 1900 gallons per minute.
1t was built for the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) fire department..
THERE was no change in the situa-
tion in the Twin Shaft mine at Pitts
ton, Pa, on the 30th. The rescuers
continued to work hard in their en-
and rapid progress was being made.
BY the overturning of boat in Lake
Massapog, near Sharon, Mass, on the
Goth, Choir-master Bracket and four
choir boys of st. Johns Episcopal
church, Charlestown, Mass, who had
gone there for n weeks recreation,
were drowned. Two other boys who
were in the boat were saved.
IT is stated that Gen. jacques Nico-
las Leger has been appointed minis
ter to the United States from Hayti to
succeed Mr.. Clement Hietjaens, re-
signed. The new minister is expected
to arrive during July.
THE treasury deficit for the fiscal
year ended on the aoth foots up $685.
1000; for the past three years the
deficit aggregates S1a7, 100000.
FIDEL e. PERRA, member of the
Cuban junta and chairman of the Gu
ban Fair committee, called upon Gen.
Tomaso Estrada Palma in New York,
on the 3oth, and handed him a check
for IS, 600, the first installment of the
proceeds of the Cuban fair. This is
not all, said Mr.. Perra. ''As soon as
we settle up completely, expect 10
give you another check"
BY an explosion of ammunition dur
ing fire in the arsenal near Fort
Moselle, in the German province of
Lorraine, on the night of the 30th. AZ
men were killed and 100 others badly
injured.
A DELEGATION of citizens of New
York and Brooklyn called on Gov. Nor
ton, on the 30th, and urged executive
clemency in behalf of John Y. McKane,
the former Gravesend boss. A per-
sonal letter from McKane to the gov
ernor was presented by the delegation.
1t urged that McKane had fully atoned
for his crime, and that outraged justice
had been satisfied.
The Cheyenne Indians in Montana
have dawned their war paint and are
holding pow-wows, preparatory to a
general uprising. Several troops of
the Tenth cavalry have been ordered
from Fort Custer to the Cheyenne
agency at Lame Deer, Custer county,
Mont. The Cheyennes have been un-
usually indolent this spring.
CHARLES w. CLARK, son of w. A.
Clark, the millionaire mine owner,
banker and politician, and Miss Cath
crime @. Roberts, of Helena, young
stenographer, were married at Butte,
Mont, on the 30th. The groom's IA
ther presented him with a check for
Sl00, 200.
THE Confederate Veterans reunion
opened at Richmond, Va, on the 30th,
with charming weather, clear and cool.
An immense throng Of people was pres
ent, and exposition grounds, where the
reunion was held in large auditorium
erected for the purpose, was crowded.
The auditorium was handsomely deco
rated.
BY an explosion of gas In a man
hole of the Edison Electric Co, at Wa
bash avenue and South Water street,
Chicago, on the LIST, two men were ia
tally burned and two seriously in
jured.
A DISPATCH from Kobe, Japan, dated
June IS, received on the LIST, said the
steamer Kawanoura Msru had collid-
ed with and sank the Hozui Maru off
Hiroshima during storm, and that I7s
lives were lost.
THE Red Star packet Rahmanieh,
bound from Suahim for Suez, broke
her shaft, on the 30th, and drifted
upon a reef, where she foundered,
and 90 persons, mostly Greeks, were
drowned
E. J. (LucKY) BALDWIN, the million
aire horseman, had narrow escape
from assassination, on the I'd, at tho
hands of Miss Emma A. Ashley, the
sister of Miss Lillian Ashley, whose
suit for S75, 900 for alleged betrayal
was in progress before Judge Slack in
San Francisco. A bullet from the
woman's revolver plowed through
Baldwin's hair and buried itself In
the wall OF the court room near the
bench.
The progress of the unlawful dem
onstration growing out Of the strike
at the Brown hosting works in Cleve-
land, o., was marked, on the Cd, by
further. bloodshcd. VIM. Rettger, a
young striker, who was pursuing nom
union workman. was shot dead by the
latter, who was himself almost killed
before being rescued by the police
The police, while escorting the work.
men to their homes, were followed and
attacked by mob numbering thou.
sands. At the Fourth police district
station thev were ordered to charge