Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-11-07
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the growth OF the chief city of the
Mississippi valley. 1t shows that St.
Louis has, since the last national
census, increased at rate which
promises to bring it very soon into the
class OF the great cities which now in.
cinde on y the Greater New York. Chi
cago and Philadelphia
A STATEMENT of our foreign trade
has just been compiled by the agri.
cultural department 1t shows an en-
couraGing growth in exports In the
Ten years ending June 3O 1896, our ex-
ports OF merchandise aggregated ss,-
"'"o0GOl, averaging $685., 7O7, 7GO a
year. For the year 1895 the figures
were SSs9 COG, 93S, or SIS, ,0Gs, ,773 more
than in 1893 and SAC, 500, 1T more than
the tcn-year average.
Mrs. CARRIE WnALEN. wife of Daniel
NhaIen, jumped from bridge at
Rochester, n. Y., with her infant child
IN her arms. She was rescued with a
rake, but the babe was dead. She said
she was moved to the act because her
husband could not support her. She
had been drinking.
| AFTER a partial hearing in the case
of Dngald Crawford, charged with at
tempting to intimidate voters Acting
Judge smith, in the st. Louis court of
criminal correction, discharged the
defendant on the 2Sth.
TIE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 9oth stood at
Sis, 752, ,0i0. The days Withdrawals
at New York We're S3tS, 500
The three-y year-old son of Oscar Mar
shall, II North Bend (Wis.) farmer,
was murdered, on the 2sth, at Gales
vile, by a hired man named Palmer.
Marshall and the man had quarrel,
and TO get even with his employer
Palmer took the little boy to the barn
and deliberately y crushed his skull with
an AK.
ELMERS. DUNDY, judge of the United
States district court for Nebraska,
died at his home in Omaha, on the
2Sth, after brief illness. aged SO. He
was a native or Ohio and went to Ne
braska in 1857. He leaves valuable
estate to his widow and three children
AN explosion of natural gas at Ava
Ion, suburb Of Allegheny, Pa, on the
2Sth, killed Bessie Osborne, aged l3
years, and seriously injured her
brother Dale, aged nine years, and her
sister Edith, aged six years. The house
was badly wrecked
The marriage of Miss Helen lloyt
sherman to Mr.. William Ogilvie Grif-
fifth was solemnized at Dcs Moincs, Ia,
on the 2sh, at st. Paul's Episcopal
church. The bride is the youngest
daughter of Maj, lloyt Sherman,
brother of Senator Sherman and the
late Gen. Sherman.
JOSEPH W. HAMBURGER, wealthy
business man of Harlem, n. Y, drank
a pint Of carbolic acid, on the 9sth,
and killed himself. Mr.. Hamburger
was 81 years of age, a member of the
Columbia club, and was reputed to be
worth $500 600.
II. C. CoCKRELL was convicted in the
United States court at Louisville, KY.
on the 2sth, ON the charge of using the
mails fer fraudulent purposes, and sem
fenced to IS months Imprisonment in
the Jeifcrsonville Qnd.) penitentiary
and fined $500. This is the limit.
GEN. FlTsnuGH LEE, the United
States consul general to Cuba, in
formed correspondent at Havana, on
the 2sth, that he would sail for New
York on the 3lst. Gen. Lee said that
the purpose of his trip was to visit his
family and attend to private business.
FRANK B. BUNCE, t..e manager OF
the Lyceum theater in New York,
died in his Office at the theater on the
99th.
By an explosion of gas in No. 3 shaft
of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co.,
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the goth, four
men were killed and two injured.
Two members of a rescuing party who
entered the mine soon after were over
come by fire damp and died in their
tracks.
WILLIAM A. HARRIS, known all over
the United States as the manufacturer
of the lIarris-Corliss engine, died at
the residence of his son in Providence,
r. l., on the Goth, in the sixty-second
wear of his age. Death was due to
car Ger in the stomach.
TIE string of horses taken over from
America by Duke and Wishard and
entered in various events on the En-
glish turf during this years racing
season, were sold at auction at New
on the goth, at prices ranging
from 400 to a,20O guineas.
DURING u political rally at Breeden,
W. Va, on the night of the asth, a riot
occurred in which several persons
we're injured, among the number be-
ing two women.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
,losc of business on the goth stood at
sI1s e72,3l5. The days Withdrawals at
New York were S3l3, 200. There were
$500, 900 gold in exchange for
CONSUL GENERAL LEE informed a
correspondent at Havana,
IN the Goth, that he was returning to
he United States for o conference
with President Cleveland on affairs in
Cuba, and that he had postponed his
,ovnre from the previous date de-
,crmincd upon on account OF the mill
.ary operations going forward in Pinar
lei Rio.
WESTERN NEBRASKA was covered
with ten inches of snow on the 29th,
thinning out as it approached the east
,rn pnrt of the state. In some Sec
ions of the state high wind accom-
panied the snow, assuming the pro-
portions Of blizzard.
LotjIs j. HAScnErT and Chauncey 9.
yoster were expelled, on the 10Th, from
he business college at Chicago at
which they were students. They are
he youths who threw eggs at William
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