Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-06-06

new trial for Scott Jackson, con.
victed of the murder of Pearl Bryan,
and sentenced to be hanged June 3d.
subsequently the court granted a mo-
tion for stay of execution for 90 days
case before the court of appeals.
PLANS are maturing In 81. Louis by
which, 1t is hoped, loans may be made
to persons who have lost their homes,
the result of years of savings. These
loans, without interest for period of
years, would enable such at once to
rebuild their dwellings.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close Of business on the Goth, etood at
$lO7, 403, ,434 The Withdrawals for the
day were 81, ,9lo, 700 in gold, and there
was deposited in gold by banks In ex-
change for currency $i,0O0,00o.
AS A feature of Decoration day In
Philadelphia, on the 3Oth. statue of
President Garfield, which had been
erected in Paramount park, was for
mally unveiled by Harry Garfield, son
OF the dead president. The exercises
in connection with the event were
DURING the popular fetc0f the coro-
nation ceremonies, held In the Hodyn-
sky plain. opposite the Petroffslky pal
ace, Moscow, on the 30th, where 200,
900 persons were assembled to partake
of the czar's hospitality. dispensed from
90 booths, the crowding forward of
those in the rear crushed the unfort-
unates In the front ranks against the
ratings surrounding the booths, until
it is estimated that between one thous-
and and fifteen hundred OF them were
crushed and trampled to death.
MEMORIAL day services at Rock Creek
cemetery, Washington, did not possess
their usual interest for Illinois people
at the national capital this year, on
account of the absence of Mrs. John A.
Logan. 1t has been her annual Gus
tom to be present at the ceremonies
at Gen. Logan's tomb and personally
arrange the floral tributes. This year
she is making tour of Europe.
PRINCESS ANeELINE, daughter of
Chief Seattle, after whom the city of
that name was called, died in Seattle,
Wash, ON the 31st. In the early fifties
Angeline, at the peril of her own life,
apprised the population of Seattle OF
an intended massacre, thus saving
three or four hundred lives and en-
dearing herself to pioneers and their
descendants.
MICHAEL, the "Little Wonder" has
again lowered his bicycle record for
seven miles. On the 30th, at Olympia,
Kensington, England, he covered the
distance in IA minutes and 3-5 seconds,
his time being two seconds less than
that previously made by him.
j. S. JOHNSON, one of the largest cot
ton producers in the Mississippi delta,
showed in Greenville, Miss, on the 30th,
several young bolls of cotton taken
from his field, pierced by the boil worm.
This is the earliest the boil worm ever
in that section.
PROF. BAUMAN, an expert insurance
adjuster of Chicago, after looking over
the field in st. Louis, says the total
loss will foot up over $4,000, 900. Prof.
Bauman adjusted the losses caused by
the Louisville tornado about five years
ago.
The steamboat Ironsides struck a
large stone in the Ohio river is miles
below Parkersburg, w. Va, on the
31st, and sank in five feet of water at
what is known as the Lee Creek rifle
She was on the up trip from st. Louis
to Pittsburgh. No lives were lost.
A CABLE from Kingston, Jamaica, re-
ports that steamship resembling the
Cuban filibustering steamer Laurada
was seen passing Port Antonio, on the
3lst. going at full speed in the direc-
tion of Hayti, with a Spanish gunboat
in pursuit.
EDWIN Is. FITLER, ex-mayor OF Phila-
delphia, and member of the we'll
known firm of cordage manufacturers
bearing his name, died on the 3lst.
MARK M. (BRlcK) PoMERoY, formerly
publisher of the Lacrosse (Wis.) Demo.
crat and Pomeroys Democrat Of New
York city, died at his home in Brook.
lyn on the 30th.
UPWARDS of a hundred thousand per-
sons from abroad made Sunday pill
grimage to the tornado ruins in st.
Louis and East st. Louis on the 31st,
nearly all the roads running excursion
trains.