Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-09-05
NJ WIS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERGpMAL AND GENERAL.

Y Higgins leaves, besides his wife, tw,
II Ichildren, aged H. and 10 years.
l{house on Hhd same spot blew up tel
:|years ago. kthng three men.
/ THOMAS "a PEA gf srefused to be I
candidate Tor the Gabernatorial nomi
nation by tbe repul {lcan state conyen
i ton at Sat1toga, !, !, on the Goth
! md Hon. Nrpnls 81 Jack, Of Troy, con
II gresham Uom thd1 Nineteenth district
]su'as n6mirAted ~, the fourth ballot.
11IE t<<y ~ u Il I)oa1i1l ~ v,.s 0f]lciaI
w ide1tfAsd by, the po>sl :mcnt Off
ciais Az Guthrie, Okla, Oh the goth
and proof fled for the S3'500 reward
The body was embalmed and taken tt
Fort Smith, Ark, to claim anothe,
u. 200 reward; thence it was taken tt
Missouri for similar purpose.
FIRE consumed the milling plant and
-four house of Everett Aughenbaugf
& Co. at Waseca, Mimi, on the Goth
Estimated loss, $7a, 200; insurance, $25,
600. The plant will be rebuilt.
On the 25th body of Turks made
an attack upon the Cretans at Male
vyzi, but were repulsed. losing 40 ot
their number killed and 20 wounded
PAUL L. Brown, trading in Philadel
phia as ]. w. Brown s. Co., wholesale
grocer, made an assignment on the
Goth. The failure was due to the
tightness of the money market. The
liabilities will exceed S100,00O assets
not stated.
The fire at Octonagon, Mich. has left
scarcely a vestige of once thriving
village of 1000 inhabitants except a
hungry, shivering horde of sufferers,
who have not yet been able to find ac-
commodations of any kind, either food
OF lodging, since they were driven
from their homes.
OTIs HALL, a prominent jeweler of
Rockville, Ind, while in Terre Haute,
on the 26th, on business, took dose
of antipyrene for relief from head
ache, and died an hour later from
paralysis OF the heart, caused by the
drug.
HUNDREDS, including large num-
ber of college men and professors,
viewed fish at Bar Harbor, Me-, on
the Goth, which was landed at Rodeks
Weir, and none were able to classify it.
1t looks like shark, has two fins, is
Geven feet wide, six feet long, and
weighs GOO pounds. 1t tore along the
bay at a frightful speed, but became
helpless in shallow water.
CONGRESSMAN D. d. WooDMANsEE, of
Ohio, was elected president of the Ma
tional League of Republican clubs at
on the 26th. The ballot
in vote of $40 for him and
5oa for Charles Ulysses Gordon, of Chi
cago. The league will meet next year
in Detroit, Mich.
The Michigan gold democratic state
met at Lansing. on the
'6th, and nominated full state ticket
headed by Rufus Sprague, of Green.
7ille, for governor.
The annual report of United States
shipping commissioners for the year
,nded June 80, 1896, show total ship
nents and discharges of seamen for
American seagoing vessels to have been
80, 4s5, compared with 11s, ,4s3 for the
previous year.
u
Judge Arthur Macarthur, retired, of
he District of Columbia supreme
,ourt, aged 81 years, was announced
IN the 26tb.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, an old resident of
Wichita, Kas., fell from the window of
lis room to the pavement, on the Goth,
md was instantly killed. His neck
vas broken.
FIFTY Armenians took possession of
he Ottoman bank at Constantinople,
IN the goth, killing several soldiers.
The Armenians resisted efforts of
roops to dislodge them. The rioting
became general. 1t was believed to be
he result of revolutionary plot.
The New York Herald heads SUBJ
cription list which it proposes to
tart in order to pay the expenses of
Mr.. Henry Watterson in the event Of
lis nomination by the sound-money
emocrats at the coming indianapolis
The Herald heads the |
ist with 1000.
CAPT. I. r. RoEMER, who went to
,uba to fight for the insurgents, re-
urned to St. Louis on the o6th Capt.
iocmer secured three months fur
ough from the Cuban army, and with
few comrades eluded the Spaniards
long the coast and escaped from the
sland. Capt. Roemer succeeded in
eaching New York, and went direct
o st. Louis.
The Canadian yacht Canada defeated
he challenger vencedor at Toledo, O.,
n the Goth, and won the International
ace, by 20 seconds, time allowance.
fter as pretty contest as was ever
allied on Lake Erie 1t was hard
ace for the Yankee yacht to lose, for
he had the race well won, but lost by
n error The course was five miles
traightaway to leeward and return
nd repeat
The st. Rosalie hotel at Long
branch, N. j., was destroyed by fire
t three o'clock on the morning of the
7th. Twenty guests were asleep in
he hotel when the fire was discovered
nd many of them were forced to
tAa their escape in their night
lothes. Miss Alberta Underhill,
uest, jumped from window and
roke her left leg
On the 27th Secretary Smith Of the
nterior department approved patents
Or 9eS,20 acres of land to the Union
aciic Railroad Co. The land is all In
Iebraska, being situated in the North
latte, Grand Island, Bloomington
nd McCook land districts. The pat
nts were issued in pursuance of the
esolution of Representative Mondell,
Wyoming, which provided that
lnds should be patented to bond-aided
Dads which had been sold to bona fide
urchasers.
IT was reported in London, on the
sth, that the Brazilian minister to
taly had left Rome and gone to Paris
! consequence OF the strained rela-
ions between Italy and Brazil, which
ad resulted in the former govern
lent sending an ultimatum to Rio
aneiro, demanding prompt and COM
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