Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-22

A REPORT from Brisbane, Queensland,
on the 18th, said: passenger steamer
capsized in the Brisbane river, in
Queensland, and 40 of the persons who
were on board of her were drowned
ADvIcEs from Corea, on the lath,
said that the Corean rebels had over.
powered and killed a small party OF
Japanese soldiers who were guarding
the telegraphic lines.
JACKSON and Ayallihg, the alleged
murderers of Pearl Bryan, were in
dicted by the grand jury at Newport,
KY, on the.13th..
A TELEGRAM received at st. Peters
burg, on the 18th, from Irlfutsk, Sibe-
ria says that Siberian trader named
Kouchnaretf, who is the agent of DR..
Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian ex-
plorer, has received information to the
effect that DIR. Nansen has reached the
north pole. has found land there, and
is now returning towards civilizaton.
u. c. LEEDy, the st. Joseph & Grand
Island operator at Hollenberg, Kas.,
reported to. the general offices at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 18th. that great cx-
citement prevailed over the. discovery
Of gold in ~ creek bed near there
Samples of the gold have been assayed
by Prof. BARTLETT, of Des Moines, who
says it will run $50 to the ton.
THE American line steamer Paris
from New York, February S, sunk the
local steamer Her Majesty while dock
ing her at Southampton, on the 13th.
As the Paris swung around her rudder
struck the smaller vessel, sending her
to the bottom.
A NEEDLE factory, the first in the
United States, is soon to be started in
Chicago, the needles to be made by
machine, the first of its kind, invented
by Eugene Fontaine, of Detroit Re-
peated tests have demonstrated its
practicability, and will turn out $500
needles an hour.
BIsHoP-ELEcT g. Mort WILLIAMS, OF
the Marquette Episcopal diocese, is
quite i'll in Denver, Col. lie is said to
be suffering from nervous prostration,
induced by the trouble and worry occa-
stoned by the efforts of some of the
members of the diocese to defeat his
conservation,
ETIENNE CHATHAM, a pensioner OF
the war of 1912. died at Cornwall, Ont,
on the 18th, at the age of 100 years.
His widow is 05 years of age. He had
been married 20 years, and leaves 275
living descendants.
ABOUT a thousand unemployed Poles
gathered at the sub-office of the street
department in Buffalo, N Y, on the
14th, and demanded work, threatening
trouble if it was not given them. The
police were sent for, and the crowd
was dispersed. Some of them appeared
later at police headquarters and stated
that their families were starving
Mrs. SOPHIA Written, trapezist,
professionally known as Lola Sylvester,
died at the Massachusetts General hos
pital in Boston, on the night of the
18th, from injuries received by fall
from the dome of Keith's theater. Mrs.
Written was born in England 80 years
ago, and had been in the trapeze busi-
ness for 16 years.
GEORGE PALMER, of Walzarusa, Ind,
disagreed with his wife as to whether
a gun which was lying on cupboard
was loaded. Mrs. Palmer declared that
ii was not. and in attempting to take
it down the gun was discnargeu, unc
contents tearing her husbands head
from his body.
AT the regular weekly meeting, on
the 18th, the members of the Vene-
zuelan commission expressed them
selves highly gratified with the assur-
ance that Great Britain would submit
its evidence for consideration.
THE keel of a large racing yacht was
laid in the shipyard of Henderson
Bros, of Glasgow, on the 14th. The
yacht is to be constructed after the
plans of Mr.. G. S. Watson, the de-
signer of Valkyrie III.
A SHANGHAI dispatch states that six
German war ships have assembled at
Annoy for the purpose of founding a
naval trading station there in opposii-
ton to the one already existing ut
Hong Kong.
Miss CLARA BARroN and her col
leagues of the Red Cross society ar
rived in Constantinople on the 10th.
A LoDGINGuoUsE in Soho, London,
was destroyed by fire on the morning
of the 10th. Eight persons we're killed.