Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-10-24

""io eSldollsnmenJ at Indian. |
opolls, Ind, was destroyed by fire on |
the 18th. The loss will be over SIS. |
900; insured
THREE lremen were killed and sew.
eraI were seriously injured by col.
iapsng hoors during fire in Mon.
.real, Can, on the 10th, said to have
peen the most Observation-Disclosures
occurring in that city for many years.
HAROLD CAvELLE, alias Kimball. the
matrimonial swindler, pleaded guilty,
on The 10th, before Judge Taft in the
United States court at Cincinnati, and
was sent to the Ohio penitentary for
II months and heavily fined.
THE Bethlehem Pa.) Iron Co. has
been notified that the test plates rep
resentlng the group of 16 plates for
the turret of the Russian vessel Ros-
thislav has successfully withstood the
Oombardment of the big projectiles,
and that the group has been accepted
py the Russian government officials.
The plates are eight inches thick.
MICHIGAN ontdid itself, on the 10th,
in welcoming William jennings Bryan,
ana the nominee returned the compli.
ment by breaking his own as wen as
all other campaign records. He spoke
TO 20 meetings, beginning at seven
o'clock in the morning at Muskegon,
and ending at Lansing close to mid.
night.
ADJT. GEN. RUGGLEs, in his annual
report to the secretary of war, states
that the number of enlistments and
re-enlistments during the past year
was s,49s, of which s226 per cent. were
natives and the remainder naturalized
citizens.
Two PRESIDENTIAL candidates will
invade Chicago the last week of the
campaign. The gold democrats have
secured promise from Senator Pal
mer that he will canvass Cook county
and make number of speeches. Will
liam j. Bryan will also be there, and
is scheduled for II speeches in the
three days lie win spond in Chicago.
JUSTICE BEEKMAN, of Now York city,
on the 10Th, heard arguments on a
motion made on behalf of Mrs Sarah
Ann Angel for tho appointment OF q
commissioner to go to Grand Rapids,
Mich, to take testimony in the suit Of
Mrs. Angel against the Gould estate
to recover her alleged dover rights.
Mrs. Angel claims to be the widow
Of the late Jay Gould.
The Ohio supreme court, in decision
handed down, on the 10th, sustained
the constitutionaIity Of the Dana law,
which prevents name being printed
more than once on thesAustralian bal
lot
AT Somervillo, n. Y, on the 18th,
Orrin d. Kinnie, aged 81, killed his fa.
ther, Daniel Kinnie, and then ended
his own life by hanging. The tragedy
occurred in barn and is supposed to
have resulted from an attempt of the
father TO prevent his son from com
hitting suicide. The younger Kinnie
had been acting very strangely for
some time, and it is believed he was
insane.
a DISPATCH from Madrid says: The
king, queen regent and other members
of the court returned to the capital
on the 18th, from San Sebastian, where
they had been spending the summer
An attempt was made to wreck the
Ca BAN I'd dynamite 6omnBb nBbffnmb ad beel SI
placed on the rails, but fortunately i
was discovered before the train reached
the place.
THE American line steamer Paris
Capt. Watkins, from New York, Octo
Der 8, previously reported as proceed
ing with her s:arboard engine dis
abled, arrived at Southampton on tn,
10Th, The Paris completed her pas
sage, of over twenty-five hundred
miles, under her portscrew, averaging
12]l knots per hour, and covered th,
course without a hitch.
TIE Madrid Impartial says tina
Spain should demand from the United
States an explanation of the dispatcl
from Washington published by thu
New York Herald to the effect tina
unless Spain ends the war in Cuba by
January ! President Cleveland vii
recognize the independence of the in
surgents.
SNOW fell throughout st. Lawrenc,
county, N. Y, on the 18th, to the deptl
of an inch.