Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-04-25

A WARRANT Tor tne surrenuer 10 tnd
Dominion authorities Of Charles Ryan,
under arrest at Easton, Pa, charged
with robbery, was ISSUE ed by the presi.
dent on the 18th.
IN consequence Of the great satis-
faction given by street-car mail service
in st. Louis, the pioneer city, New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, Baltimore, Chicago and Cincin-
natl, 1t is said that at the beginning Of
the next fiscal year similar service will
be inaugurated In number of cities
having rapid transit.
In tenement-house fire at Turner's
Falls, Mass. early on the morning of
the 18th, five French children were suf-
focated. The property loss was small.
A DISPATCH from Toledo, O., states
that gigantic bicycle trust is being
organized, with headquarters in that
city.
THE Corean envoy to Japan has gone
to Russia, under the authority of the
king Of Corea, to negotiate loan OF
IS, 900, 900, giving the Corean province
of Hamgying as security.
Ed PARD RIDGE, the Chicago wheat
speculator, who had been Ill for SOW
eral weeks with Bright's disease, died,
on the 18th, leaving a fortune OF at
least million dollars
The output Of gold in California dur
ing 1895 was SIS, 1874, ,31769, as compared
with S13, s6s, 1881. 80 in 1894.
BECAUSE Postmaster General Stephen
- Horvca,x, hoe 1rd axad - a -, a 49,. ~, a
Magdeburg post Office from an Amer
lean sculptress, German sculptors in
sist that the postmaster general has
no right to employ foreigners while
native artists are starving.
A STORM which swept the western
part of Vernon county, Wis, on the
18th, was the worst in 20 years. Farms
were washed into ridges and valleys,
and barns, granaries and other out
buildings were swept away. A great
many cattle, hogs and sheep are re-
ported lost in the Bad AK valley.
The receipts from internal revenue
during March aggregated 1897, ,7o4,
an increase of 81 1885, 047 over last year.
For the nine months of the fiscal year
the aggregate internal revenue re-
ceipts have been $110,179,O75. as CON-
pared with $1O9,995,1l for the same
period of last year.
AN 11-year-old boy was murdered at
Pozos, Mex, recently, by three men,
and robbed of peck of corn.
The remains of the late Walter @.
Gresham will be removed from Chicago
to Arlington cemetery, Washington.
JAMES, the nine-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Gregerson, of near
Olga, Mimi, on the 18th, saved his
baby sister from the clutches of a bear,
and then, with his fathers rife, killed
the animal.
MONROE JOHNSTON, colored, on the
18th, was found guilty of robbing
house and attempting to kill A. c.
Shields, Appointment farmer at Char
lotte, N. @. Burglary is a capital Of
fense in North Carolina, and Johnston
must hang.
The developments in the case of Mrs.
Dyer, recently arrested at Reading,
in connection with the dis
covery of the bodies of a number of in
fants in the Thames, are horrifying in
the extreme. Wholesale infant MUIR
der has been traced to her door.
A SPECIAL cable dispatch from La
Venezuela, says: The war
ship Rivas is back, with Gen. Paredos
on board, triumphant. The uprising
which suddenly occurred in Nirgasta
was crushed and the leaders cap
tured."
ARTHUR I. FOREMAN, first governor
of West Virginia, afterward United
States senator and for eight years
Judge of the Fourth judicial circuit
court, died in Parkersburg, w. Va, on
the 18th, after two weeks illness
Ex-Gov. WILLIAM E. RUSSELL, of
Massachusetts, through Judge John
w. Corcoran, chairman of the demo-
cratic state committee, has announced
his candidacy for. the nomination for
the presidency.
A SPECIAL cable from Valparaiso,
Chilli, says: The government is about
to mobilize $4,000 of the national
guards recently enrolled.
Ex-CoNsUL WALLER is threatened
with the loss of his eycsight us the re-
suit of his confinement in French
prison.