Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-11-07

TO James NJ. Burns, late sergeant Co.
B' First West Virginia volunteers (aow
captain in Seventeenth United States
Infantry. At the battle Of New Mar.
ket, Va, June Is, 1864, under heavy
hre from the enemy, he Voluntarily as.
sisted a wounded comrade from the
field of battle.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Daily News says he is able to
confirm the statement made by the
hamburger Nachrichten that Il writ.
ten neutrality treaty between Russia
and Germany did exist from 1854 to
1890.
CHARLES 0. KAISER of Norristown,
Pa. who reported that he and his " ifc
had been attacked by highwaymen
while out riding, his wife being killed
by them, was, on the Goth, placed un.
der arrest on suspicion of wife muder.
JOHN B. Lone, cattle dealer and n
prominent mason from Pleasantville,
Ia, committed suicide at Denver Col.
on the 2"th, by shooting. In IL note
left he requested that the police be
notified that he had Been robbed Of
three drafts of $1,000 each.
THE residence of farmer named
Robinson, living near Woodville,a a short
distance west of Jackson, Mich, was
destroyed by fire on tn, 3Oth. Mrs.
Robinson and a child weee burned to
death and Mr.. Robinson was prob
ably fatally burned.
TnE jury in the ca Sc of Michael
Brennan, charged with the murder Of
John A. Strathy, late manager of the
branch of the Bank of Toronto in
Barrie, Ont, returned u verdict of
guilty, on the 30th. and he was SEN
tenced to be hanged January 10.
By the explosion of can of kero.
sene oil in Milwaukee, on the 3Oth, the
three-months-old babe Of William
Altenbach, was burned to death, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Altenbach, the parents
OF the child, were so severely burned
that recovery is extremely doubtful.
JonN d. STILES, an ex-mcmber of
congress and the senior member of the
Lehigh county bar, died, on the 20th.
at Allentown, Pa. He was 70 years
old, and for half century hal been
prominent in Pennsylvania politics.
EDWARD j. Ivory, alias Bell, the al
legged lrish-Amcrican dynamiter, who
was arrested in Glasgow, September
II, was again arraigned in the Bow
Street Uondon) police court, on the
a0th, and remanded for another week.
THE German steamer Cordelia, from
Guatemala, via Montevideo, was sunk
in the harbor at Hamburg. on the 3oth,
by collision with the sailing vessel
Etna.
On the 30th the war department
awarded medal of honor to Hillary
A. Dyer, Ninth Pennsylvania infantry,
Co. II, for bravery at the battle of An
tietam, Md, September II, 1862.
GOLD bullion to the amount OF $780,
600 was withdrawn from the Bank of
England, on the 3Oth, I shipment to
the United States.
A DESPERATE effort was made to rob
the Citizens state bank, owned by Nc.
Henry Bros, at Goldtield, Ia, on the
night of 3ist. Dynamite was placed
in the front door and exploded The
concussion shook the entire town,
breaking window glass in several
buildings. The citizens were aroused.
and the burglars, taking alarm, es-
capped, leaving no clew.
A CYCLONE swept over the city and
province of Seville, Spain, on the
9sth, wrecking great many houses.
and killing and injuring Il number of
their inha bitants. The storm covered
a wide area in which the wires we're
prostrated, cutting off communication
and greatly delaying the appeals for
assistance made by the sufferers.
CIVIL ENGINEER II. Z. PEARY. U. s.
N, whose leave of absence for Arctic
exploration has expired, has been or
dered to duty at the New York navy
yard, where the civil engineering
force has been unable to cope with the
work on hand.
The steamer Campania, arrived on
the 3lst, at New York, from Europe,
brought 81, ,250, 900 in gold; the Augusta
Victoria, $l60, 900; the St. Louis, $780,
600, and the Niagara, S50,00c. -
SYLVESTER BoNNAFoN, of Philadei-
phia, has been appointed assistant pay.
master in the navy.