Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-09-12
NEWS and NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSoNAL AND GENERAL.

InE entire main building of the pic.
turesque Kentucky institute for fee.
ble-minded children, at Frankfort was
destroyed by fire, on the lst, rendering
homeless 200 feeble minded children
aud destroying ssO,OOo worth of prop.
erty.
lhE Banca Bulese, located in Brook.
lyn, and operated by Pietro Gallo &
Son, is CLOSED, the proprietors having
left the place. When the building was
opened, ON the LIST, it was found that
the safe was open, but empty. 1t was
asserted by Italians that the deposits
amounted to $4,000.
MRS GEORGE KNoPP was arrested in
Council Bluffs, Ia, on the lst. charged
with using the mails for fraudulent
purposes.and held for the grand jury.
She advertised for husband and sue.
ceeded in getting the better of mat.
rimonial adventurer who married her
thinking her to be rich.
RT. Hon. JOSEPH CnAMBERLAIN.
British secretary of state for the colo.
MES, was passenger on the steamer
Teutonic, which arrived at New York,
on the I'd, from Liverpool. His visit
will be brief one, us he intends re.
turning home in about fortnight
The steamer Laurada, the Cuban fl.
ibuster, which recently landed at
Navassa and transferred her men and
arms to the tug Dauntless, and later
arrived at Port Antonio, Jamaica, has
been grounded. 1t is suspected that
her nishap was the result of foul play.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Rome, on
the I'd, said it was rumored there that
King Humbert will announce his alb
dication after the marriage of the
prince of Naples, the heir apparent, to
Princess Helene of Montenegro
A DISPATCH from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz, to Harvard observa-
tory on the I'd, announced the re-dis-
covery, by DR.. Lee, of the companion
to Sirius position angle 2lo degrees
and distance SO. This companion was
first seen in 1859.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from ST. Petersburg says that the tour
Of the czar throughout western Eu-
rope will not be changed on account
of the death of the Russian minister
Of foreign affairs, Prince Lobanoff Ros-
tovsky.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, on the
I'd, denied the published report that
her husbands condition was precari-
Gus
| EX-Gov. FRANCIS, of Missouri, took
the oath of Office as secretary OF the
interior in Secretary Carlisle's office,
on the Sd, and Immediately entered
upon the discharge of his new duties.
The National encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in session
at st. Pail, Mimi, on the sd, selected
Buffalo, n. Y, as the place of holding
The next general cii1aupmCai There
was practically no opposition.
Is the democratic state conse,sifTsle
/, artnncord ~. on he "a a rcsol,
tion indorsing the adm trstioM oi
resident Cleveland was rejected over
whelmingly on rising vote, only 81
rising in the affirmative.
The gold Democratic national con-
vention which met at Indianapolis.
on the I'd, held two short sessions and,
after effecting permanent organiza-
tion, ad journed until the Sd.
THE turrct battleships Navarin and
Imperator Alexander H., the torpedo
cruiser Pocadnik and two torpedo boat
lestroyers, all belonging to the rus
sian Cronstadt squadron, have been
sent to the Mediterranean
The steamer Roscdale, with 1850 pas
sengers on board, was struck, in the
East river off Broome street, New
York city. on the Sd, by Twenty
lhird.street ferryboat, and sank in
about five minutes. The Rosedale was
on her way to Bridgeport at the time.
All the passengers, it is said, were
picked up by passing craft
DURING the exercises at the Audi
torium at st. Paul, Mimi. on the Sd,
Col. Thomas G. Lawler, of Rockford,
ILL.,, the past commander-in-chief OF the
G. A. r., was presented with gold
watch and long gold neck chain as a
token of the esteem and love felt for
him by the grand army throughout
the country.
The national committee of the ma
tional democratic party held meet
inp immediately after the Indianapolis
convention had adjourned. 1t was de-
cided to have an executive committee
of nine to manage the campaign ana
W. d. Bynum was selected for chair'
man of the executive committee
REV. I. f. REEsER, pastor OF the
Lutheran church Mt Hollidayspurg'
Pa. and John D. Love, well-known
merchant. were drowned, on the night
NJ the sd, in the Juniata river fivc
m,lss below Hollidaysburg, where they
had gone fishing.
CAPT. ALFRED DREYFus, who was
sentenced to be publicly degraded and
confined for life in fortress, after
having been convicted by a court-mar- !
tial Of selling plans Of French forum
cations, ETC., to foreign government, :,
has escaped from the Isle du Grand
S.lut on an American schooner.
AFTER almost three months, during
which the officers have worked every
clew. four Of the men who roooeu
Gsorge Kolb, a wealthy farmer, last
Jun,. have been landed in jail at Tus'
cola, Ill. , :. ~.
nrospect Hill coal mines, Vincennes
Trd fell down the shaft, a distance o.
aso feet, and was crushed into q nor
rible mass, not whole bone being iei'
in his body. ,. =.
THE Edgar Thomson steel works' Q,
carnerie's. at Pittsburgh, Pa, have
been closed down indefinitely. I'M
action was a general SURPRISE as IL wa'
not even suspected.
Orrs BusLlNeAME, living near ~
porta Ind, marketed eight quarts o
strawberries in that city on tne "a va
Thoy IT. 3 were picked from vines that oor'
. ccod crop in the regular season. ant
this second crop 10 equally as gooa o =
the flrst He sold them readily y, =
cents a quart