Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-06-20

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CAPT. A. G. HILL died at Decatur
ma, on the 9th, aged Ga. He was cap
tain OF company in the Eighty-ninth
Indiana regiment When Lincoln
called for volunteers he closed the
Eagle office, of which he was publish
er, and enlisted with his entire force
taking his office boy as drummer
ON the 10th, the czar, in commemo.
ration of his coronation, subscribed the
aggregate sum of 100000 rubles to
various charities.
WORD reached Washington, on the
9th, that Mr. IIannis Taylor, United
States minister to Spain, had been
taken Ill in Paris. He was on his re-
turn to Madrid from England, after
sending his family home.
| THE senate committee on finance de-
cided, on the 9th, to conduct their in
vestigation Of the sale of bonds in
public.
THE Nuehtfeld & Haynes Piano Co.
OF New York made an assignment on
the 10th. Liabilities, SIS 900; nominal
assets, S3l,O ,O00 The company was in
corporated in 1895 with a capital stock
of $4,000.
On the 10th Archbishop Elder of
Cincinnati celebrated his golden ju-
bilee.
THE president, on the 10th, approved
the act amending the act providing
for the protection of the Alaska sal
mon fisheries.
THE Grand Rapids & Indiana rail-
road was sold, on the 10th, to the Penn.
sylvana Railroad Co. for 500, 600, sub
ject to first and second mortgage
bonds
Hon. MATT w. RANSOM, United
States minister to Mexico, who is in
Washington on leave of absence, talks
encouragingly of affairs in the Mexi-
can republic.
THE First national bank of Larned,
Kas,, capital $4,000, closed its doors
on the 1lth.
Hon. ALEXANDER TERRELL, minister
to Turkey, sailed from New York, on
the 10th, on the steamer st. Paul for
southampton, on his way to Constan-
tinople.
The National s@ngerfest at Pitts
burgh. Pa, closed on the llth. From
artistic and financial points of view it
proved more of success than was an
ticipated by the most sanguine.
Hon. d. A. MCDONALD, ex-lieuten-
Of the PROVENCE of Que
Dec, Can, died in the city of Montreal
IN the 10TH
SYLVESTER RYAN, 2S years of age,
lis brother Albert, aged "a, and Pat
'ick Scigh, aged 40 years, all single
md employees of the Philadelphia Nat
lral Gas Co. at New Kensington, Pa,
we're drowned in the Allegheny river
t Logan's ferry on the 11th.
.al.N WOOD and Ben McCalla, work.
men engaged in removing The scat
olding from the interior of the new
zig chimney of the Grand Rapids
Mich.) street railway company's pow
rhouse, fell rs feet, on the 1lth, and
we're fatally injured. Both were men
# family.
p. C. JONES, who was minister OF
nance under the Hawaiian monarchy
nd is member of leading Homo
ulu banking house, is on his way to
Jew York to interest capitalists>in the
efunding of the Hawaiian bonded
ebt of S3,O96, 900, drawing six per
ent. 1t is proposed to take up these
onds and issue instead four per cent.
onds.
BILL WEST, a noted Indian territory
espcrado and murderer OF United
tates Marshal Lincoln Kinney, who
ecently escaped from the county
Ill at Topeka, Kas., was killed in H.
nois City, /. T., on the night OF the
Lth. by Thomas Carlisle, while resist
~ arrest. IA
WLADYsLAw SToLzMAN, charged Il
18th the murder of Vincent Stezel- 7
,kis, on October s, 1895, in the town r
Sedleiman, near Warsaw, in Rus v
an Poland, was arrested in Cleve-
nd, O., on the 18th. The prisoner
aimed 1t is for political reasons he is = =
rested.
REPORTS received from Canea, Crete, q
" that the Turks have pillaged and
,rned 20 hamlets in the interior OF d
lc island. D
IsAAc II. MAYNARD, ex-judge of the 8,
cw York court Of appeals, dropped ii
,ad. on the 18th, in the Hotel Ken
ore at Albany. N. y Heart dis
lse was the cause. a,
In the FIRE which destroyed ware -
,use A of the White Mills Distilling ~
!. in the southwestern portion OK ~
KY, on the 14th, 1900 bar Oh
Is of whisky were burned; loss,
"a. .00O Val Schwatz, q fireman, was tn
tally burned by falling into astream ci
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