Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-05-02
Boorn-TucKEn the salvation Army

commander, knocked out tramp in
New York and reduced the belliger.
ency of another tramp who attempted
to assist his companion. The tramp
stuck pin in a tender part of the En-
glishman's anatomy, and he was not
long in demonstrating that he could
fight as well as preach.
A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, South
Africa, stated that Captains Napier
and Duncan, with 200 whites and 100
natives, with Maxim and Hotchltiss
guns, met the Matabeles three miles
from Buluwayo. The Matables num-
bcred $4,000, and fought desperately,
at one time forcing the allies to fall
back. The latter rallied, however,
and repulsed the natives with great
slaughter.
In drunken row between Simon
Hasselbacls, aged 70, and his son VII.
liam, aged 85, at Union City, Pa, on
the gath, the old man drew revolver
and shot his son, and then turned the
weapon on himself and sent o bullet
through his temple. Both were fatally
injured. AZ
Wun.IAa TunxER ana william 3.
Dunlop, the Burden diamond robbers,
were arraigned in the Marlborough
Street police court, London, on the
cath, and remanded pending the ar
rival of witnesses from America.
THE mining city of Cripple Creek,
Col, was visited by confagration,
on the 25th, which caused the destruc.
tion of hundreds of houses, entailing
loss of 81, 100000, upon which the in
surance was estimated at S25O,0OO. The
progress of the flames was stayed final
ly by blowing up buildings with dyna-
mite.
A DUEL was fought between Baron
Fejrvary, Hungarian minister of ma
tional defense, and NJ. Bernath, a
member of the chamber of deputies,
on the 25th. After bloodless ex-
change of shots, they fought with sa.
bers, and M. Bernath was seriously
wounded in the head.
The dervishers under Osman Digna,
at Horasab, are without food.
CLAY COUNTY, Kas., was the scene OF
destructive cyclone, on the night of
the 95th, in which many persons were
killed and much larger number in
jured, while houses, barns, fruit trees
and fences in the track of the storm
were blown away.
THE treasury deficit for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1896, will be ap-
proximately $4,000, OOO This is the
opinion of officials and others best
qualified to make an intelligent esti-
mate.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has stated to
of the cabinet that he does
not expect to see any settlement of the
Venezuelan boundary controversy by
this administration.
A NOTABLE event occurred at the
Unitarian church in Lawrence, Kas.,
on the Goth, when the pulpit was occu-
pied by Rev. John S. Brown, on the
anniversary of his birth.
BY the burning of the boarding
house and restaurant of Stephen A.
Walter at Moline, ILL.,, on the 36th, Will
liam Sage was burned to death and
two or three others injured.
MRS. JOSEPH PIsToRIA, residing eight
miles west of Ellsworth, Kas., was
killed by lightning at .her home on the
26th in the presence Of her two chill
dren, who were uninjured.
WALTER G. DYeERT, the Illinoisan
who had been held prisoner in Cuba for
two months, arrived at Tampa, Fla,
on the Goth, en- route home.
JOHN AIELLo and Robert Macker
were relieved of a sum of money es-
bimated at from 1000 to 81, 900 by four
masked men near Berwind, Col.
FRANK COLEMAN, editor of the Hunts
vile (Ala.) Argus, was shot and badly
by r. E. Spraggins, whom he
had criticised in the Argus, in street
1uel in that city.
SIR HENRY PARKER, ex-premier of
New South Wales, is dead. He was
the son of an English farmer, and was
born in 1918.
ANOTHER steamship (said to be the
Bermuda) loaded with war material at
Fla, for the Cuban in.
sailed for the island on the
night of the Goth.
GEN. MAoEo has given the Spaniards
4 shock by sending Bermudez and
Sainz across the trocba with 1000 men.