Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-04-10

eoutihg attorney of Lenawee cmntv
mich'' who was indicted for conniyino
a1 the escape of Anton N. Christensen
arrested IN New York city on charge
OF embezzlement, was arraigned he.
iore justice McMahon, in general ses.
sions, on the 1st, and released on S,or
bail. 0' @'''
NOAH RABY, ON the 1st. celebrated
ms one hundred and twenty-ffth birth
uay anniversary in the Piscatawav
IN. D. poorhouse.
1T Is said that Hetty Green is about
10 begin foreclosures of MORTGAGES
upon about "a, 900, 600 worth of Chicago
property.
MALTBY breaker an immense struc-
lure operated by nie Lehigh Valley
Uoai , 20. at Maltby, five miles from
W ilKesbarre, Pa, was DESTROYED by
hre on the I'd. 1t was one of the best
equipped coal breakers in the Wyoming
region, containing all the modern ma
cmnery. 1t employed nearly 500 men.
and had capacity of 1,eO0 tons per day.
| oN the I'd Fourth Assistant Postmas.
ter-General Bristow made his first ap-
pointments of fourth-class postmasters.
Ills predecessor, Mr.. Maxwell, did not
appoint anyone for his last month.
which left Mr.. Bristow about $500
places to fill, caused by deaths, resig-
nations and removals.
IHE four members of the Button
gang, Frank and Antonio Borrego.
Lauriano Alarid and Patricio Valencia.
were hanged in the Jail yard at Santa
fe, N. NJ, on the I'd, for the assassina-
ton of eX-Shcriff Frank Chavez, on the
night of May 30, 1892.
CORNELIUS ODoNNELL and John Baird.
two oil men of Pennsylvania, were
blown to atoms near Celina, o., on the
"a by an accidental explosion of nitro
glycerine.
THE steamer Griggs of the Queen
line, plying between Columbus. Ga.
and Appalachicola, Fla, on the Chatta-
hooche river was sunk II miles north
OF Columbia, Ala, at one o'clock on the
morning of the I'd. Five persons are
known to have been drowned and four
others are missing.
1T Is stated on undoubted authority
that the efficient manner in which the
turkish forces were mobilized on the
Greek frontier is due to German officers,
and it is added that all the plans of
campaign intrusted to them to carry
out have been prepared by able strate-
gists in Berlin.
THE bishop of Canea has sent mes
sage of fervent appeal to the Christian
people of Europe, imploring them to
compel their governments to stop bonn
harding and to cease opposing the
unanimous desire of Cretans to escape
tyranny by union with Crete.
JOSEPH FIELD, the Oldest person in
Monmouth county, N. j., died on the
night of the 1st, aged 1O4 years. Uncle
Joe' was born September 2G, 1872. on
the homestead farm in Middleton town
ship, and lived there all his life. He
remained single till he was IS years old.
JOSEPH B. MCMAHAN, owner of Nc
Mahan's circus, was shot and fatally
wounded at Wichita, Kas.. on the I'd.
by }. p Cunningham, deputy sheriff of
Taylor county, Tex. The shooting
arose over the arrest of one of the
circus performers named Purdy, on
the charge of burning the Windsor
hotel in Abilene, Tex.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs has refused to
permit the proposed reorganization of
the defunct Missouri national bank of
Kansas City. The bank failed last fall,
owing 81, 800, 900. Those favoring reor-
ganization had secured the signatures
of 1,947 creditors. representing 1901, $50
of the banks liabilities, while G3S cred
itors, representing SS47, 400 had refused
to give their consent.
The annual eight-oar race between
the universities of Oxford and Cam
bridge was rowed, on the Sd, over the
Thames championship course of four
and one-half miles from Putney to |
Mortlake, and was won by Oxford by
three lengths.
HE last report OF the retiring super
intendent of the Quincy Qll.) soldiers
home, VIM. II. Kirkwood, shows that
there is due the home the sum of $75,-
600 from the state treasurer, and that |
the home sadly needs the funds.
TIE steamship Fuerst Bismarck,
which arrived at New York, on the 4th,
from Mediterranean ports, brought
nearly l,000 italian immigrants.