Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-11-13

sioner OF Pensions Ii. Clay Evans to
'he secretary of the interior was made
puollc ON the 18th. 1t fails to show the
uimlnution in the number of pensions
anticipated by former commissioners
out dlscloses net gain of 3, 1886. the
976,Ol4. e
MARK TwAIN's publishers, at Hart
iord' Conn, have received IA cablepram
from the author, in which he denies
,he report that he recently wrote a
let'er to personal friend in this
country stating that he had made
Vs. ooO in the last two years and had
paid his debts in full.
GREAT BRITAIN has declined TO tnl,e
part IN the Florida fisheries confer
ence though greatly interested in the
Directs of the conference"
No. 2 PASSENGER train on the Santa
re Pacific railroad was held up at
Grants station, NM, ,onthe night of the
oth, by gang supposed to be cowboys
familiar with the location. The ex-
press car was broken open with dyna.
mite, as was one of the safes, and sew
eral packages were taken. After the
robbers had left, the frightened fireman
backed the express car and locomotive
until they collided with the other
cars of the train, which were wrecked
and burned.
IHE long geXpected floating dry dock,
built in England and spacious enough
to accommodate large iron-clads, ar
rived at Havana on the 7th. 1t
crossed the Atlantic without damage.
FIFTY years ago, on the 7th, Henry
Ward Beecher was installed as pastor
Of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. Ami
verysary services in memory of the dis
tlnguished preacher were held DR..
Charles Berry, of Queen City chapel,
Woverhampton, England, occupied the
pulpit.
CApT.-GEN. BLANCo has been disap-
pointed keenly in having discovered
that there are few genuine autonomists
IN cuba, hegreat majority of the mem
bers of the autonomist party having
joined the ranks of the insurgents.
CHARLES PlNKERToN, under sentence
of life imprisonment for the murder of
his nephew and son-in-law, Charles
Fullerton, Jr,, Of Fulton, Mich, cut
his throat in the county jail at La
Porte, Ind, on the 7th. Death was al
most instantaneous.
SENIOR DoMINGUEz, the lawyer who
is defending the Competitor prisoners
at Havana, is sanguine of securing at
least Ona Meltons release, and believes
that the liberation of all the American
prisoners probably will follow soon.
The physicians in attendance upon
Gen. benjamin Butterworth, commits
sioner of patents, who is i'll with pneu-
monia at the llollenden hotel, Cleve-
land, O., on the Sth, gave but,little en-
for his recovery.
W. d. CORNISH, master in chancerv,
at the courthouse in Denver,
Col, on the Sth, at 10 u. m, the hour
set for the sale of the Den
yer Pacific railroad, and publicly an
nounced the postponement of the sale
until December 20.
JUDGE SANBoRN, in the United States
court at st. Paul, Mimi, on the sth.
confirmed the sale of first mortgage
bonds of the Union Pacific railroad,
which were sold on the LIST, at Omaha. |
Neb. The proceedings were confined |
to the brief reading of the papers in
the case and the signing of the judges
name. The document was Immediate
ly dispatched to Omaha.
On the Sth the United States supreme
court affirmed the decision of the cir
cult court of the California circuit re-
fusing writ of habeas corpus to Will |
liam Henry Theodore Durrant, under |
sentence of death for the murder of |
Miss Blanche Lamont, in San Francis
20, in April, 1896.
HARRY PIERsoN, aged rs, an oiler,
was crushed to death in the engine
room of Swft's packing house at East
st, Louis, Ill.,, on the sth, being caught
n the crank shat, when he was oiling,
md whirled around until he was
ifeless mass.
BESJ NUM- and Roy Num-, father
md son, were each sentenced, at Glad
win, Mich, on the Sth, to life impris-
i'll the state penitentiary at
Jackson. Their crime was numbering
jurticc Wright,