Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-05-22


States during the week ended the l4th,
as reported by II. q. Dun g. Co., were
20i, against 224 for the corresponding
keew last year. For Canada the failures
were 81, against 33 last year.
TIE proceedings brought by the
helrs OF the late Jay Gould to have the
amount of the inheritance tax fixed
was argued before the appellate di.
vision OF the New York supreme court
on the l4th.
JUDGE JoHN LOWELL, the distin-
guished jurist died at his home in
Brookline, Mass, on the lith. He had
been i'll for some time, and his death
had been expected for several days.
STEPHEN r. MALLORY was elected
United States senator from Florida on
the l4th, on the twenty-ffth ballot.
TIE committee at San Francisco hav-
ing in charge the preliminaries for the
sixteenth international Christian En-
deavor convention, which will be held
in that city July to IL next inclusive,
is leaving no stone unturned to insure
its success.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the 14th,
showed: Available cash balance, S229,-
IT'S, 729; gold reserve, Sl47, ,56s,5l2.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster befell
military train between Rockenhof and
Eliva, on the Valki-Jurjev line in Rus
sia, on the l4th. Sixteen cars rwere
smashed. Two officers and nearly 100
soldiers were killed and 60 others were
seriously injured.
The United States gunboat Nash
vile covered the 60mile course on her
official trial trip in 8 hours IS minutes
and 20 seconds averaging 1G.7 knots,
and winning a bonus of about $50, 900
for her builders.
Miss FRANCES +. WILLARD is critical
ly i'll at the home of her friend, Nine.
Demorest, in New York. Her malady
is said to be acute and persistent gas
trio trouble, combined with prostration
from overwork.
MAJ.-GEN. JAMES b. FoRsYTu, COM
manding the department Of California,
has been placed on the retired Hist on
his own application. lie was confirmed
in his present rank on the 18th.
TIE one hundred and ninth general
assembly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States will meet at Wo-
nina assembly grounds, Eagle Lake,
Kosciusko county, Ind, on the Goth,
and will probably continue in session
until the 3lst. The assembly will be
composed of about 600 delegates, one
half of them ministers and the other
half ruling elders.
THE origin of the fire at the charity
bazar in Paris seems to have been es-
tablished. A man named Bellac, an
employe of tire Knematographe
booth of the fair, has confessed to hav-
ing accidentally caused the conhagra-
ton. Bellac and his assistant have
been allowed their liberty provision
ally.
The Hamburg American Packet Co.'S
steamer Arcadia, from Montreal for
Hamburg, went ashore four miles
north of Cape Bay, N. f., on the 10th,
duringa dense fog. Her forehold filed
with water and her cargo was jetti-
soncd.
JUDGE GIBBONS, Of Chicago, has rem
dered decision declaring the Ameri
can Tobacco Co. an illegal corporation
and prohibiting its agents from carry
ing on its business within the confines
of Illinois.
THE sum of 100000 pounds (Turk-
ish money! has been mentioned in Con-
stantinople as the amount of indem-
nifty Turkey will demand from Greece
CARDINAL CANHLIo SICIIIANo DE
RENDE, archbishop of Bonevento, died
in Rome on the 10th. He was born in
ls47 and received the red hat in 1887
THE marriage of Gerald du Maurier,
son of the author of "Trilby, and Miss
Silvia, an actress, is announced to take
place during the summer.
THE associated banks of New York
city held S44, 400, 800 in excess OF the re-
quirements of the 25-per-cent rule on
the 18th.
LARRY CONNER was fined $50 in the
St Louis police court, on the 18th, for
splitting on the floor of street car.
ORDERS are said to have been sent to
Rear-Admiral Montgomery Sicard to
have his flagship, the New York, made
ready to go to sea at moments warn
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