Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-09-11
NE VS. AND NOTES,
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Iunus are sad to be missing. The banl
failed to respond to recent call from
the state auditor for a statement
The tilibuster Bermuda, with he,
machinery still out of order, remains
at Port Antonio in the custody OF tn,
| government of Jamaica, which paid of
the crew and officers and defrayeC
| their passage to New York.
| CAPT. MURPHY, who was convicted
and hned $500 some time ago for non
compliance with the customs .regula
tions while captain of the flibusterinq
steamer Laurada, having failed to pa,
his fine, has been sent to prison a
Kingston, Jamaica, for 20 days.
TIMOTHY TRAlNoR who had been M
outcast from his home for many years
returned to the parental roof in Oak
land, Cal, on the 30th, at midnight. Iii
father refused TO take him in, and h,
stabbed the old man so seriously thai
he was arrested upon charge of as
| sault To murder.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CuRRENC,
JAMES II. ECKEls, arrived at Helena
Mont, on the LIST, from the east, er
route for the Yellowstone nationa
park, where he will spend ten days,
OsKAR LAMpPEzE, one of the wealth
lest men who have returned to the
| United States from the Klondike, is
visiting relatives in Ottumwa, la, and
vicinity. He went to Alaska two years
ago and returned with over Sl50, 900
| He also left Il claim there which he es
Inmates is worth 100000.
TIE sultan is following the events ir
India with the closest attention. II,
has ordered Turkish representatives. in
different countries to telegraph full re
ports of anything bearing on the situa
tion withoutdelay
A 40-ToS ily-wheel at Burgess steel
and iron works, at Portsmouth, o.,
burst, on the lst, 10y IA, 4,SOO-pound ingot
stopping roll. The mill was crowded
with worlsmen, yet, strange to say,
no one was seriously injured, although
the building was riddled, beams ~
inches square being cut in two like
| straws..
DESTRUCTIVE fires are raging in the
timber in the mountains along the
north fork of Piney creek and near the
head of Prairie Dog creek, in Wyoming
The fire is destroying large areas OF
valuable timber and threatening the
| homes of settlers
FRED HORTON, young flour miller
of Los Angeles, Cal, has fallen heir tt
Il fortune of about 81 900, 900, amasseo
by his father, Philip Horton, u we'll
known Californian, who died suddenly
in Guayamas, Mexico, recently
Ar ella Bend, Ariz,, on the night o.
the list, tramps robbed the drug store
of John Pratt and stabbed the pro
prietor to death. There is no clew t.
| the murderers.
BAR silver made new low record in
the New York market on the lst. The
quoted price was 81 4 cents an ounce,
one fourth cent below the previous
low record.
On the lst, the president appointed
Mr.. Henry Demas as naval officer o
customs for the district of New Or
leans.
The price of white pine lumber il
to be advanced in sympathy with thu
enhanced prices of agricultural prod
| ucts.
LOUIS BREEN, Daniel CBrien, vii
liam O'Brien, Patrick Gillian and an un
known man were injured by the fall o
an elevator in the Nelson Morris pack
Ing house at East st. Louis, H., on th
I'd. Breen's nose was cut off.
THE commission appointed to exam
| inc as to the mental condition OF eX
Mayor Lockwood, of Glcnwood. Wis,
on the 2l, reported him insane an'
recommended that he be sent to al
asylum.
JonN Il. MCDONALD, an ex-sheriff o
Milwaukee county, Wis. and who at va
rious times has held responsible polit
ical positions in that city, was, on tn
Ist, sentenced to six months Mt tn
| county farm for vagrancy. Ovcrindul
gence in liquor is said to have been til
cause of his downfall.
Gov. ELLERBE, of South Carolina
has given orders Withdrawing tn
state constabulary force from ever.
village, town and city in the state
Only q few constables will be retained
| in the country districts, where ther
| are no local officials to enforce the dis
pensary law.
Mr.. RICHARD CROKER has consente'
| TO become the Tammany candidate 10
| mayor of Greater New York.
A SPECIAL commission will meet il
st. Petersburg, shortly, to discuss tn
introduction of universal and compul
sorry education in Russia.
A DISPATCH from Havana, dated th
I'd, said "rhe last two steamers whicl
have sailed for Spain carried l,6Oo Sic
soldiers" :,
In the course of an interview, on tn
Sd, on the subject of President Faure
recent visit to st. Petersburg, Prime
| bismarck said: But for all that TN
French people are moved nearer to til
fire and might more easily than eve
boil over. This ought to deliver ou
rulers from any illusion they may SUI
cherish, and should serve to warn theh
against altering the basis OF our na
tional defense" ),
THE post Office department. Is avai
iur itself of every satisfactory oppol
tunity TO dispatch mails to the varioa
points in Alaska. In accordance WIZ
this policy, Assistant Postmas.e
General Shallenberger, on the ., %
wired authority for forwarding mall
On the steamer Farrellon, sailing ina
dav from Seattle for Dyea and 'n'e'
mediate points.
The National Fremont associatio
will hold a reunion in Pittsburgh Ia
IN the 10Th, nth, and 18th. The occs
s,nn win be a memorial TO Gen. jon
C. q Fremont, the first candidate 10
nrosi,lcnt on tho republican tIcke,
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