Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-01-16
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

The tariff hearings before the ways
and means committee were continued
on the 9th, raw wool" being the
schedule under consideration.
A DISPATCH from Manila, the capi.
tai of the Philippine islands, on the
5th. said that the Spanish troops had
defeated and totally routed force Of
1000 insurgents at Olmansas.
CHRIST ScHAUER. Jr., treasurer OF
the Nations bank for savings, of Alle-
gheny, Pa, was found hanging In the
Allegheny gymnasium, corner Ohio
and North streets, on the 9Th.
A FORMAL denial of the statement
that 1t Is the intention of the Span ish
government to supersede Gen. Weyler
us captain-general of Cuba, was pub.
lished in the Madrid Epoca, an in
spired organ, on the 9th,
THE convent at Robervale. Lake st.
John, Quebec, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 5th. Mother De-
positaire and seven of the nuns are
missing and undoubtedly perished in
the flames.
The Polish church troubles in Bay
City, Mich, have broken out afrcsh, a
riot having started at st. Stanislaus
church on the morning of the 5th. A
mob of several hundred angry Poles
attacked the parsonage, breaking
svery window and driving Father
Bogacki and his bodyguard into the
basement where they were besieged.
Several men were dangerously
wounded
BERNARD KRAUsE, a Chicago tailor,
became tired of life. on the 18th, and
jumped into Lake Michigan, but was
frightened into coming ashore by a
policeman drawing his revolver and
to shoot him.
THE annual celebration of the ami
versary Of the wedding Of George
Washington was held at Sherry's, in
New York city, on the 9th, by the New
York chapter of the Daughters Of the
Revolution.
SANFORD GRANT, a scion of one OF
the Oldest and wcalthiest Scranton
(Pa.) families, has been sued for Sl0,-
300 for kissing pretty Mrs. Emma May
Bradish twice--once on the cheek and
once on the lips without her consent.
CARLOS EzETA, ex-president of Sal
vador, now exiled in Oakland, Cal,
has declared his disapproval of the
Central American federation by which
Honduras and Nicaragua are
united. He says the people OF the re-
publics were not consulted, and that
The union was accomplished without
their warrant or approval.
The wedding OF Miss Edith Lyman
Collins, the ward of Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew, OF New York, and Rechid Bey.
COUNT Czaykowski, councillor of state
II the Turkish embassy at Rome, was
celebrated at Paris on the 7th.
LIZZIE PFErFFER, Chicago telephone
put her weeks pay in her
tocking, on the 9th, and started for
,ome Footpads held her up ut Fiji
,y.third street and demanded her
money. She denied having any, and
he robbers searched her and secured
he money. ss8W uYg
The American national bank OF Dem
'er, COL, which suspended April sl'
9a5, has been permitted to reopen its
loors for business as an active ma
ional banking institution, having
omplied with all the necessary con-
litions.
SIMON COOPER, negro dc,pcrado,
Who had killed Ave persons, was SUR
ounded by sheriff's posse in sumter
ounty, s. c., on the 18th, and killed
lov. sEvans was asked for . cannon. as
,ooper kept lupys fusilade with his
Winchester riils on the posse, but
uchy slot finally brought him down,
IL was afterwards hanged and Fiddlsa
ylth buiieth