Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the islands, i'' "
LIE competition between the Amer
iean Sugar Refining Co. and the 0rr
OF ArDuckle Bros, coffee merchants
IS on III earnest. A second reduction
OF one half eau' a pound in the whole
sa'e price OF roasted coffee was mad,
ON the I'D. ''''
lhG Bank of Minnesota, at St. pauI
closed ITS doors on the 9?d. Lack Of
ready money was the cause. Creates
citement prevailed.
fhEDA ScHAErER, OF st. Louis. aced
~, to shield her mother, oonfessed
on the 2lst, that she stole an umbrell,
IRON the Famous department store
ana spent nighti in the matron's room
at the -Four Courts. The girl insisted
,hat she and not her mother stole tLe
umbrella, bnt the proprietors refused
to prosecute.
JOHN BuRKHARDy and George Reiss,
oFicklayers, employed on a building in
course of erection at the corner of
ureen and Bleeker streets, New York
city, were, on the 22d, precipilatrd
from the sixth floor through the build.
ing to the cellar by the collapse of a
scaffold, Hurlthardt was killed nul
Reiss fatally injured.
TWENTY-FIVE men of the cayal v
detachment at West Point, n. Y. wero
reported, on the 22l, very sick with
ptomaine poisoning, due to eating
canned head cheese. -Four of the cases
were regarded as critical
FRANK ASHLEY was found guilty at
Detroit, Mich, on the 29d, of the mur.
der of james Magee, well.known
local amateur athlete, on July last.
ihe jury was ont about eighteen hours.
IT is intimatcd that the steamer
Three Friends, which has not been
heard from since she left Fernandinn
rla' with her cargo for Cuba, had
other expeditions in view before re.
turning to port to be seized.
The New England society of New
York city celebrated, on the 22d. the
ninety-first anniversary Of the exist,
ence and the two hundred and seventy.
sixth anniversary of the landing of the
Pilgrim Fathers with Il banquet at the
Waldorf.
The death of Franklin A. Robev,
near Hill Top, Charles county, Md, re-
moves the last white survivor of those
who helped John Wilkes Booth to es.
cape from Maryland after the assassi-
nation of President Lincoln by Booth.
THERE is much excitement at Dead.
wood, ). d., over the great strike at
Ragged Top, in the Dacey shaft mine
The bed of ore continues to show evi-
lences Of fabulous wealth, going over
S50 to the ton.
GEN, HARRISON, on the ed, received
package from Chicago containing the
watch that formerly belonged TO his
wife, and which, among other things,
was stolen from his house in Indian
apolis by burglars.
HELEN COLE, l7-year-old daughter of
wealthy parents, at Geneva, Ia, was
sentenced, on the 29d, to six months
Imprisonment at Anamosa for bur-
glary, She stated that she was trying
to get money enough to get bicycle.
The Empire Glycerine Co.'S maga-
zine, near Montpelier, Ind, in which
was stored several hundred quarts Of
nitrog lycerine, exploded, on the @3d,
at 7:li a. m. The shock was felt in
every town within 50 miles of the place
Harry Adams and George llickok were
nt the magazine at the time Of the eX-
ploson, and both were blown to atoms.
The residence of Earl Russell, at
M.s denhead, on the Thames, was
burned to the ground on the @3j.
The fire was undoubtedly of ipcendlary
origin, as Earl Russell had recently re-
ceived several menacing letters, some
Of them threatening him with per-
sonal injury and others threatening
the burning of his property
The gunboat Annapolis was sue
cessfully launched at the Crescent
shipyard ut Elizabethport, n. D., on
the 22d. Miss Georgiana Porter,
granddaughter OF the late Admiral
Porter, christoned the new addition
to tho navy.
TIE officers of the Balgic lately ar
rived at San Francisco from iokoha-
ma, report that the smallpox epidemic
is raging in Kobe and Toxic, japan.
On Christmas day Queen Regent
Christina OF Spain signed decree or
dering the operation of certain re-
forms In the island of Porto Rico.
Ex-QuEEN LlLuoKALANI, of Hawaii,
arrived in Boston, on the 25th, and
was at once driven to the Parker
house, which will be her. headquarters
during her stay in that city.
ST. STEPHENS church, the most fash
ionable Episcopal church in Wilkes
barre, Pa, was destroyed by fire early
on the morning of the 95th, the lire
having caught from the heating APP
paratus in the basement. The great
aipe organ and dozen memorial WIN
lows and tablets were also destroyed.
FIRE, on the morning of the @5th,
DESTROYED nearly one million dollars
worth of property on East thirty
third street, New York city, and rem
dered 100 persons homeless. -Four
buildings, including Sohmers piano
and the New York Poly-
clinic hospital, were burned.
CHESTER r. FAULKNER, for some
years prominent politician OF lno'-
ana, and of recent years private sec
retary of Senator Voorhees,, died at
hospital, in Washington
ON the s5th, of injuries received by
being run over by a street car the
previous night.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the five days ended on the
cath, as reported by r. G, Dun " Co..
were e97, as against 922 for the same
week last year. For Canada the IAN
,res were "A, against 40 last year.
ADMIRAL BERANGER, Spanish m'i'is'
Tor of marine. denies that his govern
ment is purchasing war ships.
HAVANA adyices of the s5th stated
that Gomez's advance guard had cap
tured the town Of Las Pessega, III
Santa Clara province, taking the entire
garrison and all its stores
TnE Colorado supreme court nus
denied the application for rehearing
in the case of Sheriff Newman OF Lake
santenced to six months I'M