Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-23

AouiS RICHARDSON went to the house
OF MS divorced wife at Shelbyyille.
lhd', on the 18th, and was refused adj
mission. He attempted to break down
the door, when his 16-year-old son, Lou,
opened on the parent with revolver.
four shots were fred, and bloody
trail showed they were effective.
GEORGE W, RENARD, of Lexington,
N.Y. has just returned from a four.
years sojourn in the Klondise country
t''ooo richer than when he went there.
lie intends to return in the spring.
ABRAM GARFIELD and Sarah Granger
Williams were married, on the l4th,
AT the residence of the brides father
IN Glenville, o. Abram Garfield is the
youngest son of the late President
uafheld Guests of national promi-
hehce were present, Irving Garfield,
brother of the groom, was the best
man.
HERE was cvclonic disturbance
over the southern part of Cuba on the
10TH The barometer fell considerably
and the wind attained great velocity.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury issued on the 18th, showed.
Available cash baiance, S2lt, $50, SIS,
gold reserve, $3.50, l64, 1876.
COMMERCIAL bar silver was quoted at
5S4 cents per ounce in New York city
on the 18th. Mexican dollars were
quoted at 4l51 cents.
The town of Iowa Hill, Cal. min
ing camp of about 500 inhabitants, was
completely destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10Th. Two men were
burned to death and several Others
were injured,
THE interstate civic-philanphropic
conference at Battle Creek, Mich,
closed, on the l7th, after six days ses-
sions, which were successful as to at
tendance and interest manifested.
The Fall River Mass print cloth
market took another tumble, on the
10th, and reached the lowest point in
the history of the market in that city,
small sale being made at 23s
THEODORE A. DuRRANT, the con-
victed murderer of Blanche Lamont,
whose fate depends upon the action
OF the supreme court of the United
States, is reportep to be breaking
down and in danger ofentre collapse
THE town of Windsor, the seat OF
llants county. 50 miles from Halifax
N. s., was wiped out, on the 18th, by
fire. Few buildings in the town were
left standing and 5000 persons are
homeless. Windsor is situated on the
Dominion Atlantic railway, on the
western coast of the province. AS fal
as known no lives were lost.
The annual report of W. $. Shallen-
berger, second assistant postmaster
general, made public on the l7th, gives
an interesting review of the principal
developments in the entire postal
transportation service of the United
States and connecting foreign mails.
On the 10Th the associated banks OF
New York city held Sl4,614, 800 IN
excess of the requirements of the %
percent rule.
CHARLES A. DANA, editor of the New
York Sun, died at his home in Glen
Cove, l.. l., on the 17th.
The monument to Robert Louis
Stevenson was unveiled, on the 11th
at Portsmouth square, San Francisco
Addresses We're delivered by Irving NJ
Scott and Bruce Porter, the artist
Mayor Phelan accepted the monument
on behalf of the city.
MARSHAL BLANCo left Spain for Cuba
on the night Of the 18th, to replace Gen
Weyler. 1t is understood that he ha,
been given unusual power, and that his
main hope is to secure paciiicaton by
buying up the patriot leaders.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the famous actor
addressed the convicts in the Massa.
chusetts state prison, on the nth, talk.
ing the story of Rip Van Wrinkle as his
theme, from which he drew lesson on
temperance that held his hearers spell
bound to its conclusion.
ALDERMAN j. A. ABERCoRN was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by Geo
Jensen in saloon quarrel at Chicago
on the l7th. Jensen, who is under ar
rest, says that the alderman attempted
to bite off his nose.
THE Spanish coasting steamer Triton,
bound from Havana to BAHIA Honda,
Cuba, sank between Dominica and
Mariel, and $50 lives were lost. Forty.
two of those on board were saved,