Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-03-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

oN VIC HorHluB OF Ine 10Th tramDS
drove spikes in the Louisville & Nash
vile switch at Springfield, Tenn. A
freight train was wrecked, several ears
being telescoped, with heavy loss. The
deed is supposed to have been done for
revenge by tramps recently elected
from train, who doubtless intended
to wreck the Chicago limited.
THE sugar refinery on South Second
street, Williamsburg, N. v, belonging
to the American Sugar Refining Co.,
after a shut down of over five months.
opened, on the 18th, with force of
nearly 400 men. The introduction of
the tariff bill with its increased duty
on sugar is believed to be responsible
for the resumption.
Coz. HAY, of the District of Column
bia, was, on the 10th, nominated by the
president ambassador extraordinary
and minister plcnipotentiarv to the
court of st. James.
THERE is no doubt that Frank w.
Palmer, of Chicago, will be appointed
and promptly confirmed public printer.
MAMMALIAN BARRloz was arrested
in st. Louis, on the t7th, charged with
embezzlement and larceny, preferred
by John Rittcnmeyer, proprietor of the
Great Eastern Tea Co. of that city.
The amount stolen will aggregate be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000
THE unruly elephant Tip, belong
ing to the Barnum a. Bailey show, was
strangled to death at the winter quar-
ters of the circus in Bridgeport, Conn,
on the 10Th. Efforts to poison the ele-
phant by concealing capsules contain
ing large quantities of cyanide of potas-
stun had proven futile.
HENRY WHITE, of Rhode Island, is to
be secretary of the embassy of the
United States in Great Britain.
GEN. HORACE PORTER, of New York,
was, on the 10th, nominated ambassa-
dor to France.
A DUEL with swords was fought, at
the st. Ouen race course, near Paris,
on the l1th, between Signor PM, ltal-
ian champion, and Nj. Thomeguex, Il
French amateur. Five hundred aston
ished spectators witnessed the fight.
In the sixth attack Nj. Thomeguex was
slightly wounded in the lip.
On the 18th the river steamer Sunol,
bound from San Francisco to Vallejo,
Cal, collided in San Francisco bay with
the bark Olympia, bound in from Phila-
delphia. The Sunol turned bottom up
and sank. The crew and passengers
were picked up by boats from the
Olympia and other vesselsnear at hand,
In saloon brawl in Carson. New, on
the night of the 18th, Dick Bradford, a
Montana miner, who backed Fitzsim-
mons. was fatally shot by stranger
named Smith, who took the Corbett
side. Smith was arrested and jailed
amid threats of lynching.
WASHINGTON HEssING resigned the
postmastership at Chicago, on the l1th,
to devote all his time to his candidacy
for mayor of that city.
WILLIAM II. ADAMS, the author, wide
ly known by his non dc plume oliver
Optic" was reported, on the 18th, to be
very ill at his residence in Dorchester,
Mass, and his physicians expressed the
opinion that he could live but short
time.
THE much advertised pugilistic en-
counter between Corbctt and Fitzsim-
mons came off at Carson, New, on 81.
Patrick's day, and it would seem that
the good old saint frowned upon the
desecration of his particular day, rs
the colors of the Emerald isle, worn by
Corbett, went down before those OF ms
Cornish adversary.
SECRETARY BLISS, on the 18th, sent a
letter to Commissioner LamoreuX OF
the general land Office, whose action IN
the Chicago lake front ease was an
nulled and severely censured, oifering
To Mr.. Lamoreux an opportunity to de-
iend himself
THE admirals OF the combined fleets
In Cretan waters, on the l7th' made q
formal proclamation of the intention OF
the mowers to confer upon the island
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an autonomous government, SUBJECT o
the suzerainty of the sultan. ,,.,,
IT transpires that the steamer viiie
de st. Nazaire, which left New York
March s for the West Indies was
wrecked the following day off the caro-
lima coast, and, as far ras is known only
four of the so persons who took passage
on her survive.
A FlyE-yEAR-oLp son of A. J, Kaza-
beer, living near Marshall, Okla, was
killed. on the 18th, by horse drag
ring q big log over him. The boy was
watching his father work, the morse
being lassoed to the log.
THE Austrian government on the
18th, made a protest to the porte
against the outragescommitted by MOS
lens in the vilayet of uscob' IN EURO
penn Turkey.
The report of the committee on ways
and means on the tariff bill was made
10 the house of representatives, on the