Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-04-17

AN elevator In the Ellicott Square
building at Buffalo, N. Y, fell five sto-
rles' on the Sth, injuring A. 0. Girls
void, Elyria, o.; Charles Harsch, To
ledo; George Vroman, Toledo; C. Mes
SER Toledo; Madison Hobart, Pembcr-
vile, O., all G. A. R. veterans, who
were inspecting quarters for the ma
tional encampment.
IHE women of Denver Col. won
their first signal victory under equal
suffrage in the last election. They
nominated, worked for and triumph
antly elected ticket which will deal
an Icy blow to the sporting and saloon
element, who comprised its most bitter
opponents.
AUSTRALIAN advices state that S.
Duncan, white trader, while trading
with natives of New Hebrides, was
made Il prisoner, forcibly fattened,
roasted with due ceremony and feasted
upon by the cannibals.
THOMAS w. STEEP, the missing
scripps-McRae league correspondent in
cuba, has been found He is in the
camp of the patriots. The length of
time he has been there is not now
known, but there is no doubt that he
has been with the main army of the
patriots for some time.
LEWIS MAYO, one of the oldest imple-
ment and seed dealers in Kansas, on
the 9th made an assignment to j. w.
GRANGER Co., of Leavenworth, for the
benefit of creditors Liabilities and
assets not stated.
TIE Greater New York charter has
been returned to the state legislature
with the disapproval of Mayor Strong
OF New York city and Mayor Wuerster
of Brooklyn. Mayor Gleason of Long
Island City approved it.
OF the 8? guests who were sleeping
in the Hotel Knox, at Knoxville, Team,
on the morning of the Sth, when the
fire broke out, only 35 have been ac-
counted for.
A DISPATCH from Cumberland, Nd.
on the night of the 9th, said that the
body of Gen. Fullerton who went to
his death in the railroad disaster at
Oakland, Md, had been found eight
miles below the scene of the accident
by Dalton Hornel, the famous deer
hunter. The body was almost entirely
nude and badly disfgured.
ANNOUNCEMENT Is made that The
Patriarchs, the famous social organiza-
ton launched by Ward McAllistar 25
years ago at Delmonico's, New York
city, has dissolved. Lack of support,
strife for leadership and internal dis
senSions of a minor character contrib
uted to the collapse of the society.
ARLINGTON HOLLAND was taking o
loaded shotgun from a closet, at New
London, Ia, on the 9ih, when it
was accidentally discha -Gcd, the load
entering the left side Of his daughter,
Clara, a beautiful young woman of Is,
mortally woundins her.
Miss ALICE A. HOLMES, of Jersey City,
n. j., who has been blind from the day
of her birth, has just fallen heir to
S3O0,OOO. left to her by a brother, Will
lam j. Holmes, of Downieville, Sierra
county, Cal. Miss Holmes is now in
her seyenty-seventh year. She will de-
vote the inheritance to philanthropy.
THREE Thousand irregular Greek
troops crossed the frontier and invaded
Turkish territory. on the 10th, and in
several,engagement ts,with Ottoman gar
risons either put the latter to fight or
silenced their fire. An advance of the
Greek army was expected and declar-
alton of war thoNght to be inevita-
bic.
DANIEL WoIsEY VOORHEES,, ex-Uni-
ted States senator from the state of In
diana died at 3 Il. m, on the 10th, at
his home in Washington city.
WHILE mass was being said in a
church near Castre1', in the department
of Tara. France, on the llth, the roof
collapsed. Seven women and one man
were killed aud 80 persons Were seri-
ously injured.
GOV. PINGREE of Michigan has re-
fused to recognize the rcquisition upon
him, issued by Gov. Black of New
York, for Sheriff Edward Il. Ferguson
of Lcnawee county, Mich.
THE British channel squadron has
been ordered to the island of Malta,
where it will remain as long as the
eastern crisis lasts.
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held SAG, no, 050.in excess