Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-01-09
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
Personal AND GENERAL

| oA AdihcT Wllnelm Ill
from Bremen, which arrived at Ne,
York on the Goth, brought 800 Italia
men, women and children, destined fc
the Sunnyside colony In Chieot count,
Ark, which was established by th
late Austin Corbin.
PREsIDENT'ELECT MCKINLEY I'm
promised to 60 to New York for th
dedication of the Grant monument OF
April a. He will make an address
Many representatives of foreign gov
ernments at Washington will be pres
ent to witness the ceremonies l.
lung Chang will see that the Flower,
kingdom is represented.
PROF. EMANUEL ScHMID died In Co
lumbus. o., on the 2sth, from a para
lytic stroke. He had been professo
OF Latin and Greek in the Lutheran
Capital university In Columbus sine,
1859, and was for the same period one
OF the editors Of the Kirchen Zeitunp
Prof. Schmid was born in Ann Arbor
Mich, in 1895.
The ferryboat New Brunswick, be
longing to the Pennsylvania railroad
was totally burned at Jersey City N
j., on the 2sth. The New Brunswick
was worth about 100000.
MASKED men, believed to be white
caps, shot William Whaley and his
wife to death in Sewer county, Tenn,
early on the morning of tho a9th.
Whaley was a professional prosecut.
ing witness, and had been out of the
penitentiary only a short time.
The Spanish steamer Carranza, Capt.
M artinez, foundered in the Bay of Bis.
cay, off Santander, on the 2sth She
carried u crew of 22 men, 20 of whom
were drowned.
AT Delaware, O., on the 2sth, Lulu
Stultz, aged 10, In fit of anger after
reproof from hcr parents. cut her
throat from ear to ear with razor.
dying instantly.
The highbinders' war is again rag
Ing in that portion OF San Francisco
known as Chinatown.
Gov. MORTON of New York has ap
pointed Col. Ashley w. Cole, former
New York city newspaper man, to be
his private secretary, and also to be
secretary Of the state railroad commits
sion. Tho salary 10 s., 900 por year, nd
Is one Of the best in the state service.
EUGENE TOMPKINs, proprietor OF the
Boston theater; Col. Mapleson, late i'm
presario Of the Imperial opera com.
oany, and all who took part in the
Mapleson benefit at the theater Sun
lay, the eth, have been summoned to
.he superior court, charged with vio-
ating the Sunday concert law.
FIRE swept through the dynamo
building Of the Newark IN. j.. Electric
Light, Heat and Power Co., on the
light Of the Goth. and Newark was
in total darkness. The pow.
'rhouse was totally destroyed, and If,
IS 1t Is feared, mono of the machinery
AN be repaired, the loss will reach
'le5. ZOO.
The celebrated Thistle Shaft mine,
known as the Feather Fork,
It Gibsonville, CAL. which is owned
~ a syndicate Of Scotch capitalists
md valued at millions, is filling up
With water, and may have to be aban-
loned. The water vein was struck a
short time ago, and the influx was SO
udden that the miners narrowly es-
aped with their lives.
Miss LOUISE EUGENE BoNAPARTE,
My daughter OF the late Col. Jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte. and Count de
-Huiticldt, of Denmark, were
married. at st. Paul's Roman Catholic
hurch, Washington, on the 29th,
ardinal Gibbons officiating.
CHEF HAzEN Of the secret service
as issued a circular warning against
new counterfeit $40 national bank
ote on the Union national bank Of
Detroit, Mich. The note is the prod.
ct of the same hand that produced
he recent counterfeit on the National
|ank of Commerce Of New York. One
istingui shable feature is that the
ack of the note Is upside down.
Two MEN, one OF whom was masked,
rmed with pistols, entered the Glou-
cster City IN. J.) station of the Read
~ road ON the evening Of the Goth,
nd, under threats OF instant death,
ompelled Thomas Randolph, the sta.
on master, to open the safe. They |
,cured $50, 900, and escaped.
JOSEPH b. McCULLAGH, editor Of the
I. Louis Globe. Democrat, leaped from
window at his home some time early |
n the morning Of the 3lst, dashing his
rains out on the tagging of the yard.
lis body was found about $50 by
able boy. Mr.. McCullagh had been
,nfined to his home by illness for sev.
raj weeks.
WHEN called upon to surrender the
,unty books and funds In his posses
on Henry +. Strauss, county clerk OF
angdale county, Wis, committed sui
do by taking poison. He lefta letter
Uniting that he was n defaulter to
10 amount of 90, 100. He was ~ years
d.
MRs. NETTIE r. CRAVEN, the claim
at TO the estate Of the late Senator
air, Is seriously III in San Francisco.
or sickness has been Of long stand.
n, and apparently ba iies the skill OF
sr physicians. II is said that her
alsdy is such that she may die at amy
me.
SAMUEL WHIrAKER, . shoemaker liv-
n on RIndge avenue, North Cam
ridQe, Mass, at three o'clock on tho
orning Of the list, shot and killed his
ife Catherine, blowing the top OF her
,ad of with . shotgun. He then at
IN pted suicide by cutting his throat
lth = razor. He was taken to the
lmbridRe hospital In critical condi.
on. whitaker is about 6fty years OF
70 and his wife few years younge-'
an caused the tragedy.
AyDxrw w. 6wErT, who for many
,ars had been agent Of the Adams
xprsss Co. In New York city. and
ho wss with Samuel Adams and a..
,tcd MIN II founding the express
|npany. disd In Rensonhurst, L. l.,
! ~ is& lrom Driaht'a dlseane. Mrs