Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-04-24
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i"iIroau embankment stood. on the
i'th' at Omaha, Neb., between the vel
AZ" mood and millions of dollars worth
Oh city property in the shape of ware
houses and big manufacturing estab-
llshments on the low lands.
IHE Lowell observatory, which was
transferred from Flagstaff, Ariz.. to
MeAlco' early in December last, for the
purpose OF observing the opposition of
Mars and for the measurement of south
ern double stars, has been dismounted
and shipped back to its original loca-
tloh after three months remarkable
service.
LIE captain and crew of the Norwe-
glan ship Sentax, 81 men in all, from St
John N. b., for Newport, England,
before reported passed abandoned.
We're landed at Philadelphia, on the
10Th, by the British steamer Snowflake
from Penarth.
TELEGRAM was received by the
cleveland (O.) Leader, from Asheville.
N. G., on the 10th, stating that Mrs. S.
NJ Hanna, the mother of Senator Ham
na' had died at that place from pneu-
monia aged "a. She had been sick only
about week.
THREE lepers, natives of Iceland,
have arrived at the lazaretto at Ira
cadie, Gloucester county, n. B, They
were taken from Winnepeg, Man, in a
freight car, which was directly behind
the locomotive, and was pacarded to
warn the people TO keep away from it.
MINISTER De LONE has informed the
department of state that, while his
government fully recognizes the right
OF the United States to be represented
at an investigation into the manner of
the death of Dr. Ruiz, it does not at all
follow that this representation should
involve the appointment of special
commissioner.
CHIEF BRoUFAs, who was the soul of
the Macedonian rising last year, and
upon whose head Turkey set price of
1000 francs, and who was supposed to
be dead, has reappeared. lie is now
organizing an invasion of the Chalet
dixie peninsula, with a view of divert
ing the Turkish army from Macedonia.
ADvIcEs from Natchcz and other
points below Vicksburg, on the 18th,
indicated that the supreme test was at
hand. The swift current, which was
rising steadily, was beating against the
levees with such force as to cause the
gravest apprehension at many places.
THE London Times correspondent at
Constantinople denies that there is any
effective Turkish war party. lie says
that the sultan, the scraskierat minis
try of war; and some of the other min
isters, are strongly opposed to hostili-
ties with Greece
WILLIAM II. BROWN, wealthy farmer
of Huntington, Ind, was found guilty
of subornation of perjury by jury in
the Allen county circuit court and SEN
fenced to IA years in the penitentiary.
ACTUAL hostilities having broken
out between Greece and Turkey with
out a formal declaration of war, the
ministers and consuls of the respective
countries were, on the 18th, given their
passports and requested to take their
departure within IL days. Thirty
hours continuous fighting without
food or rest was reported on the 18th,
along the Turco-Grecian frontier, in
IA i,h nt,,rn,rnI
THE weekly statement of the associ-
ated banks of New York city Issued ON
the l7th, showed the following changes;
Reserve, increase, S79G, $50; loans, in
crease, $l,415,60O; specie, increase, S755,-
900; legal tender, increase, S776, 900;
deposits, increase, S2,942, 600; circula-
ton, decrease, Sl34. 400.
WILLIAM +. MACK, the comedian,
died at his residence in Boston, on the
18th. aged 81 years. lie had been as
sociated with Francis Wilson, Charley
Reed, May Irwin, Dan DAILY and other
well-known actors.
TIE remains of the late Andrew JEFF
freys Garvey, who died in Southamp-
ton, England, on the 5th, arrived at
New York. on the 18th, on the steam
ship New York. He was prominent %
years ago during the reign of William
NJ. Tweed in that city, and it was his
testimony that clinched the evidence
against Tweed who was charged with
defrauding the city.
REPRESENTATIVE SETH |. MlLLIKES,
of Maine, died in Washington, on the
nipht of the 18th, of pneumonia.