Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-12-18

UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR Col.
JOHN Hay and Mrs. Hay dined with
queen Victoria at Windsor castle on
lne evening, OF the 10th. and spent the
night at the castle.
roLlcE nave expelled a number of
anarchists and have made manv bouse.
toulouse searches in Berlin, Frankfort
Mayence and Munich.
MRS. BERNARD BREsLAU, of Rrool,-
lyn' N, Y, within four days, recently.
gave birth to five boys, two of which
dled, while the other three are LIVING
ana doing well, as is also the mother,
Mrs. Breslau is small woman, 2s wears
o.o' her husband being two years her
a BOLD attempt to hold up u Southern
Pacific train at STEMS Pass, N. NJ. re-
suited in u battle between five outlaws
and two guards and messenger in the
express cur. The leader of the robbers,
who was Identified as SANDY" or Vie,
Collins was killed. and the other ban.
dts fled
IN compliance with peremptory or
de. OF the secretrry of war the repri.
mand OF Capt. Lowering was read be-
lore the assembled garrison of Fort
SHERIDAN Chicago on the 10th, instead
OF being posted, as had been intended.
oapt' Lowering took care to be absent.
URANIUM has been discovered near
Black Hawk, Col. The mineral is
worth VI 900 per ton, and the agents Of
French syndicate have announced
that they will buy all that can be pro-
duced, as 1t is much desired by the
French government
JAMES WoOD, the Oldest inhabitant
OF Portsmouth, n. H., celebrated, on
the 10th, the one hundred and first an
niversary Of his birth. Wood has lived
there SO long that the memory of the
next oldest inhabitant does not extend
back to the time when he was not
there.
HoN, CHARLES FLEsCmlANN died at
his home in Avondale, Il Cincinnati
suburb, on the 10th, from paralysis.
The stroke, which was the second,
came the day before, and he never re-
gained consciousness.
THE British bark Kimary, l2S day.
from new castle, England, arrived at
San Francisco on the l2th. Capt. Fer
guson reports having sighted an iron
bark with her main topmast carried
away on October I, in lat 55:44 north;
long. di35 west. 1t is thought possible
that the disabled vessel may be tie
long-overdue Tamount or Natuna, and |
seafariDg men are anXiously awaiting
news of her identity.
DAVID DAVIDSON, the Randsburg
(Cal.) wife murderer, was convicted, on
the llth, of murder in the first degree.
with the penalty of life Imprisonment,
lie is said to be the son of prominent
st. Louis physician. The defense was
insanity, and during the trial David
son appeared oblivous to his surround
ings, but experts declared that he was
ACCORDING to dispatch from Shang-
hal, on the 18th, the Germans are ex-
tending the area Of occupation at Kiao-
Chau and already control 400 square
miles. They have arranged a German
administration and are already collect
ing duties. The tsung-li-yamen, says
the dispatch, has appointed u prince
to negotiate a settlement with the Ger
mans.
A SERIOUS freight wreck occurred on
the New York Central railroad, five |
miles north of Poughkeepsie, on the
18th, caused by heavy rocks falling
upon the track. A north bound extra |
freight train of 40 loaded cars, run
ming % miles an hour, struck the OBJ
,tructlon and the engine and l6 cars
we're derailed.
THE national board Of trade, which
numbers among its members the prin- |
,ipal boards of trade and kindred COM
nercial bodies of the country, met in |
on the 18th, to organize |
'or its regular session, which opened on
he l4th. A number of important |
matters were brought up for consid-
,ration.
PATRICK MCkENNA, an aged man, |
md his son John, aged 49, Of Cleveland, |
J., quarreled, on the l2th, while at the
upper table. The father threw
snife at the son and the latter struck
he old man with chair, inhicting
INJURIES which caused death within
lew minutes. The son was arrested.
The Haytian cabinet resigned on the
nth.