Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-04-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

troduced his bills empowering the sec
retary of the navy to take possession
of the armor plants of the Bethlehem
and the Carnegie companies, and hold
and operate them at will, provision for
ample compensation being made.
SEVERAL thousand razor-bach hogs,
imported into Iowa from Texas during
the past year. have died from what
was supposed to be hog cholera. A
post-mortem examination of some of
them disclosed the fact that, instead
of cholera, a kidney worm killed the
hogs.
A DEED has been placed on file in
Kansas City, kas., conveying to Will
lam j. Isaac, of Kansas City, Mo-,
nearly one-half of the city of Argen-
tine, a manufacturing suburb. Over
one million dollars worth of property
is involved.
A MYSTERIOUS Jail delivery occurred
in Memphis, Tenn, on the night of the
14th. J. ii. Nor. is, alias j. A. Thur
man, alias J. NJ. Thomas, under indict-
ment for forgery in Chicago, Louis
vile and Memphis, passed to liberty
through four doors, all of which were
found to be securely locked after the
escape was discovered.
In view of thu very satisfactory tests
Of American asmor plate heretofore
sent to Russia, the Russian govern
ment has asked the Carnegie and Beth
lehem companies to submit proposals
for furnishing armor plate for two
large battleships.
TIE London Globe, st. James Ga
zette and Pail Mall Gazette all ridicule
the idea of the United States bimetal-
lie commission, appointed by the presi-
dent, having any practical result.
Ir is reported that 7. V, Powderly,
former general master workman of the
Knights of Labor, will be appointed
commissioner of immigration to sue
ceed Herman Stump, of Maryland.
The president has sent a message to
congress urging suitable provision for
adequate representation of the United
States at the Paris exposition.
The New York Central Railroad Co.
has arranged for the sale of 500, ,OOO, 600
of 3IS per cent. lOO-year gold bonds, and
the New York & Harlem for sl2, 900, 600
of the same class of bonds.
WHILE tapping blast at the Rcpub-
lican iron works in Pittsburgh, Pa.
about three o'clock on the morning of
the 18th, the molten metal boiled over
into pit of water, causing an eXplo-
sion. Five men were badly burned,
two of whom will probably die.
FATHER PHILIP BEREsroRD, rector of
St Joseph's Catholic parish in Read
ing, Pa, was found dead in bed in the
parsonage adjoining the church on the
18th. Death was due to suffocation
from Illuminating gas. His age was
about 80 years.
A DISPATCH from Essen-on-the-Ruhr
announces that ten persons were killed.
on the 14th, by an explosion OF fire
damp in the Oberhausen pit.
SECRETARY Bliss of the interior de-
partment has held up an order issued
by the authority of his predecessor
comforting As. 900 acres of land upon the
state university of Missouri as an addi-
ton to its endowment fund.
Mr. WILLIAM i. RYAN, OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, who for long time
occupied confidential position in the
pension bureau, has been retained as
confidential clerk to Commissioner
Evans.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople says
that in the last encounter between the
Greek ;rregulars and the Turkish regu-
lar troops on the Macedonion frontier
the latter lost 24O killed and wounded.
THE crest of the southern Hood on
the 10th, was still above Vicksburg' ana
the weather bureau issued an emphatic
warning to the people of Louisiana 10
remove from places that have been
flooded in former years, as the danger
was imminent and pressing.
JAMES II. GoRDy was convicted ~
Georgetown, Del, on the 10TH OF mur.
der in the first degree for the killing OF
his wife, formerly Mrs. Mary Estelia
Lewis, of New York, by throwing her
into the Broadkill river at Milton, Del''
March II. ~.
FROM reports made to the committee
in charge of the land parade at the
dedication of the Grant mausoleum In
New York, is figured that 10000 men
will participate, including regulars ma
tional guards, veterans and civic So
cieties. -,
GEN. WEyLER, tired Of trying to sub
iupate the Cuban insurgents in the
field. is now trying to strike them
through their source Of material AID IN
this country by seeking to encompass
the arrest of the junta and its agents
in New York and Washington
CASHIER SrIcKNEr, of the Great Fa1is
national bank, of Somersworth, N. h.
was brutually murdered, on the loth'
bv two unknown robbers, who ai'er,
wards escaped with an amount oA
money estimated at &c. 900. . !,
THE statement Of the condition o.
the treasury, on the 10th, showea' "sa.
Available cash balance, Saaa,alhvoW
cola reserve, siss,sVss@