Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-06-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Diamond mine of the Brown Coal Co.,
two miles south of Monongahcla, Pa,
on the 7th, several men were injured,
but none fatally. The gas is said to
have been ignited by an open lamp,
and the escape of the 800 miners was
remarkable.
TIE board of directors of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Co., on
the Sth, declared quarterly dividend
of one per cent. on preferred stock,
payable July |. This is the first divi-
dend the company has paid in several
years.
CAROLINE DANsAT and Martha Elsner,
each 15 years old, were held to the
grand jury in Chicago for stealing two
bicycles The girls rented the wheels
and erased the numbers.
TIE official copy of Consul-General
Lees report on the Ruiz case was filed
at the state department on the Sth. 1t
is announced that President Mckinley
will call upon Spain for full and com
plete rcparation for the death of DR..
Ruiz.
THE class of 1897, comprising 1O4
young women, the largest class in the
history of the college, graduated from
Vassar on the 9th.
SOLDIERS at Fort Sheridan, Chicago,
took few shots, on the 5th, at Casimir
Xeglens bullet-proof cloth with their
improved army revolvers and were un-
able to pierce the tough fabric invent
ed by the Resurrectionist brother.
THE Sth inst. was the coolest June
day in New York on record, and it
came to u fitting end. At night huge
black cloud blew over Norton's Point
Coney Island, and for half minute
there was snow.
DR. ANGEL, who was to have sailed
for Constantinople on the 18th, to as
sumo his post of minister to Turkey,
has postponed his departure for week,
in order to finish his work in the Mich
igan university, as lecturer upon inter
national law.
THE Renwicls building at Davenport,
Ia, occupied by the Davenport Furni-
ture and Carpet Co., was burned, on the
sth, an explosion being the cause.
Damage to the building, $4,000; fully
insured. The stock was valued at S9o,-
900. and is total loss.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES, U. S. A., left
Rome, on the sth, for London, where
he will represent the United States
army at Queen Victoria's jubilee cele-
bration.
NATHAN SnuRE, whose fireworks
factory at 2ls lIalstead street, Chicago
was destroyed by an explosion and fire'
| on the sth, injuring a number OF pco-
pie, has made an assignment
THE Montrose (Col.) hotel, two,
story frame structure, and block OF
stores were burned on the 9th. Robert
II. Mead, aged 0, years, OF Portland,
Col. guest at the hotel was burned
to death. A dozen other guests were
rescued uniniured.
Hon. j. C. WELTy, of Canton, has
formally announced that he will be a
candidate for the democratic nomina'
ton for governor of Ohio at the state
convention, and that he will have the
support of his home county.
THE decision of the Baltimore health
officials to return Miss Mary Samson
the leper, to Allegheny, Pa, will, II
ATTEMPTED to be carried out, meet with
strong opposition from the health
board of the latter city.
CLAUDE d. HARRINGTON, for sever
wears superintendent of the Nationa
academy of design of New York. wa
arrested, on the 9th, on a charge o
having embezzled over $4,000 OF I'M
academy's funds.
ApvIcEs from Simferopol, capital Q
the Russian province of Iaurida, Oh
the 10th. said that torrential rains ha'
fallen in that district, inundating
norton of the province. Many per
sons had been drowned, the river
had overflowed and ruined the crops
and the damage to the wheat crop wa
enormous.
THE fourth biennial sale OF the prime
of Wales, hackneys and harness horse
was held, on the 10th, at Princess oVu'
farm Mt Wolferton, near SandringhamI
Norfolk, England. Nearly all OF 'h
horses sold were bred by the prince q
Wales at the Wolferton farm, under I'LL
supervision of Sir Dighton Propyn'
LARS ANDERSON, until very recent
n member of the United States dipio
matte corps at Rome, Italy, and MIS-
Isahelle Perkins, OF Boston, heiress
sl7, 600, 900, were married in Boston o
the 10th. r.,,;r,
THE strike at Jones 4 Laughhh
, irnn works at Pittsburgh. Pa was o
tho 10th. declared off by the striker
committee. and all the old men .ha
!, could went back at once at the reau'
tion. nr;ree
rApr. DEapy, United States enginee
d In charge Of the levee districts iIol
. viclssburg to New Orleans announce. ,.,;,
an The 10th, that the struggle WIZ
The high water of 1897 was over
JAMES HuonEs TAYLOR, ve.esa ,',
{, tragedian of wide reputation oleo !,
lronsv ut Downington, ra' On :"