Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-01-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


found guilty, on the Goth, Of murder in
the first degree without capital pun
ishment.
i CHAa SCHMIDT nailed revolver to
an upright pillar in the store where
he was employed at Davenport, Ia, on
the 2lst, pressed his head against the
muzzle and pulled the trigger. lie died
instantly. lie was but Is years of age
and killed himself on account Of love
affair.
The imperial Japanese diet reopened
on the 2Cth. The union OF the three
chief political parties is complete, and
will certainly carry in the house OF
represen tatives vote OF no confidence
in the government.
PRIVATE JOHN W. II. DAVIS, Fourth
cavalry, stationed in Yellowstone park,
was frozen to death, while carrying the
mail from the Lake hotel to Thumb
station. Private George Murphy, who
was with him, turned back and was
saved, although badly frozen.
JonN LAswELL, driller, was instantly
killed, and Horace Wathen, his assist
int, was badly injured by the explo-
sion of n dynamite cartridge at West
Point, Ky. on the 2lst. The men were
working on gas well on the premises
of Laswell at the time.
A PACKAGE containing $4,000 mys-
terlously disappeared, ON the Goth, from
the safe of the Southern Express Co.
in the office at Columbia, S. c. A party
of Pinlerton men from iladelphia
are investigating and they think they
have thief spotted.
CHRIS MERRY, the peddlar, charged
with wife murder, and his alleged ac-
complice, James Smith, were arraigned
in court, in Chicago on the 2lst. They
pleaded not guilty. Neither had Il
hwyer, and both objected to an early
tial. Judge Horton, however, set the
trttl for the 97th-
| TaE jury at Terre llaute, Ind, that
tried Mrs. Sadie Croolishanks for the
alleged murder of her husband, re-
turned Il verdict OF acquittal on the
2lst.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SPALDING is
sued orders, on the 2'st, for the release
of the Silver Heels ut Wilmington, N.
Z. This stsp was taken on report by
the United States attorney that he
could obtain no evidence upon which
to proceed against the vessel.
The post Office at Alton, |. T., was
entered by burglars on the morning of
the 2lst, the safe blown open and
about $3.50 in money and other valua-
bles taken,
A. I. GREEK, stock, raiser, who re-
sided near Francisco, Ind, was on his
way TO Louisville KY, with stock on
the slst fhetrain stopped for some
cause on trestle II, near English.
Greek walked out TO look after his
stock, not knowing that the caboose
was On the trestle, and fell IS feet,
breaking His nsah.
The schooner yacht Yampa, which is
said to have been purchased recently
for the German emperor, sailed
from City Island, N. Y, on the 22d, fol
Southampton.
TIE presidents of the trunk lines,
and their associates held a prolonged
meeting ut the rooms of the Trunk
Line association in New York city, on
the ed, for the purpose of considering
east and west-bound rates. The meet
ing was adjourned without any definite
result having been reached.
FURTHER details of the killing Of two
American sailors attached to the
United States feet in Japan were re-
ceived in Washington, on the ED, and
brought to the attention of the depart
ment of state, which has begun an in
vestigation.
SINCE arriving in Madrid Weyler has
been trying to stir, by all means, the
spirit of the army against the United
States. The moment the official text
of Mckinley's message reaches Madrid,
Weyler, it is asserted, will demand
formal satisfaction and redress for in
suits TO himself and the Spanish army
in Cuba.
The schooner Frank A. Racklif left
Boston, on the 22d, for Seattle, Wash.
carrying party of 20, who will oper
ate in the Yukon region. 1t is expect
ed that the schooner will reach hei
destination in about 1870 days.
JUDGE LocHREN, in the United States
court at st. Paul, on 1.-THE 2lst, decided
that the Minnesota pink law providing
that all olecsnargarine or butterint
offered for sale in the state must be
colored bright pink is constitutional
The cornerstone of monument to bt
erected to the memory of the late Sen
ator Zebulin Baird Vance was laid, or
the ed, on the public square at Ashe
vile, n. c., with masonic ceremonies
The monument will be Of granite, Il
feet high, beinga plain shaft, with the
single word "Vance" at the base.
''rnE United States" says the Wen
ma Deutsche Zeitung, (which from it
geographical position has greater in
tarast in the opening of China than al
European powers together, can no
jppssibly consent to its partition or to I
disision into spheres OF influence, with
out having voice in the matter"
By direction OF tie secretary of thu
treasury the compensations of the EN-
ployes of the United States mint a
San Francisco have been reduced IL
the aggregate Sal, ,14s per annum. b.
this reduction the compensation to b'
paid will be practically the same as u
the mint in Philadelphia.
A NUMBER of earthquake shocks, in
creasing in intensity, occurred aroun,
Smyrna, Asia Minor, on the ed. Con
siderable damage was done and severa
persons were injured.
JAPAN can not declare war agains
either China or Russia, because II sh,
did the ten large ironclads that are be
ing built for her in Europe and Amer
ica and nearly finished would be shu
up till the war was over.
II is alleged that upwards OF so. Ou
persons have been swindled out of full
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