Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-04-22

W ehe 'Iii.e OF ms death.
IN q provinces OF Russia famine ia
raging and the sutferings of the in
naoitants are reported as being fright.
ful. Typhus fever has broken ont
among both humans and beasts. due
to the bad food eaten.
The barge Vidalia turned complete.
~ over near Louisville, Ky., and
emptieG her valuable cargo of Russian
iron into the water, which will be
total loss.
lie Cuban army muster rolls, which
were delivered to Gov. Gen. Brooke at
Havana, show on their face As 900
names--6, 900 commissioned officers and
$1,000 non-commissioned officers and
privhtes The whole statements was
considered an orderly arran cement Of
regiment aud dcomt any 7gofsss -
AT the spring meeting of the Con.
gregational association of st. Louis.
composed of all the churches of that
denomination in and around that city.
unanimous vote was taken for petit
ton to congress against the seating CT
brigham II. Roberts in congress.
A rEAIIIE fire in Greeley county,
COL, resulted in the destruction of
large amount of property and the fatal
burning of j. }. Lepper and his son, of
Ilrayton.
GEN MILES has issued a general or.
der to the army ulgating the law
passed at the last session of congress
in relation to the sale Of Intoxicating
liquors in army canteens or on mill
tary reservations The recent opinion
OF Attorney General Griggs constituting
the statute is given in full and is ac.
companied by special instructions for
the enforcement OF the law as thus
construed.
TIE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the lith
numbered PAS, according to Dun's COM
nercinl report, against 25 in the cor
responding week of last year.
A CINCINNATI dispatch stated that
the effort TO form candle trust had
been abandoned.
HIRAM HALL was hanged at Cross.
vile, Tenn, for wife murder.
A TRAGEDY took place at Devicw,
Ark, between number of citizens of
that place, in which b. c. Ashburn
was instantly killed; A. j. Black and
his son, Lee, were fatally wounled,
and several others were more or less
seriously wounded. The trouble arose
over perjury trial
The Samoan high commission will
sail for Apia on the United States
naval transport Badger, leaving San
Francisco on the 18th inst The early
sailing of the commission is regarded
as evidence that the recent collision
at Apia will be automatically settled.
GEN. LAwroN captured the villages
Of Pagsajan and Lumbar, the Filipino
insurgents fleeing to the mountains.
EVERY saloon in Lincoln, Neb., was
closed on the nth and it was uncertain
when they would be permitted to open.
A NEGRO named George Naystan,
who had killed another negro near
Marion, Ala, and escaped from the
custody Of two officers whom he had
badly assaulted, was tracked by
posse with bloodhounds to tree and
shot to death.
THE Truax block at Victor Col,
was destroyed by fire and a miner
who was sleeping on the top floor,
pcrishcd in the flames,
CHARLES lloLoMoND, Frisco brake
man, was killed at Bengal, |. T., while
making head.cnd coupling. His foot
slipped off the pilot, throwing him IN.
der the engine, which passed over his
body.
THE executive committee of the ma
tional council of administration, &. A.
r., failed to elect commander.in-
chief and passed a resolution that the
senior vice commander shall perform
the duties of chief until the meeting
of the thirty-third encampment.
REV, JAY GooDRICH, of Madison, N.
j., has been appointed agent of the
American Bible society for the Philip
pines and will leave for Manila in
about six months.
THE British steamer collided with
the Greek coaster Maria in the Mediter-
ranean and A. persons on board the
latter were drowned when the vessel
went down.
on Mrs Sorrenson's return from a
visit of few minutes to a neighbor
at Sycamore, ILL.,, she found her baby
had set its clothes on fire with a match
and in trying to put the fire out she was
badly burned. The child was literally
roasted alive.
Ir is stated that Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, the founder of the Christian
Science religion, will soon leave Bos-
| ton and pass the remainder of her days
at Lead, 5 d.
AT Avilla, Ind, Walter Goodrich,
aged 10, fatally shot his brother Wal
lace, aged 50, and then blew his own
brains out. They quarrcled about Il
| horse.
FILIPINO rebels cut the telegraph
wires and damaged the road bed OF the
railway near Malolos on the 18th, but
the Americans soon repaired the dam
age.
As a result of an attempt to arrest
James Shotwell and his son John, who
were both drunk, at Williamsburg,
Ky, Police Judge Motfit was shot to
death and William Holland was NOR
tally wounded.
WILLIAM KINNEMAN of Deerfeld
township, o., has disappeared, after
having been tarred and feathered by
IL masked men, supposed TO be neigh
bors, who objected TO his relations
with woman in that locality. +
THE Keystone furnace OF the Thom'
as Iron company at Island park, near
Easton, Pa, which was blown out d
year ago on account of dullness in the
iron trade, has been put in operation,
giving employment to large number
of hands.
FIVE children of Ole Peterson, OF
viborg, S. d., were poisoned by eating
wild parsnips. Two of them died one
was dangerously i'll and the other two
will recover.
THE Des Moincs, Raccoon, Iowa anu
Cedar rivers, dispatch from Des
Mo;ros In on the 10Th stated, vera