Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-04-03
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.


Ar Tallahassee, Fla, Frank Lowrie, tho
murderer Of Vanderburg, bias been found
guilty and sentenced for life to the penlten-
tiary,
DETECTIVE WM PORTER arrested negro
named Charles Bryant at Williamsburg |
Ky, for the murder of an old negro named |
james Dckev, at Sevierville, Tenn, i've |
years ago There was large reward Tor |
Bryant, and Porter has been hunting him |
two years
WHILE fighting fire at lockwood Mines |
near Chattanooga, Tenn Frank Burchfeld,
fireman OF Chattanooga, was caught under
a tall of rock and probably fatally hurt
A SPECIAL from Calera, Ala, reports the
explosion Of the boiler Of the Calera Land
Company's saw-mill. Joe Robertson, en-
gineer. Jesse pilgreen, superintendent and
William Fletcher, laborer, We're killed and
four others badly hurt.
JoHN DRAKE, prominent colored man,
was hanged at Thomaston, Ga, few days
ago for the murder Of his wife, Ella Drake,
in December 1884. The crime was one Of
singu ar atrocity, and created such feeling
at the time Of It's commission that the jail
wherein Drake was confined had 20 be
strongly guarded for several weeks in order
to save the prisoner from would-be lynch
ers Ua the morning Of the execution
Drake was in iubilant spirits, having no
dread whatever Of the fate ahead OF him.
He smoked perfumed cigars, and went
auntly to the gallow, with Sheriff Foster
ut, p'n 4 fAyr m la tor tDI
trap was sprung and brakes neck was
broken, in the presence Of six thousand
people
Iva quarrel at Scottshoro, Ala, between
John y. Barrett and Robert Proctor the
| latter was fatally stabbed, Barrett es-
capped.
| THE proposed visit of Mr.. jefferson Davis
| to Montgomery, Ala, has created de-
| mand for fifty-dollar Confederate bills.
| The Monument Committee desire them to
| sell as souyeniers of the occasion. These
| particular bills are desired because they
| bear the vignette of Mr.. Davis.
| NEAR Old Columbus, Fla, three negroes,
| lately from Georgia, whose names are uD'
| known, shot a negro boy with whom they
| quarreled, inhicting three wounds, one OF
which Is fatal A posse of negroes over
took the fleeing murderers in Madison
| County Resistance was offered, ana one
Of the trio was shot dead in the sSlrmlsh
which ensued The other two surrendered,
but were subsequently killed by their cap.
tors. Turner Wright Robert Brooks and
NJ Pratt, of the avengers, who were
four in number, were surrendered TO the
sheriff of Madison County and taken to
Madison Jail charged with murder. The
fourth member of the posse is still uncap-
tured 1t is believed friends will attempt
TO rescue the prisoners.
THE grand jury at Carrollton Miss, is
making efforts to ferret out the perpetra
tors of the outrage on the l'th, in whict
eleven negroes We're killed
THERE is a negress living in Atlanta, Ga,
who says she was born in 1851
GEoRGl, has law making death the
punishment for burglary in the night time
THE Maryland State constitution pro
hibits ministers from becoming member
of the Legislature.
THE oldest Episcopal Church in th
country is that in Williamsburg, Va, Il
2 contains the font in which Pocahontas wa
baptized.
Dan O'DoNNELL. who shot and kille'
John r. Monasco March TO-. in front of the
) court house, Memphis. Tenn, was tried il
g the criminal court and acquitted by tn
! ! jury Itwas proved that Monasco struci
: him before being shot
! AT Vicksburg, Miss, Fred Villarosa. a
. Italian fruit dealer, made an indecent a,
n sault upon the thirteeu-yearold daughte
, of Postmaster VIM. Groome in his Stor,
= Niiaro>a was arrested The child's fatLe
= was with difficulty prevented from KILN
70 him. The prisoner was smugged out {
/. Jail and taken four miles from town, tn
II intention being to flag train and tax
q him to Jackson for safe keeping, but tn
=, train failed to stop and he was returned t
r. Vick,burg, There is talk of lynch ii
;, villain.
prohlbitiouists are organizin
.. for State campaign, and an exciting tin
l. is expected.
" THE eight hour day will be demanded /
n the Knights Of Labor employed in the 90
r. ton and wooden mills of Tennessee, ke
u ucky, Alabama and Georgia after April
'r TnE Red Men of Richie County, W. Va
~ drenched with coal oil and burned cit
N zen's house and shot and dangerous
'e wounded him and his wife while they we
# attempting to rescue live stock from II
rs burning barn
Ii HENRY HOWELL and William Chic
ar neighhors of Beverly ". Va, cuminat,
81 a series of quarTols into an encounter l
Of Gently resulting in Chick being fatal
S shot in the abdomen by Howell.
q. Ar Eustis, Fla, recently lettuce hes
II. grew to the size of dinner-plate two wee
IIn after being set out.
~ SAMUEL KENroN, the ten-year-old son
S' wealthy farmer Of Clay County, Ten
RI was shot through the head and instant
on killed by Dick Sanderson because the b.
,n told his sister, to whom Sanderson was pa
nt ing attention that he saw the latter st,
ia another young mans pocket-book at
church few days ago The murderer h
ON fled.
he ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA, is to have {
he largest hotel in the South go by 400 fe
Is and costing S40ooOM, 1t will be built
he strictly Moorish architecture, of colui
ay, ground and mixed with cement and "
re- re-, he ready for next winters business
ill Tue Lookout rolling-mill at Chatta aoo
tite Tenn has advanced wages ten per cent
N. all departments
on Ar Fayetteville, Tenn, Rev Good
no Woods aged sixty, was adiudged guilty
'cn the seduction of Miss Talitha steve
in. i,,, aged twenty-four The jury awarded NJ
Nr. Stevens 5000 damages. This case crea
nat a sensation throughout Tennessee wing
i"' the prominence of the defendant
WILLIAM HuTTo is the husband of {
,s. wives in Crawford County, Ala, whom
al keeps in separate houses Several mig
m. since the women were taken out and fog;
in by masked men and warned to lea
he Hottos reputation is unsavory He
W. four wives previously, one of whom he ;
NJ for a bucket full of peas and al her
ms some shuckS. The people threaten nov
,ot make short work of him
ad JACK SNIrnERs, a wealthy farmer, liv