Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-29
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.


killed seven.
IMMENSE food damages have been caused
in North Carolina,
SHERIFF GILMORE has levied on the Knox |
vile Daily Chronicle to satisfy Judgment
in favor Of a number of creditors amount
ing to several thousand dollars.
JoHN MILL aged about sixty, living at
Roseby's Rock, Marshall County, W Va,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor. He was we'll off, and leaves
family of grown-up children.
JoHN MURPHY and Charles Tibbs were
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment, and
John Tibbs to two wears, for wrecking a
passenger train near Parkersburg, W. Va,
on the Baltimore and Ohio in March
A YOUNG man named Geo. Trott while at
work in a planning mill at Chattanooga,
Tenn, stumbled and fell against a circular
saw. He met horrible and almost instant
death his body being almost completely
cut in Two.
WHILE Vim. Clark, his wife and four
teen-year-old son were at work in a cotton
field, near Hyde Park, Ark, the other day,
William attempted to chastise his son for
the manner III which he was doing his
work, and had him down choking him.
when the boys mother requested her hus-
| band to let him up. Clark not complying
as quickly as she desired, she raised a hoe
and hit him on the head, the sharp corner
| of it nficting wound in the mans head
| from which he died soon after. The woman
was committed to Jail
| The other morning Sam johnson (white),
his wife, daughter, W. Hall and two me-
| groes left their home few miles below
| Knoxville, Teun., for Lenoirs on boat
load of grain and produce There was
swift current. The boat struck rock
within twenty feet of the bank, and all but
johnson were drowned.
Ar Nadosta, Ga, Richard Townsend
was convicted of the murder of Sheriff Ep.
| person. and was sentenced to be hung on
the 10th of July. He had murdered con-
tractor in Florida and escaped into
Georgia. Sheriff Epperson pursued him,
and, with posse, surrounded him in a
cabin. The murderer shot the sheriff dead
and again escaped. He was subsequently
| al ltSl'u Ill tuHlIld' ne ubu
two murders previously.
Hon. FRANCIS NJ TAYLOR, Probate Judge
of Winston County, Ala, was impeached
in the Supreme Court of Alabama a few
days ago. 1t was charged that he wilfully
neglected to send in lists of licenses issued
and to pay over to the State the proceeds
thereof A plea of guilty was entered by
| l,f . l.; Il l..
court rendered Judgment sustaining his
guilt and deposing him from office.
Is Lawrence County, Ark, in trouble
about ferry, a man named Picket fa
tally cut John Jones,
INTELLIGENCE of the horrible fate of a. littlf
! glrl reached Greensboro, y. u, from lnom
asville the other morning She was abou
~iv s.o~--~ la, .."d ,"s feeding dIUNc y
hogs with bread In order to reach then
better she had got in the corner of a fenc
.. and they had crowded around her. Tn
/ animals were very hungry, and one Of then
accidentally bit her hand as he grabbed 70
the bread she was holding. The sight anC
smell of blood seemed to excite the ami
mails. especially as the child had no NOR
bread. They grabbed at the bleeding hand
and the child, in her terrified attempt t
get away from them, stumbled and fell t
/ the ground, whereupon they fell on her an
tore her to pieces, tearing limb from lml
, and fighting with each other for the reel
, was witnessed by an old paralyzed lad,
: who was unable to render any assistanc,
1t is feared the shock will kill the child
. mother
+ AT Martiusville, Va, bloody fight oc
\ cured on the street, and a. a result Jaco
e Terry, young farmer, is dead, and tn
life blood of his two brothers, J. X. Terr
, and Benjamin Terry, fast ebhing away
1 Colonel p. d. Spencer a prominent bus
I ness man and manufacturer; Mr.. Tarlto
I Brown, the proprietor of Browns tobacC
+ warehouse; X, l.. Jones, oon-keepel
| r. l.. Gregory, hotel clerk, and Sand
: Martin, all are dangerously wounded. a
= the parties are prominent in the bushes
y life of that place and well known in Soutl
!. eln Virginia. The other night an anon
,- nous circular was issued and posted up a
!, over town 1t seriously reflected on v
a X Terry. a young business man, and b
father, William Terry Terry telegraphe
$ for his two brothers, J. X. and Benjamin
e living at Aiken Station, twenty mil
: away They arrived, and after a bri
s consultation went to the printing office al
Is demanded the author of the card II
7 printer told them it was Colonel
.. u, Spencer, a member of the TOW
l. board and one of the leading busine
u men. The next evening, soon after the I
Is bacco factories had closed for the day, al
\. the streets were filled with operatives
:. turning from their work. the Terry brotht
@ started in the direction of Spencers fa
d tory. When about half way there tn
~ were met by Spencer, with his brother n
,c several friends W. X Terry addressed
n few words to Spencer, who told him not
,ee shoot. just then some one fired a pist
III The scene that followed beggars descr
~ tion, Forty shots were fired. W. X. Ter
m was shot from the rear the ball enteri
ID near his spine and lodging in his rig
., breast. Jacob Terry was shot through
III abdomen, and fell dead. Ben Terry "
s, shot through the neck and in the boo
n, Spencer was shot III the hip and his bu
no ness partner, Tarlton Brown, received t
al balls in the groin and is thought to be
~ tally wounded. Il. l.. Jones IA salo'
no keeper, r. l.. Gregory and Sandy Mar
ms are all seriously hurt. The last two W.
IN hit by stray bullets. The Terrys are WI
10 known and occupy high social posti
e. None of them are married. At last
:" counts it was believed that Brown and
two Terrys would live but few hours.
~ Ar Atlanta, Marshal II. l.. Jones 81
- Frank p Gray dead the other afterno
" An old feud existed between the men o
he an attempt by Jones to arrest Gray, Gr
'st was one of the best known lawyers of Il
IL section Jones was Immediately arres
rs and hurried off to Jail, and it is said he
'et made two attempts upon his own life
he avoid anticipated lynching,
lr- MRs. WIN. SHEARER, the wife of an f
ltS lish machnist, of Atlanta, Ga, was n
Ill fed the other day by mail that she
fallen heir to sl50,0oo, and that it '
IS. awaiting her order in England,
A YOUNG child Of Mr.. Marion Stanley
as Crooked Fork, Jackson County, w.
M fell into spring and was drowned
,;s ATARpoN weighing one hundred and
nm ty pounds and measuring six feet
III. inches in length, was caught with h
na and line by VIM. II. Wood near Pu
,nt Rassa Fla. This is believed to be the |,
est game fish ever caught