Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-01-02


Lenden warned him not to approach. which
warning was unheeded, when both mea be-
gan firing. johnson fe,l. dead unher Nc /
Lenden's fire, but not before he had NOR
tally wounded McLenden, who is now dy-
ing.
AT Orlando, Fla, Enoch Carter Shot and
killed l.. D. Beasly, policeman.
The decision in the Atlanta, Ga, election
case was against the liquor men, who will
appeal.
BENJAMIN LEE (colored), while working |
in a garden in New Orleans was called out |
by James jackson (colored) and Shot to |
death. Jackson escaped.
d. NJ. GRAHAM. of Pulaski, Tenn, prom |
nent and wealthy carriage manufacturer, |
committed suicide on train near Hunts
vile, Ala. by shooting himself through the
head No cause is known.
WHILE a miner named Tren, was going |
| home from his work at the Cabin Creek |
mines near Charleston, w. Va. he was
struck on the head with rock by another
miner named Douglas, There was no
| quarrel. but Douglas had been drinking and
| struck the first man he met Trent's head
was crushed and there are no hopes Of his
recovery.
LUTHER CLAGGErT was arrested some days
ago and lodged in jail at Rockville Md,
| for attempting an indecent assault upon
| sovep-year-old daughter of John Liser, of
Mec anic,yille. Montgomery County.
| Chr stmas morning a number OF residents
Of Nechanicsyille met and resolved to lynch
| the woud-be rayishel. They started for
| Ro kville, but Sheriff Miller. hearing Of
th' movements put Claggett on a train
ana took him to Frederick. where he is now
in Ill. The lynehing party was greatly
en- aged when they found that their victim
hau escaped and swore vengeance, but
! finally quieted down and returned to their
homes.
I.EE SEWARD and George Foote are in
| Jail Mt Huntsville, Ala charged with .n&
dering old man Philips, at Gurleysyille, a
few nights ago by setting fire to the house
and burning him up. Another man, Dick
Childress, is said TO he implicated IN the
affair. One OF them has uade a confession.
He says that all three of them .At cotton
| anu VII az a Eil-uthNts SNuIltA. LlE -'lNDI
saturated with the oil in the cracks at the
house and set fire to it. They deny killing
Phillips before burning the house, but there
is strong evidence that they did 50. as
| sledge hammer with blood on IT wa, found
uear the house, and a witness heard Phil
lips begging them not to kill him. George
| Fuote attempted suicide by cutting his
throat with a horse lancet be had in his
pocket He made four cuts. >evering the
windpide and gullet. and is not expected
to live He confessed when told that he
could not live, saying Sewar nd Chill
dress put pistol TO his heada. lie him
90 to the caaboose. There others
threw matches in aud set the PLACE on fire,
and told him if he did not say he had heard
Phillips say be intended to set fire TO the
house they would kill him. Foote says he
did lot then know Phillips was in the
house.
CAPTAIN T. 7. JOHNSON. Of indianapolis,
who shot the seducer of his wife near
Greenville, Tenn, last year, and whose triaI
and acquttal aroused such espread in
terest, died at the residence Colonel r.
Nesbit near Marietta, Ga, a + days ago,
of congestion of the lungs. ,e time Of
his death be was editor-in-chi II the In
dianapoli. Se. incl and II 'gia tent
porarily on isit to fric : le leave,
cle son, Grif, .'t present ate iding tht
aiversity Georgia, at Athers.
La rumbers of negr re passing
ia. Dus Chattanooga. Tt "om Soutl
Caroline -orgia and l., II exc
dIs is greater this wear Il, sr before
and it is commanding ur II attention
Over one thousand neg AVE gone
through Chattanooga in the Is i few weeks
and transportation is being arranged foi
fully four thousand more, who will lea~s
within sixty days. At a low innate over
ten thousand will leave the .ates named
this season. They say b, crops anc
high rents are driving then Vest. They
20 principally TO Arkansas
\ SINGLE locomotive on the Louisville
New Orleans and Texas Railway the Other
day pulled into New Orleans train con
tanning al cars The total weight Of tht
train was over $4,000 pounds, and it wa'
! nearly mile long. The distance trayerSet
was l2l niles. and the time consumed i
! hours and ii minutes
SOUTHERN cotton mills turn out the bes
of cuarser fabrics. Their ambition is {,
compete with New England in fine manu-
factlres This rivalry is beginning il
/ earnest
$ HrGu HtREINs died of paralysis OF III
brain, aged eighty years. at Bolivar,Te Il.
| II few days ago. For more than halt II ,cp
, tury he was Il dry goods merchant there.
, THr Ill at Curleysville. Ala, fiftee,
miles tof Huntsville. was set on fire Il
day lilnt the other morning by unknown
parties and burned, \ man named Phi
: lips, who had been arrested and locked u
r for being drunk, persisted in the flames
Al Montgomery. Ala. the other day, Tia
Alabama Conference of the NJ, +. Churcl
South, by unanimous vote opposed an
change in the church name.
A FARMERS and dairymens' conventio
will be held in jackson, Tenn, februar
9i-26 in which representatives from Louis
lana. Mississippi Tennessee and Ken,uci
among the Southern States, and Iowa
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois. Michiga
and Indiana on the part of the Norther
States. will meet.
The other morning the Jail at Rocking
ham. y. C.. isforcibly entered by fift
masked men. who secured white MAJ
named John Lee, took him out Of town an
hanged him to limb of tree. Lee mu
dered Solomon Welsh three weeks ago fc
money.
Ar Hillsboro. Ala, Town Marshal Kei
drick Clark was killed by Jim Feeble
whom he was trying TO arrest.
J. NJ HAvERsTItA, y, u brakeman on ii
Iron Mountain Road fell under the cars 4
Hoxie, Ark, while making coupling an
, was instantly killed. He had been marie
, only few weeks.
Az annual cotton crop estimate puts u
weld as follows; Estimated by States, Q
osO,0oo bales; by seaports, e,sSe,0tO,, aud i
/. interior towns. q, ,,5., 900 bales ltis believe,
I however, nat 1t will reach 6vO0o0 bale
! Fl THREE c6lored children, living nei
Brownsville, repb., were loe>1d up n \
Aouse by thsir psteatk vho Z Dt ehuPu'
The house cansht fiF6 Ind 4 l1lren pc
hid N As klaalss' ss
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