Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-25
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE coroner's jury rendered yer.
dict in the Grand Trunk accident AZ
Battle Creek, Mich, on the 18th. hold.
ing Conductor Scott and Engineer
Wooley OF train No. 8 for murder in
the second degree.
The safe in V. Rorhon's saloon at
Iron Mountain, Mich. was cracked. on
the night OF the l4th, and robbed of
S., ,73O.
AN entire family by the name of
Johnston, from Pike county, Mo, who
had settled near the Glass mountains
20 miles east of Enid, Okla, persisted in
the storm that ragged on the night of
the lith. They were living under a
wagon, with no other means of protcc-
tion from the storm. The howling
IF coyotes and gray wolves led to the
discovery of the unfortunate family
THE Page flour mills of Fergus Falls,
Mimi, with capacity of 600 barrels a
day, the l2o, ,00o- -bushel elevator. 40, ,OC0
bushels of wheat, the coopcrshop, ware
house and "A large amount of stock
were burned on the 18th. The loss on
the mill and elevator is SO 900, on
wheat and stock s25 900. The insurance
on the mill is s25, 900, on the stock So
300.
JouN W. lloG6, chief clerk of the
navy department, dropped dead at his
home in Rockville, Md, on the 18th.
| AMELIA DARBY, who pleaded guilty
at Ottumwa, Ia, to murder in the see
Und degree for killing Thomas Lloyd,
was sentenced on the 18th, to fifteen
years in the penitcntiary. She con
fesscd that she went to Keb. lurcd
Lloyd into the woods and killed him.
| The steamer Canistco, thought to
have been lost on Lake Michigan, ar
rived at her dock in Chicago on the
18th. While passing through the
straits she coll ided with another YES.
sci.
| On the 18th report was current in
;uthrie, Okla. that the Dalton gang
was preparing to make a raid on the
Sac and Fox agency and Hoffman e
'onklin's store ON its next payment
lay. Deputy marshals were dispatched
10 the p'ace'
LIE overland stage was roppeo' on
.he morning of the 18TH , miles north
,i klah, okl;t.' by lone hlghWaNmah'
ihe amount OF treasure ABOARD IL Is I'M
possible to ascertain, The passengers
were unmolcsted
GEN. JAMES MCDoNAIp, who for
nearly half century was conspcu-
Gus figure in public life as an editor,
secretary of the commonwealth and
idiutant-general, died at Richmond,
Va, on the 10Th. lie was born near
Lynchburg in 1874. Gen. Mcdonald
was a brother of Hon. Alex Mcdonald,
minister to Persia. :
Mrs. ANNIE JOHNSON (coloredl, who
claims to be 1903 years old, was fatally
burned at her home in Pittsburgh,
Pa. ON the night Of the 18th. Her
clothing ignited while she was stand
ing in front OF Il CRATE hre' NetlIe
Johnson, recently burned to death by
4 lamp explosion, was her granddaugh-
ter
| DlrHrnERIA. scarlet fever and small
pox are epidemic in the Viclnlty OF
Atchison. kas., and part of the schools
have closed. There had been thirty
deaths from the diseases up tothe 10TH
and the doctors were apparently help
less.
a CROWD of 200 to 200 sea tafing men
bloc ked the sidewalk III 'ron' oi VI
South street, New York. on the lo.h'
where the work of engaging crews ior
the brazilian war shipS FL va mo"
Mcthcroy) and britannia was IN active
progress. i
Miss ELIZABETH ELklNS' daughter Oh
the former secretary OF war stephen
Il, Elkins, was married, on the l6th, to
Edward Bruner, wcll-known cluo
man of New York city.
THE president has appointed ID, NJ
Fitzpatrick, of Louisiana, assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
Orleans.
SENIOR MoREI, Spanish minister OF
foreign affairs. received telegram
from Brazil on the nth, stating that
Admiral Mello had proclaimed Count
deus eldest son emperor of Brazil
This son is Prince Pierre Alcantnrh
Louis Philippe. He was born at pe-
tropolis. near Rio de Janeiro' on octo
ber Is, 1873. His mother is the pres
ent Countess d'Eu and Princess lsa-
belle of Braganza, daughter OF the
| l,+n na,r p,Iro
Coy. MCKINLEY, of Ohio arrived at
the Windsor hotel in New York on
the 10th. He was met by his brother
Abner Mckinley and anumber OF pro,
minent republicans who congratulated
him upon his victory atthe polls on
the 7th
THREE well'dressed men eh'ero'
Pittsburgh pa jcwelry store, on the
nth, and while one engaged the atten-
ton of the clerk the others ran away
with tray of diamond rings Inc
one who carried the tray was captured
after hard chase.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, OF Indiana VINO
is spending two weeks between scs,
sions Of congress at his nome Ill ioi..
Haute, says that he expects the house
will send the tariff bill to the senate
before the holidays.
EDWARD HoaAN and Dominick iio-
gan were sentenced, at Hancock M,c,''
on the nth. to five years at hard Ia
Dor at the Marquette prison for tram
robbing. Dominick was the messen-
ger on the robbed train.