Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-14

Mrs, WIN. LEHMANN shot and instantly
killed Herbert Letters in Chicago, on
the 9Th, while the latter was trying by
fistic argument to induce her husband
to join the strikers. Lehman had
taken the place of Burlington fire.
man.
A MOB of 200 hungry miners from
Spring Valley, H., invaded the town
of Lndd on the sth. They looted all
the stores in the place. A general
store with Il $4,000 stock was left
empty. The defense of the looters was
that they were hungry. They were
Poles and Bohemians. The sheriff of
Bureau county called for troops, but
the governor told him to get posse.
DURING fight between the police
and mob at Fifty-third street, Chi
cago, on the 7th, the officers being
slowly pressed back received orders to
fire, The crowd carried off their dead,
if any, and wounded, but several clots
of blood on the tracks after the battle
showed that some of the bullets took
effect. Four Of the rioters were ar,
rested.
THE town of Hammond, Ind, a sub
urb of Chicago, was on the sth, the
scene of a battle between a handful of
United States soldiers and mob
several thousand strong.
On the Sth mob set the big hay
barn belonging to the Union Stool,
Yards Co. at Chicago on fire. The barn
was an immense structure, and was
supposed to be fireproof The loss
will reach at least $50, 900.
CHIEF-oF-PoLICE BRENNAN and Assist
ant Chief Ripley of Chicago say they
do not believe twentieth of those
composing the mobs were men who had
left their posts. ''rhe men who are
causing the worst trouble are roughs
who would not work if they got a
chance" The men shot at the stock
yards were well known to the police as
disorderly characters, not striker
among them.
GEN. SCHoFIELD said, when inter
viewed, on the Sth: "For the first time
in several years the regular army is re-
cruited up to its full strength, being
only 100 men short of the $4,000 author
lied by law. The army authorities
all agree that we have a better class of
soldiers than we have had for many
years.
GEN. KELLY's commonweal army
dwindled down to $50 men, was ar
rested, on the sth, by West Virginia
troops at Kenova, w, Va, by orders OF
Gov. McCorkle, and at last accounts
were enjoying themselves in the com
pany of their guards, the soldiers.
AFTER nine years absence Hon. G.
DENLY, of Evansville, Ind, United
States minister to China put foot or
the American soil when the delayed
steamer New York reached her docl
on the sth. He is on his first vacation
Gov. MATTHEWS of Indiana, on the
sth, ordered fifteen companies of mi
litia to Hammond. All were northern
Indiana companies except one detach
ment of light artillery from lndianapo
lis. The number of soldiers ordered
out will aggregate 75O.
On the 18th, in the contest for the
queens cup, in the Clyde regatta, The
American yacht Vigilant crossed thu
finish line one minute ahead of tn,
britannia, but lost the race owing t.
the three-minutes time allowance t,
the British yacht.
THE president issued proclamation
on the sth, practically declaring mar
tial law in Chicago from the hour o
noon of the 9th.
THE bodies of August Peters, aget
"A, and Clara Christopherson, a servan
girl. were found, on the sth, at Ceda
Bend, Wis. They were lovers and it i
believed Peters gave the girl poison il
wine and then poisoned himself. N
cause is known. They went out in
boat together on the night of the III
and were not seen again.
LIEUT.. THOMAS ARTHUR ToMLINsoN
of the Washington Cd. c. Fencibles
winners of the championship cup at tn
interstate drill at Little Rock, Ark.
was run over by switch engine a
that place, on the sth, and Instant,
killed.
The Sioux City Qa.) Typographical
union, on the sth, expelled two of it
members who were militiamen an,
who turned out when the sheriff OF
dered out the company in that city.