Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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and known among railway men as
''Uncle Johnny" hanged himself at In
Annapolis, on the a7th. He was 81
years old and for fifteen years ran the
train from Chicago to indianapolis.
On the night of the 27th, as Mrs.
John Young, well-known woman of
North Manchester, Ind, was walk
ing in her door yard, she uttered a
scream and sank to the ground dead.
Heart disease was the cause. She was
"a years of age.
Mr.. WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER,
poet and journalist died at Louisville,
KY, on the 27th, aged So. The first of
his poems to attract attention was
"The Wreck of the Hornet" He was
recognized as a capable journalist of
broad views
DR. J. X. HEsTAND committed suicide
at Ardmore, l. IT,, on the a7th, by TAX
ing cyanide of potassium. He lived but
a few minutes after swallowing the
fatal drug. He was a graduate of the
Wherry bichloride of gold cure for the
whisky habit, of which institute he
was manager.
THE trial of John S. Beach, president
of the Prairie City bank of Terre
Haute, Ind, which closed during the
panic last summer, resulted, on the
27th, in acquittal, the jury being in
structed to bring in a verdict of not
guilty. Beach was indicted for cmbez-
element.
ISAAC GOODMAN, the leader and the
third of the notorious Goodman gang
to appear for trial at Anderson, Ind,
was, on the eth, denied a new hearing
and was sentenced to four years in the
Michigan City prison. lie is so years
old, and is worth $4,000.
Ex-EMpREss EUGENE requested M,
Decrais, French Ambassador to Great
Britain, to forward to Nine. Carnot a
message expressing her sympathy.
IT was reported from Rome, on the
27th, that thirty-eight anarchists had
been arrested. The Italian police, act
ing with the French police, are track
ing an international anarchist plot.
A DISPATCH from Berlin states that
Emperor William ordered Count Won
Munster, the German ambassador to
France, to represent him at the funeral
of M. Carnot. His majesty sent splen-
did wreath to be laid upon the coffin.
LATER accounts from the storm in
South Dakota and Minnesota, on the
27th, give the names of ten persons
killed outright and more than a score
severely injured by falling buildings
and otherwise.
Mr.. MATTHEWS, a partner in the firm
of Gore, Matthews & Co., millers of
Lima, Peru, which recently went into
bankruptcy, threw himself from the
steamer Serena, between Cerro Agual
and Celia, and was drowned
IT is said that suicide club exists in
the east end of Indianapolis, Ind, the
members of which, all young men, end
their lives by the use of prussic acid.
DIR. AND MRS. EDWARD PERSON ar.
rived in Freemansburg, Pa, on the
2sth, on visit to the doctors sister,
Mrs, Joseph Keener. They rode all the
way from West Point, Neb., 1000 miles,
in two-horse buggy, starting on the
journey on April 2s, and travelling at
the rate of As miles a day. The longest
days drive was 90 miles on the prairies
| in Illinois.
THE Interstate Sheriffs' convention
at Sioux City, Ia, on the 2sth, elected
William Remer, of Deadwood, s. d.,
president; g. W. Tose7, Madison, Neb.
G. T. Hazen, Council Bluffs, Ia, e. b.
Armstrong, Sun Dance, Wyo.;C U. W.
Dow, Worthington, Mimi; James Nor.
gan, Chamberlain, S. D., vice-presi
| dents.
The steamer British Prince is the
first steamer to arrive at the port OF
New York direct from Manchester
through the ship canal. The vessel is
of l,022 tons register and experienced
no difficulty whatever in passing
through the canal to Liverpool.
THE moderate republican and con
servative newspapers of France ACCORD
President Casimir-Perier favorable
reception, and say that they are con
vinced that the majority of the French
nation and the real working people
will do likewise.
WITH the remark that he must "swin
or be drowned" George Robinson, col
ored, pushed Abraham Briscoe, also
colored, from one Of the Potomac river
wharves at Washington, on the Goth
and, being unable to swim, the latter
was drowned. Robinson was arrested
ENGINEER JAMES SUTTON and Fire
man Edward Porter, of the tug Rec
ord, engaged in fight while the tut
was going at full speed in Duluth
Mimi harbor, on the Goth, and botl
falling overheard, the engineer wa,
drowned.
THE coal sales agents of new York a
their meeting, on the 2sth, advanced
the prices of all sizes of anthracite tif
teen cents per ton to the east and ives
for July delivery. The output for Jul,
| was placed at $500. 900 tons.