Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-09
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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New Castle pa dumping grounds on
the Goth. They were wrapped in pieces
of oil-cloth, and inclosed in n small
wooden box. The flesh was in an ad-
vanced state of decomposition. On the
oil-cloth were the names d. A. Metz
ger and Clell Elliott, also the figures
1894. The skulls were taken as an
evidence of horrible crime, and "a
full investigation was ordered.
IMPERIAL, Canadian and South Afri-
can delegates are soon to assemble at
ottawa, Ont. to consider the question
of trade, and that of Pacific cable
which it is desired shall be entirely un-
der British control.
MAY 80 being the anniversary of the
death of Joan of Arc, deputations from
several masonic lodges in Paris placed
n large floral wreath upon the statue of
the Maid Of Orleans in the Rue des
Pyramids The wreath was inscribed:
$40 Joan of Arc: Abandoned by Royal
ty, Burned by the Church..
THREE HUNDRED men and 100 teams
were placed at work by Contractor
Richardson upon the excavation of l00,-
900 yards of earth on the site of the new
Monon shops at Lafayette, Ind, on the
Goth, The city gave bonus of forty
four acres of land, and 500, 900 in cash
to secure these shops
A PASSENGER train on the Wisconsin
Central railway ran through an open
switch at Marshfeld Wis. early on the
morning of the 30th, several cars being
completely wrecked and burned. Many
of the passengers and trainmen were
pinioned in the wreck and cremated
alive. There was also long list of the
injured. many of whom were rescued
by survivors from horrible death by
fire.
Ir is said that English capitalists
have offered $1,000 900 for the plant of
the Elgin Qll.) watch works, and that
the sale is practically completed.
The unveiling and dedication of the
monument to the memory of the pri-
vate soldiers and sailors of the confed-
eracy was the occasion of great cee-
bration in Richmond, Va, on the 30th,
with impressive ceremonies and an i'm
posing parade. As a preliminary there
was II cavalry reunion attended by sew
eral of the confederate comma nders.
On the Both Horace Greeley's memory
was honored by Typographical union
No. 4, when the statue by Alexander
Doyle, at the junction of Broadway,
Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street,
New York city, was unveiled. There
was an Grafton by Congressman Amos
j. Cummings, and President Keller of
the New York Press club spoke on
Horace Greeley influence on the news
paper men of the dav.'
THE earl of llopetoun, governor of
the colony Of Victoria, Australia in
opening the Victorian parliament, on
the 3Oth, congratulated the people on
the gradual return of the country to
prosperity.
DECORATION Day was very generally
observed throughout the country, and
from all the principal cities and many
of the smaller ones came reports of
elaborate and loving tributes to the
soldier dead.
Gov. PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania issued
a proclamation, on the 3Oth, command
ing the peace in the disturbed coke re-
gion, intimating that if it was found
necessary he would invoke the entire
military force of the state in order to
secure the much desired end.
ISAAC ADLER, u volunteer aeronaut
who made an ascension with balloon
at Manhattan Beach, near Cincinnati,
on the 3oth. in dropping with the para
chute landed among some barges in the
Ohio river, and before assistance could
reach him lie was drowned.
THE monument erected in Calton
cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, to the
memory of the Scottish soldiers who
were killed during the civil war in the
United States was decorated with floral
wreaths on the 3Oth.
On the 3lst Gov. Matthews of In
diana issued proclamation command
ing the striking miners who were OBJ
structing the passage of trains in the
counties of Clay, ParlSe, Vigo, Sullivan
and Vermillion to disband and calling
upon the sheriffs of those counties to
enforce the laws.
Two SMALL. children of County Com
missioner p. B. Fisher strayed into the
barn at their home near Eaton. o., on
the 30th, and were trampled to death
by vicious stallion which had got
loose from his inclosed STALL The
mother Of the children died only few
days before.
THE grand jury at Birmingham, Ala,
on the 3lst, returned a true bill
against Mrs. Iettie Belts, the hand
some little woman charged with poi
soning her husband some time ago at
Bessemer. Mr.. Belts was married in st.
Louis, and his father and brother now
live in that city.
THERE was light frosta at Nashville.
Tenn, on the morning of the lst, an
unprecedented event.