Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-09-29


an order on the 2Oth, closing all gam
Ding houses in the city. The order
had It's intended effect. Deputy sher-
ms, acting on warrants issued by the
superior court, raided the notorious
House OF David and the Newport club
at 2;3O a. m, but at neither place was
gambling in progress.
DICK GOODMAN, the leader of the
Goodman gang of outlaws, pleaded
guilty at Anderson Ind, on the goth
lie asked delay of one day in pro.
nouncing sentence, so that he could
plead for mercy on account of physical
ailments caused by bullets from a dep
uty sheritf's revolver.
CORPORAL ID. j. MORGAN, United
States army, who committed suicide in
Detroit, Mich, on the Goth, was once
the wealthy husband of a beautiful
woman who deserted him in 1884 for
life of shame which she ended by sui
eide in house of ill-repute After his
wife's desertion Morgan sold his prop
erty, gave the proceeds to relatives and
enlisted in the army.
GUARD w. c. GOETHE was stabbed
three times in the neck and probably
fatally wounded, on the 2lst, by con-
Wet in the Ohio state prison, whom he
had threatened to report for some
slight violation of the rules.
MORRIS VIELTENBACK, u Russian, be.
ing returned from Boston as desti-
tute immigrant, jumped from the
steamer Philadelphia in Boston harbor,
on the 2lst, and was drowned.
FAILURES in the United States for the
week ended the 2lst were PIP, against
80 last year, and As in Canada against
40 last year.
PRESIDENT NUNEZ of the republic of
Colombia died on the 18th.
DR. ID. j. DECK was found guilty of
manslaughter, at Akron o., on the
night Of the Goth. for the poisoning of
his wife to get possession Of her prop
erty and to enable him to marry again.
Mrs. BUELL., sister of Rev. w. l..
Slutz, and the latter's two daughters,
| Mabel aged Is, and Helen aged 3,were
run down and fatally injured at Big
-Four crossing five miles cast of Lon
don, O., while taking Il carriage ride in
| the country on the 2lst.
WHILE squirrel hunting, near Buf.
| falo, Pa, on the 2lst, john Tarr, pro.
prietor of the Central hotel of that
city, was probably fatally shot by his
companion, w. ID. Sloan, who mistook
| Tarr'S brown hat for a squirrel and
sent full load of shot into his head
and neck.
The Westminster Uondon) Gazette
publishes a dispatch announcing tho
safe arrival at Port Arthur of the Chi
nese transports from which troops
were being landed at the mouth of the
Yalu river when the attack was mad,
by the Japanese fleet on the nth.
The Grand View hotel at Atlanti,
] Highlands, n. j., was totally destroyed
by fire on the 22d. The night watch
man, John Rise, and the other occu
pants, Hugh Mcconnell, wife ant
child, narrowly escaped with thei
lives. Insurance, $50, 600.
| EIGHT negro men started across tht
Ohio river at Pomeroy, o., on the ed
in boat rowed by white man. Whel
in mid-river the boat sank and six o
the negroes were drowned.
| DANIEL NJ. ROBERTSON, of New Bed
ford, Mass, was sentenced in the su
preme court, on the a2d, to be hange
on December ii for the murder of hi
wife in 1893.
THE Brazilian minister of finance ca
bled to London, ON the 22d. a denial o
the report that the Brazilian govern
ment intends to issue a 1000, 600 loan
| On the 92d the sugar planters cor
vention of the first congressional dis
trict of Louisiana nominated ex-Nava
Officer II. +. kernoghan for congress.
lr is limited that President Nunez @
Colombia was done to death by poison
| MINISTER j.. A. THURsToN left Hon
olulu for Washington on the 18th,
| THE associated banks of New Yor'
city held S59, ,97i. .6j1 in excess of the re
uuirements of the 2j-per-cent rule o
the 23d.
The towboat Comet, belonging t.
the Comet Towboat Co., was myster
iouslv fred at her moorings at CinciI
natl, early on the morning of the @@c
and burned to the waters edge.
Waterman was the only person o
board and he escaped. The fire wa
undoubtedly incendiary.