Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-10-27


lSth, aged 6j wears. lie entered the
navy IN 1851 and was in charge of the
monitor Camonicus. He served on
the great lakes, at the New York ano
hoston and Philadelphia navy yards
ana on the steamship Boston when
That vessel was attached to the white
squadron.
DETECTIVE RoHAN, of Chicago, on the
i9th, identified the wounded Bloom
heid (lnd.) bank robber, who is in Jail
at sullivan, AS George West, one of the
most notorious safe-blowers of the
west. lie was captured after tesper-
ate fight,
CAPT. WILLIAM b. JOINS, veteran
ol the Mexican war and graduate of
the West Point class of 1910, with Sher-
man and Others, died in Washington
on the 18TH He fought under Scott
and Taylor in the most important bat
ties of the Mexican war and later saw
Indian service in the southwest.
CAPT. BuNcE, commanding the battle
ship Maine, has made Il report to the
navy department on the trial trip
that vessel made on the 18th. The
trial lasted four hours. The contractors
expressed themselves as satisfied. The
average speed was 10. 9j knots, and the
highest speed l1.s2.
JUDGE LACoMBE, on the 10Th in the
United States circuit court in New
York city, rendered IA decision in the
case of John James Howard, Levi =.
Morton's coachman. The Judge dis.
missed the writ of habeas corpus and
ordered Howard to be taken back to
Ellis Island He will be sent back to
Europe.
FREDERICK NJ. STEELE, II geologist OF
Montclair, n, j., while prospecting for
amethyst crystals in the Montclail
mountains, on the 10Th, uncarthed a
box, lSXs inches, bound with steel
bands. The box was easily opened
with spade, and was found to contain
gold nuggets, which had been melted
and broken, to the value of $4,000
The federal grand jury in Chicago
returned an omnibus indictment, or
the 10th, against Debs and the officers
cf the American Railway union and q
large number of persons charged with
participation in violence and the OBJ
struction of the mails and commerce
on the different railroads last summer
A LARGE part of the extensive plan,
of the famous Tredegar iron works at
Richmond, Va, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the l1th,
Loss. about Sl500O0.
JoHN KNUBBE was divorced from
Mary knubbc at Columbus, O., on the
10Th. Four other divorced husbands
testified against her and three couldn't
attend the trial.
j. d. DARLINGTON, of Newark, Del.
a guest at the Globe hotel, at Altoona
Pa, fell headlong down the stairway
leading from the lavatory to tn,
toilet room early on the morning ol
the 10Th. He was found dead at the
foot of the stairs his neck broken anc
his skull fractured. lie was q civil en-
gineer and widely known.
Bur GUyoN and Ed Dunn. two of the
most notorious confidence men anC
card sharps in the country, We're ar
rested by detectives at Kansas City
| Mo-, on the Goth, on information fur
nished by Chief Of Detectives Shee o
Chicago. where they are wanted fol
swindling IA wealthy stock broker on
of several thousand dollars.
Mas. RoGERsand two daughters, agec
IS and 20. while attempting to cross
the burlington tracks in a buggy a
Dorchester, Neb., on the Goth, wer,
struck by fast freight. The mothei
and Youngest daughter We're killed anC
the other daughter was fatally Injured
CAPT. l.. b. M.oNpELL, of For
Wayne, Ind, champion swimmer o
America, has accepted the challenge o
James Fimey, champion of England
for long-distancc contest.
THE weekly statement of the New
| York associated banks, issued on tn,
10Th, shows that they held S62,5l3,67
in excess of the requirements Of thu
!j-per-ccnt. rule,
IT was thought in Shanghai, on tn,
10Th, that the Japanese would declar,
an effective blockade of the gulf of Pc
Che-Li within week.
JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE, Ii. d., thu
celebrated religious writer and his
torian. died in London, ON the 10th
aged 76 years.