Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-05-18
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENepA,

i"'e rai,roau' VINO had been long in
the service, were discharged for yio.
iation OF general order to the effect
that "all trainmen, engineers and tire.
men seen entering or leaving a saloon.
either while on or off duty, would be
Immediately discharged" Forty other
employees were ordered to report for
examination on similar charges.
IiIE stage coach running between
Calistoga and Clear Lake, Cal. was
held up and robbed, on the 7th, by two
masked men who secured about n ooo
cash and looted Well-Fargo's treasure
box.
FIFTEEN worlimen employed in the
Gheens cement quarries at Cementyille.
Ind, were reported, on the sth, in a
critical condition from asphyxiation,
as result of the influx of gas and
foul air, generated by blasting into
the quarry where they were working.
The quarry is fully 800 yards deep,
stretching underground, backwards,
from the edge of pond.
Col. JOHN Il. GowEN, who died re.
Gently at Paris, France, after an illness
OF three days, was born in Lynn, Mass.
March 6, 1925, lie was an engineer OF
distinguished ability. 1t was he who
raised the Russian fleet, sunk in the
harbor of Sebastopol by the Russians
after the Crimean war.
EDWARD B. CLARK, a tool dresser, was
caught in the rope of hoisting der.
rick near Fin1lay, o., on the sth, and
his body was carried to the butt wheel
and literally cut into four pieces.
NATHANIEL STRoUGnER, 1o4 years OF
age, celebrated his birthday anniver
sary, on the sth, near English, Ind.
and took part in the festivities with
more agility than many present who
were almost half hundred years
younger than himself Mr.. Strougher
is one of the oldest. if not the oldest,
men in the state. lie is native OF
Tennessee
THE question of intercollegiate foot.
ball was brought up again, on the Sth,
in the meeting of the Harvard faculty.
No official statement was given out,
but it was learned from authentic
sources that motion prohibiting the
students from taking part in intercol.
legiate football contests failed to pass
by good majority.
B. l.. BURROWS, Mayor Strong's conf.
dental secretary, on the Sth, delivered
to Clerk Kenyon, of the senate, the
mayors approval of the LeXow New
York city bipartisan police commission
bill, together with a memorandum stat
ing his reasons for approving it.
DIR. S. q. HOOKER, mayor of Stanfc.d,
Ky, prominent business man, com
mitted suicide, on the sth, by hanging
with a small cotton rope in his meat
house. lie was 60 years old. "a family,
consisting of widow and two chill
dren, survive him. His enemies had
accused him of Illegally selling whisky
in his drug store, and were continually
bounding him.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the sth
said: "Unless there is a decided change
in the sentiment of Justice jackson
| toward the income-taX law, he will
vote against that law. In that event
the whole section of the Wilson-Gor-
man act will be stricken from the
statute books"
ROBERT X. GOODWIN, assistant cash
icr of the wrecked bank of Lexington,
Va, was found guilty, on the evening
Of the Sth, of having made fraudulent,
entries, and his punishment fixed by
the jury at four years in the state
prison at Richmond.
IT is understood that Russia will
not make any opposition if Japan aug
ments the war indemnity from China.
| This will be Il sort of return for the
abandonment of the Liao Tung prov
ince.
Cor. A. ID. Cross, one of the best
known men in southern Indiana, died
at Shelbyville, on the evening OF the
Sth, from stroke of paralysis lie
located in Shelbyville in 1s4o, moving
from Lexington, KY, and at the time
of his death was drawing pension of
S79 per month.
j. c. MONAGHAN, United States con-
nj at Chemnitz Germany, reports to
the department of state that an efort
is being made there to keep foreigners
out of the technical and industrial art
schools. Petitions to that end are be-
ing circulated throughout Saxony
The covert object is to keep out En-
,lishmcn and Americans.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Curtis has decided to invite proposals
for temporary public building in
Chicago, to be occupied rs local gov
crnment Offices pending the construe-
ton of the new pu bic building.
NINE HUNDRED employees in the
woolen and worsted mills OF James
Lee & Son, at Bridgeport, Pa, were
thrown out of employment on the 9th'
Three hundred of the hands struck for
an increase in wages and the firm de-
cided to close down the mills The IN
crease demanded was 40 per cent
SAMUEL AYMER, the defaulting book
keeper of the National Shoe and
Leather bank of New York city, who
rmbezzlcd $4,000 belonging to That
institution, pleaded guilty, on the 9th,
before Judge Benedict in the United
States circuit court and was remanded
for sentence.
RI. Hon. SIR ROBERT PEEL, baronet,
eldest brother OF ex-Speaker Peel OF
the British house of commons, died IN
London, on the 9th, nged 73 years /,
TIE Delaware legislature adjourned
sine die, on the 9th, with the sena'
torial deadlock still unbroken'
Sneaker McMullen of the house dc.
,lared II. A. Dupont elected on'teu
States senator.
a DISPATCH from Yokohama, on the
9th, said that 1900 persons died rom
cholera in the Pescadore islands dur
ing the month OF April. The disease
the dispatch added, was abatlng
JupeE THOMPSON after listening 10
arguments for four hours in the uor'
don. Brown murder case at Loulsvllle'
Kv.. on the 9th, decided that fu'.on
Gordon should not be held for trial.
and discharged him. ,.,
Az explosion, supposed to have peer, 2, !,
caused by natural gas, wrecked a o'g
lodripp house at No. 10 oheriiah