Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-04-13

Al Hs' oh'oA cuRluccF Ol
she Louisville tkys) veneer mills, me,
u horrible death on the 4th. He was
caught in shaft ofa fywheel making
soo revolutions a minute and was
dashed against the wali and ceiling O,
,he room until his body was shape.
less mass, almost every bone being
broken. tsis.a-,s a. .,i-l -
OBRIEN, the American who shot hi,
companion, Waldle, in Paris, on Marcel
~ Confessed to Judge Franqueville, ON
the 9TH, that he is really O'Brien, the
American bunco steerer. This was the
hrst admission of his identity that
the prisoner had made. 81 g..
A CONSCIENCE contribution of SIC
from Pittsburgh, Pa, was received al
the treasury department, on the ,5th,
and was placed to the credit Of the
conscience fund.
A. q. MCLEAN, first mayor Of Van.
couver, B. G., died in that city on the
4th' he was formerly resident OF
Winnipeg, Man. ssf.;..+s
In the British house of commons, or
the 5th, the Irish land bflfwas read .
second time without division.
in an accident on the Bellaire,
GAINESVILLE e. Cincinnati railroad al
Whigville, o., on the 5th, four persons.
including the engineer, were instantly
killed, and the fireman was fatally in.
jurcd.
IHE supreme court of Kansas rem.
dered a decision on the 9th, in which
hypnotism is recognized both as a de.
fense and ground for conviction OF
crime. 1t was a murder case in which
the active agent was acquitted an1
the man who exercised hypnotic in ~
ence over him, although not present
when the crime was committed, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
A DISPATCH from Nishni-Novgorod,
Russia, says that half.built hotel col
lapsed in that city ON the 9Th. Thirty
workingmen were carried down with
the walls and killed. The govern
ment architect who had charge of The
work shot himself dead with revol
YER
Mr.. j. GUST, NJ. p, editor of th'
Pail Mall Gazette, of London, after al
audience with the sultan of Turkey
has been invited by his majesty t,
proceed to Sassoun as special, hide
pendent commissioner to Investigate
the alleged outrages in Armenia.
THE Roman courts have pronouncc'
a decree of separation in favor of Prir
cess Colonna, daughter of the Amer
can millionaire Mackay, who is ais
given the custody of her children.
THE associated banks of New Yor
city held Sl3, ,920, 925 in excess of the 2!
percent. rule on the 9Th.
A DISPATCH from Stockho I'm, Sw,
den, says that there is reason to fea
that an open rupture with consequen
hostilities with Norway is imminent.
THE pensioned soldiers at the Ne
Hampshire soldiers home, at Nashu'
whose pension money, except two do
lars IA month, under the rules of TIL
home, is kept by the management, ha'
rebelled, stating that they will refus
to turn over the next installment an
that they will leave the home in bod
if the point is forced.
THERE is apparent reason for Ell
rope to be concerned over the insu
rection in Cuba. All the recent info
nation received at the state depar
ment in Washington tends to sho
that the revolutionary forces are il
crcasing in numbers. Private advice
state that nine out of every ten pc
sons in Cuba are friends to the revol
tionists.
Mrs. ELIZABETH JOYCE, widow (
the late David Joyce, the multimi
lionaire lumberman. died at her hon
in Clinton, Ia, on the 7th, of valvuli
heart disease, after an illness of on
two weeks, aged 81. She leaves h
fortune, estimated at S3,OO0,000. to h
only son, William.
WILLIAM CLARK, a poor tenal
farmer near Terre Haute, Ind, col
mitted suicide, on the night OF t
9th. by swallowing quart of turpe
tine in which gum camphor had be-
dissolved. He left widow and TO
children. ...
TIE remains of Gen. J. d. Farl
worth, of New York, who died in Was
; ington city, on the night of the 81
were taken to Albany, N. Y, on t
sth, where the funeral services we
held on the 10th.