Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-01-12

PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

was read,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
JOHN b. BERGAMINI, 30 years of age
and his wife Kate, 70 years old, wer,
found dead, on the morning of the I'd
at their home in New York. They
had been suffocated by escaping gas.
THE recount in the mayoralty con
test in Winnipeg, Man, was completed
on the I'd. As a result McMicken wa.
unseatsd and Gilroy was declared
mayor by 5 majority.
Two STREET CARS in indianapolis
Ind, collided, on the I'd, in binding
snowstorm. About twenty persons
were injured more or less seriously by
the accident.
On the I'd, Gov. Morton of New York
nominated Alva II. Doty to be health
officer of the port Of New York, and he
was promptly confirmed by the senate
AN emery wheel burst in the Pope
Knitting Co.'S factory at Bucyrus, O.,
on the I'd, crushing the skull of Frank
Greenwich, 17-year-old employe,
The principal part of the village of
Sherman, N. Y, was burned at o'clocl,
on the morning of the Cd; aggregate
losses, $4,000.
EIGHT business places, including the
leading stores and post office at Per
rysville, O.. were burned on the 2d
loss, $50,
THE decoration of Count Won Wal
dersee with the order Of the Black
Eagle was officially gazetted in Berlin
ON the I'd.
The president, on the I'd, awarded a
medal of honor, for distinguished gal
lantry, to Brevet Brig. -Gen. VIM. II,
Wilmington, U. s. ", of Jackson
Mich, in voluntarily remaining on the
field, under heavy fire, at Bull Run
July, 1861, to aid his wounded superior
officer Gen. (then coloneD Orlando b.
Wilcox, resulting in the capture OF
both officers.
A STORY was telegaaphed from Wash.
ington, on the night of the I'd, that the
New York financiers, through Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan, had demanded the
retirement of Secretary of the Treas
ury Carlisle, and that the president
would stand by Mr.. Carlisle. A New
York dispatch, however, stated that
Mr.. Morgan characterized the story as
absurd
EDWARD McMULLIN, a lincman in
the employ of the Western Union Tel
egraph Co., was awarded a verdict at
Newark, N. j., on the Sd, against the
company of $4,000 for injuries re.
ceived while working among the wires
on pole in Jersey City in June, 1898.
DISPATCHES from Belgium, on the I'd,
announced that the Belgian govern
ment had prohibited the importation
Of American cattle, alleging the preva-
lence of pleuro-pneumonia in the
United States as the reason. DR.. Sal
mon, chief Of the bureau of animal in
dustry, says there has been no pleuro.
pneumonia in the United States for
two years.
The census Office made public re-
port, on the I'd, showing that the own
ers Of farms and homes, regarded as
substantially the land owners of the
United States, own more than 90 per
cent. of the wealth of the country.
HAMILTON FISH was, on the I'd, elect.
ed speaker Of the New York state as
sembly.
GUARD TEMPLE, who recently shot
and killed Convict O'Day in the Ohio
penitentiary was, on the 3D., exon.
Grated by the coroner, who rendered a
verdict of justifiable homicide.
THE United States cruiser Detroit
arrived at Port Said, Egypt, on the Sd,
on her way from Naples to China.
ALExANER BIDA, the French artist,
died in Paris on the Sd.
MRS. MARY T. LATHRAP, president of
the Michigas w {, I. u, died at her
home in Jackson, on the Sd, of acute
neuralgia, aged Sc years. She had
been i'll about a year.
ROBERT BRUCE, the head of Chi
cago detective agency and one Of the
best t-posted men in the country on
criminals, was found dead in his office
on the Sd. He had been drinking
heavily.
A WARRANT was sworn out, on the
9Th. for the arrest of ex-City Treasurer
George Swartzkopf.of Valparaiso, Ind,
on the charge of embezzling city funds
to the amount of s13,s6o during his two
years service as city treasurer.
FRANK P. MOORE was arrested at
Savannah, Ca, on the 4th, for using
the United States mails for fraudulent
purposes in sending clairvoyant circu-
lars through tae post Office. He is said
to be wanted n Cincinnati for similar
offenses.
AN enormous crowd gathered at the
state house in Denver, Col, on the 4th,
to listen to Gov Waite's final message.
AN Austrian polar expedition will
leave Bremerlaven In June, 1896.
Julius Prayer Will be in charge Of 1t.
Snow fell in Nice, France, on the
4th, to the unprecedented depth of FIVE
inches
MICHAEL BERlicK and his two chill
dren, John and Michael, aged 5 and 4
wears, respectfully, were smothered to
death in the burning of their home in
New York on thN4th.
ON the night o the 4th fire DESTROYED
the upper storie'pf the Iron block In
Milwaukee and ii Of the building ad-
Joining, owned the Martin estate.
The loss on the ron block is $4,000
and that Of Delopne & Quentin, the oc-
.enpants, ia Soa,oa on stock. The Mar.
tin estate less !a No,ooQ'
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