Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-08-10
NEWS AND NOTES,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


the District of Columbia, recently
found two $1,000 bills in the attic of the
building. So far no one has claimed
the money.
WHILE Pennsylvania passenger
train was rounding the bend at SCOTS
burg, Ind, on the evening of the 3Oth.
it struck a buggy containing man,
woman and chld The man and won.
an, whose names have not vet been
learned, were killed and the child in.
jurcd. The horses were also killed.
On the 3Oth Brookside, Ala, mining
camp Of the Sloss Iron and Steel Co.,
was the scene OF one Of the bloodicst
race riots in the history of Alabama
AS a result two deputy Shcriffs and
four negroes were killed and several
other negroes seriously, two probabl by
fatally, wounded
JAMES II. CoCKREIL, aged "a, a
farmer, near Lafayette, Ind, was, on
the 30th, blown to atoms by the ex-
plosion Of twelve pounds Of dynamite
cartridges, which he was carrying in
a basket while engaged in blowing up
stumps in field
The monument erected in Louisville,
KY, in memory of the Kentucky con-
federates was unveiled on the 30th, in
the presence Of n vast concourse of
people.
Thirty horses were burned to death
in the destruction by fire of Danberg's
livery stable in Wells, Mimi, on the
3lst, The fire is charged to tramps;
loss, S40,O 900, insurance, $4,000,
RICHARD n. HUNT, architect of the
Administration building at the Worlds
fair: of the new Vanderbilt villa at
Newport, R. l., and many other prom
inent buildings OF his class, died at
his summer residence at Newport on
the 3lst.
The Spanish cabinet, at its meeting,
on the 3lst, formally approved the
amount of the indemnity TO be paid in
settlement of the Mora claim.
ON the 3lst the British admiralty
placed orders with the McssrS. Thomp-
son, shipbuildcrs of Glasgow, for the
construction Of three torpedo destroy
ers capable of maintaining a speed of
thrty-six land miles per hour. The
intention is that these boats shall be
the fastest vessels of their kind ailoat
DURING the "a hours ended at q a. m.
of the 3lst, the converting depart
ment OF the Carnegie-Eiga Thorn
son steel works at l'raddock, Pa,
made the unprecedented run of !, no
tons and 90 pounds, being seventy
three heats of the two lj.ton convert
ers
A PORTION of the embankment OF
Geneva lake, near the village OF Mon
treaux, Switzerland, gave way, on the
3Oth, leaving gap 100 meters long
and twenty meters deep, The pecunl-
arv damage is enormous, but fortu-
nutelv no one was injured
Gly. ANsoN G. MCCooR was, on the
slst, appointed city chamberlain OF
New York TO succeed James j. ODon-
oghue. The place is worth $4,000 a
year.
A CABLE dispatch was received, on
the 3lst. at the rooms OF the Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in New York city, Announcing
the death from cholera in India OF
Rev. and Mrs. August kullman, mis-
sionaries. in the town Of Azanol, IN the
Bcpgal-Burma conference. Mr. hnll-
man went to India from Nineland, NJ
j., in 1892. 49,.
FRAUD orders have been issued by
the post office department against d.
NJ. Balm, W. II. Griffith ~ Co., 'he
GAINESVILLE Chemical Go. and the Black
Diamond Manufacturing Co., OF New
Concord and GAINESVILLE, o., and against
the Excelsior Poultry Co., OF Decatur
III. "a.
The ordinance passed by the Guy
council of Enporia kas., when re-
ouired bells and lamps on every o'cy-
Gle thare, and made it compulsory 'o
ring the bells at every street crossing
and alley, was, on the Slst' deciareo
by Judge J. +. Culver nnreasonaol'
in it's requirements, and therefore oh
constitutional and VOID ....
WM PlCKLER, who was await'hs
trial for implication in the mln'-p"l,
lion shortage, was found dead IN oeo
.t Carson. New, on the morning OF the
aist A clot of blood in the heart was
tho cause. Pickler was a conhdential
employe in the Carson m'n' iof many
years. ,,o,;,r of the
National college of mechanics ana hne
ar,s TO be erected by the knlgn's
Templar. has narrowed down to fl'ts, US,
bnroh and Chicago. The knights ~ii'
DECIDE on one of these cities IN '"e''
.onvention at Boston, August a. j,
Ella JENKINS. aged 25, while stano
ing in the uoor VI Nv ~, 80, ,be
suburbs of Jacksonville, fla'' on IN, ,"t ~
alst. during heavy Storm was N,,IG nnIG
bv an electric bolt. The BABE size h'''
IN her arms was unharmed A..
FIRE at Menominee, Mich'' on 'n'
,;nht Of the slst, swept over a terri
,orv of nearly forty acres ana des.ios, ..,, :, !,
Ak 400 600 feet of lumber, the propeiss
of A. Spies, the Girard Lumber 20 ,'s;,, aat
q. DE- "a shprc Lumber Co., together witI .,1
os;ccs and buildings, one "oou na, W..
.nS about 5000 cords of fslabs' severe ia
Sremen and some citizens "e''
jured. N;ss IN the night
10 aIst J. 4. Catlin, a promineh
,nc.I nolitician, shot and lns.aas. "s
I;l,sd lIIn Ed West, telegraph ' opeta'os a, us
i..le kl..el Ia thought was too slow IN IRE. re
cs;vinp mv no message which catlin "an'''
70 Senu ,1,,s A TAYLOR, United States ols !,
..;ct attorney for the western !, a,,',b' ,'n IN,
VI .flGs Tennessee, I,,e died in Memphis on 'N'
lst. n.vIs. aged 10
.s "' aied. on the LIST, at the 'Sau' pu'"
yea.s' .ans find,l county infrmary, wnrs' W." -
shs %" Ind been for twenty.nve. !, ssS.s ,s.'