Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-09-07
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

uiahapoiis Ind, went to Irvington, on
the 2sth, to get together all the re.
mains OF the body of Howard pietzel,
and To collect the mass OF evidence
developing there against II. H. Holmes
Later the coroner began the taking of
testimony in the case.
HlpPoLYTE RAMMAE, the dramatist
committed suicide in Paris, on the
21th, by shooting himself with a re.
volver.
LIGHTNING entered the telegraph Of
flee of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway Co, at Whitewater
Wis.,, on the night of the eth, and in
stantly killed the operator, Joseph
O'Mallcy,
GEORGE WALTERS, linemap en-
ployed by the Connellsvillc pa J Elec-
trio Light Co., was instantly killed,
on the 10Th while making repairs to
an arc light. The wire had been
crossed with another during storm.
AN important order giving full pro
lection to foreign consumers of Ameri-
can meat products was issued on the
2Sth. 1t will prevent the expectation
OF any beef that is not inspected, and
Will cause the exporters of horse meat
so to mark the packages that the ma
ture of the contents shall be apparent.
NM BENEDITrI and Alessandri, rival
candidates for the canton of Pedicroce,
Corsica, fought a duel with pistols, on
the 9sth, and Alessandri was killed.
THE duke of Orleans, who, upon the
death, last year, of his father, the
count of Paris, became the head of the
royalist party in France, and claimant
to the throne, has become convinced
of the futility of further fighting the
republic. lie has, therefore, decided
to abandon the royalist propaganda
and save the money spent in its main
tenancc.
The factional fight that has beer
going on for some time in Chinatown,
San Francisco, between the See Yup
and the Sam Yup families, has culmi-
mated in .he disruption of the Six
Companies, the most powerful organi-
zation ever instituted by the Chinese
in this country.
EX-PoLIcE JUSTICE PATRICK GAvAN
DUFFY, of New York city, who was
stricken with paralysis two weeks
previous at Forked River, n. j., died
there on the 2sth. He was one OF the
most popular with Tammany) justices
that ever sat on the bench in New York
city.
WILLIAM GAILrARD, of Palestine
Commanderv, No. &, Knights Templar,
Of New London, Conn, dropped dead
from apoplcxy on Washington street,
Roxburv, Mass, on .the 2sth. He was
returning to headquarters after pa
rade. apparently as well as usual,
when the fatal attack seized him.
The next triennial conclaye of the
grand encampment of Knights Tenn
plar of the United States will be held
in Pittsburgh, Pa, in 1895
THE Paris Matin advises that Great
Britain and Brazil submit the question
of possession of the island of Trinidad
to arbitration.
On the Goth the Acknowledgment
syndicate deposited $1,000, 900 in gold
in the New York snb-treasury in cx-
change for greenbacks, which raised
the treasury gold reserve to SlOl, 7oo,-
O0O
A ROLLING rock struck a Colorado
passenger train near Fisher
Col on the 2sth, wrecking the bag
gage car and smoking car. One per-
son was killed and two injured.
A DISPATCH from Moscow, on the
Goth. said that half the town OF Yukh-
noff, in the province of Smolensk, had
been burned.
A GERMAN torpedo boat capsized
and sank in the North sea on the
9sth. Thirteen Of her crew were
drowned.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFoRD, on the Goth,
to the treasury department
n statement of his accounts covering
period of several years The report
specifies moneys received and dis
bursed for library and copyright pur-
poses up to August II, last. The figure
will not be given out pending the
action OF the department on the report.
The coroners jury in the case of the
Gumry hotel disaster at Denver, COL,
say that the testimony was SO conflict
ing that it was impossible to fix the
for the disaster upon
any one person, but that the owners,
Peter Gumry and K. C. Greiner, were
for requiring their engineer
10 work sixteen hours out OF twenty
four, and for employing an inexperi.
enced engineer, whose habits were dis
sipated and unreliable.
JAMES L. Joy, 81 years old, and' the
Oldest member of the Detroit (Mich.)
bar, in some way lost his footing on
the gang plank of pleasure yacht, on
the Goth, and stepped off into the river.
Mr.. Joy would probably have drowned
had 1t not been for the promptness and
bravery of Judge Dickinson, of Ten
nessee, who gallantly leaped into the
water and supported Mr.. Joy until the
officers and crew of the yacht came to
his assistance.
On the 29th a terrible explosion was
reported from Lafayette township, in
the extreme western portion OF Allen
county, Ind. in which two men were
killed. John Flaugh was at work in
his fathers sawmill with another en-
oloye, named Phaial, when the boiler
exploded and hurled the men across
the building into the yard. Both were
killed.
The drug with which Howard Pite-
eel is believed to have been killed be-
fore his body was burned in the big
stove In the Irvington cottage, Indian
apolis, was found on the Goth. part
OF bottle Of cyanide Of potassium was
found buried In the barn.
OFFICIAL reports show that there
were 10000 deaths from cholera in
Pekin during the month OF August.
The keeper of the Brough light
mouse, Orkney islands, telegraphed, on
the ,soth, that the Norwegian steamer
Ansgarius had been lost on Lowther