Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-30

pAVE HENDERSON, the colored school
.roeher who wounded four persons in
Ihe mead with Il hatchet, recentlv nj
Dunlap, kas., was released, on the DIST
AFTER hearing before justice of the
peace, his plea of self defense being
sustained.
PArRIcK II. THOMAS, an iron worker
on a tourteen'story building being
erected at the corner OF Woodward
and Michigan avenues, in Detroit
Mich, missed his footing, on the 92d,
ana fell distance of 100 feet to the
ROOF OF an adjoining building. Nearly
an OF his bones were broken but his
physlclans expressed belief that he
might recover
WILLIAM HlDDY was arrested at
Mount Ayr, Ia, on the 2lst, on sus.
p'e'on OF being the murderer of Alber.
Applegate, a well-to-do Norton county
iarmer who was found dead In his
cornlield three weeks before with two
bullet holes in his head.
REV. j. S, LADD, q retired Baptist
clergyman, died at his home In Eliza
beth, N. j., on the 9lst, aged 81 years.
lie was a graduate of Hamilton col.
lege, and had been minister over for.
ty years.
EUGENE V. DEBs became free man
again at IL o'clock on the night Of the
2lst. His term Of six months impris.
onment in the Woodstock Ill) iail
came to an end while he slept in his
cell.
REV FRANK HYATT SMITH, under in
dictment for writing obscene postal
cards, was taken before the United
States circuit court in Boston, on the
I'D, adjudged insane and sent imme-
dlately to the government asylum at
Washington.
W. ii. L. DURRANT, under conviction
for the murder Of Blanche Lamont In
San Francisco, was taken before Judge
Murphy, on the ed, for sentence. A
continuance until the eth was moved
by his attorney and granted by the
court.
SEvENrY-FlvE Armenians employed
at the Whtins machine works at Whit.
insville, Il. l., struck, on the 2?d, be-
cause the superintendent refused t9 dis
charge three Turks who were working
in company with then.
MATT ADAMS, clerk of the district
court at Denver Col, having resigned
and disappeared, investiga tion into his
accounts, on the 29d, developed a
shortage approximating $1,000.
THE electric light works in Chelms-
ford England, were destroyed by fire,
on the ed, causing a loss Of 10000
GOLD shipments to Europe by New
York houses, on the 29d, aggregated
S50O0,0 900
NEARLY s20,OOO,O 900 in gold has been
coined az the San Francisco mint since
January /, and before New Years the
amount will probably 90 over $4,000,
600. There has also been about 81 800,
0OO in silver coined.
REV DIR. CORNELIUS V. VAN DYKE,
the translator Of the Bible into Ara bic,
who died recently in Beyrout, Syria,
is acknowledged by experts to have
been the best Arabic scholar in the
world.
On the Esd the associated banks OF
New York city held $40, ,a54, $50 in eX-
0oss Of the requirements of the 25per-
cent, rule.
HENRY WIpMER, leader of tine or
chestra at Days New York theater,
died of heart failure in cab at the
door of his residence, on the Esd, at
! a. IN,
On the 23l, as George w. Newhouse
and wife, of Rush county, Indiana,
were driving home from Shelbyvillc,
Ind, their horse backed off n high en-
bankment The buggy and its occu'
pants fell on mass of rock, and New.
house and his wife were instantly
killed, their bodies being terribly
manglcd
IT was rumored in Paris, early ON
the morning OF the 2,th, that Alexan-
der Dumas, the distinguished author,
was dead. The report was not con
firmed, but it was known that NJ. Du'
mas condition was desperate.
TIE steamship Campania, whicl
sailed from New York for Europe, or
the esd, carried s,,670,3 33l in gold bars
and coin,
FoR September 14l railroads report
gross earnings of S60,25s,"l6, an III
crease of S3,O7s,272.