Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-05-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A LONG train of fiat cars, loaded with
coal, was running down the grade to-
ward Chicago Junction, o., on the 5th.
at terrific rate of speed, when a
broken rail caused the engine to leave
the track. The cars all piled on top of
the engine, and were literally smashed
to kindling. Twelve tramps boarded
the train at Shelby, and but six were
found. The rest were supposed to be
buried under the wreckage.
THE French excavators at Delphi
have unearthed life-size bronze statue
of bearded man, the largest yet dis
covered. The date of the work is 500
b. G. The statue is holding the bride
of u horse, and portions of the horses
figure have also been found.
A SENSATION has been caused in Brus-
sells, Belgium, by the arrest of NJ.
Courtois, an ex-police official, for the
murder of Mime. Herri, who was stran-
gled and robbed in her house recently.
JAMES GALLAGHER, known through
out the country In democratic circles
as War Horse" Gallagher, died sud-
denly on the street at New Haven,
Conn, on the 5th.
TIE jury in the murder trial of DR..
Freund, of Pennington, Mimi, re-
turned verdict of not guilty on the
9Th. DIR. Freund was charged with the
murder of Clara Osler, a young lady
with whom he was said to have been
on intimate terms.
KING HuMBERT of Italy has donated
100000 francs to the families of the
soldiers killed and wounded in the AZ
rican campaign without any distinc-
tion being made between the Italians
and native troops in the service of
Italy.
JOHN PoTULNEY and A. PurslSi, two
well-known saloon keepers of South
Chicago, went to bed about midnight,
on the night of the 5th, in an intoxi-
Gated condition, and were found dead
in the morning of asphyxiation.
AT Alonzo, province of Huelva,
Spain, some miscreant set fire to the
building in which dance was in prog
ress. Six persons we're burned to
death and many were injured.
THE house committee on pensions,
on the 9th, ordered favorable report
on the bill granting an increase to S12
per month of pension to the survivors
of the Mexican and Indian wars and
to their widows, with proviso, how
ever, that no widow who was not mar
ried to the soldier or sailor prior to
March TO- 1856, should be entitled to
the benefits of the act.
JOSEPH ]. MARTIN. who was treas
urer of Philadelphia from 1878 to 1893,
and head of the cattle-shipping firm of
Martin, Fuller q Co., Of that city.
which was the first to develop mar
ket for beeves in foreign countries,
died, on the 9th, aged 70 years.
THE claim OF Adah Richpond, the
actress, that she married John Stetson,
the Boston theatrical manager and
millionaire, in 1871, in Providence, r.
l., has no official record in that city to
support It,
The treasury gold reserve, at the
close of business on the nth, stood at
119,0s4, 124. The days Withdrawals
amounted to 100000
CARDINAL LUIGI GALIMBERTI, titular
archbishop of Nice and formerly papal
nuncio at Vienna, died at Suchtein, near
Dusseldorf, Prussia, on the 7th, from
throat trouble. He was born in Rome
In 1896 and created cardinal In 1893.
THE United States war ship Mime
apolis sailed from Southampton, on
the 7th, for Cronstadt.
The riding school attached to the