Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-05-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The Dominion department of rail
ways and canals, on the 22d, sent out
notifications that efforts were being
made to have the Welland canal
opened as soon as possible, but that it
was feared it could not be got ready
before May /.
LOUIS p. HERMANN and Charles
Pustolka, both wife-murderers from
New York city, were electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison on the esd.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently spent
a day at ex-President Harrison's pri-
vate fish-pond near Leesburg, W. Va.
He fished hard all day, but only sue
ceeded in landing few croppies.
TELEGRAPHIc communication with
Buluwayo was cut off at Fig Tree, a
small place near Mangwe, southwest
of Buluwayo, on the 23d, and, in view
of the serious condition of affairs, 1t
caused considerable anxiety in Cape
Town.
NINE. EGLANTINE GAUDIN, of Wood
cliff, N. j., after years of hard work,
has suddenly found herself heiress to
the enormous fortune of $1,000, 900,
left her by her godmother, Emile Pi-
maud, of California.
A New YORK sculptor is the first
American artist to whom permission
has been granted to erect an outdoor
statue in France. The statue will be
that of George Washington, and will
be erected by American women in
Paris. 1t will be the only outdoor
monument of an American in Europe.
AT Tampa, Fla, on the 93d Hazel
James, who was wayward. shot her
self. She was a member of a leading
Georgia family, her grandfather hav-
ing once been governor.
WILLIE SHAEFFER, a schoolboy of IA
years, hanged himself in the cellar of
his home, in Philadelphia, on the 23d.
Some weeks ago the boy told his moth
er that he had been studying science,
and learned from 1t that he was af-
fiicted with typhoid pneumonia and
would not live long. He continually
brooded over his supposed diseases, and
frequently predicted that he would not
live long.
GEORGE DILLINEB, one Of the first
settlers of Douglas county, ILL.,, died
on the 23d, aged SO years. One of Mr.
Dilliner's peculiarities was his belief
that the earth was fat, and notwith-
standing the fact that strong evidence
to the contrary was presented to him,
his opinion was never shaken.
LITTLE b. ANDREWS, a bicycle rider
while racing with an electric car at
Baltimore, Nd, on the Esd, was thrown
in front of the car and killed.
THE wife of Herman Scharnitzka,
wood carver, 110 YonlSers street, Cleve-
land, o., on the 23d, tried to kindle
fire with the aid of coal oil. The oil
can exploded, burning her fatally, and
two of her children, five and three
years old, who were clinging to her
skirts were burned to a crisp.
THE $9,00o,oo Cuban republic bonds
placed on sale In New York were all
taken by investors.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, aged 70, died at
Warsaw, Ind, on the 93d. He served
in the Forty-second and Forty-third
congresses, and was minister to Uru-
quay and Paraguay under the Garfield
administration.
MANUFACTURERS of steel nails, in
consequence of the rise in the price of
steel, have advanced the price Of their
product.
A SERIOUS conflict between Christians
and Turks occurred at Episkopi, in the
island of Crete. There were two days
fUhtinD and hO nersona vare killed
and wounded. The Cretans have APP
pealed to Greece for aid.
On the 23d Ezra Beamon Newton,
the oldest Shaker in the country, died
Of old age at the Harvard Mass com
munity, aged 101.