Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-02-15

By the collapse Of bridge over the
Pequabuck river at Bristol, Mass, on
the 9Th, score of workmen, who were
trying TO save the damaged structure,
were precipitated into the water, and
IA of them were drowned.
THE examination OF the prisoners
arrested at Johannesburg and taken
to Pretoria for trial was formally OPP
ened on the 5th, ~
| A REPORT from Bound Brook, N. j.,
on the 9th, said that 100 lives had been
lost by flood. followed by fire, the
people being driven from their burn.
houses only to be drowned by the
food,
AssEMBLYMAN RoBINsoN's resolution
providing for an investigation by the
attorney-geperal Of the alleged coal
trust, was passed by the New York as
sembly, on the 9th, by aavote of 90 to AZ.
THE Catron anti-prize-fght bill, pro-
hibiting bull and prize fights in the
territories ~ the tied States and
'ir thj pis's <jf ;ol1 Z '.ab'a' |r>ec'l w
senate Oh the 9TH, and was sent to the
president for his signature.
THE body of the woman found MUIR
dered and decapitated near Fort
Thomas, KY, proved to be that Of Pearl
Bryan, of Greencastle, Ind, and Scott
jackson and Alonzo Walling, dental
students at Cincinnati, and William
Wood, son of Rev. ID. A. Wood, of Green
cestle, Ind, have been arrested for
participation in the crime.
GEN. JOHN GIBBoN, the famous In
dian fighter, died at his home in Balti-
more, Nd, on the 9Th, at the age of 6S
years. His death was caused by pneu-
monia.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president of the
American Red Cross society, with her
party, started from Paris for Geneva,
on the 7th; thence to Vienna, and di-
rect to Constantinople.
SENATOR HALE, of Maine, introduced
in the senate, on the 7th, bill making
February 12, President Lincoln's birth
day anniversary, a national holiday.
A DISPATCH from Accra says that
Gov. Maxwell of the Gold Coast colony
has issued proclamation declaring a
British protectorate over Ashantee,
WHILE rendering lard at her home in
Marion county, Kas., Mrs Grant Car
ter seized the kettle, which had caught
fire, and in attempting to throw it out
doors threw the boiling grease into the
face of her three-year-old daughter,
who was just approaching, fatally
burning her.
FRAKN BROWN, "a hunter was decapitat-
.l1 1,,yfl I, x,Ian1c ,f a uo,an;ha1 q To-
seph train on the bridge across the
Mississippi, at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 7th,
the head of the victim falling into the
river.
The British steamer Laurestina,
Capt. J. Gavin, which sailed from Bal
timore, Nd, on December 6, for Sligo,
Ireland, was officially posted at Lloyds,
on the 18th, as missing. 1t is believed
she went down with all on board.
HARRY HOWARD, famous as the chief
of New York city's volunteer fire de-
partment half century ago, died, on
the 9th, of pneumonia.
A DISPATCH, from San Bernardino,
CAL, on the 9th, said that the Jail Off
cials of that city were positive they
had as member of the chain gang the
eccentric healer, Francis Schlatter, of
Albuquerque, N. NJ.
THE $1,000 insurance ON the life of
Frank LEM, the Pittsburgh cyclist
who was murdered in Turkey in May,
1894, has been paid to his mother by
the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New
York
Hon. WILLIAM S. KENYON, of Kings
ton, N. Y, died, on the 9th, aged Ta. In
1858 he was elected member of-the
thirty-sixth congress from Ulster and
Greene. He was delegate to the
National republican conventions in
1872 and 1876, and was for many years
the chairman of the republican central
committee of Ulster county. He was
considered one of the ablest lawyers
in that part of the state.
WHILE fighting fire at the residence
of Mr.. Hollinshead, wealthy resident
living near Stroudsburg, Pa, on the
9th, Jesse b. Palmer, "a years old, lost
his life by chimney falling on him.
Mr.. Hollinshead, his wife and their
two children had narrow escape from
being burned to death, and a fireman,
who was going for doctor, was
thrown from his horse and fatally in
iured.