Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-04-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EXPERIMENTS at London do not ver-
ify the claims of Chicago doctors that
the TX" rays are destructive of the
baccili of contagious disease.
BURGLARS blew up safe and
wrecked bank building at Diagonal,
Ia, at a. m. of the 18th. Citizens
were awakened and opened fire, and
the burglars left their tools and fed
without booty. A bottle of unex-
ploded nitro-glycerin was still inside
the safe, and the bankers feared to
open it.
THE organization of Dunkard colony
has been completed at Anderson, Ind,
taking in 25 families. They have closed
lease on 1000 acres of land in North
Dakota, and will move June to their
hew home.
WARRANTS were issued, on the 14th,
from the United States district at
torney's Office in Philadelphia for the
arrest of John D. Hart, owner of the
steamer Bermuda, and the ships Of
ticers, on the charges of filibustering.
JOSEPH ZLAMEL was electrocuted in
the state prison at Clinton, N. Y, on
the 14th. He murdered his sweet
heart, Theresa Kamora. by cutting her
throat at Johnstown on August 80,
1895.
w. B. PETERS and John Voney, both
cngravers, were arrested by federal
officers in Chicago, on the 14th, on a
charge of making and selling counter
feit postage stamps.
AN explosion took place in collie ry
ut Wellington, near Durham, England,
on the l4th. Eight miners are known
to have been killed, and it is believed
that ls in all will lose their lives.
AT Central City, COL, during a case
in court, ON the 18th, Smauel Coving-
ton, visitor charged with endeavor-
ing to intimidate a witness, denied the
assertion hotly, and being threatened
with arrest, pulled gun and killed
ex-Mayor Williams and mortally
wounded City Marshal Kehler. Gov
ington while endeavoring to escape,
was shot dead by Henry Leaman.
BURGLARS looted the private bank in
Pioneer, o., ON the night of the 18th.
They succeeded In opening the vault
without the use of explosives, and
then, after probably taking all that It
contained changed the combination SO
that the vault could not be opened.
Two EXPLOSIONS of powder in one of
the buildings Of the Chicago Fireworks
Co., near Crosse Point, ILL.,, on the
18th, killed three employees and in jured
m ~ ~ L..tl
was badly wrecked, and the ruins were
Utmost entirely destroyed by FIRE.
IT is said to be impossible to estimate
the numbers of the belligerent Mata-
beles in South Africa. The whole
country is now in the hands of the
rebellious natives, and they are mass
ing in great force.
A LANDSLIDE occurred at Trubbach,
Switzerland, on the 10th, as the re- ,
suit of continuous rains. The damage
to property is very heavy.
CAPT. JOHN CALHOUN SHEPHERD, a
veteran of the Mexican war, Califor-
MIA forty-niner, and one of the most
noted characters in Montana, died in
the county poor house at Butte on the
18th.
REV. GEORGE p. KNAPP, the Amerl-
can missionary who was recently ex-
PEELED from Bitlis by the Turkish au-
thorities, arrived at Aleppo in good
health on the 10th,
A DISPATCH from Havana to the
Madrid Imparcial, on the 10Th, said
that the insurgents had hanged 90
Spaniards in the Sagua district.
DURING FIRE in the Clifton house, a
Chicago hotel, on the night of the 10th.
while the employees were opening the
rooms to be sure that no one was
asleep in them, they discovered would
be suicide unconscious ,on the bed In
one of the rooms, the windows closed
and the gas turned on. He was res
cued and may recover.
UPoN the order OF Gov. Morrill, the
Kansas state penitcntiary has been
quarantined against Shawnee and
Wyandotte counties, cases Of small
pox having been reported in both
counties.