Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-09-05
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AT noon OF the 26th the family oi
Charles w. Green. travelling passenger
agent OF the Big Four railroad, con.
sisting OF Mrs. Green and three chill.
dren, boy aged IL, 4 girl eyed ., and
little girl of o. were found dead In
their home In Kansas City, Mo. The
mother is supposed to have shot the
children and then killed herself
druing fit Of insanity.
ACCORDING to cablegrams. the steam-
er Laurnda, which sailed from Phila-
delphia for Cuba August o, landed one
Of the most formida BILE fllibustering
expeditions yet shipped to Cuba, and
| then touched at Port Antonio, Jamaica.
CALVIN AND GEoRoE DiEL, brothers,
aged i6sand Is years, were drowned In
the canal near Middletown, Pa, on
the ssth. They were swimming. and
calyin was seized with a cramp
George went to his assistance, and
both were drowned. The bodies were
recovered.
AcTING CAPT. FLowERsof the small
pok stricken steamer EarnweN died /, q
. The Marine hospita 81 t.ewes, Del, 9n
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2 DR.. GALLAGHER. the American dyna-
inter who 10 years ago was sentenced,
in England, to Imprisonment for life,
was released from Portland prison on
the 2sth. He looked pale and thin,
and his hair was very gray.
THE visit Of Ii Hung Chang to the
United States is not of an official char
aotar Ia hoe M o,ao;a1 ,,.,ecso,, fro,,,
his emperor, although he bears an au-
tograph letter from his royal Eighness
to President Cleveland.
OFFICERS bagged five cattle thieves
few miles northwest of Vinita, /. T.,
on the 27th, and they were lodged in
jail at Vinita. The cattlemen have
suffered considerable loss from cattle
being driven from the range in the
night, few head at time. and sold
to local butchers in neighboring towns.
MRS. o. II. STICKLEs, wife Of farmer
on Clapboard Hill, just outside of STRAIT
ford, Conn, gave birth, on the 2sth, to
four children-three girls and boy.
The largest weighed seven pounds and
the smallest five, and the total weight.
of the quartet was "a pounds.
THE statue 'Republic," which stood
at the head Of the grand basin in jack
son park, Chicago, during the Column
bian exposition, was burned, on the
2sth, by order of the South Side park
commissioners. The figure cost about
$25, 200, and was 60 feet high, standing
on pedestal 40 feet in height.
BARON FAvA, the Italian ambassa-
dor, conferred with officials of the
state department, on the 2sth, in refer
ence to the lynchlng of Italians in
Louisiana, which may become an in
ternational affair. The ambassador
stated that he had, from the consul at
New Orleans, a positive statement that
the men were Italian subjects.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, accompanied
by Private Secretary Thurber and At
torney- General Harmon, left Buzzard's
Bay, on the 26th, for New York, to at
tend the reception to Ii Hung Chang.
On the 2sth dispatch from Rome
said that private letters received from
Constantinople stated that the Turkish
government was on the eve of being
and that provisional gov
would be appointed.
THE body Of Outlaw Bill Doolin was
buried, on the 2sth, in Summit View
cemetery, Guthrie, Okla. Express COM
,anies have paid 1880 for the killing
If Doolin.
The London Daily Telegraph pub-
ished dispatch, on the 3lst, saying
hat Prince Lobanoff- Rostovsky, the
Russian minister of foreign affairs,
Who accompanied the czar and czarina
IN their recently-begun foreign tour,
lied suddenly, on the 3oth, while on
lis way from Vienna to Kieff.
THE associated banks of New York |
,ity, on the goth, held SO, 1876, 200 in ex-
less Of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
THE celebrated chemist Wickershei- |
ner died in Berlin on the 3Oth.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president of |
he American Red Cross society, and |
Ter party of aides, sailed from Liver
,ool for New York on, the steamer
Servia on the 1st.
AMONG the persons taken into GUS
ody in the Philippine islands for par
icipation in the recent separatist con-
piracy was an American named Col
inc