Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-30
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Sio'ooo,ooo more than the administra.
tion obtained for them from the Rel.
mont-Morgan syndicate.
ACCORDING to Commissioner T.och-
rens figures, issued on the 9Otb nan
sion appropriations are likelv to re.
main at about the present rate for at
least three years to come. The rca.
son Tor the absence of any percent 9le
decrease is that the falling off. .ow;ne
TO deaths and other G, uses. is, Tor ths
present, about eounterJaIanced by i,,ly,
payments on ncw pensions allowed
EAftcr 1928. Commissioner T;.enr,,i.
thinks, the pension appropriation will
rapidly decrease.
A TORNADO passed over the south
western portion of the city of Augusta,
Ga. on the Goth, doing consid era Bile
damage to property. About fifty
houses, mostly small ones, were
wrecked, and "a large flour mill in the
track of the storm was partly blown
down.
The steamerAlfonso Kill arrived at
Guantanamo, Cuba, on the Goth with
two battalions of Spanish infantry, en-
barked at Barcelona
BY an explosion of gas in the Rocky
Mountain Coal and Iron Co. mine No.
5, at Red CANYON, Wvo., on the Goth
some fifty men are believed to have
lost their lives. OF the first twenty
three bodies recovered MANY were
burned beyond recognition. and no
hope was entertained for those still in
the pit There were usually $50 men
employed in the mine.
BARRY MINES, ss wears old, was com
mitted to the Tombs prison in New
| York city, on the Goth, ON a CHARGE #
having stalep $50, 900 from the 5an'
ing Afm Of fiespaat Morgan x Go
while in the employ u se ilrm.
GA the 20th Mr.. Preston, til,e4 3 of
the mint, confirmed the publislled f
ports OF shortage IN the mint IA. Car
son, New, placing the amount at 1000
ounces of silver and 1000 ounces of
gold, OF total value OF $50, 0VO.
A. Il. BUTLER, cashier of the Airing
ton national bank and alderman of
Lawrence, Mass, committed suicide
by shooting on the Goth. Mr., Butler
was taken i'll few weeks ago with
grip and had been suffering mentally.
He leaves widow and three small
children.
LAKE navigation was practically
opened at the ports of Duluth, Mimi,
and Superior, Wis, on the Goth, by the
tug Record
The south-bound vestibulee train on
the Southern railway jumped the
track, early on the morning of the
Goth, near jackson, TIA, and was al
most completely wrecked No one
was killed, and all the passengers es-
capped without serious injury.
The serious feeling that was begin.
ming to take possession of the public
mind at the somewhat complicated
condition of our foreign relations, was
greatly relieved, on the 2lst, by intel
ligence that the British government
had disavowed to Minister Bayard
any intention of acquiring territory,
in violation of the Monroe doctrine, in
South America, and that Spain would
prefer to accept the Washington view
of the Allianca incident rather than
risk rupture OF the friendly relations
existing with the United States.
THE indicted New York police Off
cials, Inspector Mclaughlin Captains
Donohoe, Michael J. Murphy, James
X. Price and Jacob Sebcrt; eX-Captain>
Edward Carpenter, William f. Devery
and John Stephenson, and ex-Ward.
men Edward Glennon and Henry W.
Schill, appeared, on the alst, before
Justice lngraham in the court OF oyer
and terminer for pleading NO demur
rcrs were entered, and all pleaded
mot guilty" The trials Will prooa'
bly, commence on the first Monday II
April.
The cargoes OF two boats loaded
with dynamite near Looith OH rhe
Rhine, exploded on the l'th. Inc
number OF killed Is stated a' ."un'y
five. A church in the village Oh Eliel
was shattered ana my houses '0'
lapsed in Emmerlch ana hee"eh
SECRETARY CARLYLE has appoln'eo
VIM. Martin Aiken, OF Oincinha''' su
pervising architect of the treasury, t'
succeed jeremiah ORourke' VINO re
signed some months ago
DEsPoNDENoY over his defeat at th'
last election is said to have caused th'
death of Joseph Jackson VINO sho
himself at La for'e' ihu,' vi WV Iios .'
He was prominent poi,''c'an an' 'N
member of the Indiana legislature
LATER advices from the disaster IL
the Rocky Mountain Coal ana irol
Co.'s mine at Red Canyon Wyo., Oh
the Goth, place the number OF kirle'
at sixty. OF these tifty-one leaV
; widows to mourn their untime'y 'aA
ing off, while the aggregate n9nr1 aso
of orphans made py the ois"s'., 10 '''
J THE Turkish government, after con
sidering the matter for week, deciu
ed, on the 2lst, to allow the iore'gl
members of the Armenian comln'ss'ol @
OF inquiry to have their own interpre
tiers. In consequence OF TINS decis.o, @
the various foreign embassies are se'''
ing interpre.ers W '.,,,vrvu mom Of Wa,
REPRESENTATIVES, PolNpExrER'o OF Ma' |;