Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-03-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 10Th the house committee on
military affairs ordered favorable re-
port on a bill authorizing the estab-
ishment of a military post near Santa
Fe, N. NJ.
TIE directory of the Chicago board
of trade, on the Goth, denied Il petition
to rescind its former action against
permitting trading in puts and calls
by decisive vote.
THE war department has arranged to
purchase from DR.. Emmonds, for S., 5,0Oo
the right to manufacture and use in the
United States army the high explosive
emmensite, which repeated tests have
shown to be the best adapted of all
such explosives for the bursting charge
of shells,
observation-disclosures JOHN WAN
AMAKE's vote was challenged at the
recent election in Philadelphia by
Thomas Deacon, an employe OF the
post Office and democratic watcher at
the polls. The humor of the case lies
in the fact that Deacon had been resi-
dent of the United States just four
months.
TIE village of Lindsey, in the west
ern part of Sandusky county, o., was
partly destroyed by fire on the GOTH
Five stores were burned, entailing a
loss of over $4,000.
THE cadets in the Salvation army
training garrison at San Francisco
have revolted against the doe
trines of their leader, Adjutant Nc
Cabe. who has declared that he is in
every respect the peer of Jesus Christ
The adjutant's mind is believed to be
unbalanced
HOTEL Victory, one of the largest
summer resorts in the country, located
ON Put-in-Bay island, Lake Erie, was
sold by United States Marshal Haskell
| in Toledo, O., on the 2lst. A. G. lla-
ger, of Boston, bought the furniture
for $1,000. Il. 0. Falls, of Toledo,
the architect who designed it, bought
the realty for $4,000. The hotel cost
SeGO, 900 and had becna failure.
The gold payments of the Morgan
Belmont syndicate due from this coun-
try were completed on the 10Th Mr..
John Pierpont Morgan, finding that
there was surplus of Sl,lsS'ooo goio
ON hand, turned it over to the sub
treasury at New York city, and TOOK
legal tenders in exchange
THE Lawson flag bill, forbidding 'ne
display of foreign flags on pnpiic
buildings, was passed by the ne"
York senate, by vote of 20 toe, on the
2lst.
A CLEVELAND syndicate has become
interested in the Little Mlngo mines
lease at Duluth, Mimi, and the prop
ertv will now be developed. The new
shaft is already down thirty-six ieet III
fne quartz, and in few weeks 'nc ",
stamp mill at Raincy Lake City VIII
again be in operation.
b. W. HIATT, of Montgomery county
Kas.. soliciting aid for sufferers u
that section, says the people OF NOM
pomery and neighboring western Nan ,
sas counties are eating horseilesh, no'
being able to get other food oows
are being trained to draw plows' e'o''
to put in a crop this spring .
THE failures in the United o'''es
for the week ended on the ed as nc re'
ported by R. @. Dun & Co.. a'., were Su.' !
aoa;nst ess for the correspondents
week last year. For Canada. the ia,.' u
ures numbered as, against 'l las' year,
.IouN GpreuER, pioneer resident o. O
Norfolk, Neb., received notice from rom ~, ne~ "
York city, on the ed, that his orolner' tt' er
who recently died, left his entire es
tate, valued Ut si,5O0,OVe' 70 a'al