Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-11-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

llVereu thclrpreSents to her majesty.
who presented the chiefs with suitable
gifts in return.
The secretary OF the interior. on the
goth, issued requisition on the treas.
ury for Sl0,Sa0,000 for the quarterly
pension payment. The amount is dis
tributed to agencies as follows: Bos-
ton, sl,soO, 600; Augusta, Me, s7so, ,Ooo;
Washington, d. G., S2,2O5, 600; Colum.
bus, o., S3,70O,O 900; Detroit, Mich,
$i.sOO, 600; San Francisco, S775, 900.
COL CHARLES HAYWOOD, command.
Ing the marine corps, in his annual re.
port to the secretary OF the navy,
makes strong appeal for an increase
in the enlisted strength OF the corps.
to meet the additional duties impose
upon 1T by the increase of the navy.
Mrs. ADELAIDE MUNln, who was
reared near Bclleville, H., but who
now lives at Pocahontas H., is one of
six heirs TO fortune of $4,000 0Oo
which they inherit from grandfather
in France
| ALCAEus HOOPER the first republican
mayor of baltimore for thirty years.
was inargurated on the goth. The
ceremony OF administering the oath
was performed in the presence of Il
large assemblage, who applauded ad-
dresses delivered by the incoming and
outgoing executives.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND IS spending
nearly all his time at Woodley. He
rarely goes to the White House He is
devoting himself to the preparation of
his message to congress, and in order
to prevent the possibility of Interrupt
ton he is working in his out-of-town
cottage
THE Wall Street journal, on the goth,
printed an interview in which Secre-
tiry Carlisle is quoted to the effect
that there is no foundation for the ru-
NOR that he is to be appointed to the
supreme court bench. Mr.. Carlisle
says in the interview that he would,
under no circumstances, accept the
position II it should be rendered to
him.
On January the Calumet and lIcca
company, which has been 5melting its
reserve mineral, and has increased the
output OF copper nearly one,third, will
probably drop back to former figures
of production. Smelters are now sew
eral weeks behind in filling orders.
Oh the 9lst, when Little Nina Schae-
Ter went to stone quarry near Oak
land, Md, to take her fathers dinner,
she found her father and her uncle,
Charles Schacfer, buried beneath a
heap of limestone, which they had
looscncd by blast of dynamite. Both
were dead.
On the 91st three buildings, occupy
ing nearly a block on the west side of
Canal, between Jackson and Adams
streets, Chicago. being respectively
nine, seven and four stories high, were
burned, with an aggregate loss on
buildings and stocks of $500, eco, Near
~ SOC persons, mostly girls and wom-
en-, were rescued with difficulty, many
IF them in bruised and fainting CON
dition. One entire chemical engine
company had narrow escapes, While
falling walls endangered the lives OF
hundreds in the streets.
AT Auburn, n. y, on the @lst, Mrs,
Mary Y Mack, the counterfeitcr of
2-cent postage stamps, was found guilty
and sentenced to the Erie county peni-
tentiary for n term Of eighteen months,
GEN. MAXIMo GOMEZ, the insurgent
leader, who recently entered the PROV
ince OF Santa Clara, Cuba, from the
province of ruerto Principe, on the
2Oth captured Fort Palyo, on the River
Zaza, in the province of Santa Clara.
LLOYD MONTGOMERY, the ls-year'old
son of John Montgomery, is under ar
rest at Brownsville Ore, charged by
the coroner's jury with the murder OF
his father and mother and D. y Me-
Keecher, who were found shot to death
in Montgomery house.
THE Pacific limited, which left Chi-
cago at p. III. on the 18th, via the Chi-
cago e. Northwestern, Union Pacihc
and Central Pacific, arrived at san
Francisco at S:45 on the evening OF the
Goth. reducing the running time be-
tween the two cities to practically three
days.
SIX BOYS who were digging cave at
Twenty-eighth and Grayson Streets
Louisville. Ky, on the 9lst we're
buried by cave-in of the bank Two
were dead when reached, two o'hcrs
were badly injured, and two escaped
unhurt. The dead are Howard hahiage
and Louis Snow.
JupGE RINER, in the federal court AT
CHEYENNE. Wyo., on the 2lst' releaseu
under a writ OF habeas corpus hace
Horse, Bannock Indian, arrested Tor
violation of the Wyoming game laws
in Jaclxson's Hole. The court decides
TINT the Indians have the right, under
their treaty. to hunt in Wyoming
A REPORT of the sex and number OF
the pelagic fur seal skins landed ". w
the mort Of San Francisco this season
has been prepared by Deputy Collector
Wise for transmission to Washington
The report shows that 1,53o males res,
4 oes females and oo5 skins OF wh'cn
tho sex could not be determined "e''
landed ,.,,
Tur battery Of dynamite guns wh'eh
stretches along the bluffs south OF "
Fort Point, San Francisco Tor neol'y
mile is now ready to deal out de.
struction to any invading navy tha'
NAV appear within miles OF the uoi.en .ea
Cate The great guns stare up AZ .ne
skv from behind steep bulwarks' iook,
;ng not unlike great frogs reaoy "
spring into the ocean. - .,
Ex.Gov GEORGE \. ANTHONY o'
Kansas, who is state insurance CON-, ns
missioner, recently denounced W.. W..
state officers as two-for-a-cent s'a.es .,
men. Anthony made junketlng lr,l
70 Mackinac last summer and charged
m s,oo as expenses to the state s,a.e sya.''
Auditor Cole, by direction OF GOV. Mo. !,
Ill and other state officers refused 'e
, audit the bill. nan.
Nv the s,st Hawley's block at Dan.
burv Conn. was destroyed by hre' q
ranidlv did the flames spread to tue aa. !
;oinipr stores and the tenemen's owe, s..
head that tenants had narrow esoap y,