Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-04-18

AfDIsPATcn from Havana, on tn
10th. said that it was definitely know
that the rebel lender, Comes, was alive
despite the many recent reports of, hi
death. g44t,,+ ,sy,. i n VI, rs . s,,,,..4s
AN explosion of fire damp occurre,
in coal mine at Wallanauya. nea
Madrid, on ths 10th, by which fou
persons were killed and number in
| jured. Z z "a r.Jk kss. Z
3, u. MINeHAfI., an attorneyof Pent
water, Mich, on the 10th, shot and ia,
tally wounded William o. u. Sands
president OF the Sands Il Maxwell Lum
Der Co. He then went to his owr
home end after killing his wife, his
16-year-old daughter and two infant
children, finished his bloody work
by cutting his own throat. Mr.. Sands
died Of his wounds few hours later.
GEN. WEYLPR declared, on the 10th,
that Spain had reaffirmed the impossi-
bility of even thinking Of reform until
the Cubans should be pacified by forge
of arms. w
The village OF. Lyons, o, was almost
entirely destroyed BY an incendiary
a2e qn ~ 121| lsxipa porkisss, !,
CEcIL RnoDEs, who had been iii az
Fort Salisbury with fever. was re-
ported, on the l1th, much better, and
about to proceed to Buluwayo with d
column of armed men.
AT two o'clock on the morning of
the l2th fire broke out in the Gehring
apartment house in Cleveland, o.
Forty families lived in the building,
and as they rushed pell nell for the
fire escapes and stairways wild scenes
of confusion ensued. Only two or
three persons were seriously injured,
but twenty families lost all their fur
niture and clothing.
The tug Peter Dalton, of the Inde-
pendent Towing Co., was burned, on
the morning of the 18th, two miles off
Rogers Park in Lake Michigan. The
crew was rescued by The Welcome,
If the same company, which happened
70 be passing the Dalton when the
ire broke out.
MEMBERS feel confident that the So
'alled long session of the Fifty fourth
will adjourn by May 10, and
hus prove one of the shortest sessions
IN record in the past 20 years.
EX-SENATOR JOHN J. INGALLS, is sick
It his home in Atchison, Kas, suffer-
ng from severe cold, contracted OH a
ecent trip north.
SAMUEL f. THOMPSON committed sui
ide, by hanging, at Camden, Ind, on
he 11th. He was known as the Car
oil county giant. He was six feet
ight inches in height.
GEORGE w. SMALLEY, the American |
of the London Times,
as been suspended from mem bership
| the Metropolitan club of New York
ty for one month.
ROBERT BoNNEY, an American citi- |
IN, was murdered in San Salvador
Iarch 2S, and as a result the state de- |
artment has demanded the fullest in
FRED DEBARDELEBEN, the wealthy
on man, died at his home In Bes-
'mer, Ala, on tho 18th, from blood
A few weeks since he was
'ccinated, and from the wound blood
,isoning set in.
IHE cuban leaders at Key West, Ella, II
4 u : 4 a H
Iuipped filibustering expedition in |,
mar del Rio province, Cuba, on the
tn.
AN unusually carly adjournment of
ngress is being predicted by the re-
lblican leaders in both houses, and
cry sign points to the fulfllment of
eir prophecies.
WHAT is known as the French cham
II of commerce has just been organ
ed in New York city to promote COM
ercial intercourse between this coun-
v and France. a-sv,ss ~. s,g.saa,s
THE Cripple Creek (Col.l district was
sited. on the 18th, by the severest and
ost destructive blizzard ever known.
n immense amount of damage was
,ne, and in all probability some lives
ere lost in the hills.
TIE report that Capt.-Gen. Weyler
rs asked the Spanish war department
send him $4,000 more men pleases
le rebels greatly, for they want Spain
send all the men she can to Cuba at
lis time, In order that they may ex-
srience the fever siege.
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