Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-10-30
Ne VS. AND NOTES,
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

disarmed and arrested.
RICHARD M. SCRuGGs, the ST. Jouis
merchant who was charged with at
tempting to smugglc certain articles of
Jewelry INTO the United States on his
return from trip to Europe, has been
eXonerated by the federal authorities.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, who
has just returned from his trip to fla
wall, declares that while he has fa-
vored annexation from the beginning
OF the movement he was surprised,
upon investigation, to find that the
arguments in its favor had been under
estimated.
The stockholders of the Denver Con-
soildated Gas Co., on the Goth, ratified
the action of the board of directors ac-
'epting the citys proposition to lease
the plant at six per cent. on an APP
praised valuation for eight years.
AN official dispatch received from
Gen. Galleni, the French commanders
in-chief in Madagascar, says that
band OF Saltalnvas had attacked Il
French post which was recently estab-
lished in western Madagascar, killing
many of the garrison, including three
officers.
NEW YORK bankers are considerably
exercised over the mass of fraudulent
! drafts received from various parts of
the west, drawn on New York banking
and business houses. A regular band
OF swindlers appears to be operating
through the western states.
GEORGE d. MEIKEIJOuN, assistant
secretary of war, aud his party arrived
in st. Paul, on the 20th, from Omaha,
and spent the day at Fort Smelling.
They left for the Yellowstone, thence
to Fort Vancouver.
On the 2lst 750 soldiers sick, wound
ed or otherwise incapacitated en-
barlied at Havana for Spain.
PBRMANENT state organization Of the
Union Veterans union was effected at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the Goth, with the
election of Il full set of officers.
THE statement Of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, S!l0 59S, ,92O,
gold reserve, $l5l, l,5Si,2l9.
OWING to the prevalence of yellow
fever in Montgomery, and the fact that
all Of the towns and cities Of Alabama
have quarantined against that city the
state government has temporarily been
removed to Birmingham.
The will of the late George NJ Pull
man, after making suitable provision
for his wife. divides his immense for
tune equally between his twin sons
and two daughters. The sons portions
however are to be held in trust, for
reasons that were best known to their
father.
FIRE, on the Goth, destroyed the bust
ness portion of Osceola, Ark, n river
town about fifty miles north of Mem
phis. 1T is believed the loss will reach
500, 900
AMANDA dispatch says that cyclone
and tidal wave devastated portion of
the island of Leyte, one Of the Philip
pine group. Several towns and villages
were destroyed and fully 400 natives
perished.
THERE were 60 new cases of yellow
fever reported in New Orleans on the
2Oth--a record breaker-and six deaths
Among the latter was Ira L. Britton,
manager of the General Electric Co.
leo ID. We'll, of Chicago, well
known for his improvements in photog-
raphy and for his work in illustrated
magazine articles, has become insane.
Brooding over Christian science is said
to have unhinged his mind.
The new stockholders of the Evans
vile e. Richmond railroad, on the 2lst
elected John h. Walsh president and
Lynn A. Walter, secretary. Many inn
provements will be made in the road.
BY request of Surgeon-General Wy
man, the University of Pennsylvania
has allowed Dr. Guiteras to return to
Alabama to determine yellow fever
cases in that state,
SHERIFF S. B. LARD, of Riley county,
Kas., was shot and instantly killed at
Lconardville by Ike Warren, iointist,
or "bootlegger" upon whom he was
endeavoring to serve n warrant. War
rem was arrested and narrowly es-
capped lynching.
The Indiana Bankers association in
session at indianapolis, on the 2lst,
adopted resolution approving the
monetary commission. The resolution
regards the appointment as wise and
expresses the opinion that it will be
productive of plan of currency and
banking in support of which the peo-
pie can heartily unite.
LocHIEL GRAHAM, SO years old, and
said to an ex-captain of the United
States artillery, and to have been
formerly an aide-de-camp OF Maxi
milan, was sentenced, ut the West Sus-
sex (Eng) sessions, on the 2lst, to u
months Imprisonment for defrauding
tradesmen at Horsham, Sussex.
The Turkish government has granted
permission to the Thessalian refugees
who fled from Thessaly after the inva-
sion of the conquerng Turkish troops
under Edhem Pasha to return to their
homes through Phourka pass, Monseka
pass and two other passes, near Ink
hala and Alymra.
DIR. NEWTON BATEMAN, for IL years
nresident of Knox college Mt Gales
burg. ILL.,, and an educator of ma
tional repute, died of heart disease on
the 2lst.
The report tclegraphed from Vic-
toria that the Canadian government
had decided to charge duty on every
pound of goods taken,into the klondike
country, including miners packs was'
ON the ED, denied from Ottawa
MARGARET L. Copy entered SUIT IN
the district court at Denver, Col'' on
the ssd, for Ss5, 900 damages for slahoer
against Melville 9. Brown, at one
time n member of congress and now
attorney for the Goulds in their hgh'
against Mary Angel, who claims "
have been wife OF Jay Could -,
SEVERAL points in southwest Vt'
yinia are reported as having expert
enced an earthquake shock on the
night of the 2lst. No damage Is re-
ported. -. wh;to
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