Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-05-29

tend over period OF II days, was for.
mally concluded on the Goth.
THE Morgan resolution granting bel.
hgerent rights to the Cubans was
passed by the senate, on the sOth, by n
vote OF Al TO IA.
CAMBRIDGE (England) university, by
vote of l,7l3 to 042, on the 2ist, re-
jected the proposal to confer degrees
upon women.
THE secretary of the interior has au-
thorized contract for IN additional
school building at the Mount Pleasant
Indian school, in Michigan, to cost s4o,.
00O.
IN the superior court at Tacoma
WASH, on the 10th, Mary Seattle, said
to be a niece Of the old Indian chief
Seattle, appeared to testify in divorce
suit she had brought against John
Seattle, her spouse, who Is over 90
years OF age.
On the 2lst Wesley Zclebols, of Grant,
Okla, in fit of jealousy, killed Joe
Hajek while he was visiting the girl
for whose hand they were rival sultors.
Zelebok was arrested, but died on his
way to Jail from the effects of dose
OF strychnine taken with suicidal in
tent.
MoNs. LEE, an aeronaut employed
with the Silver Plate show, which ex-
hibited at McKeesport. Pa, on the
Goth, fell from his balloon while malt-
ing an ascension, and was fatally in
jured.
MATTHEWS LAFLIN, one of the oldest
residents of Chicago, and one of the
founders Of what is now the Laflin-
Rand Powder Co., died. on the 2lst
aged 04 years.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 2lst, showed:
Available cash balance, S22O, $50 653;
gold reserve, Sl45, 500, 772.
MICHAEL McGARRETTY, and laborer
named Andrew Gartz, were scalded to
death by the bursting of still in Me-
Garretty's distillcry at Hazelton, Pa,
on the slst. Mrs, Nc Garrety was
badly burned while trying to save her
husband.
A SCHEME Is on foot, according to the
Kansas City (Mo) Times, torun Kansas
City's plants - manufactures, street
railways etc. by electricity to be gen.
Grated at Leavenworth, Kas., where
fuel can be obtained cheaply at the
promoters mines. In addition, it is
proposed to ultimately construct an
electric railroad between the two cities.
Ir was semi-oficially reported in Ath-
ems, on the 23d, that Edhem Pasha,
commander of the Turkish army in
Thessaly, had informed the Greek Off
GERS who, in conjunction with the
Turkish officers, were arranging the
neutral zone, that he was empowered
to negotiate the terms of peace with
Greece direct.
TIE newspapers of Madrid consider
the adoption by the United States sen
ate of Senator Morgan's belligerency
resolution to be very grave step,
They say it will tend to strengthen the
premier, Senior Canovas del Castillo, in
checking the proposed liberal attack on
the ministry.
ALBERT NJ. KING, the Boston bank
messenger who disappeared recently
with $50 coo of the banks money, was
arrested at Pennington, Me-, on the
22d. When searched at the Jail all the
money taken from the bank was found
in packages in Kings pockets.
ANDREW BRYAN, a well-to-do farmer,
aged Sc, the father of SO children, q
of whom are boys, and who married
his seventh wife last February, il
missing from Fowler, Ind. He lef
home with several hundred dollars il
his pocket to purchase stock.
| HOMER LoRING, of Newton, Mass
has been appointed receiver of tho
Union and Consolidated street railways
of Saginaw, Mich. lie is very young
for the position-21 years old. The
bond as receiver is fixed at SIS, 600.
THE loss of the Greeks in the battle
of Phourka Pass was 800 killed ant
wounded. All the irregulars have beer
disbanded.
Col. SrAIKos, with the last detach
ment of the Greek cxpeditionary force
in Crete, embarked for Greece on the
2Sd.
EpnEM PASTA, the Turkish com
mander, has disbanded and sent t.
their hores most of the Albanians u
his arEy.