Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-02-06

| i'SiA years ago Wash Morgan,
OF Leslie county, Ky, bade his Wild
ana nine children good-by and told
.nem ne was going to Covington, XIV.
ne returned recently, having been In
california. He found SO grandchildren
ana seven great.grandchildren.
The West Point cadets NAV vet at.
tend the Inauguration Of President
Mckinley. The item Of expense has
been one OF the chief obstacles In the
way OF their trip. II. 9. Burch, man.
aQer OF the Ebbitt house, Washington.
at which the president-elect win stop
prior to his inauguration, has offered
to entertain the cadets free Of charge.
MINISTER TAYLOR, at Madrid, notified
the state department. on the Goth, that
he had been tgiven assurances by the
spanish government that the Competi.
torsprisoners would be released from
confinement In Havana within ten
days, unoonditionally.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND paid a fyinQ
visit to New York city, on the Goth,
and attended the semi-cen tennial Of
the Academy Of Medicine at Carnegie
hall, before whom he delivered an In.
teresting address. Later he held a
brief reception.
Hon, W. j. BRYAN delivered his leo.
ture at San Antonio, Tex, on
the evening Of the Goth, on 1.-THE
Lessons of the Campaign" TO a
fashionable audience, and was given a
warm welcome. After leaving the
platform Mr. Bryan announced to his
friends that the lecture just delivered
was the last under the auspices OF the
present management,
The New York World alleges that
the government Is annually robbed OF
$40, 600, ,OOOb by the railroads Of the coun-
try by means of padding the malls for
period of 10 days every four years,
when the government Is about to
make Its quadrennial reweighing.
BETWEEN one and two o'clock, on the
morning of the 3lst, the extensive plant
of the Scranton, PA Heat and Power
Co., in the center Of the city, was al
most totally destroyed by fire, at a loss
of $4,000 Half the town was left in
darkness.
PRINCESS LOUISE, eldest daughter Of
King Leopold OF Belgium, and wife
Of Prince Philip of Saxe.Coburg and
Gotha, brother Of Prince Ferdinand Of
Bulgaria, has eloped with an Austrian
captain othussars.
THE resignation of Lieut.. c. A. Stone,
q. S. n, retired, has been accepted,
dating January 81.
THE associated banks OF New York
city held s5o,O75, $50 in excess Of the
requirements of the 2a.per.cent. rule,
ON the 30th.
WHILE watching the employees at the
MillvIlle (N., J.,) electric light station
test new battery, on the 3lst, Ben
jamin Madkiff seized hold OF live
wire, and receiving shock Of 200
volts, fell to the floor dead
WILLIAM ALBERT CESNINe, who mur.
dered Mrs. Mary Lenning at her home
in Chicago, and then turned his revolv-
er upon himself died on the 5lst. Two
hours before his death Cunning signed
sworn statement In which he con-
fessed to the shooting, but gave no
motive.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg says
that the czar's recent appointment Of
two new body physicians, one of whom
Is DR.. Pavloy, has been made in view
Of the inevitable necessity for the re-
moval of an unnatural protuberance
from the head of his majesty, the re.
suit of injuries at the hands OF a Jap
anese fanatic, while on his tour around
the world.
THE United States cruiser Brooklyn,
the latest pride of the navy, calculated
to Withstand the fiercest onslaught of
shot and shell, lies almost helpless be.
cause of having struck narrow ledge
of sunken rocl, in the Delaware river,
above Marcus Hook, Pa. The vessel
is badly damaged.
Miss HANNAH REAM, 87 years old,
one of the largest women in the coun-
try, died suddenly at her home near
Dalton, O., on the 3lst. She was sit
ting by the stove when she fell over
dead from heart disease. Miss Ream
weighed $40 pounds.
The treasury figures for the month
OF January show the usual deficiency
in revenues. The receipts for the
month have fallen S5,a2a, 779 9' below
the expenditures.