Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-03-20


wall in the ancient town of Fez Mo.
rocco, on the 18th, $50 worlsmen were
killed, "'i'
AFTER a weeks stay at the White
mouse' Mother" Mckinley and Miss
,ieien Mckinley, the presidents sister,
ieft Washington, on the 18th, for their
nome IN Canton, o, They were accom-.
panied by Capt, lIeisland, the presi.
dents military MD.
RANAvoLANA ILL.,, the queen of NADIA
gascar who has only held her position
since the island was made French
colony, has been exiled to the island of
reunion, French possession near the
island of Mauritius.
AS RESULT of the several confer
ences which have been held. not only
by republicans, but by the Democratic
senator's It may he definitely said that
the iaeh who have been appointed seR;
ators by the governors in states where
legislatures have had an opportunity to
elect will not be seated.
| =, '' wa ioN huS reVtalcu tne 1acU
that hundreds of important signatures
have been abstracted from the congress.
slonal library. In the files ef the house
decnmehts not a signature Of Webster,
Clay Or Lincoln remain
A REPORT was made to the police, on
the 1lth, that Lewis Forbes, a we'll
known resident of Springfield, O., and
cousin OF President Mckinley, had
mysteriously disappeared from his
home,
JohN +. SULLIVAN, the murderer of
Mrs. butcher and her Young son Ilar-
ris, was hanged in the Jail yard at
Dorchester, N. b., on the 18th. Sulli-
van walked to the gallows in an un-
concerned way, and was apparently
oblivious of his doom.
On the 18th Secretary Long issued an
advertisement for 5000 tons of pickeis
steel 'Ioryeyized ;irmor for the battle
ships Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin.
together with the necessary bolts and
various hollow forgings, ammunition
hoists, etc
Mr.. ALBERT MoTr, of baltimore, has
been appointed chairman of the ma.
tional racing board of L. A. w. to sue
ceed George d. Gideon, of Philadel-
phia, who declined reappointment.
GOV. BRADLEY of Kentucky, on the
18TH refused to grant Scott Jacksoi's
appeal for clernency. jackson will hang
on the Goth.
| ARTHUR MAYHEM, a negro, was cleo
trocuted in the prison at Sing Sing, N.
Y, on the 10th.
The weekly statement OF the New
York city associated banks, for the
week ended on the 18th, showed the
following changes. Reserve, decrease,
81, G93, 3,5; loans increase, S3. $50, 700;
specie, increase, S2l2 400; legal tender,
decrease, 81. 59S 900; deposits, increase,
SIl ,222, 700; circulation decrease, Sl94.-
900.
The superb sarcophagus in which
will rest the body of Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant has been shipped from Chicago to
New York. After its arrival it will be
transferred to the monument, and the
coffin containing Gen. Grants body
will be placed within and the final dedi-
catory services will be held on April ~.
SUMNER F. DUDLEY, formerly general
secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A., in Orange,
n. j., and well known all over the
country in association circles, died OF
Bright's disease, at the residence of his
father, Francis d. Dudley, on the 14th,
after an illness of four years and con.
finement to the house for three months
WHILE Mrs, Hall, OF Fort Wayne,
Ind, was gone to st. Paul, Mimi, to be
married, her daughter Mae and her
fiancee, VIM. L. Colerick, one of the mos t
eloquent and brilliant lawyers of the
state, committed suicide at the home
of the former by taking carbolic acid.
A CARRIAGE containing Mrs @. w.
Wells, aged 80, and her niece, Mis-.
Laura Andrews, aged is, was struck by
a Toledo & Ohio Central railway pas
senger train at a crossing near Marys-
vile, o., on the 1Sthand both were
instantly killed.
IT is learned that Senor Dupuy de
LONE, the Spanish minister, had &
stormy interview with Secretary Sher
man before he agreed to the release o.
Sylvester scovel, the newspaper mar
imprisoned in Cuba.
On the 18th the associated banks Of
New York city held S52, 7aO,55O in ex
cess of the requirements of the 25-pel
cent. rule.