Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-11-27

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'ne lact that since the beginning of the
present administration, March 4, the
releases of ~ Americans immured in
spanish prisons in Cuba have been oh.
! tanned.
IllE very noticeable improvement. In
Tue health of Mrs. Mckinley is the sub
JecI OF frequent comment in Washing
TON The gain has been steady ever
since she arrived at the White House,
nine months ago.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MCKENNA will
Vi" on The Kansas Pacific railroad, De.
cember 10, unless a guarantee is given
mat The sale Shall bring the full
amount of the government claim. If
necessary, the road will be bid in for
the government
Two VERY distinct shocks of earth
quake were felt at Randsburg. CAL, on
Vne *lst the first att 1880 a. m., the
next an hour later. The vibrations
were from north to south. Buildings
Shook perceptibly, but no damage was
done.
PATRICK CoNvERY entered one of the
buildings OF the New Jersey Steel and
Iron Co., at Trenton, n. j., on the 2lst,
seeking place TO sleep lie climbed
INTO an oven, and later the night
watchman started fire in the furnace
win which the oven was connected
Inc heat awoke Convery, and his cries
attracted the Waterman, who released
hlmfrom his isdangerous position. When
taken out of the oven, Convery iell un-
conscious to the floor.
a GREAT fire, doing damage esti-
mated at 70. OOJ, OOh, visited Melbourne,
Australia, on the 2lst. 1t started in
the warehouse Of Craig Williamson, in
Elizabeth street, in the very heart of
the city, and burned the entire blocks
bounded by Elizabeth, Flinders and
HWahston streets, and Flinders lane,
wllh The exception of two buildings.
llIREE overdue deep water ships an
rived at San Francisco on the 2lst.
They were the Italian ship Orient, POI
days from Newcastle, England; the
British ship Cawdor, ISL days from
Swansea, and the ship IIeathbanls from
Hong Kong. Ten per cent. of the in
suHnce had been paid on the Heath
bank and l2l4 on the other two.
DISPATCH from lIawarden, on the
2lst said that Mr.. Gladstone, concern
ing whose health an alarming rumor
had been widely circulated, was in his
usual health.
CAPT. j. +. CHAPMAN, for % years a
prominent ship owner of San Francis
co. died on the 2lst, at his suburban
residence near Oakland.
The royal decree for the establish
ment of autonomy in Cuba was sub
mitted to a Spanish cabinet council
on the 22i.
GEN. ALBERT ORDwAY, of Washing
ton, died at the Hoffman house, New
York, on the 2lst,
SAN FRANCISCO and Puget Sound
gamblers are preparing to reap Il klon
dixie harvest on scale scarcely less
extensive than the big transportation
companies. They will open big hotels
and gambling resorts from st. Michaels
to Dawson and at Dyea, Weangel and
Juneau
JoHN DENMARK, farmer, was shot
while sitting in his arm chair in the
dining-room of his home near Van
Etten, n. Y, on the 2lst. The muzzle
| of u doube-barreled shotgun was
forced through the glass in window.
and AT short range the murderer in the
dark blazed away with both barrels.
Mrs. NJ. A. TmGG, aged 50 years, and
her ten-yearold daughter, E;hel, lost
their lives in a fire that destroyed their
residence in Topeka, Kas., on the 2lst
a son escaped with a broken leg jump
ing from a second-story window.
DR. GUITERAs, the yellow fever cx-
pert, expresses the opinion that yellow
fever was imported to this country
from Havana, which port always has
been Il menace to the health OF the
United States.
ANGEL PAz, who betrayed the Cuban
Gen. Castillo to the Spaniards for So
600, was recently captured by the in
surgents on his way to Cienfuegos.
tried by drumhead court-martial and
hanged.
A VIGILANCE committee has been
fromed at Sloatsburg, n. y, to run
down II gang of train wrecllers and
burglars that have operated in that
| neigh borhood of late.