Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-03-27


formation that 800 square miles of tha
state of Arkansas was under water and
that the Mississippi river would con-
tinue to rise.
-FOUR rescue steamers, including two
government boats, arrived at Memnbis
lchn., on the 18th, from the overflow ed
country north of that city, landing 400
refugees and 1000 head of stock To he
cared Tor by the already over taxed
Bluff city.
lliE gunboats Wheeling and Ma
rletta were launched successfully Mt
the yards of the Union iron works. San
Francisco, ON the 18th.
JUDGES WALLACE and Lacomb, of
the United States circuit court of an
peals IN New York, decided, on the
l9th in favor of the railroad companies
III the suit of the United States VS.. the
Joint Traffic association, and dismissed
the application for an injunction re-
stralnlng the companies from operating
under the joint traffic agreement.
On the 18th Adam Adamicls, Pole.
OF Chicago, celebrated his 112th birth.
day anniversary. His wife is living
and is 81 years of age. Both are al
most blind from old age, though their
general health otherwise is remarka-
bly, good.
a RUSSIAN steamer conveying bat
TALON OF troops to Crete passed through
the Dardanelles on the 18th.
The president, on the 18th, nomi-
mated Charles Z. Gordon to be post
master at Chicago
TIE president, on the 10Th, sent in
the nomination of Willis Van Deventer.
of Wyoming, to be assistant attorney
general, vice Isaac Ii. Lionberger. re-
signed.
AT Durham. N. G., on the 10Th. w. f.
iolpan, in the presence of a great
crowd, ate a baked cat. He bet on
Corbett and the loser was to eat a eat.
a hne, large Thomas cat was prepared
with proper trimmings. Holman an
nounced that he would eat the greater
part or 1t. lie ate 1t all.
lT has just leaked out at Washington
that Clyde Shropshire, formerly of
Rome, Ga, who was removed from Office
as acknowledgement in Paris, last
June, was guilty of many disagra eful
acts involving the dishonest acquisition
of money,
THE Hawaiian government, accord
ing to eX-Minister Thurston, is con-
fronted with the danger of being over
run by Japanese, who are noclsing
into the islands in large numbers un-
der the operations of immigration com
panies.
AT Il final conference with the Cretan
chiefs Of Acrotiri, on the 10Th. the Gre
tans absolutely refused TO accept the
proposed scheme OF autonomy and de-
clared that they would fight against it..
The Cubans will yet offer Spain an
opportunity to withdraw with dignity
from the island, and to that end desire
the United States to act as intermediary
in negotiating the purchase of Cuba.
The Japanese consul in New York
city in a communication to the United
Associated Presses, said that he was
authorized by his government to state
that not withstanding the recent adop-
ton by Japan of a gold standard of
currency, She will continue the use of
silver, and that all silver bullion now
in the possession Of MS government will
be coined into subsidiary coins.
THE payment Of Cherokee freedmen
that has been going on at Hayden
|. T., for some time, has been finished.
and the pay station moved to Fort Glib
son, where the payment was begun on
the 22d. There has been 100000 paid
out, leaving a balance of $600,000 still
due the Indians,
SECRETARY ALGER acted promptly in
relieving the flood sufferers of the Mis-
sissippi valley by the use of vessels be-
longing to the war department.
On the Goth the banks of New York
city held S47, 059,9 in excess of the re-
quirements of the 95-per-cent. rule,
ScoTT JACKSON and Alonzo Walling
were hanged from the same gallows,
in Newport, Ky, on the Goth, for the
murder Of Pearl Bryan, of Greencastle,
Ind.
Ir is stated that the franklin sugar
refinery at Philadelphia will be started
up about April /, furnishing employ
ment to 1000 hands. The refinery is
controlled by the so-called Sugar trust
and has been shut down for some time.