Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-11-13
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
| THERE will be general satisfaction
over the announcement tE,at the con-
ference between representatives of the
governments OF Russia, Japan and the
United States, which has been in SOS.
sion IN Washington, has come to an
amlcable understanding with reference
10 the question of pelngc sealing in
Alaskan, japanese and Siberian waters.
1t is Johnny Bull, however, that will
prove the stumbling block.
VIGOROUS fights being made to pre-
vent the Palisades Of the Hudson from
beng used by unscrupulous quarrymen.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JosEpm, on the
81, received the premier, Count Ba.
denl, IN audience, and they had Il long
conference regarding the internal af-
ia'rs OF Austria as developed by the
recent disorderly scenes in the reicbs-
rath.
Miss ARlE 5. HUNTINGTON, democrat
daughter of Rt. Rev. Frederick d.
huntington Episcopal bishop of CEN
traI New York, was elected school com
missioner at Syracuse, N. Y. lead
ing the ticket in her class. She is a
leader III several charitable enterprises
and is woman suffragist. She is the
hrst woman to hold elective office in
Syracuse.
GUY STEELE, letter carrier, and
| William Sldener, stamping clerk at the
post office in Charlottesville, Ind, were
arrested, on the Sd, on charge of rob-
| bing the mails. For several months
letters containing money have been
disappearing. Post Office inspectors
placed decoy letter containing money
in the post office, and found it in Siden-
cr's pocket when he was arrested ON
suspicion. Sidener confessed and i'm
plicated Steele, who also confessed
when arrested.
Tie ordnance bureau made test at
Indian Head, on the 4th, firing ten
inch armor-piercing capped shell at Il
lt59-inch plate. The latter was nickel
steel, llarveyzed. The Shell went
through the plate and exploded on the
other side. The test was considered
most satisfactory.
AS THE result of a wager, Prof. Ar
thur st. Andressey and Miss Louise
Charlotte Wiborg were married, on the
night of the 4th, in the den containing
the monster lions Caesar and Cleopatra,
at the Boston 200. An immense crowd
witnessed the ceremony, and cheered
the couple as they emerged from the
den.
DIR. W. W. SHEFFIELD, a prominent
dentist, died at New London. Conn. on
the 4th, aged 20 years. DR.. Sheffield
was one of the best-known dentists in
the United States, having acquired
considerable prominence by his tooth
crowning patents.
The president has ordered court
martial to try Capt. Lowering whose
undenied brutality towards Private
Hammond has been exploited in the
press. The court will SIT at Fort Sheri-
dan, Chicago November %, under the
presidency of Brig. Gen. j. +. Wade.
In book on the Cuban war just pub
lished in Havana, Gen. Weyler writes
the introduction. In one place he
says "The system of warfare carried |
on by me during this campaign is not
a new one. 1t is the same as pursued |
by the Americans of the north when |
they fought their brethren of the
SOUTH
Coz. HENRY I. RUSSELL, of Chicago, |
vice-president and general manager of
the Union Drop Forge Co., died sud
denly of heart disease while at lunch
con on the 5th. Col. Russell was "a
years of age. He leaves widow.
PROF. GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES, of |
the University of Virginia, died at
Richmond on the ath.
Mrs. ANGELINA MENDENHALI, aged |
81, died at her residence in lndianapo-
lis, Ind, on the 5th, and was buried,
later in the day, in the same coffin
with her husband, aged SO, who had
died As hours before. For Is years
Mrs. Mendenhall had said that she
would not be present in life at her hus-
bands funeral even if he died first, for
she would join him few hours after
his death.
The most i'm portant iron ore dis
covcry in the Menominee range in Mich
igan in several years has been made
on the bank of the Miehigamme river,
one mile south of the Mansfield mine.
The vein is II feet deep and 40 feet
wide. The ore assays SO per cent. in
iron and .05l per cent. in phosphate,
thus putting It's assay within the Bes-
semer limit
Mrs CELIA WALLACE, who resides at
the Auditorium, Chicago, and is child
less widow, has taken fancy to
Cossio y Cisneros, the Gu
ban refugee, and has offered to adopt
the Cuban maid and make her an heir
to fortune estimated by friends OF
Mrs. Wallace at S5OO,0O0
Or the AZ persons who landed with
Gen. Maceo near Baracoa, Cuba, near
ly two and half years ago, only three
survive, the others, including Gen.
Maceo, have died either on the battle
fields or in the hospitals or in prisons
in Cuba.
TEMPLE EMANUEL, the Jewish syna-
rogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth
and Curtis streets, Denver, COL, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 5th;
loss, $S5, 900.
ABOUT 1000 head Of cattle arrived in
Havana, on the 5th, from the United
States.
THOMAS NuLIY, aged 81 years. broth
er and confessed murderer OF the VIC
inns of the Rawdon (Que.) tragedy
three sisters and brother--was taken
10 toilette Jail on the 7th.
The residence of George Tullock'
about three miles from Halifax, NJ 81
was burned to the ground on the
hight of the 9th. Miss Mary Walker