Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-12-25

OF arctic exploration, has presented his
arctic ship Windward to Lieut.. Peary,
and will have her overhauled and sent
TO America for use in his coming expe-
dition.
The president, on the 10th, sent the |
nomination Of Joseph McKenna, OF
California, to be associate justice OF
to the senate for confirmation.
TIE president, on the 10th, sent to
the senate for confirmation the nomi |
nation OF Charles e. Dawes, OF Illinois,
TO he comptroller OF the currency, vice
Ecltels, resigned.
JOHN MORGAN, the triple murderer,
was hanged at Ripley, w. Va, on the
10Th. The execution was without any
unusual incident.
Mrs. LARS ANDERSON and husband
have returned from their honeymoon
trip to the orient, and will stop in San
| Francisco short time before going to
their Boston home. Mrs. Anderson,
who is not yet 81 years old, is heiress
to fortune of SO. 600 900.
The famous French model Lucie
Haxerland had her beauty destroyed,
on the nth, by vitriol thrown at her
by another model named Juiduicelli in
a fit Of jealousy.
The electric light plant at Port Hu-
ron, Mich, was burned on the nth;
loss, $4,000.
The National Civil Service Reform
league, in session in Cincinnati, on the
18th, reelected Carl Schurz president
by acclamation.
J. H. MARTINDALE,o OF Scranton. Kas.
aged 81, and recently married, was
found frozen to death in pasture q
few miles south Of Carbondale, Kas., on
the nth.
GRAND FORKS, N. D., suffered from
destructive fire, with losses aggregat
ing nearly $1,000, 600, on the nth. Three
lives are supposed to have been lost.
DURING the past year 424, ,249 head o
cattle have been shipped into Kansas
From Texas 233, 444 head were received
being IA, 25a more than last year; from
Arizona s2,04s, or 19,5l5 more thun il
,, 1895; from New Mexico, 39,9l9, or %,
967 in excess Of 1896; from Old Mexico
, $1,000; from Oklahoma, 80, 495, or l6, II
more than in 1896; from Missouri, Z,
35l, which exceeds last years recor
by 5,4H3.
: The Cuban autonomy programme
: the will, not of the Spanish people, bu
of Senor Sagasta, which has not ha
the approval Of the cortes, and whicl
Sagasta is afraid will not ue indorsed
but rejected by that body when it come
up for legislation.
POLICEMAN WILLIAM RUSSELL OF Chi
; cago, shot and killed robber on TIL
night of the nth, and half an hou
later lie was called up by telephon
and promoted by Chief Ripley to ser
geanlcy.
JOHN J. uANRAHAN and Patrick Fer
l ris, election judges in the Seventeenth
: ward OF Chicago, were convicted, OF
l the l7th, OF falsifying election return
D ut the last aldermanic election.
SAMUEL s. DUNHAM special agent c
the department of labor in Alaska, VIII
started for the Klondilse region severa
months ago, Is missing, and the fear
eRtsEtane9i sa eW9il,|s ltbat he has been lost in tn
In au explosion aboard the Britis
+ steamer Southern Cross. from Buenc
Ayres for Liverpool, which arrived
t Madeira, on the 10Th, several person
e were killed or wounded.
S On the 18th the associated banks o
7 New York held SIS, 1865 in exces
}. of the requirement of the 25-per.ceni
l. rule.
p EXPERIENCED men dragged the Su
y ouehunna river at Harrisburg, Pa, II
e day, Oh the 10th, for the body OF lie
>, S. s. Spearriel. who, it was though
either committed suicide or was mu
r dered and thrown into the rive
d They found nothing whatever. OWN
Il to the nurky condition OF the hig
Is water.
& TIE great jewelry establishment
Mermod & .l,celr,l. OF st. Louis, wa
d completely destroyed by fire, on til
l. 10th, causing loss variously estimate
i Mt from $3.50, OO) to $50, 00J and sail
re have been fully covered by Insurance.
'e SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD, liberal mer
I'd Der of the British parliament for Yoi
a city since 1885, died in London on Il
u 10th.