Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-05-01
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1llE statement OF the condition of
the treasury, on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, $29i, C69, l79;
gold reserve, 1854, ,3G4
Gov. ADAMS of Colorado, on the Goth,
vetoed the bill regulating the manu-
| ture and sale of oleomargarnc. The
veto message was sensational in the
extreme, as the governor included in
his message Il letter from "A Denver
lawyer to an oleomargnrine manufac-
turer in Chicago, going to show that
the bill was passed by means of the
most open and bare-faced bribery.
SHERIFF BURR, of Los Angeles, CAL,
received a telegram from the sheriff Of
Hcnnepin county, Mimi, on the Goth,
requesting him to arrest Mrs. Laura
Austin on a charge of abducting her
own child, which was awarded to the
custody of her ex-husband by the SUI
perior court at Minneapolis
The Pennsylvania board of pardons,
on the Goth, recommended commuta-
tion of the death sentence imposed up
on James b. Gentry for the murder of
Actress Madge York to Imprisonment
for life. Gov. Hastings approved the
recommendation.
THE president, on the 2lst, sent to
the senate the nomination of Charles
II. Smith, to be surveyor of customs at
the port of st. Louis.
THE Sons of Confederate Veterans
held a meeting in the Hotel Marlbor-
ough, New York city, on the Goth, and
perfected arrangements for partici-
pating in the Grant parade on the @7th,
1t is expected that there will be about
800 sons in the parade, most of them
mounted.
TIE interior department has granted
permission to Chief Joseph, the Nez
Perces warrior, to accompany Col.
Cody in his Wild West show. Chief
Joseph is the famous Nez Perces chief
captured by Generals Miles and How
ard in 1877, after a pursuit of nearly
5000 miles toward the British frontier.
THE barlSentine City of Papeete,
winch arrived ~ Ddu fIuhNiSSO' oii WV
2lst, from Tahiti, brought news con-
firming the report that Queen Namae
of Raiatea, one of the Society islands,
had been captured by the French and
sent into exile with her husband and
principal chiefs.
FRANK EVANS, the lightweight pugil-
ist, died of conclusion of the brain, on
the 22d, caused by a right-hand blow
on the chin delivered by Matt Semichy
in the fourteenth round of fight be-
fore the San Jose Cal Athletic club.
Semichy was arrested for manslaugh-
ter.
WILLIAM HAAS and William Wylie,
Cincinnati murderers, were electro
cuted at the Ohio penitentiary annex
the first under the Ohio law, on the
morning of the 2lst. Both electrocu-
tions were completely successful, not
hitch occurring.
NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, mother
of the nations president, celebrated her
eighty-eighth birthday anniversary on
the 22d, at her home in Canton, U.
She was in excellent health, barring
slight attacks of rheumatism,
FIRE broke out in store houses num-
Der one and two in the Washington
navy yard, on the 22d, and caused loss
of $4,000
ROBERT w. HAMER, well-known re-
tired broker living at 1857 Demlng
court, Chicago, committed suicide on
the ssd, by shooting himself through
the heart. Dependency over ill-health
is supposed to have been the cause /
The post office department has issued
a fraud order against the Financial ana
Commercial Co. of Chicago
FIVE masked men broke into the res
dence of John Quinlan, at Niles, u, on
the esd, and, after gagging and bind
ing him, ransacked the house and sc.
cured 81 200 in currency, besides lots Oh
valuable jewelry.
REPRESENTATIVES, HOLMAN, OF Indiana
died at his home in Washington ciSy'
on the ed, at 2:O5 p. M, after an NJ
ness of some weeks. Spinal meningltis
was the cause.
Ar Williamsport, Mich, on the sd
Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged 50 years. muir
dered her mother-in-law, aged so, with
an ax, severing the head entirely
from the body, and then poured o'i Oh
the lifeless body and set it on fire.
In response to an inquiry from WASH
;ngton the Commercial club OF Oma-
ha, Neb., on the 9sd, wired an offer TO
furnish warehouses for the Indian sup
ply depot free OF cost to the govern
mcnt for Ave years.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY decided on
the esd. TO nominate Vim. X. Day, OF
Canton. O., to be first assistant secre-
tary of state, and ex-Representative
Beiiamy storcr, of Cincipnati, to 30
minister 70 Belgium.