Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-01-22

A CONCURRENT resolution was intro
duced in the New York assembly, on
the 14th, proposing woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
Rev. O. II. DoDsoN, whose nom de
plume Is Lewis Carroll, the author OF
"Alic. in Wonderland" died in Lon
don on the 14th.
ONE of the new counterfeit 500 sill.
YER certificates was handed in at the
New York sub-treasury, on the 14th,
from New York bank which had re-
ccived it from a savings bank in Brook
lyn. The note was handled by three
tellers before its spnriousness was de-
tected.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 10Th, took
out 600, 900 ounces of silver.
AMONG the passengers who arrived
at New York on the steamer La Nor
mandie, ON the 10th, were M. Pellet,
French minister to Guatemala; NJ.
Meron, French consul general at Chi
cago, and Mmd Meron, and e. N.
Whitehouse, U. $. N.
THOMPSON NEwBURY, ~ years old,
founder and chief owner of the Taun.
ton Oil Cloth Co., and also founder OF
the American Screw Co., of Providence,
II. l., died at Taunton, Mass, on the
10th, of pneumonia.
TIE United States government is to
| tu l,l oh nyt,iap L.
:antic City. N. j., to be used in con-
nection with the naval service.
| GEN. CHRISTOPHER COLON AUGER, U.
S. A., retired, died of old age at his
home in West Washington, d. c. on the
night of the 10th.
JOEL PUTNAM, retired shoe manu-
facturer, of Danvers, Mass, committed
suicide, on the 18th, by shooting.
THERE were outbreaks promoted by
students at Prague, on the 10Th, to-
gether with socialist demonstration
which the police dispersed.
The United States gunboat Marietts
sailed from San Francisco on the 10th
for the west coast OF South America
She will remain in the neighborhoo(
of Panama for several months, possibly
longer.
i SEVEN train loads, amounting tt
4,750 bales, of Texas cotton have ar
rived in Tacoma, Wash, for shipmen
to China and Japan on the steamers o
Of the Northern Pacific line.
GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH, commander-in
chief of the Salvation army, and Bal
lington Booth met at the Windso
hotel, New York, on the 10Th, in thu
presence Of Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong an
Rev. Charles Cuth bert-H Hall. The in
terview was purely as between fathe
and son. Nothing transpircd calculate
to lead to any amalgamation of the tw
movements.
CoNsUI-GENERAL LEES advices TO tn
state department are conservative, bu
set forth the present situation clearly
lie does not recommend immediate in
tervention, yet he does not take hope
full view of the ability of thS Spanis
authorities permanently restore pull
lie order.
POLICEMAN DELMAR S. GARDNER, G
New York city, who has sprung int
fame DIS heir W Il aro 900 fOr tuao, in dt
termined not to let his head be turne
by this unexpected stroke of luck. II
intends to retain his position and il
vest the money.
The charges against Capt. Oberli
NJ. Carter, of the regular army, no
being Investigated by court-martial |
Savannah, Ca, are of the most star
ling kind. The total alleged defalc;
| ton, according to the statement of IL
war department, amounts to over s.
. 100000.
! Mrs. LUCILLE LANE, the younge'
daughter OF former Senator 10
Blackburn, of Kentucky, shot herse
, in room at the Wellington hote
+ Washington, inilicting probably a fat
G wound. Members Of the family clai
d it was an accident.
LOGAN CARLISLE, chief clerk of Il
: treasury department during the la
Cleveland administration, died sudde
ly, on the 10TH, at the home of his I
ther, John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary
the treasury, in New York city.
The republican leaders of the hou'
) have reached an understanding
:, make the present session of congre
u us short as possible. They are puttir
through the appropriation bills wi
: unusual rapidity.