Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-01-29

MISS CHARLOTTE CRANE, the actress |
whom the ladies' of Charleston, 5. g.,
snubbed, was the heroine of swell
ball and dinner at Hot Springs, Ark, |
on the night Of the 2lst. attended by
the cream of Hot Springs society, in
Guiding the army officers stationed
there and their wives.
Miss MARY DoUTHAT, well-known
society girl Of Richmond, Va, who en-
tered the class for trained nurses at the
Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore,
Nd, IS months ago has abandoned her
studies rather than attend leper, as
directed by the university authorities.
THERE is glut in the labor market
at Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay, with
the result that wages are falling and
many men are now eating up their
supplies and earning nothing.
MRS. WILLIAM McGILLIvRAY, OF To
ronto. Ont, who is over 80 years old,
has given birth to a baby girl. Her
husband, to whom she was married
seven years ago. is IS. Mrs. McGil'
livray has been married twice, and this
is her twenty-second child.
AT Spanish headquarters in Havana
persistent rumors were in circulation,
on the 2lst, to the effect that Gen.
Calixto Garcia, the famous insurgent
leader, was killed in recent engage.
ment with the Spanish troops.
WILLIAM WALLACE, II years OF age,
and Mrs. George Seaman, who is past
60. and snowy haired, have eloped from
Bellaire, O., and have gone west to
grow up with the country.
SENIOR AMILARE CAPRIANI, the Italian
socialist labor leader whose election
to the chamber of deputies for Forli
in July last, was annulled by the
Italian government, has been re-
elected deputy for Forli.
IT was reported from Algiers, on the
Gath, that serious roting and pillag
ing had taken place at Mustapha,
suburb of the city, on the 2Sd. Tel
Jewish shops were looted and nun
Der of policemen injured. Troops
were summoned, but order was not re
stored until two o'clock in the morn
ing. Forty arrests were made.
AT Bombay, on the 23d, the eclips
of the sun was accompanied by rapi'
fall of temperature. An earthly smel
pervaded the air, and the scene re
, sembled landscape under wintr,
English sun. The duration of totalit
was two minutes, with a marvelou
corona of pale silver and blue.
The Luetgert jury in Chicago cele
brated the beginning of the mint
week Of the second trial, on the 9Sd, b
taking a sleigh ride. The trip laste
from one to five o'clock.
KING HUMBERr signed a decree ~
ducing the customs tariff on cereal
, from ~ to lire, until April 80 las
1t went into operation on the 25th.
REV. II. DEWITT TALMAGE, pastor I
the Sixth Presby terian church in Wasl
ington, d. c., was married at Pitt
burgh, Pa, on the 22d, to Mrs. Elean'
Collier, widow of Charles Collier,
prominent lawyer and son of Judge
Ii. Collier, of the Allegheny coun
pa. bench.
!, TIE North Atlantic squadron, co
sisting of the New York, Iowa, Mass
chusetts, Indiana and Texas, und
u Admiral Sicard, arrived off the bar
6 Key West, Fla, on the 22d, and T.
% vessels maneuvcred all day in pla
y view of the city.
GEN. BooTH, head of the Salvati
~ army, has had remarkable recepti
IL in Halifax, n. 5. Large meetings W.
u coined him. 1t has been decided by I
- general to form military and ma,
~ league and poor mans metropole
:, that city.
- Mrs. MARY Il. LEASE occupied t
IN pulpit of the Peoples church, NJ
~ York city, on the 23d, in the absen
of the pastor, Rev. Thomas Dixon, }
: md preached on "Christ or Caesa
" to a congregation which crowded t
building
REPORTS haze reached Havana fir
~ the Cauto river district, in Cuba, whit
r Gen. Pando has been operating, to
:" effect that Gen. Pando has been st
: ously wounded in an engagement wi
!, the insurgents.
"' SEVENTEEN reindeer were strang
y, on the voyage from Hamburg of
Nv British ste amer Glanton, which reacl
w. New York after tempestuo,s voyi
" of days. The rolling vessel was til