Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-03-19

TnE American yacht Anita, with a
congressional party on board, arrived
at Havana on the 10th.
THE damage suit of Jacob Schaefer,
the billiard champion, against the
North Chicago Street Railway Co., for
injuries alleged to have been received
il, being thrown from ear three years
ago, was decided ON the 1lth, in favor
Of the street car company.
FAILURES throughout the country as
reported by Dun & Co., for the week
ended on the llth, were 2iS, as com
pared with 256 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 36, against 81 last year.
THE secretary of the navy, on the
18th, appointed a eourt-martial for the
trial of Civil Engineer Menocal on
charges growing out of the bad work
done on the New York dry dock.
PATRICK Ford, of Omaha, Neb., has
made application to Gov. IIolcomb for
a pardon for his son, Patrick Ford, Jr.,
wounded survivor of the Maine disas-
ter. Young Ford is a fugitive from
justice, having escaped from the conn
ty Jail at Omaha following IA conviction
for burglary.
SpIEGEL GROVE, near Fremont, o.,
the home of the late cx- President K. b.
Hayes, has been advertised to be sold
at sheriffs sale April IL to. satisfy a
Judgment of $1,000. The Judgment was
damages for injury sustained by Mrs.
Addie NJ. Smith in runaway caused
by the Hayes family dog.
THREE new battleships of the stanch.
est type ailoat, one to be named the
Maine, were authorized by the house
committee on naval affairs, on the l1th.
and IA provision for their construction
was inserted in the naval appropriation
bill.
SPAIN is said to have prepared to dis
count the report of the Maine court OF
inquiry by preparing 4 report of its
own commission declaring the explo
sion to have been internal, and demand
ing IL mixed commission, hoping there
by to defer the final verdict.
AN alleged dispatch to Madrid from
Berlin, on the llth, quotes Emperor
William asdeclaring that as long as hC
was emperor the Yankees would not b,
allowed to take possession of Cuba.
FRANCE, it is said in Berlin, intends
to occupy Lei Chau, in the Quanl
Tung peninsula, north of Hal Nan, a,
naval base.
Miss LILLIAN KENNEDY, the actress
who concluded an engagement at tn,
opera house, in Utica, n Y, on th,
18th, playing the Charity Girl was
struck with paralysis in her dressing
room before the close of the perform
ance. The right side of her face, righ
arm and leg are affected. She was re
moved to a hotel, and later taken to ;
hospital. At a late hour, on the 18th
she had not rcgained consciousness.
ELEVEN persons are known to hav,
pcrished, an it is feared many other
may have done so, in the destruction
by fire, early on the morning of th'
18th, Of the Bowerv Mission lodgin,
house, los l'owcrS, New York city.
Two freight trains collided nea
Midway, o., on the 18th. Both engine
were badly damaged and eight car
were derailed. Engineer Van Seal,
was slightly bruised and an unknown
tramp was badly injured. A car loade'
with sheep was derailed and 100 of tn
sheep killed. The collision was cause,
by one engineer forgetting the othe
| train.
The Grand Republic, the larges
steamer on the Mississippi river, wa
burned to the waters edge, at its winte
quarters, Just below the mouth of tn
River Des percs, II few miles below 81
Louis, on the 18th. Captain and Mrs
/ Thorwcgcn and two children an,
Mate st, phens were on board an,
narrowly escaped with their lives.
ANDREW SCHUYLER, financial broli
er, shot his wife and killed himself i
| bis Office in San Francisco, on the 18th
| Mrs Schuller was taken to the recciy
ing hospital. She will probably die
Schuller's death was instantaneous.
ON the 18th the associated banks O
New York city held So, ,72l, ,3?5 in cx
cess of the requirements of the 25-pcl
cent. rule.
HEMrsTEAD WAsHBuRNE, republica
member of the Chicago civil servic
commission, has rendered his resigna
| ton.