Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-10-29
NE VS. AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

locomotives were destroyed by fire on
the 18th; loss, estimated, 500, 900.
Notwithstanding the inclement
weather, fully 10000 persons, civic and
military, participated in the great
peace jubilee parade in Chicago on the
18th. The pageant was reviewed by
President Mckinley and brilliant
company of diplomatic, military and
civic dignitaries. There was a grand
banquet in the evening.
Admiral Schley, by orders from the
navy department, has been placed in
command of the naval station at San
Juan de Porto Rico. So far the de
] partment has no knowledge of the
value OF the naval pope IT.. contained
in this station when it was evacuated
by the Spanish officials.
Secretary Long will probably ask
congress to increase the number of
sailors allowed for the naval estab-
lishment from 10000 to 10000. Com
mandcr Hawley, in charge of the en-
listed service of the navy, has pre-
pared some fiures that show the neccs-
sity of this.
A report which came from San
Francisco that Admiral Dewey had APP
piled for leave of absence. and was
coming home to this country is not
verified at the navy department, where
it was stated that no request of this
sort had been received from Admiral
Dewey.
| The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 10th,
showed: Available cash balance,
S3O3, ,607 ,420; gold reserve, $241,56l,9 ,974,
Senator Redfeld Proctor was re.
elected by the Vermont Legislature on
| the 10th
1t is believed that the French court
of cessation will take up the Dreyfus
case in few days, and the general
impression is that the decision will be
| in favor of revision. The court has
| obtained documents concerning Comtc
Esterhazy, late Lieut.. .-Col. Henry and
Nine. Pays and their mutual relations.
The big tug l.. p, Smith was sunk
in the entrance to the Cleveland CO.,
| harbor, on the goth, as the result of a
collision with the steamer Olympia.
The fireman went down with the tug,
and was drowned. The Olympia was
uninjured.
Gen. Otis has cabled to the war de
partment review of the situation in
the Philippines, showing that Agui-
| naldo's influence is on the wane
The first general order issued by
Gen. Brooke in Porto Rico is a digni-
fed, fair document, and was well re-
ceived by the people.
All the Chilian ministers. except the
minister of industries, have with
drawn their designations
DR.. VIM. X. Brooks, Director u, ,ie
| Smith observatory. al Geneva, y. y,
has secured another observation OF the
comet discovered by Linn. It's posi-
ton at 5 a. H., on the 2lst, was right
| ascension II hours, 46 minutes, decli-
nation north 80 degrees, 81 minutes.
| The comet is in Draco and moving
quite rapidly southeast.
Writs of temporary injunction were
served on 81 railroad ticket brokers in
Chicago on the 2lst. The petitions up
on which the injunctions were grant
ed set forth alleged fraudulent deal
| ing of the brokers in onefare round
| trip tickets. Seven of the trunk line
railroads petitioned for the injunc'
| ton.
| Capt. Baratier, of Maj, Marchand's S
expedition, on his arrival in Paris, on
the 21st, with report to the French
government, said the mission had not
lost an officer or a soldier. He added
| that the health of all the members OF
the party was very good, and that re-
victualling on the march was easy.
Col. Milford Harmond, prominent
| business man of Jackson, Mich, and
an uncle of Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
died on the 2lst.
The membership of the United
| States evacuation commission for Por'
to Rico, having completed their task
have been directed to return home
They will sail from San Juan on the
cruiser Newark.
The displeasure and disappointment
| felt in official circles at Madrid over
the failure of the skillful strategy OF
| Senior Montcro Rios, concerted with
the efforts of Senor Sagasta and Duke
Almodvar de Rios to minimize the con
sequences of the war, are keen and
profound.
Jack Frost has broken the backbone
of the yellow fever epidemic of 1895
ali through the states of Louisiana
and Mississippi. and quarantines were
expected to be lifted by the a5th.
Deputy Marshal w. L. Little and
posse attempted to capture the cele'
brated Creek criminal, John Watko
and his gang at Okmulgee, |. T., on the
| 2lst, and the result was II hot fight, in
which John Watko was killed and two
of five of the remaining outlaws were
captured.
The American military commission
Mt Havana has notified the Spanish
commission that the American troops
will occupy the island of Cuba in NO
yember, whether or not the evacuation
of the island by the Spaniards has
been completed by that time.
A dreadful tragedy was enacted al
Toronto, Ont, on the night OF the
21st, when Eliza Burrill, wife OF O
welI-to-do mechanic, became dement,
ed and strangled her three children
Ethel, aged eight; Stanley, aged three
and Harold, aged eleven years.
The big steamer Henry Chisholm
laden with barley, while trying to en-
ter Washington harbor, at the south
west end of Isle Royale, Lakesuperior
struck the Rock Of Ages and com
menced going to pieces. The captair
and crew escaped in yawl and pro
ceeded to Port Arthur, Ont. Vesse
and cargo will be total loss.
From information obtained OF the
general land Office it appears tha'
there was an increase of nearly 4o'
mineral entries during the fiscal year
| 1898, as compared with 1897. This II
is said, indicates marked revival o'