Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-09-03
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

FNtN1 AGNEHaI
HON MOODY CuRRIEE, former rover.
nor OF New Hampshire, died at his roc
23d. VII 'n'
A. w. MENooAL,civil engineer in the
navy, who was court-martialed soms
months ago and sentenced to susnen.
SION from duty on furloagh pay for
'hfee years, tor neglect OF duty in con.
nectlon with the construction of the
Brooklyn dry dock, has been pardoned
oy the president, which restores him
W ms former status in the navy. He
Will retire from active service on Sen.
tember /. N'p
ALL the Madrid papers announce the
reassembling of the cortes between
The 9th and 10th of September.
a DISPATCH from Copenhagen, Den.
mark, says: "A terrible storm swent
the whole Jutland peninsula on the
s3d. Many outbuildings were strucl,
by lightning and six persons were
Killed and 80 farm buildings and IA
houses were burned"
On the 22d DR.. Clcon NJ. IIibbard
house physician at the Planters hotel
III st, Louis, fell through the passen.
ger elevator shaft from the seventh
iloor of the hotel, distance of 80 feet
to the granitoid pavement. and was in.
stantly killed.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON will probably
leave for Cuba about September |.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON left Washington.
on the 23d, for New York, to ioin his
flagship, the New York, which is in
dry dock for repairs.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEIKEIJouN.
oil the war department, is contcmpla.
ting the establishment of a line of
transports from New York to Havana,
Santiago, Ponce and return. 1t is ex-
pected that the line will be ready for
operation next week. Havana will
not be on the route at present, but as
soon as that port is open the war de-
partment's line of transports will
touch there.
The postal system now in operation
in the Hawaiian islands will be re-
tanned pending the recommendations
of the Hawaiian commission, which
has already begun its labors there.
TIE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 23d,
showed: Available cash balance, S277,-
s6S, sal; gold reserve, sos, ,439, 254.
Ar the Spanish cabinet council held
on the night of the 93d Gen. Correa,
minister of war, read telegram from
Capt. ten. B!anco, in which he informed
the government that the Cuban insur-
gents continued attacking the Spanish
everywhere. In consequence of this
report, the council instructed Gen.
Blanco to resume an offensive attitude
toward the insurgents only.
The second days session of the twen-
ty-fourth annual convention of the
American Bankers association at Den.
yer, COL, on the 24th, was called to or
der by President Hendrix with prac-
tically full attendance of delegates.
The days session was devoted to the
discussion of practical banking ques-
tions.
DR.. EDMUND J. JAMES professor of
political science in the University OF
Chicago, has been appointed dean OF
the new teachers college, organized by
the university on the foundation ere
ated by Mrs. Emmons Blaine.
LIEUT. WM. II, OSBORN, of the First
cavalry, died at Montauk Point, L. L.,
on the cath, of yellow fever This off
Ger had been selected for assignment
to duty at the military academy.
The tugboat Marian, of the Penn.
sylvania railroad, sunk at South Am
boy, n. j.. on the oath. All the crew
escaped except the pilot, James Hen
ucssey, who was drowned.
TIE statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the cath,
showed: Available cash balance, $3.50,
93S, ,si4; gold reserve, S?O6, 375,0i9.
The queen regent of Spain las
signed the royal decree convcning the
cortes for September 5.
REAR-ADMIRAL SCHLEY, completely
recovered from his late illness, re-
joined his flagship, the Brooklyn, at
New York on the 2jth.
TIE gross earnings from operation
of the Baltimore 4 0aio railroad for
the month of July, 1898, were s9,3J5, ,99l,
an increase Of 500, 400,
The statement OF the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the @5th,
showed: Available cash balance, Ssh,
$50, 500; gold reserve, sos oO6, ,o63.
The four big monitors, Terror, Puri'
tan, Miantonomah and Amphitrite, and
the cruiser Montgomery, have been
ordered by the navy department to
Newport, r. |. 1t had been thought
the monitors would be used in the
large ports of Cuba and Porto Rico,
but it has now been decided to hold
them north.
A Madrid dispatch says; Everyone
is now anxious that peace treaty oe
signed ut once, and there is some np-
prehension lest the government ham
per the peace commissioners with ridic'
ulous instructions. Referring to the
proposal that the government &c,
mand compensation for the piers and
public buildings in Cuba, Ell Nacional
says: we might as well claim the
roads. mountains and barren fields.
AT meeting of the Womans Ma
tional War Relief association ut the
Windsor hotel, in New York, on the
cad. it was announced that Miss Helen
NJ. Gould had given S25,uoo to purchase
food and deicacics for the i'll ano
wounded soldiers at Camp Wiltoff'
One of the results of the sojourn OF
the Spanish officers, prisoners OF war
at Annapolis. Id, will be doaol'
wedding. Lieut.. Enrique Laceervawii
wed Miss Clara w. Duff, of Baltimore
and Lieut.. Juan Cavanelles will leat
Miss Mamie Hayes, of Annapolis t'
the altar.
Ex.Secrctary John Sherman is qnotee
ms saying: "Gcn. Miles is soldier
and, like soldiers, is straightforward
,r,,hful man. He is no more afraid o
an issue than he is of an Indian an'
when he comes buck to washington
and tells what he knows an investiga
tion of the war department will be IN
evitable." .
uLa nrnsident Is seriously thlnklnt