Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


vana have discovered that the powder
and she'll carried by the Maine have
been accounted for in full and found
intact. The shells were taken out of
the hull and opened. All the armor-
piercing shells have been found empty.
THE impression is gaining ground at
Madrid that the United States is re-
luctant TO declare war. and that, while
it will continue its policy of inhicting
all sorts of Sights upon Spain, taking
advantage of its difficulties, it will
stop short of an actual deca ration of
war.
| TIE French minister for the colonies.
NJ. Lebon, has refused the petition Of
Nine. Drcyfus, wife of former Capt.
Dreyfus, to share the latter's imprison-
mcnt on Devils island.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Kicl says
Japan has purchased torpedo cor
rette, which was sbeing built there by
the Krupps for Brazil.
The German troops have been re-
called from Crete.
The United States lighthouse tender
Aangroye arrived at Key West, Fla,
| on the 10TH from Havana, having on
board the members of the United States
court of inquiry, appointed to inquire
into the loss of the battleship Maine.
A DISPATCH from Berlin, on the 10th,
said: 'Senor Sandoval, the Spanish
agent, is negotiating for the purchase
of a number of old and slow steamers
Of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Co.
The Michigan state military board
has issued an order, at the suggestion
of the secretary of war requiring the
division of national guard companies
into squads for the more ready mob
ilization of the state troops in case
of n call to arms.
The Spanish fishing smack Carmen
was towed into Punta Gorda, Fla, on
the 18th. by the United States revenue
cutter Forward, having been seized for
violation of the navigation laws.
ACCORDING to dispatch from Lon
don, on the 18th, the United States
government had purchased torpedo
boat destroyer from ship-builder
named Doxford, of Sunderland.
IT was announced at the marine bar
racks in New York, on the 18th, that
an order for the immediate enlistment
of 473 men had been received from
Washington.
INVESTIGATION at Athens shows there
is no truth in the report in circulation
that the United States had purchased
some of the Greek war ships
THE United States dispatch boat
Fern arrived at Havana on the 18th.
A AETTER, alleged to have been writ
ten by Gen. Weyler to Havana editor,
tells of preparations having been made
in Havana harbor for just such a catas-
trophe as happened to the Maine. In
it he says he rapidly finished the work
that Martinez Campos carelessly aban-
doned.
SENIOR SoBRAI., late Spanish naval at
tache ut Washington, who has full
plans of all the United States coast de-
fenses, has been appointed on the staff
of the Spanish admiralty. He had
long conference, on the 18th, with the
minister of state.
TRIPLE alliance, composed Of Italy,
Germany and Austria, is said to have
responded to Spain's appeal, and to bs
willing TO back up IA demand for an In
ternational inquiry into the Maine dia-
aSter.
SPEAKING of the possibilities of the
United States going to war with Spain,
Rear Admiral Beresford Of the British
navy remarked: "If they ever do, no
matter what happens at the beginning,
they mast eventually win, because of
the enthusiasm and intense patriotism
of their people
WALTER SANGER PULLMAN, one OF the
twin sons OF the late George NJ. Pull
man, the palace car magnate, was quiet
ly married, at Oakland, CAL, to Miss
Louise Lander West, of San Francisco.
A MADRID dispatch of the 18th says
that Admiral Bermijo, minister of
marine, had wired the commander of
the torpedo fiotilla, at the Canaries,
not to proceed to Havana.
THE house committee on ways and
means favorably reported on the 18th,
with amendments, the Dingley bill for
the temporary admission, free Of duty,
of naval supplies purchased abroad.
The bill was amended so as to include