Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-12-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Claude Herbert, who was enactinp
Santa Claus in the Christmas display
window of llavens q Geddes, of Terre
Haute Ind, at the time of the out.
| break of the great fire, after assisting
many others to escape, was himself
lost in the flames.
The steam barge Ketcham which
had been overdue, arrived safely at
Chicago on the 2lst.
Thomas Crosby, the 13-year-old son
of Mrs. Margaret Crosby, wealthy
widow living in Edgewater, suburb
OF Chicago, shot and instantly killed
Deputy Sheriff Frank Nye, on the 22d.
while Nye was attempting to serve II
writ of restitution.
Secretary Alger says that Maj i.,Gen,
Otis has rendered most satisfactory
service in command of the military
forces in the Philippines and will be
retained in that position. Whether OF
not he will be appointed governor gen.
eral of the archipelago depends upon
future events.
On the 22d Arbuckle Bros Chicago
house began selling sugar direct TO re.
tailers, ignoring the jobbing trade
Sales were made at $50 per pound for
standard fine granulated, which was
one-eighth of a cent under the trust
price.
The ship Tacoma sailed from San
Francisco, on the 22d, for Honolulu.
with III army mules on board. At
Honolulu the mules will be turned out
for few weeks exercise and will then
be reshipped along with 200 mules and
horses already in Honolulu, and the
whole lot will be taken to Manila for
the use of the United States troops
stationed there.
The president, on the 21st, nomi-
mated, and the senate promptly con
firmed Ethan Allen Hitchcock. of st
Louis, at present ambassador to Rus
sia, as secretary of the interior, vict
Cornelius n. Bliss. resigned.
A rear-end collision occurred on thu
Pennsylvania railroad three miles from
Railway, n. j., on the 2lst, which re.
suited in the loss of two lives and Sc.
rious though not fatal injuries to four
persons.
The Rosaiie, which arrived at Vic
toria, B. C.. on the 22d. from Skaguay
reported the wreck of a soop whchle
Wrangel two weeks ago for Skaguay
with party of ~, bound for Atin. II
is feared that all on board were lost.
James j. Miller, Yale divinity stu.
dent, and three-years' graduate, was
arrested in New Haven, Conn, on the
22d. for shopliftng. lie was seen by
detectives to purloin three books in a
bookstore, and by tracking the man
they discovered that he was evidently
professional shoplifter. Five hun
dred volumes were discovered at his
rooms and at his home.
NR evidence of thrift in the navy dc.
partmept is general order sent out,
on the 23d, to all of the nine naval sta
tions, that the stricted economyistobe
exercised in all expenditures of public
money by the department officers un'
Ii, further orders.
The Kansas Southwestern Railway
Co. has filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state of Kansas.
The capital stock OF the company is
SIS 100000.
According TO dispatch received IN
Madrid from lloilo, Island Of Panay,
several engagements have lately taken
place between the Spaniards and the
insurgents, and many of the latter
have been killed or wounded.
The Spanish ministerof the colonies,
Senior Giron, announces that the pay
ment coupons of the Cuban mortgage
bonds have been issued.
Ohio school children have contrib
uted s4,379.41 toward the Lafayette
monument fund.
Soon after two o'clock on the morn.
Ing of the cath the American line
steamship st. Louis, having aboard the
members of the American peace COM
mission, arrived at quarantine, New
York. The commissioners went to
Washington and delivered the treaty
of Paris to the president as a Christ
mas present to the people of the Unit.
ed States.
"'rake immediate possession OF
Iloilo," was the text of an order sent
on the 23d, by Secretary Alger to Gen.
Otis, who is in command of the milf
tary forces at Manila. The details for
the expedition are left to the judg-
ment of Gen. Otis, who will also de-
termine the forces necessary to occu-
py that position.
A Vienna dispatch says that several
hundred Montenegrian soldiers, who
were recently overtaken by n snow
storm in the Larapas, were frozen to
death. The expedition sent to their
rescue found the snow drifts so heavy
that it was impossible to save them.
The United States cruiser New York
from Havana arrived at New York, on
the 23d, with Admiral Sampson and
Mrs. Simpson on board. To some news
iii of 6tlice who hojn,lrdesd the New York
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