Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-02-05


niversary Of the German Emperor, OF
the 9th, was more general this yea
than usual.
| TnE steamer Humboldt has bee,
chartered for the Alaskan trade b,
John A. McGee, Jr., of San Francisco
at stipulated rental OF $4,000
month for five months. This is tn,
highest rate ever paid for vessel OF
the gold coast.
The gold reserve, on the 97tb
reached SldS,6 $40. 900, the highest poinI
ID about seven years. The accumula
iation Is becoming something of u bur
den, and the government is no Longer
encouraging Its deposit.
IHE exports Of corn in 1897, were
unprecedented, amounting to ls9, 1917,
o7O bushels, an increase of $1,000, oOC
over 1896, which itself was a very
heavy export year.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has decided ia
send to Havana special emssary
whose duty will be the distribution OF
the supplies sent there by the Cuban
relief committee.
KING LEOPOLD Of Belgium, has pur-
chased, for 100000, the yacht May
flower, built for the late Ogden Goelet
Of New York.
PRESIDENT DlAz Of Mexico is prepar.
ing to make visit TO the United States.
HIS Itinerary is not yet completed, but
he Will visit, it is understood, all the
principal cities, including St. Louis,
Chicago, New York and Washington
and the Pacific coast.
RESPECTING the negotiations of reel.
procity treaties between the United
States on one side and Spain and Cuba
and, perhaps, Porto Rico, on the other,
1t is officially admitted at the state de.
partment that such negotiations are
under way. They have not progressed
very far, however.
THE state department has been
warned OF a conspiracy to defeat the
purpose of the immigration bill which
Is now before congress by wholesale
traiiic in naturalization papers, where
by immigrants who are not able to come
up to the requirements of the law can
secure entry into the country.
Gen. PARRADo, the acting captain
general at Havana, visited the United
States battleship Maine on the 2sth,
lie was saluted by the guns of Cabanas
fortress as he went on board. This
vas return of the visit paid to him
oy Capt. Sigsbee.
The evidence adduccd by the Ohio
enate investigating committee, on the
18th, went very far to show that money
lad been used to influence the election
II Senator Hanna, or that conspiracv
lad been entered into to make it ap-
,ear so.
TnE feature of the session of the Vir-
'inia general assembly, on the 2Sth,
vas the defeat Of the bill designed to
1ake flirting with school girls mis-
emeanor.
The Russian fleet at Port Arthur is
elpless for want of coal, being unable
steam even to Vladivostock. 1t is
aid that the Japanese coal firms
'hich had contracted to supply the
.ussian fleet have defaulted.
Mr. SEVERE MALLET-PREyosr of
ew York, a member of the firm of
urtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt has been
stained by the government of veue-
,ela as junior counsel before the arbi-
alton tribunal to determine the
line between Venezuela and
ritish Guiana.
ON the morning OF the 3Oth the BODY
the chairman Of the Bombay plague
was found in II field at Sim
II, in the Massick district of the pro-
nee, near the scene OF the late riots.
he commissioner had been murdered.
The Ocean Bluff house at Kenne-
IMPORT Me-, was completely de- ,
royed by fire on the 31th. 1t was
10 OF the largest summer hotels there.
ID was owned by the Kcnnebunsport
ashore Co.; loss, $4,000.
JULES EMILE PEAN, the eminent
ench surgeon, died in Paris on the ?
Ih. y
The steamer Warrimoo, which ar d
red at Victoria, b. G., ON the 3Oth, \
I'm Australia and Hawaii, brought II
miners from Australia on their way q
the Klondilie. ;.
)N the Goth the associated banks of
w York city held S35, 500, 45O in ex- - y;
IS OF the requirement of the 25-per- " "
1t. rule. "