Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-09

treasury, issued on the 30th, showed:
Available cash balance, SEA, sos, ,743;
gold reserve, Sl73, 1873, 1856.
WILLIAM X. Vanderbilt has decided.
IN the event of war with Spain, to pre-
sent to the United States government
warship to cost $1,000, 900, following
In the footsteps of his grandfather, the
commodore, who, during the civil war,
presented to President Lincoln the
steamship Vanderbilt, valued at ST..
100000.
MRS. ELIZABETH OFTEN, who had
lived the life of hermit since the death
OF her husband, IA years ago, was found
dead, on the 3lst, in her home in Chica-
go. The police found in the house
deeds to Chicago and st. Louis property
worth several hundred thousand dol
lars.
The bill for the purchase of the Dan.
ish islands will not be pressed any fur.
thcr, as it was apparent to its friends
IN congress that it could not pass until
after long debate. 1t has been practi-
cally withdrawn.
Ill HUNG CHANG has been invested
with full powers to proceed to Port
Arthur to delimitate the territory re-
Gently released to Russia by China.
The Empire Transportation Co. an
nounced, on the lst, that it had added
to its fleet of boats for the Yukon river
four steamers and four barges which
it had purchased from Morgan Bros.
q Co., of Seattle. These boats, with
those building at the Crescent ship.
yards, at Elizabethport, N. j., will
give the Empire line a fleet of 1s river
boats and barges.
In the Ohio legislature, on the 1st,
bill was introduced appropriating
Sl,000,00o to put the state of Ohio on
war footing, and contingency fund of
$4,000 for the use of the governor in
case of war.
THE Iowa legislature, on the lst, be-
fore final adjournment, passed "a bill
appropriating $500, 900 as a contingent
fund in case of war
The Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and
Almirante Oquendo left Havan, on the
lst, presumably to meet the torpedo
ilotilla at Porto Rico.
COMMANDER ScmEY, on the Sd, noti-
fled the authorities at Washington that
with the arrival of the Texas he would
be ready to move at an hours notice.
The Texas was expected within 4s
hours.
FROM present indications the second
congress of mothers, which meets in
Washington May . to 7, will be most
successful gathering and will include
prominent women from many parts of
the country.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the Sd,
said: There was no excitement in
Madrid to-day, owing principally to
the fact that there was no bull fight"
The president did not go to church,
on the 3D., but was busily engaged.
Quite number of executive clerks
were also at work during the day.
On the I'd the associated banks of
New York city held S35, ,790, 800 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per.
cent. rule.
DIR THADDEUs FITzHUGu, SO years old
formerly postmaster at Kansas City,
Kas., a cousin of Consul-General Lee,
who fought with distinction in the con-
federate army, has, in IA letter full of
patriotism, profered his services to
President Mckinley, expressing a
willingness, if need be, to sacrifice his
life in support of "the principles of the
firmly united country
THE statement of the New York as
sociated banks, for the week ended |
on the I'd showed the following
changes: Surplus reserve, increase,
81 $780, 1925; loans, decrease, $l,437 200;
specie, increase, S5,966 600; legal ten
ders, decrease, 81, $50, 700, deposits, de-
crease, So, ,4l3,7 100; circulation, decrease,
81 100.
LORD PILMNGDoN Charles Henry
Mills) chairman of the committee of |
London clearinghouse bankers, died |
in church at Wilton, En-
gland, on the Sd. He was born in 1890,
was the son of the late Sir Charles
Mills, bart, and was elevated to the
peerage in 1886.
A DISPATCH from Christiana. Nor
way, reports that the steam whaler
Fridtjof has been secured for the Well
man polar expedition to Franz Josef
Land instead of the Laura, previously
engaged.