Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-11-26
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

nhe''' 'he'r aNoWed purpose is to
drive Spain from African territory nc
she has been driven from the western
| continent.
That the trial of Mrs Cordelia Bot
kin for the murder of Mrs. John p.
DuDnlng of Dover, Del, will commence
on the iay set, December ), at San
Francisco. is now assured. Judpe
Carroll Cook issued an order directing
the county auditor to pay for the
transportation and meals ON the route
of IA witnesses whom Chief of Police
Lees desires to appear and to testify
at the trial.
The American commissioners will.
it is said. present to Spain's repre-
sentatives strongly-worded docu-
ment announcing that the United
States is determined upon the cession
of the Philippines, and that Spain
must agree to this at once or this
country will proceed to take possess
sion by force of arms.
The Spanish papers at Manila assert
that sanguinary mutiny has taken
place on board the steamship Bernar-
dino, and that the native crew mas
sacred their Spanish officers. These
papers also appeal to the United States
to control the natives.
1t is stated that the Spanish peace
commissioners, upon the resumption
of the conference, on the 10th, an
nounced their refusal to discuss any
| question involving the abandonment
of Spain's sovereignty over the Phil
ippines.
The whereabouts of Walter 4. Stall
man, for years furrier in Chicago, is
an object of much interest to large
number of wealthy women. 1t is
| claimed that he has disposed of large
I quantities of furs which were brought
to him by women for repairs and for
storage during the warm months.
Miss Abbic II. Zaner, directress of
nurses at Portland hospital, received
dispatch from Surgeon General Stern
berg of the United States army. on the
10th, to proceed to Manila Immediately
with as many trained nurses as could
| be secured in Portland.
Representative-eect Roberts, of
Utah, may he excluded from the house
of representatives. if the charge that
| he is polygamist, living openly with
| Ia, e.. h.,
The Canadian cruiser Petrol, which
is patrolling the fishing grounds in
Lake Erie waters in the vicinity o
Sandusly, o.. has seized lot of gill
nets belonging to American fishermen
which it is claimed were set in Cana
| dian waters.
The National Municipal league will
hold its next conference for good city
government in Indianapolis beginning
on the Goth.
Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island Il Pacific collided at Mos
COW, Ia, on the 18th. One man was
killed and one injured. A wrecking
| train which was about to start to the
scene from Wilton was run into by a
fast mail train. The fireman of the
mail train was badly hurt, and 16
men on the work train were injured,
some seriously.
In the gloom of smoke, storm and
! fog that ;larkened the rails of the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad. on the morning
of the 18th. between Jersey City and
Harrison, belated suburban train
dashed into gang of workmen, kill
ing II and injuring four. Five others
had remarkable escapes. All the VIC
Tins lived in Jersey City.
The Maryland board of public works
has decided to sell all the interest of
the state IN the famous Chesapeake &
Ohio canal. This interest has cost the
state in one way or another about $25,-
100000. but its present value is inde-
| terminate. as il is now in the hands of
receivers.
J. 4. Brandreth. who claimed TO be
a nephew of the millionaire pillmaker
of that name. was found dead in his
cell at the county Jail in Fresno, CAL,
on the 18th, having been arrested the
night before on "A charge of ragrancy.
He was a graduate of Yale
,Jutaro Komuro, the new minister to
the United States from Japan. accom-
panied by y. Murota, the Japanese
minister TO Mexico Kei Chong ie, of
Corea. Iozi Amar, of Mexico. and
Messrs. Matsumato and Uno, of Japan.
are en- route from the Pacific coast to
Washington.
In Brown. Rock and Dixon counties,
Neb.. thousands of acres have been
swept by prairie fires, and much grain
and many barns and several houses
have been destroyed.
The dead body of J. h. Gronninger,
a wealthy ranchman OF Terry Mont
was found on the Big Four tracks at
Delaware, O., on the 18th. There was
strong evidence that the man wasmur-
dered and his body placed on the
track.
Herr II. II. Meier, founder OF the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co..
died in Bremen on the 18th. He was
80 years of age.
The transport Minnewaska with the
First engineers and representatives OF
the Red Cross on board, left Ponce, 4.
r., for home, on the 18th.
Col. W. j. Bryan's health docs not
mend as rapidly as he hoped it would
and upon recommendation of his ply
sician he has been granted an addl-
tional ten days leave of absence, when
permits him to remain in Lincoln un-
til December 4. Col. Bryan complains
of lack of strength and vigor.
The serious illness of Edward A.
Green has resulted in a reconciliation
between him and his wife, Mrs. 'Hetty
Green, the richest woman in America
Mr. Green sustained stroke OF paral-
ysis short time ago and has been
confined to his rooms In the Cumber-
land, New York city, for several weeks
Two persons were injured, an en-
gine and passenger coach destroyed
and a railroad station burned by a
rear-end collision, on the 18th, be-
tween two local passenger trains on
the Camden d Amboy railroad al
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