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

The members of the New York cot
ton exchange voted on the 30th, not to
suspend business on Good Friday.
TIE weekly statement of the bank
of France, issued on the 31st, showed
the following changes as compared
with the previous account: Notes in
circulation, increased 1874, ,O75, 900 francs
treasury accounts current, increased,
1925, 900 francs. Gold in hand, de-
creased, 5,495,00 francs. Bills in
creased, 22l, 5000 francs. Silver in
hand, increased, /, 300, 900 francs.
BECAUSE Bertha Aspiegle would not
marry him, Vim. IIillman, a farmer of
Munhall township, near Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 3lst, shot and killed he:
and then cut his throat with IA zor.
The girl was Ii years old, and refused
Hillman on account of her youth.
INSPECTOR OF POLICE MICHAEL j.
ScHAAcK, of Chicago, who gained a
worldwide reputation through his
work in the Haymarket anarchist case,
was reported, on the 3lst, dangerously
i'll with pneumonia. Slight hopes were
entertained of his recovery.
STEVE BRopiE, famous for his jump
from the Brooklyn bridge, died, on the
3lst, on train at Adrian, Mich. He
had left Chicago suffering from conges-
ton of the lungs, hoping to reach his
home in New York.
Ex-PREsIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON
left Indianapolis, Ind, for New York
on the 30th. He went on legal busi-
ness, and it was not his intention to
visit Washington.
MANY applications are being received
at the engineers Office of the war de-
partment from small towns along the
coast for the erection of some means of
defense to withstand the assaults of
foreign ships in the event of war.
SPANS reply to the propositions sub
mitted by the United States was re-
ceivcd by the president on the night of
the 3lst. Spain will not entertain the
demand for the independence of Cuba;
will not agree to u cessation of hostil-
tiles, and submits counter PROPOSE.
ticn. The reply is not positive in its
nature, but smacks throughout of
desire to secure further delay.
Ir was reported in London, on the
3lst, that Japan had asked the United
States to join Great Britain in support
ing .Iapans refusal to withdraw from
Wei-Hai-Wei after the payment OF the
Chinese war indemnity, in view of the
possibility of Russia seizing that port,
The Madrid Ell Liberal of the 3lst
said: "rhe moment of the denoument
has drawn much nearer. There may
vet be found means to delay matters,
but we doubt it.
EVERY ship in Capt SIMPSONS squad
ron, off Key West, is in such shape that
she can be under way, with steam up
and loaded guns, in one minute after
orders are received. Every ship is
cleared of all impedementa and
crammed with coal, provisions and am
munition up to the limit of her capaci-
ty. Everything has been done but to
declare war.
Gov. BLAcg of New York, on the
slst, in an emergency message, asked
the legislature for a contingent war
fund.- and both houses promptly and
unanimously passed bill appropriate
ing 81, ,Ooo,oaO for that purpose.
ALTHOUGH Capt Charles ID. Sigsbee
has been assigned to serve as naval aid
to Secretary Long the president has
assured the captain that he will be CIV
en- first class command ahoat as soon
Us one is available.
A SPECIAL cabinet meeting was held,
on the 1st, beginning at five o'clock.
All of the members were present ex-
cept Secretary Sherman. An adjourn
ment was taken at $50 and the an
nouncement made that the only busi-
ness under discussion was the presi-
dents forthcoming message TO congress.
THE Spanish minister had confer
eucs, on the lst, with Judge Day. No
new propositions were submitted~a ana
no perceptible change In the situation
resulted from the conference.