Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-04-02

FAILURES throughout the country, as
reported by Dun & Co., during tho
week ended March 25, were 251, as com.
pared with 29l for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 81, against so last year.
A PAHrY of 81 men from Sioux City,
la, with DR.. j. N. Henry as leader,
left Seattle, Wash, on the oath, for va.
kutat bay, aboard the steamer Alli-
ance. The party expects to spend two
years prospecting in Alaska.
THE United States minister, ]. b.
Angel, returned to Constantinople, on
the 25th, from tour of Egypt and
Palestine.
A SPECIAL to the Omaha (Neb.) Bee
from Dcadwood, S. D., on the 25th, said
the jury before which the BelleFourche
bank robbers were tried had retained
a verdict of not guilty. There was
much public issatisfaction.
JOHN s. HOPKINS, cashier of the Peo.
pies bank of Philadelphia, which
closed its doors, on the 24th, committed
suicide by shooting, and did not die
from heart disease, as announced by
his family.
THE Spanish torpedo boat destroyer
Audaz arrived at Waterford, Ireland,
on the 25th, with her bows stove in and
her stem twisted completely arodnd
from about ten feet from the stern.
TIE only explanation vouchsafed to
the American minister at Madrid con-
cerning the departure. of the torpedo
tlotilla from the Canaries was that the
movement was rendered necessary in
order to appease the Spanish populace
This explanation is recognized by the
Washington authorities as unsatisfac-
tory.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the even
ing of the 25th said that the state de-
partment was engaged in drafting a
note to Spain asking if she will volun-
tarily make reparation for the dcstruc-
tion of the battleship Maine, in Havana
harbor, without being formally re-
questcd to do so.
AS THE result of the discovery of seri-
GUS and wholesale bribery and corrup-
ton, 100 Gockyard officials of the Rus
sian Black sea fleet have been arrested.
Admiral Kopyloff, commander of the
fleet, has been dismissed. Five officers
have committed suicide since their ar
rest.
THE sending of the Spanish torpedo
boats and torpedo-boat destroyers to
American waters is looked upon as so
nearly the equivalent OF declaration
of war that if the naval officers can
have their way this government will
see to it that the fotilla never reaches
Cuba.
The most important and significant
emergency order, issued on the 25th,
was that all battleships, cruisers and
other vessels under Capt. Sampson and
Commodore Schley, with the exception
of torpedo boats, shall be painted black
at once.
TIE Spanish minister of marine has
received the report of the Spanish court
of inquiry into the loss of the Maine.
1t declares that it is scientifically and
practically demonstrated that the ex-
plosion was of internal origin"
EX-SENATOR J. $. G. BLACBuRN, o.
Kentucky, was stricken, on the 25th
at Washington, with what was thought
to be stroke of paralysis of the heart
He rallied later and was thought to bt
out of danger.
Mrs. MCKINLEY will entertain tn,
alumni of Brookhall seminary, o.
which she is graduate, at luncheon
on April Is. A special train of two
ears has been arranged for by way o
| the Baltimore e. Ohio, and it is ex
pected the party will number 100.
GEN. DANIEL BUTTERFIELD has ad
vised the secretary of war that his OLE
regiment, the Twelfth New York, has
| through its commander. Col. Leonard
| by letter to the governor of New York
rendered it's services for the war, il
case war comes.
THE elections for the popular brancl
of the cortcs in Spain passed off, on thu
eth, quietly. The indications are tina
the government of Senor Sagasta will
have an enormous majority, estimated
at 800 of the 439 seats in the cortes.
THE Vienna correspondent of thu
Frankfort Zeitung said on the eth
The Austro-Hungarian government il
negotiating for the sale of II war vesse