Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-03-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

N 'iS HcHtcIce oI MIS-. Martha
Race, the Brooklyn murderess, anl
she will be clectrocuted some day dur,
ng the week commencing on the 10Th
at Sing Sing prison.
Democrats of the Utah house and
senate secured enough signatures OF
members of both houses % reconven.
the Joint session of the Legislature and
vote again for United States senator
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, $277, 7,SO9S7l;
gold reserve, $24i,371.347.
Count Won Beidenfeld, on trial in
Chicago on charge of killing Chas
Mcdonald, was acquitted on the 18th.
Work is being continued on tie Pan
ana canal, and nearly half of the grea.
undertaking is reported completed.
The queen regent of Spain signed
the ratification of the peace treaty on
the 18th.
Chas. Baum, who formerly conduct
ed department store in Washingtou
has filed a petition in voluntary bank.
ruptcy. Liabilities, $l25,34o; asset
$500.
The transport Grant, which carried
Gen. Lawton and his command to Ma.
Mia, will soon sail for San Francisco
She will bring home only sick aDd dis.
charged men.
Baron Russell,o Killowen, lard chieI
justice of England, has been appoin1.
ed to succeed the late Baron Hcrschcl
on the Venezuelan arbitration commits
sion.
The pope's convalescence is follow,
ing the normal course.
On the 10th five men were Killed and
two wounded in IA street fight in lIo,
Springs, Ark, growing out Of part
san fued.
Admiral kautz reported the arriya
at Apia, on the 10th, of the cruiser
Philadelphia. He made no mention oi
political affairs.
Mrs. Place, the Brooklyn mirderess
was informed, on the 10th, by Warder
Sage, of Sing Sing prison, that Gov
Roosevelt declined to exercise an,
clemency in her case, and that she
must suffer the extreme penalty.
Joseph Medll editor of the Chicago
Tribune, died at San Antonio, Tex, OF
the 10th, of heart disease, after an i'll
ness of a week. His last words were:
"What is the news?'
Nine negroes, under arrest at Pal
metto, Ga, charged with arson, were
shot by mob of masked men on tn,
10th Four of the negroes were KILLED
outright and the others badly wounG
ed. Gov. Gambler has offered reward.
for the apprehension of members o.
the mob.
Benjamin Peters Hutchinson. "Olt
Hutch" of Chicago board os trade
fame, died, on the 10th, at the LAX
Geneva (Wis.) sanitarium. He had bee,
an invalid for several years, after {
career that has rarely had an equal
He was 70 years old.
A resolution was offered in the Penn
sylvana house, on the 10th, by Me
Whitney, of Allegheny, and adopted
requesting Gov. Stone to name Mon
day. May /, 1899, as "Dewey day" anG
designate the same as legal holiday
In the distribution OF the 100000,
by the United States officials no dis
tinction is to be made between officers
and privates. Each Cuban who wa
under arms before the protocol was
signed is to receive $780, The roll,
upon which the payments are made
must have the approval of Gen. Go
meZ.
The queen regent, on the night o.
the 10th. signed the decrees dissov
ing the cortes, convoking the new
parliament and authorizing the pay
ment of arrears of pay to the repatri
ated troops.
The crop of shamrocks this year il
Ireland was unusually large, and tn
steamship Teutonic, which arrived a
New York, on the 10th, brought 35,00t
boxes of shamrocks sent to friends
and relatives in this country.
The Cuban Generals, Pedro Diaz
Jesus Monteagugo, Luis Roban, Al
lberto Nodarsc, Francisco Peraza ano
Pedro Betancourt, who had already de
clared in favor of Gen. Gomez as
against the Cuban military assembly
have agreed to disband their forces a,
soon as the receive orders 10 do 81
from Gen. domez.
The Royal c'ay works, at Mdvale, Q.
one of the largest industresof its Kind
is to resume operations, after an idle
ness of three years.
A combination ofdccorated Tlass ant
metal lamp manufacturers is in prog
ress of formation at Pittsburgh, a.
and, it is expected, will be in lctiv,
operation before the middle of april.
The plow manufacturers of the Unit
ed States are forming a combine.
The Amcrican-Hawaiian Steam Navl
CATION Co., with headquarters at New
York, has contracted with the rn'ol
iron works at San Francisco for two
of the largest freight steamers evei
built in the United States.
There is more gold IN the posses
sion of the United States treasury now
than at any time for many years. lil'
total gold held by the treasury three
years ago was $127,0o0,0Oo. The pres
ent total is more than $2Al.00o,oo',
Four companies of the Second vo'un
teer engineers. now at Honolulu, hNv'
been ordered to San Francisco TO h'
mustered out of service.
The battleship Iowa has been or
dered to the Union iron works nv var
Francisco to have newtubes put in lei
boilers and condensers.
The collier Brutus is at The Mare Isl
and navy yard being overhauled pre-
paratory to taking a cargo OF coal ''
Guam.
Mr.. Calvo, minister of Costa Rica
declares that despite reports to TN
contrary, his country at present II
tranquil.
Mrs. Killam, wife of Samuel Kill'ln
well-known farmer, residing 'fV'
miles north of Carlinville Ill, gave
birth. on the nth, to triplcts, three