Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-03-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

The executive committee oe the Mis-
souri, Press association met AT ,Ieffer-
son City, on the 23d, and decided 20
hold the annual meeting in St. Louis
September and s, next.
The statement of the econdition of the
treasury issued on the 23d showed.
Available cash balance. $271, Az, 500;
gold reserve, 22S,226,27s.
The funeral of the late Felix Faurc,
president of France. who died sudden
ly of apoplxey, on the 10th, took place
in Paris on the 23d.
Articles of incorporation were fled
at Trenton, n. j., on the 23d. by the
New York Electric Vehicle Transpor.
tation Co.. with an authorized capital
OF $25,O00,0OO.
BY mysterious explosion follow
i"g II fire discovered in the Dick build.
ing, at Hartford City, Ind, on the 23d,
four persons lost their lives and three
were injured.
President Loubet presided at the
French cabinet council on the cath. He
complimented the minister of war, NJ.
DeFreycinet on the soldierly appear
ancc of the troops which took part in
the Faure funeral ceremonies.
The first authentic and official re-
port on the damage throughout Geor-
gia by the recent cold wave shows that
the loss on crops in that state will
amount to several millions of dollars.
Daniel O'Connell, poet and play
wright, died at his suburban home in
Sausalito. CAL, on the cath, of pneu-
monia. He was of the same family as
the famous liberator of that name.
The Grant family association, OF
which Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., is presi-
dent. will hold reunion of all the de-
scendants of Matthew Grant, in Old
Windsor, Mass, October 81 of this
year.
The governor of California signed
the anti-cartoon bill on the cath.
There was notable demonstration
in the national house of representa-
tives. on the Esd, when the senate bill
creating the grade of admiral in the
navy was offered as an amendment to
the naval appropriation bill. 1t was
adopted amid rousing cheers, and
without dissenting vote.
The Norwegian steamship Suldal ar
rived at New Orleans, on the 23d, and
reports that she left Bluefelds, Mic
aragua, on the 18th, after having been
saved from seizure by Gen. Reyes and
lis insurgents by the vigorous and
prompt action of Capt. Simmons of
the United States gunboat Marietta.
The president, on the ED, sent to
the senate the nomination of Judge
Christian c. Kohlsaat, of Chicago, for
district judge of the northern district
of Illinois, to succeed Judge Gross
cup. Senator Mason says the judge will
not be confirmed by the present con-
giess.
Miss Stella Shelter, owner of dairy
farm near Aurora, ILL.,, painted her
cows with paris green, on recommen-
dation of u druggist, to kill lice. The
remedy was heroic and effective. The
vcrmin were killed, and of herd Of
~ cows but two animals survive. The
cattle, in licking their sides, swallowed
the poison in sufficient quantities to
Kill them.
An agreement has been reached on
the army bill, which, If carried out,
promises to avert the necessity for an
extra session of congress.
Count d'Almenas declines to accept
the challenge to duel sent him by
Gen. Linares, whom he had charged
will. cowardice in conenction with the
capitulation of Santiago. He declares
that he will not yield to intimidation,
but will continue the campaign against
the general in the Spanish senate.
The Brook Iron Co. has posted no.
tice ut it's works at Birdsboro, Pa, of
an increase of 25 cents a ton in the
wages of puddlers, to go into effect
April 1. The new rate will be $3.50 a
ton.
Admiral Dewey cabled the navy de-
partment, on the cath, that for politi-
cal reasons the Oregon should be sent
to Manila at once. As he did not ex.
plain the political reasons the dispatch
was the cause of considerable specula.
tion.
Admiral Dewey declares, in the most
positive manner, that he 10 not can
didate for political honors, adding:
"All l want Is to live out my days in
the navy, and retire in peace when the
time comes"
The five-story building on Fourth
street, Minneapolis, Minn., occupied
and owned by the Tribune Publishing
Co., was totally destroyed by fire on
the night of the Gath. The fire started
in the job room on the second floor.
The building imediately adjoining, oc'
cupied as a liquor store by George
Benz & Sons, was almost totally de-
stroyed.
Mrs. Anna 4. George pleaded not
guilty to the indictment against her
,, for the murder OF George D. Saxton
At Cant,u O.. and her trial was set tor
April I.