Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-05-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Magellan. No details of the cat,s-
| trophe are at hand
| On the 4th Emma Marshall. the En-.
| glish novelist, died in London She was
the authoress of long series of his.
| torical novels.
The Junction City G. Fort Kearney
branch of the Union Pacific railroad
extending from Junction City, Kas., 10
| Belleville and Concordia, will be sold
under foreclosure proceedings at June.
| ton City on the 9th.
Further conferences are being held
in New York city for the purpose Of
completing details of the proposed
consolidation of bicycle makers. All
| options have been obtained.
Severe seismic disturbances visited
| the southern and eastern districts Of
Peloponnesus on the night of the 4th.
| The town of Lignditza was seriously
damaged, many houses being thrown
| down.
| Further conferences are being held
in New York city for the purpose Of
completing details of the proposed
consolidation of bicycle makers. All
options have been obtained.
Mr.. lie Grande Power, for eight
years labor commissioner of Minneso-
| Ia, was before the industrial commits
sion, at Washington, on the 4th. He
spoke especially of farming conditions
| Ia ,rt b,an tnt CIV;
| that the present tendency among
| fern hands was toward the ownership
of the lands, and that greater per-
centage of farmers now owned their
own land than 80 years ago.
Richard Harding Davis, of New
York, writer, and Miss Cecil Clark
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mar
shall Clark, of Chicago, were married
at ST. Gabrcl's chapel, Marion, Mass,
on the 4th, Rev. Percy Browne, OF
| koXbury, Mass, otiiciated.
The entire interest of Andrew Car
ncgic Steel Co. has been purchased by
his copartncrs in the business, with
| Ii. c. Frick al their head. The exact
figures which represent the purchase
price could not be learned. 1t is said
however, the price is over Sl50,000.
1t is expected that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador to
the United States. will be elevated to
| the peerage on the occasion of the
queens birthday, May "a, in recogni.
ton of his distinguished services at
| Washington.
| Gen. Polavieia wants all of the S20,-
| OOO. 900 received from the United States
for the Spanish army The naval au-
thorities are equally insstent, setting
forth the necessity of replacing ;he
fleet destroyed at Santiago. Further
more. Marquis Villa Verde, the finance
minister. threatens the government
with bankruptcy unless the whole
sum is devoted to making up the def
cit in the revenues.
The duke d'Arcos, the new Spanish
minister to the United States. accom-.
panied by his wife, left Madrid for
| Paris, on the 4th, en- route for Wash
| I1pIbIl. III tNpVN'S w sui 'i''A 'N''
gland on the 20th inst.
| Buried treasure in the shape of II
81 900 bonds, bearing unclipped cou-
pons, which adds several thousand
dollars to their value, was found by
| Thomas Lawson, negro laborer,
while digging in the cellar OF Cincin'
natl department store.
Three hundred and fifty miners, ac'
cused of participating in the late riot,
a,c confined at Wardncr, Idaho, under
guard of United States troops. Over
500 troops are in the Coeur dAlene
district, and all fear of further out
breaks is past.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury issued on the 9Th showed;
| Available cash balance, $260,5lO,27S;
gold reserve, $245.l1l.O61.
Gen. Ramon Guerra, formerly Nene'
zuean minister of war and marine
who started the revolution In Nene'
zuela last February, has been finally
severely defeated by the government
II oops, and has escaped into Colombia
Gen. Otis, on the 5th, reported the
| capture of over 100000 bushels of rice
and $50 tons of sugar at Balinag; also
| 81 500, 900 worth of stores at Maloios
and much rice and corn belonging to
the enemy at other points.
Makers of steel fence wire who are
outside of the trust met in Chicago on
the 5th, for the purpose of forming
combination and erecting plant at
some point within the Indiana gas
belt.
The duke d'Arcos, the ncwly-ap-
pointed Spanish minister to the United
States, started from Madrid, on the
5tl., for his new post at Washington
by way of Paris.
The New York state board of ahtra-
tion has decided to hold n public inves-
tigation of the dock troubles at Bu'fa'
10.
There is reason to believe that Pres
ident Mckinley has been advised that
Admiral Dewey contemplat"s coming
home within a very short time. HIS
return will, of course, be dependent
rpon the success of the commissions
negotiations with the Filipinos.
The post office department, on the
Cth, made public the letter OF Edward
Atkinson, of Boston, on which the ac-
ton of the department in seizing his
pamphlets were based. Many letters
asking information about the supJec'
have reached the capitol.
Mail Carrier Brinale has just re-
turned to Victoria, B. c., making a
perilous trip from the Stickine ',ver
to urge the dominion and provitta!
governments to send immediate reiiei
to upwards of 200 men, who are racing
starvation on the Ashcroft tran.
Mules and dogs had been the sole die!
of the men for weeks when the mall