Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-03-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Considerable interest is being mani.
tested throughout the country in the
result of the municipal elections soon
TO be be held in Cuba. At some points
the campaign has already reached a
stage of activity that is Il revelation
10 the unsophisticated Americans.
The senate, on the list, passed the
bill appropriating $2o,000,000 for pay.
ment 10 Spain, on account of the Phi
ippines, without dissenting vote or
voice.
hdvices received from Apia, Samoa,
| under date of February II, say that af
fairs there were still in an uusatisfac-
tory condition.
The United States supreme court adj
journed. on the 1st, upon the an.
nouncement of the death of Lord
Herschel.
The Covington (Ky,> post Office was
robbed of stamps and money, reported
to amount to 100000, on the morning
of the At.
Queen Marie Henrietta of Belgium is
gravely i'll of bronchial pneumonia.
There has been another advance IN
tin plate of ten cents per box, max.
ing the price $3.iO, net advance of o5
cents since the trust was formed.
An assay of black sand found in the
Kotalinqua river, Alaska, made by Dr.
Willis L. Everett, of the Smithsonian
institutions said to show that one ton
of it contains $776 worth of platinum,
besides iron oxide Of gold worth
$102.s4, two pounds of Tin, two pounds
OF copper and one troy ounce Of iridos .
mine.
Gen. Maximo Gomez asks Gov.-Gen.
Brooke to reduce the American army
of occupation to 10000 men, retaining
10000 Cuban soldiers in the service OF
the military government. At least SO
says Senor Manuel de Cespedes, who
acted as interpreter at council, N
Havana, adding that Gen. Brooke took
the proposition under consideration.
Gen. Toral, who commanded the
Spanish troops at Santiago de Cuha,
has been arrested in Madrid, and im-
prisoncd, previous to being tried by
court martial, on the charge of capitu-
lating to Gen. Shafter at that place on
July IA, last.
After considerable delay the former
Spanish cruiser Mercedes, which was
sunk off Santiago de Cuba harbor on
June g. last, has been raised and
pumped out, the government tugs as
sisting the wrecking company. She
was towcd up to Santiago on the I'd.
A gigantic casket trust is now in
course of formation, and should eN-
pcctations be realized, one dying three
months hence will do so at greater
expense than now, as ii is contemplate
cd to make sharp advance in burial
receptacles.
Representative John w. Crawford, OF
the Fourth congressional district OF
Texas, died at the Providence hospital
Washington, at midnight of the 2d, OF
heart disease and other complications.
The president, on the I'd, sent to the
senate the nomination of Assistant Ma
val Constructor Richmond =. Hobson'
to be advanced ten numbers, from No.
of the list of assistant naval constr,lc-
tors, to be No. on the list OF navai
constructors, for extraordinary hero
ism.
lludyard kipling was reported, on
the night of the I'd, to be on the ROAD
to recovery, but his two daughters
Josephine, six years old. and Elsie
three years old. were still suffering
from pneumonia. the disease win
which their father has had so severe
struggle.
A Manila dispatch says that Agu'-
nalto's army is disheartened as the re-
suit of the recent actions Many COM
panies of the insurgents have retired
because their officers sk'Iil;ed and re-
fused to lead their ncn, i