Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-05-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

III Gen. Roberts is rapidly cutting down
|fbc distance which lies between his |
advancing host and Kroonstad. The |
eommandcr-n-chicl in his latest dis
match says that he has crossed the
Zand river, and that the Eoers are in
Night, with the British cavalry in hot
pursuit along three roads.
Nh President Kruger has been asked by
"a burgheress if the time has not ar
lived for the formation of a corps of
awomcn, adding that she is prepared
NTH body of women volunteers, 10
Ntake up arms in defense of the indie
pendencc of the Transyaal.
# Runners reached the ears of the
#Amcrican authorities at Manila that
~ rising among the Filipinos in the
asxity was threatened on the day the
new commissioners arrived, An inyes-
fgaton was made quietly, with the
result that about 100 natives were
placed under arrest.
y Gov Stephens went to st, Louis, on
PIE 10th, for the purpose of informing
himself fully upon the strike situa-
fCn and if possible setting on foot
negotiations between the street rail
road officials and strike leaders which
You'd result in the resumption OF
street car traffic in st. Louis. His eff
forta were practically fruitless.
The application of the University OF
&Ialiiornia for Il charter was granted
! A tl,e sixty-ffth annual convention of
- Epsilon at San Francisco on the
1llh, Other applications were not act
q ~ upon.
81. Ihe old Parkinson sugar plant, Ut
TOM Scott, Kas., which was estab-
Lshcd by the government at cost of
"a $4,000 to experiment in the manu-
II IcturC of sorghum sugar, was sold,
On the 10th, for $4,000 to l.. p. Best, a
N wealthy glucose manufacturer OF
Davenport, la.
The populist national convention at
I'm fiouN Falls, S. D., nominated William
Bryan for for president. The mid.
le' of-the-ronders, at Cincinnati, nom
pated Wharton Barker for president
nd lgnatius Donnelly for vice-presi-
0 lent.
Charles +. Webster, chief clerk o.
] ne national military home, at Marion
nd, was arrested, on the 10th, by
Icputy United States Marshal Bran
Pam, of Indianapolis, on the charge
enlightenment and grand larceny.
'Tz a peasant in village near Arezzo
'aly' on the 18th, during a sudden at
Iacli OF madness, murdered nine mem
RerS OF his family and wounded sew
PA others, Before he could be over
'kNfone he had also burned to the groun'
stable filled with cattle.
'.s|lA Inc woman question received the Mt
ehuon OF the Methodist genral con
erence, ON the 18th, resolution beinj
ported by subcommittee providing
kor such a change in the discipline a
onld permit the licensing of wcme
local preachers and eXhorters. Afte
long debate the resolution was vote
Town.
oenor Buencamino, the former lead
n oil the Filipino congress, accepts tn
oVerelgnty of the United States, az
howledges that his countrymem az
capable of self government, and d,
ares that the efforts at governmer
ready made, under adverse cond
'onS' are more liberal and just tina
"h'emplated by the Filipino constit,
sixteen hundred houses, includin
I temples and all the principal built
pgs, were burned in a ire that r
] ently swept Fookier, Japan. Sixtee
ersons persisted and nearly 100 mol
ere injured. The property loss is E
10000.
ahmed Pasha, Turkish vice-admirs
- 50 ie1t Constantinople. He is comiI
'he United States with proposal
se object of which is the settleme,
our claims in an indirect manne
'he event of the failure of Ahmed
roposals the United States cover
,en' Will resume negotiations with Il
Ure' The impression is that Ahm
III not succeed.