Macon beacon., 1900-01-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Joseph Schwartz, a New York cloak
maker, says he would not have cared
ii he had not been out of work just at
present but he is a little sorry the
storli came the other night and pre-
sented him with three new babies,
lust doubling his family at one visit.
The body of William Galloway, fire
bcss at the Kasla William mine, of
the Dodson Coal Co. at Pottsyile, Pa
WHO was cntombed by fall of coal on
December is last, was recovered on
the 18th inst. 1t is believed he lived
but three days.
The situation existing in the Indian
territory is acute. The Indians ara
unable to secure possession of their
Rlotments, owing to the resistance OF
the whites, who now hold occupancy
of the lands. Some of the Indians are
in an ugly mood and trouble is antici-
pated,
Smallpox continues to spread al
Leavcnwouh, Kas. Six new cases de-
vclopcd near Lansing ON the 18TH, It
broke out in two families where chill
tdreH attended the city central and
high schools, and both schools have
been closed for an indefinite period
The penitentiary is closed to outsid-
ers.
The colossal statue of Daniel Web
ster, presented 10 the United States by
Mr.. Stilsou llutchins, and erected in
Scott circle, Washington, was un.
veled, on the 18th, with appropriate
ceremonies. President Mckinley, the
members of his cabinet and many
other distinguished persons in public
and private life participated.
The trustees Of the Western thco-
logical seminaries of Chicago have
conferred the degree of doctor of sa-
cred Theology upon Rt. Rev. Samuel
Edsall, bishop of North Dakota, and
RI. Rev Arthur l.. Williams, bishop
condiutor Of Nebraska.
Maj.-Ccn. Wood, governor of Cuba,
expresses himself as well pleased with
the result of his recent visit to the
province of Tinar del Rio. Gen. Wood
congratulated Gen. Lee on "the mag
niGcent showing made by the section
of the island under his admiusira-
| ton.
The palatial suburban home of
Charles r. Harris, the inventor near
Wiliamsport, Pa. was entirely de-
stroyed by fire, late on the night of
the 18th, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Senator Wellington, on the 18th, in
| troGuced a bill in the senate exempt
ing veterans of the war with Spain
frou the age disqualification for APP
poir tment to Offices in the army.
Leroy W. Secor, charged with hav,
| ing committed an emhelzlement Of
$4,000 from the Goodrich Transporta-
ton Co., of Milwaukee, was arrested in
New York city on the 10Th.
1t is stated on authority that the
new million dollar packnghousc plant
of the Cudahy Brothers in Kansas City,
NJ, will be in full operation by the
first of May,
The statement of thecondition Of the
treasury issued on the 10th showed:
Available cash balance, S2S6, 1925;
gold reserve, $221,SS4,2 200.
Osman Digna, principal general of
the late Khalfa Abdullah, has been
captured. 1t has been known tlat he
was in the neighborhood of Tolar,
ard several expeditions were organ
lied from Sualim, under Capt Burgess,
with the result that Osman Digna was
taken, unhurt, in the hills.
Otto Won Schae2ler, of Davenport,
1a,,h as renounced his claim to a
baronetcy in Germany and title to the
| great fortunes that are attached to il
in order to continue his residence in
this country, he having married an
American girl and become naturalized
~ dispatch from Spearman's Camp
Natal of the 10th, says that Lord Dun
dorald, with his cavalry command, on
the 18th, surrounded u detachment of
Beers near Acton Homes, Killing 90 oil
them and taking Is prisoners. This
move interrupts the Beers eommuni.
cation with the Orange Free State
Amos Phillips, the Bates county
tMo) farmer who was tried 1t Fort
Scott, kas. for completely in the mu.
der Of Leopold Edlinger, last 'Noyem
Der, was convicted, on the 18Th, al
murder in the first degree. The Jury
was out MI night.
The foreign commerce of the Unitct
States in 1899 amounted TO over S2,
060,000,000, and of this enormous sun
more than three-iifths was export,
and less than two-lifths imports