Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-01-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the Sd Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba
y Issued an order giving freedom to &C
men in the province of Santa Clara
Cuba. Some of them had been detained
without trial and others were suffer
Ing excessive punishment
On the Sd VIM. Waldorf Astor con.
tributed $1,000 to the prince Of
Wales hospital fund.
The Venezuelan government has con.
ferTed the order of the Bust of Boil
var" upon Admiral Sampson, Captains
Taylor, Cook, Sigsbee, Chadwick and
Gcodrich, and Commanders Mead, Day
ton, Symonds and Todd, of the United
States navy, and Representative Hit
on the Sd, introduced a bill authoriz
ing the acceptance of the decorations
Ecu NA dr has drafted a bin fol
1h aaEhmeut ~ pGymaneni
I'M posi- at Huntsville, Ala, and Il
" be Introduced by Congressman J.
8 Stailingsi with the support Of an the
SAlabama congressman.
i The American bark Sachem. CAPT,
Nickel, from New York, December Is,
Tor Hong Kong, with kerosene, ar
rived at ST. Thomas, D. w. l., on the
ath, in distress.
The promotion of Gen. Macarthur
by the president was confirmed by tie
senate on the 4th.
The Davenport, Rock Island & North
western road, one of the new lines
built in Iowa this year, was opened
Tor freight traffic on the ith.
Mr. Wilson, of Idaho, introduced a
bill in the house, on the 18th, for a con-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES uni
form marriage and divorce laws.
w. Murray Crane was inaugurated
governor of Massachusetts on the 4th.
AT the same time the other state Off
cers-elect took the oath of office. Gov.
Cranes address was devoted wholly to
ms tters Of state interest.
Because the Arkansas authorities
would not pay any more than SIS for
MS return to the penitentiary in that
statc,whence he escaped, eight month.
ago, having II years yet to serve, the
police of Denver, Col, have turned
Wyatt Sharpe loose.
AT the instance of School Trustee
keating, who is president of the An
cient Order of Ilibernians, the school
management committee of the Chicago
Board of education ordered all histo-
ries of England that refer to England
Is the mother country" to be thrown
ont of the list of supplementary read
Ing for seventh and eighth grades.
While in fit Of rage. on the 4th.
Charles Root, Kalamazoo county
tMich) farmer living in Texas town
ship, cut his wifes throat and then
his own in the presence of their two
children. The elder is only two years
cid, and can give no ineligible ac-
eount of the tragedy except that his
parents had been quarreling.
The PhiIadelphagran jury returned
true bills of indictment in the election
fraud eases in the thirteenth division
OF the seventh ward, during the recent
election for state treasurer, when
Licnt.-Col. Barnett of the Tenth Penn
sylvania volunteers was elected. There
are nine defendants.
The power house of the Cudahv Oil
Co, located north of Muncic, Ind, in
the llacb'ord county oil tilcds, was
established by an explosion, causing
\ loss of $4,000. Forty producing oil
wells must lie idle until repairs are
made IN the machinery,
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
college of Emporia (Kas.) $4,000 for
alibrary building as soon as the pres
ent debt is paid. Il. II. Gragg, fnan-
cial agent of the college, raised 5000.
on the 4th' from the Topeka presby-
terry. Emporia citizens have given So
600, and the synod of Kansas promises
100000 which will be enough to pay
all obligations of the college.
The worlds first aluminium telc-
phone system was put in operation be-
tween Pittsburgh and New Ken
sington, Pa, a distance of is miles. 1t
proved So much of a success that it is
said The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
ordered similar system.
3 The president issued an executive
order, on the 5th, setting aside certain
lots OF ground at Honolulu as military
reseryatlons, subject to outstanding
leases and private rights.
The statement of the condition oft |
treasury issued on the 5th showed:
<&2aliable cash balance, $2s3,S91 ,027; |
gold Reserve, 1896, 1,s3s.
Mrs Lily Langtry, the actress, ar
rived az New York, on the 5th, on the
Steamer Lucana.
Haimres in the United States for
fne week ended on the 5th, as report
fd byHR. G. Dun & Co., were 27S.
against 243 for the corresponding week
Iass year In Canada the failures were
k6, against "A last year.
DR. William A. Hammond. former
Surgeon general of the army, died in
washington on the 5th.