Macon beacon., 1900-01-27


The board OF naval bureau chiefs, al
their meeting, on the 18th, decided
against the use of double tWrets fol
the new battleships.
The German papers take cognizance
OF the civiltics extended to the Off.
GERS of the training ship Moltke, al
New Orleans, and comment appreci'
atively.
Mr.. De Armond of Missouri, intro
duced a bill in the house. on the 18th,
for the repeal Of the bankruptcy law
with a reservation that proceedings
now begun may be closed up.
Consul Skinner, at Marseilles, re-
ports to the state department that the
olive crop in Italy, France and Spain
is practically a failure, and will hardly
reach 80 per cent of the average,
Rev. DR.. Francis L. Clark, founder
and president of the Young Peoples
Society of Christian Endeavor, left
Boston, on the 10th, accompanied by
his wife, for his third missionary tour
OF the world.
The agrarian members of the Ger
man reichstag have formally resolved
to press the meat inspection bill to a
second reading, notwithstanding the
uIgently-eNpressed wish of Count Won
Buelow that the measure should be de-
ferred.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
Tacoma, Wash. for Manila, on the
nth, with an immense cargo of hay,
meats and army supplies. She also
carried heavy mails for the soldiers
and materials for building an addition
al ice plant at Manila.
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The German bark Marie, from Aus
tralia, with II cargo Of flour for the
Transvaal government has been taken
as a prize by the British third-cass
- cruiser Pelorus, near the Island Of In
yak. Delagoa bay, andh as been sent to
Durham with prize crew on board.
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The navy Department. on the 18th,
n formally initiated its policy Of procur-
/ ing typewriting machines in large
M numbers by advertising, instead of
Il making purchases in the open market
" as heretofore. 1t is expected that a
ia saving of 80 per cent will be effected
'' The local army and health officers Of
San francisco are preparing to receive
300 bodies Of DECEASED soldiers from
!. Manila due to arrive There within the
next three or four weeks. The army
officials have also been notified that Is
r.sick soldiers and 1876 prisoners will
arrive shortly.
4 The Spanish transatlantic steamer
ID Sec IL. arrived at Barcelona, ON the
Siidth from the Philippines, with former
=. .",SWHish prisoners, and their families.
- "a fifRHffiy of them were ina lamenta-
III bic blight. The town authorities and
Reg. Gross. agents met them and gave
oh needed assistance to the sufferers.
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+. It3s stated .thatp4ta1ds man SIoyer,
whQDhfeently died ,ib, GAtfqrpa,. made
~. a das1e bed cnatesaieep!,ios cthe elIeet
lu ths4she. e.kaIi8thoses Ialfkips,in il Mime
sotS ,sGge u 9i 99iare sg9s snf for y. NlhliG2h l2
l0ll CRIME William Rose, whose attentions
% Grace Lufkins had been forbidden
by her fgther, was hanged, protesting
his Innocence.
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ea VIE ohiterslo of the .Graig Growers
Mu5pplyH2iJ IgsssanEF9qpce ~ So, at Omaha,
CIV Nep;,,A ,A9ps, the s5l5thl, asked that ), J.,
EvtIingham,- deputy state Insurance
n, conlihisSioner, be appointed receiver Of
" thS'c6ihpanyS and the court made the
spfbhitHteift The cGfipany was or
lS gdiss~honts one year ago, and had
beeu in trouble kep@ome 'ti9ne. 81
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exJI tfetbrarh of promise suit of K.
Kirk agafnst" Mary Eggleston, at
Ierned Kas., the ivy returned a yer
dicts on the 18th, inf favor 6f'tiik for
s$i,650@kirl boatrlea'with Mrs. Eggles-
ton. and claJtatd that She' borrowed
M. money from hintleadingAhini' to believe
thi she loved airl would marry him. Af-
~ " ter gettil9sfe noncy Mrs. Eggleston
\ refrsed 10 marry him.
\ ifSs urgent df,dcicocy appropriation
lG @igksfhe'titst of the important bills for
/ the government, reported to the
!, house by Chairman Cannon of the
ways and means committee, ON the
ID k1atthsG9rries $56,12ts4l, of which $47,.
~ 602,3s2 is re-appropriations for the mil
! \ itarY and naval establishments, and
~ g.isys ap!IoP-la'o"S . II
Y The bear-trap dam separating the
drainage canal from the Das PIaine,
,sF river. ar Lockport, ILL.,, was lowered by
: th&tahitary district trustees, with th,
Irt consent of the canal commissioners
M Hr and Gov. Tanner on the l5th, at ll:lG
W. a. M. and 2Oo.0d6jcubit feet of water
-" per minute rushed, with u roar, into
tm Des PLANES river on its way to the
sI;3lfpf Mexico. a., ;, s,
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N Chief Justice Fuller, in the United
n State dist'rict court, for the district of
MEssachusetts,toh the 10Th, made per-
M.nnent., the preliminary injunction,
gFspitd some time ago, restricting
Ae5einsor tola,c1o manufacturers from
~ selling or Offering for sale any stogies
rr bearing the word: Wheeling" except
~ such as are actually manufactured in
the city of Wheeling, Viva.
4 Latest news received TO the 18th,
gN fronl1hc war in South Africa, was that
.ia GenxsBtller completely surprised the
a Beers, and occupied the hills beyond
Z Potgieter's Drift, Is miles west of Co
n leiIsc. In Cape Colony, Gen. Methuen
d had made demonstration in force,
shellmg the, Boer works; Gen. Gatacre
WIS Diminishing around Molteno, and
GEn Wrench had bepp throwing few
" y]Is at the Beers at Rensberg. Col
" aqumer was moving to the relief OF
4ktekng from Bechuapaland.
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