Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-04-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the manager of the yacht. t
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was reported i'll i
at the home of Gen. II. c. Merriam G
in Denver, Col, on the 4th, having :
contracted a cold while on a trip
around the Georgetown loop in the
mountains. He had planned to go to
Colorado Springs on his way to Cali
forna.
Mrs. Annie w. Clarke, of Columbus,
O., president of the Ohio Womans
Christian Temperance union, has adj
dressed a formal note to the women
of the Ohio society Of California, pro-
testing against the serving of wine at
the banquet which the society is to
give in honor of the presidential par
ty at the launching of the battleship
Ohio.
Lieut.. Frederick Boyer, of the Tbir-
tv-ninth volunteer infantry, chief COM
nissary for the second district of the
department of southern LuZon, is un-
der arrest at Calamba, Province OF
Laguna, where he has been charged
with misappropriating so cases of ba'
con and with other irregularities.
The president, on the 4th, signed
the commissions of Lloyd Wheaton as
major general and of Jacob IL. Smith
md Frederick Funston as brigadier
generals of the United States army,
the commissions Of Generals Wheaton
and Smith bearing date of March 80,
and that of Funston April l,
The Columbian Paper Co., started
its mammoth pulp plant in Bristol,
Tenn, on the 4th. This is perhaps
the largest plant OF the kind In the
south, and has just been completed at
o cost of $4,000
One of the questions to be settled
at the annual reunion OF the uhlted
Confederate Veterans association, AT
Memphis, Tenn, May rs to 3O' inclu,
siye. will be that of the admission OF
tho sons of the veterans to full mem
bcrship in the association.
Col Robert Wallace, who served as
q captain in the United States army
in the Mexican war and was made cor
onel of western regiment III 'ht
Union army in the civil war, died al
the residence of his sister, Mrs Alex
=, ander Elliott, in Jersey City, ~ De- oil
the 5th, aged 50 years.
Samuel l. Gordon, of Omaha Neo'
suspended as police Judge pending al
imncachment trial by the city coun
d oil on the 9Th, attempted to take HI
" seat as usual at the morning session
II and, with his son, was finally remove
forcibly by the police
: Howard Cole, of Indianapolis, ina
i who is Russell B. IINrrisons attorne!
= said. on the 5th, that the report una
Mr.. Harrison would contest his II
:. ther's will was entirely unfomde'
" Mr. Harrison, ne said, is entirely sa
Il isfied.
y The statement Of the treasury oa
- ances in the general fund, eNciusiN
!, of the $15O,O00 gold reserve IN the q
- vision of redemption, issued on u
=, 9Th, showed; Available cash balanc
SIS, 1884; gold reserve $S"-l'
e $40. 800,
,r At johannesburg. Transvaal Oolon
he an the 5th, Lord Kitchener personal
ed presented the Red Cross medal
Of. Madame Ferriers, head of the Freh
on ambulance department, for her sci
mt ices to the British wounded
,g- Judge John A. Warth, aged W yea
died at his home near Charleston
Va. on the 5th, after an illness
he several weeks. lie was senator
in vi,.rinio in 1857 and member OF |
on constitutional convention OF NeSt
on ciuia in 1872. In 1873 he was appol
en-. ed by the legislature to codlly
OF state laws which are now used
ma The steamship Ehein, which arrl,
re- Mt New York, on the 5th, from d
IN men. broke the record as pasSeni
carrier. Besides her crew. "h
~ numbered over four hundred she
,ar- 2,502 passengers
80, The navy department, on the
i;n awarded the contract for the ou'iu
saa Of the 23-knot protected cruiser
IN wankee to the Union IRON WORKS .
.. San Francisco. The contract prie
nor $2,s25,000 -
let Tho Kansas asylum for the ins
ding ne ..,.h ,yc, 600 patie
is threatened with an eploe",''
smollnox. An attendant was ia
nt;c i'll and the malady was found u
on smallpox. He was sent to the !
lam. house. On the 5th two cases d'
,rgo oped among the patients, and p
mis- started among the employees
| on A Washington dispatch int'm
en- that tbe president will reward IA
e st. Mitchell, Fortieth infan'rN' zap
will w Newton, Thirty-fourth miai
d its and Capt. r. T. Hazard and Lieu
"a to y NJ Hazard, who also nccompa
Con Funston on his expedition
,be copture Of Aguinaldo with
tives, missions in the regular army
ittee By the death of Thomas H. Gas
n in of San Francisco, all the pomp
ming sanctity of the worlds highest
mil sonic rank, now falls upon cong
re Of man James d. Richardson, OF
gdin- nessee. In other words, ne VIII
# the coed to the exalted office oil soVe
ntion, Grand commander of the sou
avery Jurisdiction of the Ancient AM
e sue. cepted Scottish Rite OF Free
ou' sonry. a..
Atty,-Gen. Douglas OF Minn
has rendered an opinion on the
IS OF ing bill, passed by both houses
9id'ng legislature, for purpose OF se'
al and the release of the Younger pro
archi. He states that the enac'ine
'e war question is, in his opinion uh'
"s tutional.