Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-03-29

coin.
The Servian cabinet, on the 10th
tendered its resignation, owing tc
Tie adoption by the slluptsehina (th'
national assembly, Of civil service
reform measure, against the wishes
of the ministry.
The rules committee OF the New
York state assembly, on the 10th, ia
yorably reported bill appropriatinG
500, 600 for New York states repre-
sanitation at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition at St Louis.
Senator Proctor, on the 10th, intro
duced bill continuing in force the
present law for the exclusion of Chin
Csc until the expiration OF the exist
ing treaty with China or until new
treaty shall be negotiated.
The Portuguese troops in East Af,
rica captured 1G2 slave dealers anC
Killed so others at Pemba Bay, re
GENTLY, when the government forces
attacked 10 strongholds of the slave
dealers, and liberated 700 slaves.
Five hundred returned emigrants
disappointed with life in the United
State, have just passed through Ber'
lin on their way to their old homes
iii the provinces of east and west
Prussia and in Russia and Austria.
The New York stock exchange will
Be closed on Good Friday and the
following day. The board of man
agers of the New York produce ex-
change also voted to close the eX-
change on Good Friday, March %.
N The annual report of the Ameri-
can Telephone Co., of Boston, just is
sued, shows total earnings of SILL
COG SIG, against S0,534, ,449 in 1900; net
revenue $7,30S,285, against $5,4S6,0j7
IN 1900 Surplus, after dividends, ST.
34s,2 ,2G2, against 81 ,407, 4j6 in 1900
2 A general heavy rain fell in Kansas,
On the night of the Goth, and in many
paccs continued throughout the next
day. The fall was especially heavy
Ill the wheat belt, and it is believed
game in time to save the crop from
Injury from drought and high winds
#4 Letters received from POrt-au-
Prince, Hayti, say that "the whole
country is disturbed owing to the
bad political situation. The govern
ment is making numerous arrests in
Several quarters, principally Jacmel,
where ii is feared a revolutionary
outbreak in imminent"
a# The Cologne Gazette says that 4
four-yolume autobiography of Rich
ard Wagner, beginning in 1864, has
been privately printed at Basel and
Bayreuth. Thirteen sets of the work
have been issued before general pub
lcation, supposedly for the crit,
.cisms of judicious friends.
IA The secretary of the interior, OF
ifhe 10Th, sent to the senate the draft
sof a bill providing for the enlarge
mont of Yellowstone park In a
Communication accompanying the
pill, the secretary says the extension
sof the park boundaries is necessary
f. protect the game in the park.
The political situation in Hayti is
Critical, The authorities continue
making arrests. The prisoners of i'm
EIortance are taken on board the
Iaytien war shipCrete-au-Pierot. The
authorities at Port-au-Prince believe
the disturbances will be guelled be
fore tehy reach the stage of being
considered revolutionary,
The Franco-Russian note relative
to China, which was published, on
the 20th was handed to Secretary
Hay by Ambassador Cambon, for
France, and Count Cassini, for Rus.
Isia, The note is regarded officially
as simply another pledge on the part
|of the signatory powers to maintain
the open door" in China.
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The agreement between the Domin~
ION government and William Mar
coni for the establishment OF a wire
less telegraph station at Cape Breton
bias been brought to a satisfactory
issue. 1t is expected that wireless
communication will be established be-
tween the Dominion and Great Brit
ain by the beginning of June.
The supreme court of California,
In decision handed down, on the
10th, declared the trust clause in the
will of the late Senator James &.
Fair invalid, and the property will al
once be distributed among the chill.
dren of the deceased senator. 1t is
estimated that the estate is worth !
more than twenty million dollars
-
United States Consul-General Per-
ry NJ. De Leon, at Guayaquil, Ecua-
dor has applied for and been granted
q leave of absence, and will come TO
shortly, TO confer with
the state department with regard to
the recent troubles III Ecuador grow
Ing out of claims of Illegal arrest |
and Imprisonment OF American citi'
zens.
The government bin arranging for
consular and com
mercial relations between Austria
Hungary and Mexico was agreed up,
on in the upper house of the reichs'
rath, on the 2lst. The bill had al'
ready passed the lower house. An
Austro-l Hungarian minister to MeNi'
20 was appointed last June. .Diplo
matte relations between Austria-hun
gary and Mexico had been interrupt
ed since 1867, the year Emperor Maxi
milan was shot
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The general immigration bill, pre-,
pared by Chairman Shattuc of The
on immigration and nat
and accepted by that
was by him reported &c
Ihe house. on the 18th, with the ree
ommepdatiop that it be passed