Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-03-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Jim Younger wants. to get mar
ried; but Jim is legally dead, and is
not competent to enter into Il civil
contract, and the Minnesota board OF
control, the only power that can act,
is not anxious to enter into a mar
riagc contract on Jims account.
The woman suffrage amendment
was given its final death blow by the
Iowa legislature, on the 18th, when
the house, by a vote of sc to 3S,
adopted the report of the committee
recommending it for indefinite post.
ponement.
Miss Jane Smith died at Marshall
town, Ia, on the 18th, at the age OF
1903 years. She was highly connect
ed, native of West Virginia, and hel
father fought in the revolutionary
war.
Gen. Lord Methuen, who was re.
Gently captured by the Boer general,
-Delarey, after being badly wounded,
has been released, to the profound
astonlshment of the British. He ar
arrived at Klerksdorp on the 18th.
Because two Jail guards became in,
terested in a sent pie VIII Lanier,
sentenced to die March 10, at Aber-
deem, Miss, his third escape was
probably prevented. The men broke
open the pastry, and found that it
contained six fine steel saws.
II. G. Dun G. Co.. of New York, re-
ported on the 14th: Failures for
the week were 232 in the United
States, against 209 for the CORE
spending week last year, and "a in
Canada, against SO in 1901"
Mai.-Gen. David S, Stanley ire
tired), notable figure in many cam
paigns, and in one Of the few remain
ing corps commanders of the western
army, in the civil war, died in Wash
ington, on the 18th, aged 10 years, OF
chronic Bright's disease.
Senator McComas, on the 14th, in
troduced a bill authorizing the re-
funding of internal revenue taxes
paid on legacies and requests of re-
Iigious, literary, charitable or edu-
cational character, or for the en-
couragement of art under the wal
revenue act.
The case of Princess Radziwill, who
is charged, at Cape Town, with
forgery in connection with notes pur
porting to have been signed by Ceci
Rhodes and repudiated by the latter
has been postponed until the 2lst, OF
account Of the illness of the prin
cess.
Oil has been struck at depth OF
800 feet in well on Turkey creek
southeast of Morrison, Col, and only
l2 miles from Denver.
Negotiations for treaty OF amt,
between Spain and the United States
have fallen to the ground. Mr.. Storer
the American minister at Madrid, di'
his utmost to get the treaty accept
ed, but when one eff the principa
clauses was somewhat brusquely re
iected he promptly dropped the ne
potjations and started for America.
Some one, by means of a duplicat
KEY, opened mail wagon, in Chicago
on the night of the 18th, and tx
tracted a registered mail sack. Th
contents of the pouch are estimate
to be Of the value of $1,700
The first court of the present re,gr
which took place at Buckingham pa
ace, London, on the night of tn
14th, was gorgeous spectacle, n
less than 500 presentations takin
place. Rain spoiled the function frol
the sightseer's point of view.
Gen. T. 7. Garrard of Manchestc
patriarch of the Kentucky mounlai
feudists and chief of the Baker-Whit
faction, died at his home in Cla
, county, KY, on the 14th, after PR
tracted illness.
King Edva.l has sent Field Ma
shall Gen. Lord Wolseley to Sout
Africa as his personal representati'
to investigate conditions there with
view to bringing about peace befol
the coronation.
1t is rumored that two MOI
changes will soon occur in the cal
,, net, namely, that James Wilson.
; Iowa, secretary of agriculture, W
) tender his resignation, and Iii
I. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, OF ST. Lou
secretary of the interior, will retire