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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

Centerviile, Wilkinson county, 10 max
ing rapid strides in the way OF improve
ments. The Last issue Of the Center
vile Jeffersonian prints = list Of the
Improvements nov being mads there
and the aggregate shows the same to
amount TO s+4, $50. Oenterville Is situ-
ated in one Of the finest vegetable Sec
tions Of the State and large quantities
OF vegetables during the season arc
daily shipped 70 foreign markets. That
section has been especially fortunate in
securing . fine class OF immigration,
steadily on
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

Burglars entered tho storehouSe OF W.
l. Heidelberg at Heidelberg one night
last week and secured something over
500 worth of jewelry and other stuff.
To the rohbers
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

IEAE-ADatRAL J. y. Sr.rxR will sail
for Honolulu on the mail steamer ieav-
ing san Francisco on August S. and
spoa arrival NJ the Hawaiian port will
assume command %: the Pacific squad
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

OcEAs GROVE, n. j.. July ai-A
jubilee of the home and foreign mis-
sions OF the A. NJ. E. church is being
held at this place. There are over
5000 colored people in attendance from
different parts Of the country
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

The Indiana statute OF 1895 provid-
ing that no eonvict-made goods FROM
other states can be sold in indiana
without . state license and bond of So
900 has been declared unconstitution-
al The law also required that the
goods be labeled convict made
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

The Official press Of Yokohama
states that it is probable that the Jap
anese government will agree to the
proposal of Hawaii. and submit the dis
pute betweca the two countries to ar
bitratiou.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

TzE Carnegie and Bethlehem iron
companies have refused to bid for sup
plying armor for battleships within
the $500 limit fixed by law. on the
ground that it is not possible for them
to produce armor Of the quality they
have been supplying to the government
At that figure.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

The conference committee on the
tariff bill agreed upon that measure. on
the 10Th. and submitted its report to
both hoaycs of congress. The bill as
submitted was passed by the house by
vote Of ls5 to lis
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

ptsrsrcH from Constantinople on
the sisl szid. The sultan has issued
an trade sanetioaing the settlement Of
the frontier Question in accordance
With the wishes Of the powerA
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

PERRr BELMONT. who has just 70
tarned from Europe. thinks the specia:
commission sent abroad by President
Mckinley TO confer with Europea an
statesmen regarding an international
bimetallic conference will be success.
f1t
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

MEMBERS of the congregation of the
First Presbyterian church of Washing
ton deny in the most emphatic manner
that there Is any dissension between
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmagc and them
Sslv
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

on the sai the president appointed
wm- L. Corson. of Wisconsin; ID. A.
Keepers, Of Ohio; John T. wertz. Of
Nebraska, James Jeffreys. Of Tennes-
see. and Howell r. wyton. Of Indiana,
TO be special agents to make allosments
Of lands in severalty to Indians
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

THE amount of treasure brought
down to Seattle, Wash, from the famed
klondyke region by the steamship
Portland is now placed at 1850. 900.
and there is good reason to believe that
the sum was nearer to 81, 900, 900.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

TIE ambassadors at Constsutinople
have forwarded to their respective gov
.rnmen;s their join. suggestions rela-
tive 70 the measures they think neces-
sary in view Of the consumacy Of the
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

At Ellisville last week considerable
excitement was created by runaway
team. The horses, hitched TO . double
seated buggy, were driven by DE. Hugh
StsadmAn and Hon c, S. Street. VINO
were preparing for an evenings drive
with some young ladies' Street had
hold Of the lines and was using every
effort to stop the frightened horses when
the lines broke, the horses dashed down
the street aud Street was thrown out
His leg was dislocated at the knee. The
wound is very painful but in no way -
rioua DIR. Sseadman was not hurt
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

THs signing Of the wage scale by the
National Steel Manufacturers associa-
tion in Pittsburgh. Pa. will result in
the Midland steel works in Muncie.
Ind. resuming work and giving en-
Pioyment to nearly y thousand men
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

BUSINESS failures throughout the
United States, for the week ended Oh
the Esd, as reported by r. q. Dun &
Co, were 81, against Isl for the corre-
spending week OF last year. For Cam
ada the failures were IS. against %
last wear
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

The colossal equestrian statue to
Mai-Gep- John A. Logan was unveiled
in the Lake Front park. Chicago. on
the I'D. by John A. Logan the Third, =
the hve-year-old grandson of the
Black Eagle Of Illinois, in the pres
snce of an immense eoncourse of pee
ME
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

TWELVE document cases in the Office
OF the clerk Of KinRs county, in Brook
lyn, toppled over on the :Ist causing .
chaos that will cost 500. QUO to correct
The cases were filed with index
records Of court proceedings and other
official papers dating back - far as
is4A
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

NOAH BASEr. . convict at the Michi-
gan City Ind } prison, has made writ
ten confession. which. If proven true,
will have the effect o: giving Rev. W..
l. Hinshaw. who was Convicted two
years ago and sentenced TO life impris-
onnent for the murder of his wife. his
liberty.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

Az ordinance has been passed by the
city council of Los Angeles. Cal. and
Is now in force. which prohibits the
public exhibition of pictures Of pugi-
iistie contests by the vitascope or
other similar devices The ordinance il
the resultof . petition of the Woman's
Christian nTemperAuce union.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

The ng crop Is now In perfection and
Greenvillo housewives aro busy pro-
serving the delicious fruit for winter.
Figs are scarcely appreciated At their
full value. probably because they Arc 20
common and such sure crop. IL is ons
of tho finest and most desirable OF all
fruits, and from Juno to November fur
nishcs q delightful addition to tho
breakfast table OF those who know how
TO appreciate it. In addition to its del
ieAto and delicious flavor. IL 10 . crop
which never falls. every year being eer-
tain to produce an abundant supply. 10
Is perfectly hardy, and has the great Ad-
vantage OF withstauding tho overflow In
a remarkable manner. whilo peach aud
apple trees are Invariably killed. -
Grecnville Times
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

ASorHKR effort 10 to be made by the
American and English governments 70
pass an arbitration treaty. There is
the best reason for believing that the
matter will be re-opened st Washing
ton in October. and that . short treaty,
OF less scope than the last, will be ar
ranged for submission to the respect
I've governmentA.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29
Broke All Records from New Orleans to
New York.

NEW YORK. July ID. The steamer
FL Rio. Capt. Quick. from New Orleans,
July II. with merchandise, clearing
the jetty aud at South Pass at a;so p.
m, New Orleans time, passed Scotland
lighthouse, 3:i7, New York time, yes
terday afternoon. making the run
from bar to bar in three days. % hours
and 81 minutes, and from dock TO
quarantine. four days. six hours and "a
minutes, breaking all records. The
best previous record from bar TO bar.
four days, two hours and ten minuteA
was made by the steamer El Norte-
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

BEvIER. Mo. July 2s.-At the gen
sral mass meeting of miners held hero
delegates to the state miners conven-
ton. TO be held in Sedalia on the s7th,
were selected By vote of IS to IS.
the delegates were instructed TO vote
to work only three days a week until
the strike in the east is settled. The
delegates were also instructed to use
their best endeavors at the state meet
ing to arrange for cheaper powder aud
blachsmitbing work. The meeting
was attended by more than 400 out Of
7oo miners here.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

RxroRrs from every wheat-growing
county in Oregon show that the wheat
eropwill be the largest in the history
OF the state Eastern Oregon. IL IS
estimated viii produce approximately
li,soo. 900 bushels, while the western
oregon crop will amount to about q, ,5co,-
zoo, making total Of IS ooo. 900 bushels
for the ssste.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

The treasury officials have made
Preparations to put the tariff act into
operation immediately upon its receiv-
ing the signature of the president
copies OF the olfi have been sent to GUS
Toms oMcers shroagout the country in
antieipation Of its passage, and it is ex-
pected that AL will have reached their
estimation by the time the bill be-
comes . law.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

sEsoR CAxovAs DEL CASTILLO the
Spanish premier. stated. on the sist- that
the report Of an alliance between Spain
aud Japan was incorrect The most
cordial relations exist between the two
power& but the understanding does
rot extend further.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
wsr.~.n c...,y FARMERS r-..l,.,..

"srhH t"""y Fsrm~ss t"ssNef&
The Mar.hall County Farmers fasti.
tute held two days session ct Potts
Camp Last week.
W. l. iIutshison, director of the ex.
pertinent station At ia. AgrieultarA,
mi Mechanical College at starkviile.
and ". Il Perkins. chemist to the sta
tion, we're In attendance. and took .
leading part In the discussion.
Hunter Peel stated that he hal raised
eleven bashcls of wheat per aero tho
hFss year. aud then sowcd In peas and
tho second year raised nft-cn bushels OF
wheat This product has been alncss
wholly neglected in this section since
the war, but Mr.. Peel said IL would be
profitable.
The interesting question Of Why farm,
ers' sons leave the farm Zoe the city was
answered in measure by Prot Perkins,
In response to the query OF how many
graduates OF tho Agricultural and Me-
ehanieal College remained on tho FARM
he said that Of the fifteen members OF
last years class I've owned farms OF had
opportunities to do SO. and that these
remained on the farm. but that the
others. from lack Of means. had only
the positions OF laborsrs open to them
and chose a more congenisi occupation.
lie said that 1t was lack Of means rather
than distasts for tho farm that caused
them to leavc.
Tho members OF tho club and visitors
from other parts Of the county were tho
guests OF tho good people OF ro,ts Camp
and neig hborhood. About 1000 peopls
were present and psrtook OF bounteous
dinner spread under tho trees ., Eagle
Springs, 4 short distance out Of town.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29

Message ef the President 10 Congress nse-
esnss-adi.E tn. sprsissss~st "f I. cssu-
.si-~iaa ts uske . Thorough tav~st.xs-
tt-n Of the Nea-tssy A6a,rs s.d ttnsn-
sisi Needs sf tho t".ntry snd to Nshs
-axg-.tiaa- fe- . Hss~dy.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07
CREENlAsD's ICY MOUNTAINS.

The report sent out few days ago that
the United States was negotiating with
Denmark for the purchase of Greenland
created ripple of amusement What
did We want with Greenlandf What would
it be good for? and various other ques-
tions were asked and humorously com,
mented upon. Bot the possession of
Greenland might not prove a bad invest
ment after all, although the officials have
sent out denial that any such purchase
wss contemplated.
Geographically Greenland occupies
much the same position, as to distance
from the United States, as does Alaska,
and is l,4o0 miles long and 700 miles wide,
making it the largest island on the globe.
While its climate is such that it cannot
rival New Mexico as a fruit producing
country, yet is not without value. Its
great deposits of cryolite are worth con-
siderable now, and will be worth vastly
more in the future when the world has
put aluminium to new and varied uses.
While no gold discoveries are recorded
on the island, conditions are such as to
make the finding of that metal not al
together improbable. The fisheries are
something wonderful, birds are innumer-
able and coal is known to exist in some
localities.
When Secretary Seward paid Russia
several millions of dollars for Alaska,
people thought the old gentleman was
somewhat daft, but subsequent develop
ments have shown the wisdom of the &C
QUESTION of seemingly frozen bog hole,
and the United States has made big money |
on the investment. OF course it is hardly |
possible to expect so much to come from
another congealed mass of water and |
sand, but it could be put to several uses.
About the best thing that could be done
with it would be to send a few Thousand |
ranting, raving labor leaders and anar
chists up there to cool off and learn to
appreciate the comforts of the United
States as place of residence.
For that purpose, alone, Greenland
would be worth almost any sum of money
Denmark might ask for it..
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07
SPANISH INEEllClIY.

Something of the real condition of the
Spanish troops in Cuba Is gradually com
ing to light A recent dispatch from
Havana, sent out from Spanish quarters,
says that last week 800 sick and wounded
government troops sailed for Spain. The
dispatch further says:
During the last ten days the insur-
gents have lost during various skirmishes
235 killed, among whom are five ma ajors
and 13 other officers. They have lost also
IL taken prisoners and 2l4 firearms.
Two hundred and nine insurgents and 433
unarmed, among whom were seven off
GERS, have surrendered during the same
period. The Spanish columns have lost
three officers killed, S3 soldiers killed and
81 wounded.
"The rain is now falling in all parts OF
the island"
The figures here given will probably
stand considerable revision before any
thing like the sexual losses of The CON
tending forces have sustained could be
arrived at, but the admission ON the part
of General Weyler that the insurgents
have been able to infict any loss to his
forces is evidence that there is consider
able spirited fighting going on in the
island.
From sources just as reliable as from
whence the information given above
came, it is known that thousands of the
Spanish soldiers have died from disease
many hundreds have been killed in bat
tie, while the hospitals in every Spanish
town are filled with men who will never
live to see their homes across the waters.
The mortality among the unfortunate
soldiers of the government has been
something fearful since the uprising be-
gan, and now that the rainy season has
begun again, large increase in the death
rate may be looked for.
The insurgents, by reason of their ac-
and ability to take refuge
n the hills during the disease breeding
aims, suffer but little with Losses and in.
from the inclement season.
What, with fighting wide-awake, energet-
c, patriotic insurgents on the outside,
md insdious disease on the inside of
ortificatione, can the Spaniards reasona-
'ly expect but defeat. The prospects
or Cuban freedom we're never brighter
han at the present time.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07
Criminals Esannt Familiar Places,

Criminals Hannt Familiar Places.
Evil spirits eyer return to haunt their
old quarters. A murderer and desperate
variously called Joe Bates, Eugene
O'Hara and James Brown has been
caught fast and safe in New York after
having escaped from prison in that city
six years ago. He had been twice in the
New York penitentiary and served his
terms The second time he vowed to
kill the policeman, Ketchale who ar
rested him only after desperate fight
He kept his word He had been sent to
the state prison in 1885. In 1891, after
his release Policeman Ketchale's dead
body was found one day floating in
North river. The desperate was tracked
and caught 1t was then that he broke
Jail and got away. He went to Colon,
Central America, where none knew his
guilt He might have been free man
to this day, but he could not keep away
from the United States. In 1894 he was
back again. as near New York as Ohio
There he was caught in the act of bur-
glary and once more sentenced to state
prison, this time at Columbus Even
then none recognized him as the ruffian
who was wanted in New York Again
he had only to keep away from the
scene of the murder. He could not. A
fatal spell drew him near and nearer.
First he went to Jersey City. Then he
began making trips across to New York.
All this time his record and the murder
of the officer had been kept fresh in the
minds of New York policemen.
All these years vengeance had been
on his track. At length one morning re-
Gently New York detectives found and
captured him in the very same old
haunts about which he lowered before
the murder Of Policeman Ketchale.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07

Disk throwing, in imitation of the
ancient Greek pastime, is reviving
among modern athletic clubs. No mod
ern giant has, however, been able to
equal as yet the ancient record. The
champion disk thrower today is the Chi
cago man, Henneman. He hurled disk
weighing AZ pounds 118 feet 8 inches.
The champion Greek disk hurler was
Phayllus, who threw q metal plate
weighing IL pounds 95 feet This was
at the Olympic games Our fellows
will have to practice some time before
they can equal that.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07
NEW MEXICO AND STATEHOOD.

If the estimate of Governor Otero
touching an increase of 100000 in the
population of New Mexico since 1890
proves to be correct, one of the chief
obstacles to statehood will have been re-
moved, says the san Francisco Examiner.
The objection hitherto made to the ad-
-sasission of New Mexico is that too large
part of its population was strange to
American laws and customs, and in oom-
plete racial and political sympathy with
foreign state. At one time, not long
ago, the speech of the legislature itself
was alien. The recent immigration, how
ever, is mainly Anglo-Saxon and Celtic,
and the proportion it bears to an increase
of $4,000 or $4,000 year in the total
number of Inhabitants is such as to de.
prive the eastern opponents of New Mex
lco OF their most effective argument
against the entrance of that rioh territory
into the Union. There remains no plea
valid enough to have admitted Nevada,
Idaho, and even Utah, which does
not apply equally we'll to the great
territory, two thirds as large as Spain and
quite as rich, which lies between Texas
and Arizona The probable benefits of
the act to New Mexico itself are obvious;
but those to the United States by the
development of mines, farms and orchards
which would follow the thrush of popua-
tion under statehood, are also to be
thought of. They are of a kind to
strongly persuade congress to let the
territory in.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07

A ST. Louis man claims to have solved
several problems in connection with the
bicycle. His wheel is chainless. The
sprocket wheel is not toothed, but
works on pin. The feature which will
commend his machine to wheelmen
however, if it will work, is the change
able gear. The bicycle is geared up to
100, but when the rider comes to a hill
he can pull little bolt under his saddle
and produce 2S gear, making the hill
climbing easy. The inventors applica-
tion for patent is based on the claim
that he has reduced friction and increas-
ed speed. But there is no particular need
OF increasing the speed of bicyclers,
considering how many of them are
already killed or hurt daily
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07

The government has determined to
bring the men at Hogansville, Ga, who
shot and attem pied to kill I. 81. Loftep
the negro appointed postmaster at that
place, to Justice. This effort will I'M
doubtedly result in trouble, but it is time
that the people of Georgia, and some
other states in the south, were taught a
lesson IN good behavior. President Mo
Rinley would be justified in discon-
tinuing the postotice in Hogansville in
addition to imprisoning the men who
tried to summarily remove man who
chanced to be Objectionable to them.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07

hlled with eating sores; my tongue was
almost eaten away, so that for three
months was unable to taste any solid
food. My hair was coming out rapidly,
and I was in horrible fix. ! had tried
various treatments, and was nearly dis
couraged, when a friend recommended
S.S.S. After had taken four bottles,
began to get better, and when 1 had
finished eighteen bottles, was cured
sound and we'll, my skin was without
blemish, and / have had no return OF
the disease. S.S.S.saved me from life
of misery" S.S.S. Guaranteed purely
0sgetable) will cure any case of blood
poison. Books ON the disease
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Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07
AMERICAN CROWNED HEADS,

The tendency of the age in America, on
the part of swell society ladies, is to as
sumo superiority over everybody else by
reason of membership in some society,
TO which entrance can be gained only by
furnishing evidence of descent from re-
volutionary fore.dads, of having had a
grsnd-dsd who slid down the White
mountains with mob of yelling indians
in pursuit, or some other kind of descent
Tin many instances the descendant is
ashamed of the old progenitor). The
following sarcastic fling at this American
royalty, taken from the Brooklyn Union,
hits the subject on the very point that
needs swat:
"There is trouble among the royalties
not those Of Europe, but those of the
United States. The Queens of the Hol-
land Danes of the New Netherlands are
at odds, and though at present the row is
only between the New York and the Con.
necticut Danes and their 'Qoeens,' it
may spread. Mrs. Carrie H. Luptop, the
Queen of the Nutmeg 'Dames,' writes
to New York City papers that she and
they have nothing to do with Miss La
vinia a. Dempsey, Queen of the Goth
amitish 'Dames,' and won't dance at the
ball this winter. Queen Carrie says that
she and her Danes are not in SYM
pathy with Queen Lavinia and her
DANES little bit, and that's why she
would't stay in her old society, but act
up queendom for herself. This wash
ing of soiled linen in public by the
crowned heads Of the sovereign states OF
America is uuseemly, and may even have
. tendency to breed disrespeot for royal
" itsslf, in the plebeian minds of the |
Yankees. Queen Dempsey |
and Queen Lupton ought to kiss and |
make up before this thing goes too far."' !
Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-10-07

1t it expected that work on the new
hotel at ST. Michael's will be begun the
latter part Of September and that the
complete structure accommodating 400
guests, will be ready for occupancy Jan.
l, 1898. 1t will have plate glass win
dows electric bells and steam heat The
secret of the speedy completion of the
hotel lies in the fact that the building
was made long ago in Chicago. Every
part of the iron and wood work was fit
ted to its place and numbered. The
pieces were sent across to Seattle in
freight cars, thence shipped by steamer
to st. Michael's.