Oxford eagle., 1901-06-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
IEvs From EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


expenses of 80 Filipino teachers who
are to study for a year in normal
schools of the United States. these
schools having offered them free tut
tiou.
Lord Psuncefote of Preston. IN.
British ambassador TO the United
States took the necessary oath and
his seat in the house Of lords. on the
soth. for the first time during tn.
present parliament.
Three p~rS. ms were killed and srv.
cral injured by ligh;Ting during a Sc
we're electric storm which passed over
Indiana on the night of the eoth.
Gen. Robert Nugent died at hi.
hc.ne in Brooklyn. on the night oil
the 10th. a. a result of a bullet
wound in the stomach reccivci at the
hattle of fredericksburg. Va. Decem-
her II. 1se1. while charging a; the
head of Ncagher's ! isl, brigade. TLis
wound has troubled Gen. Nugent ever
since.
Like the constitutions of most of
the South American republics. tn.
Cuban convention has followed tb.
constitution Of the United States as a
model. The adoption of the Platt
amendment makes il suffic,~s. for ali
the purposes of this government in il,
relations with Cuba.
There is great excitement, n, Helena
Mont. over the discovery of a rich
lead of gold which ASSAYS 5000 to the
ton A landslide exposed the vein.
The transport Thomas. earryipe
teachers to Manila, will sail July "a
Judge Taft cabied approving the ap-
ointment of Supt. Atkinson, who will
have charge of the schools at Manila
and ten additional teachers deSirnat.
ed from Yale. Harvard. Cornell. Uni.
versity of California and University
of Michigan.
Exports from the United States IN
the fiscal year 1901. now about ,o end
will probably reach 81. i.5O0.Ooo. 600 IN.
highest point ever recorded for a sin
gle year in the history of our export
trade.
The University of Michigan. ON the
10th, conferred the degree of bach
eior of arts upon Gen. Leeford VIII
son, OF Indiana. ex-sclicitor general -,
the treasury department. and that II
master of arts upon MandevilIe While
professor of pedagogy. university of
Missouri.
William r. Case. aged 6s. hanged
himself and cut his throat at Te.re
Haute, Ind, on the Goth. His daurh-
ter, at whose home he lived, found hi.
dead body in the barn. He used III.
knife on his throat after stepping OF
feed trough.
Wheat harvest has begun in Saline
county, III. Portions of the county
have the heaviest crop for years.
Corn crop well in hand and clean of
weeds. The tobacco crop will be light
on account of dry weather.
A. VI Leary aud !. l.. Davis IN
gagged in duel at Waynesboro. Miss.
on the 10th. in which both were ia-
stantly killed. The trouble arose as
the result of a family feud. Davis
opened ire on Leary with a pistol. Tie
fired three times After Leary was
down he fired a shot with a pistol.
killing Davis.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal. on the ed. Published complete
estimates of the gold output in the
United States and in the world at
large last year. The figures. Sis .tsJ,-
5e2 for the United States. and $685.
ee4.s5i for the world at large (com-
pairing with see.5is..ie and s3iI.s6J..
94s in 1891 do not differ materially
from the estimates OF several months
ago.
At the Mel regatta. on the alst. "a
yachts in the races. Ncitn-
er the Iduna, belonging to the Ger
man empress. nor any of the 9TH
er noted yachts at the gathering. won
a first prize.
W. W. Astor has contributed ej.OO0
10 the Queen Victoria jubilee nurses
fund.
On the zlst X. q. Dun Il Co. report
ed: Failures for the week num-
bered 1893 in the United States. against
i74 last week. and II in Canada.
against Is last year"
The secretary OF Mr.. Joseph Cham
l'erlaip. the British colonial secretary.
declares that the rumors of the ~dr-
render of Gen. Botha are unfoundei.
Fourteen persons are believed to
have been killed ana number in
Jured. IN the :ist, as the result ~ a
tire following an explosion among a
quantity of fireworks in the store Of
Abraham VI. Rittenberg. AT Paterson.
\. J. The cause of the explosion is
rot known. and the property loss viii
not exceed $35,o00-
Incomplete accounts of the rayages
of a tornado along the keya Pahe I-iv-
er. on the Goth. proclaim il the most
destructive of life and property ut
any storm of the Kind that ever oc-
CURED in the state of Nebraska.
Whole families were wiped out. and
nsny persons were left wounded ard
shelterless.
One of the important duties 20
which Gen. Corbin will attend in the
Philippines will be the enlistment OF
natives as a part of the insular army. |
Lieutenants of the regular army |
are to be selected as captains of conf
panies, and non-commissioned officers
of the regular army will serve as hrst
ami second lieutenants and battalion |
end squadron staff officers.
At meeting of the Toxic tJapan)
city council. on the 2lst. Hoshi Toru,
former minister to the United States,
was assassinated by political enemy.
who plunged a sword into his body.
Agoncillo. the European representa-
tive of Aguinaldo. has given up his
apartments in Paris and left for Mar
seilies- 1t is said he is about TO re-
turn to his own country. there being |
no further use for his services
new equine disease. similar in It's
symptoms to grip in human beings,