Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-12-05
TOPICS OF The DAY.
NEWS FROM EvERYwHERE


The Rome FznfuIla credits Signor
GioIetti. Italian rnis.ister of the in
terror, with ths statement that Louis
Grsnotti IS now in Chicago. where he
is being shadowed by the police.
Louis Grano,ti. an aecomplice of Bres-
CT. the assassin OF King Humbert. was
recently sentenced to life impri<on-
ment.
Authoritative reports have teen re-
ccived in Washington. showing fha;
the various arsensls in China arr
working overtime to turn ont arms.
field and great guns and ammunition
for the use of Chinese troops. In add
uon China is importing large quanti-
ties of arms and munitions of war.
George NJ Pullman, Jr. son of the
late millionaire car builder. died at
his country home in San Mateo. Cal.
on the 2sth. aged IS years. He had
been i'll several weeks with pneuuio-
MO- He was married. about two
months ago, to Mrs. Sarah Brzzen.
one of the three beautiful West sis
ters-
Dr. William gainey Harper. preSi-
dent of the University of Chicago. has
accepted the offer to become director
of universal edaeatio-aI congresses IN
come elton with the Louisiana Pur-
ehase centennial exposition At st.
Louis in 1900.
Fire which started in TIE plant of
W. E Uptegrove & Bros. box manu-
facturers. in New York, on the night
of the 18th. was not brought under
control until property valued at ST.
ocoooo had been destroyed
1t tranSpires that the purchaser "a
the historic Battle Abbey. in England,
recently sold al auction for sI.Oco.0ss
IS Sir Augustus Frederick Webster.
bart. a descendant of Sir Thomas
Webster. whose family formerly held
the property for I50 years
Having received Official notice from
the Turkish minister at Washington
that the 18th was the anniversary of
the birth of the sultan, President
Roosevelt sent that monarch n per
sonal telegram of congratulations
The works of the National Enamel
ing and Stamping Co. in BROOKLYN.
were entirely destroyed by fire on the
2sth. and George Koch. watehmap.
was burned to death The loss viii
be more than s-osl.ooc-
Paul Desehanel. former councillor
of the French embassy at Washing
ton, where he married daughter of
Gen. George B. Mcclellan. has been
appointed French ministcd IN EIsyti.
William Franklin WnIoughby, the
newiy-appointed treasurer of IN.
island of Porto Rico. succeeding ia
cob Holiander. resigned. arrived at
San Juan on the 18th
The estimates for Germany's ex-
penditure in China for the year 1902
are s9-50o.oO0 marks. as against i23,-
10000 marks expended in China in
1901 The pensions for widows and
orphans, resulting from the China ex-
pedition, amount to isi 600 marks an
nualIy.
William Hemmings, aged nine, liv-
ing near Williamsburg. Neb-, shot and
killed his eight-year-old brother, on
the ssth, while playing with an old
revolver. The ball passed through
the base of the ehild's skull and he
lived but a few minutes.
]. W. McRae, president of the Ca-
madam Railway Accident Insurance
Co.. and vice-president of a number
of companies. accidentally shot and
killed himself in his Office at Ottawa.
Ont, on the 29th. while engaged in
cleaning his revolver.
The statement of the treasury bal
arees in the general fund. exclusive
of the sIs0.ooo. coo gold reserve in the
division of redemption. issued on the
2sth, showed: Available cash balance.
sis..si1.isi- Gold. sio6, ,6.s. $40.
On the e9th r. G. Dun & Co. re-
ported: Failures for the week num-
bered ise in the United States. sgainst
1.> last year. and - in Canada.
against II last year
The duke of Teck was thrown
from his horse, on the 29th, while ut
hunting near Nantwich. England. aus
tanning a conclusion of the brain and
an injury to his hip.
Private Albert Francis. Fourth cav
airy, was killed at Fort Leavenworth,
Mas. on the Goth, by his horse falling
on him. His home is in indianapolis.
He was 20 years old and enlisted two
years ago.
Barney Conway, who claimed to be
lO6 years old, died at his home near
New Albany, Ind, on the e9th- He
cast his first vote for Gen. Jackson for
president
President Roosevelt. on the 29th
sent a large fioral tribute to be laid
on the grave of Joseph Armistead
Carr. late lieutenant of Troop ID, of
the rough riders, whose remains were
inferred at Arlington.
Peter Fallo, an eight-year-old news
boy from Brooklyn, owes his life and
the Use of his limbs to the generosity
of Miss Helen Miller Gould. who has
expended large sum of money to
have him cured of infantile paralysis
Theodore Dnddleston. confidential
clerk at the National Stock Yards
bank, East ST. Louis H.. has con-
fessed to C. G. Knox. president of the
bank, that his books showed n short
age of between $1,000 and $4,000
The money, he said. was LOST in specu-
lating- Acquaintance say he lived
beyond his income
s. C. Smiley, one of the best-known
republican leaders in ST. Clair county,
H., and an ex-representatise. suffered
stroke of paralysis. on the s9th. and
at last accounts was in serious con
diticn at his home in fsFa'Ien-