Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-04-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EvnYwKE1E.



stituticn- This announcement was
made by Mr.. W. Butler Duncan, Jr-,
the manager of the yacht.
Gen. Fitxhugh Lee was reported i'll
at the home of Gen. III. c. Merriam
IN Denver. Col. on the 4th. having
contracted a cold while on n trip
around the Georgetown loop in the
mountains. He had planned to 20 to
Colorado Springs on his way to Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Annie W. Clarke. of Columbus,
o., president of the Ohio woman's
Christian Temperance union. has ad-
dressed a formal note to the women
of the Ohio society of California. pro-
testing against the serving of wine at
the BANQUET which the society is to
give in honor of the presidential par
ty at the launching of the battleship
Ohio.
Lieut.. Frederick Boyer. of the Thir-
ty-ninth volunteer infantry. chief COM
nissary for the second district of the
department of southern Luzon. Is un-
der arrest at Calamba, Province OF
Lsguna, where he has been charged
with misappropriating so cases of ba-
con and with other irregularities.
The president, on the eth. signed
the commissions of Lloyd Wheaton As
ma ior general and Of Jacob Ii. Smith
and Frederick Funston as brigadier
generals of the United States army,
the commissions of Generals Wheaton
and Smith bearing date of March 30,
and that of Funston April /.
The Columbian Paper Co.. started
its mammoth pulp plant in Bristol,
Tenn. on the 4th- This is perhaps
the largest plant OF the kind in the
south. and has just been completed at
. cost of $4,000.
One of the questions to be settled
at the annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans association. At
Memphis. Tenn. May 2s to 80. inclu-
sive, will be that of the admission OF
the sons of the veterans to full mem.
bership in the association.
Col. Robert Wallace. who served as
Q captain in the United States army
in the Mexican war and was made col
onel of 4 western regiment in the
Union army in the civil war. died at
the residence of mis- sister, Mrs. Alex.
ander Elliott. in Jersey City, y. j.. on
the 5th, aged 50 years.
Samuel l. Gordon, of Omaha. Neb.,
suspended as police judge pending an
impeachment trial by the city coun-
ell, on the 5th. attempted to take his
seat as usual AZ the morning session,
and. with his son. was finally removed
forcibly by the police.
Howard Cole. of Indianapolis. Ind,
who is Russell b. Harrison's attorney
said. on the 5th. that the report that
Mr.. Harrison would contest his IA
ther's will was entirely unfounded
Mr.. Harrison, ne said, is entirely sat.
isfied-
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the Si50,000 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption. issued on the
5th. showed: Available cash balance,
SIS, s,111.3i4; gold reserve. ss7,.it..
$40.
At johannesburg. Transvaal Colony,
on the 5th. Lord Kitchener personally
presented the Red Cross medal TO
Madame Ferriers. head of the French
ambulance department. for her serv-
ices to the British wounded.
Judge John A Warth. aged 90 years,
died at his home near Charleston, W.
Va. on the 5th. after an illness of
several weeks. He was a senator of
Virginia in 1857 and a member of the
constitutional convention of West Vir-
ginia in ls.2- In 1873 he was appoint
ed by the legislature to codify the
state laws which are now used.
The steamship Ihein. which arrived
ut New York, IN the 5th- from Bre-
men, broke the record as a passenger
carrier. Besides her crew, whicI,
numbered over four hundred. she had
:, 2,502 passengers
The navy department, on the 5th.
awarded the contract for the building
of the a3-knot protected cruiser Mil
wankee TO the Union iron works of
San Francisco. The contract price is
s.. SIS. 900.
The Kansas asylum for the insane
at Topeka. with over 1000 patients,
is threatened with an epidemic of
smallpox. An attendant was taken
i'll, and the malady was found to be
smallpox. He was sent TO the pest
house. On the 5th two cases devei-
oped among the patients. and n panic
started among the employees
A Washington dispatch intimates
that the president will reward Lieut..
Mitchell. Fortieth infantry: Capt. H.
w. Newton. Thirty-fourth infantry.
and Capt R. T. Hazard and Lieut. O.
p. NJ. Hazard. who also accompanied
Gen. Funston on his expedition for
the capture of Aguinaldo with COM
missions in the regular army
By the death of Thomas H. Casweh
of San Francisco, ali the pomp aud
sanetity of the worlds highest ma
sonic rank, now falls upon Congress
man James ID. Richardson, of Ten
nessee. In other words, he will sue
ceed to the exalted Office of sovereign
grand commander of the southern
jurisdiction of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite of Free Ma
sonry-
Atty.-Gen. Douglas of Minnesota
has rendered an opinion on the Dem
ing bill, passed by both houses of the
legislature. for purpose of securing
the release of the Younger brothers
He states that the enactment IN
question is. in his opinion. uneonsti-
tutionAL