Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-08-15
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL
special dispatch from Rotterdam
says the mental condition of Mr.. Kru-
ger is arousing serious apprehension.
\ specialist in nervous diseases has
been summoned by telegraph from
Berlin.
disastrous wind storm passed
over Portsmouth. n. H., on the sth,
causing the death of two persons on
seavers island, and injuring half a
dozen others.
Nearly a hundred members Of the
Kentucky Press association arrived at
salt Lake City. Utah. on the 9TH. on
special train over the Rio Grande-
Western, intending to spend three
days in short excursions from that
point.
Emperor William. reciprocating \
recent courtesy of the sultan of Mo-
rocco. has presented TO Abdul II Azix.
for the new geological garden at Fex.
a lion. Bengal tiger. leopards. hears.
stays. Indian and Japanese cranes and
parrots. all purchased through Ger
man dealer.
live hundred Lawton (Okla.l busi-
ness men have signed cont,st papers
against James X. Wood. who. they de-
clare. violated both the spirit and let
ter of the homestead act in fling on
land running the entire length of the
town site, thus shutting out Miss Nat
tie Beals.
President Mckinley has approved
the death sentence pronouneeda against
Private Phineas Foutz, Nineteenth in
fantry. convicted by general court
martial of the murder of Genevive
Torres, a Filipino girl. by stabbing
her to death with a sword cane in her
home. at Mandane, Cebu. November
Is. 1900.
Oscar L. Trigys. the University OF
Chicago professor who compared
Rockefeller with Shakespeare. and
characterized church hymns as dog
gcrel. told his class in English litera-
ture. on the sth. that the poetry of
Longfellow is trivial and unworthy of
consideration
Mrs. -he--sa Wilcox, wife of the
Hawaiian delegate to congress. con-
siders herself insulted by the captain
of the steamship Zealandia because
he refused to allow her to conduct n
Hula Hula dance on board the vessel
on its last trip from San Francisco tc
Honolulu.
Lord Kitchener. in n dispatch from
Pretoria. on the sth announced that
. post of IS men, belonging to Stein
acker's Horse, On the Sabi river, had
been surprised and captured by the
Beers.
Chicago housewives, as a result -
the organization of the Servant Girls
union, are hiring men servants now
wherever they can. in preference n
maid servants. Men cooks, men pam
trymen, men laundrymen and every
thing else except men maids" are in
demand.
Nicaragua il left for the present
without a single banking institution,
through a ruling of the supreme
court of that country that the Lon
don Bank of Central America, ltd,
has no legal status in Nicaragua.
Tbs statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $50. .000. 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
9th, showed: Available cash balance,
sl7s, s,s12.51l; gold, $40. .39s, 700.
Aparty of capitalists. headed by Al
bert T.. Sni.h, of Milwaukee, CLOSED
. deal at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th.
with the Union Pacific Railroad Co
| lansl .lepsrtlnent, whereby t.cy be-
came rossessors of so 600 acres If
grazing land IN Lincoln county in
that state Iis land is located near
the Gothersburg irrigation canal. .
few miles north of Gothersburg.
August 81 will be "Shrine Day" at
the Buffalo exposition. and Mystic
Shriners from all parts of the United
States will gather there. Each Shriner
will wear his fez to display the nu-
mertcal strength of the organization.
An elaborate programme has been ar
rsrged.
Victor, Col. gave an enthusiastic
welcome to Vice-President Roosevelt,
on the 9th, fully ten thousand per-
sons participating. When the vice
president and party arrived on a spe-
cial train over the Short Line road,
they were greeted by blasts of giant
powder and hundreds of steam whis-
ties from shaft houses all over the
district.
Gen. Richard L. Page. of Norfolk,
Va. died at his summer home at Blue
Ridge Summit. Va. ON the night of
the 9Th. in the ninety-fourth year
of his age. He commanded the outer
defenses of Mobile bay. at Fort Nor
gan, and, with 400 men, held Farra-
CUTS feet at bay for two weeks.
If you want to sell your corpse for
$50 end will promise to die within six
months, q Chicago doctor will pay the
cash to you in advance. He is an os-
toepathic surgeon and has q book all
written except the pictures Each OPP
er alton he describes must be illus
trated by a series of pictures of HIM
self with a knife in his hand stand
| ing over his subject.
The San Francisco police are con-
vipced that John Winters, or Buck"
Taylor, as he is sometimes known,
who is now in custody, is the man
who planned and executed the $780,
600 gold bar robbery of the Selby
smelter at Vallejo. Some think he
had no accomplices in the job. The
stolen bullion is thought to be buried
near Winters cabin
Lord Kitchener has issued a proc
lamation warning all burghers in
arms to surrender prior to September
| Is, as all found in arms after that
date will be permanently banished
from South Africa