Oxford eagle., 1901-04-25
TOPICS OF The DAY,
NEWS FROM EvERYwHIRI
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

amounting to s550.ooo. to dredge Car
denas harbor in Cuba.
An investigation of the mortgage
records in Shelby county. ILL.,, by a
committee appointed from the board
of supervisors has revealed the fact
that. between 1894 and 1900. mort
cages to the amount of 50. .O0o, 900 have
been discovered upon which no tax
has been raid. Settlements are being
effected.
Senator W. II. Eldredge. Of Men,
phis, in open session of the Tennessee
senate. on the 18th. accused ex-Comp-
troller James \. Harris of an attempt
to bribe and precipitated one of the
most sensational scenes ever enacted
in the halls OF a Tennessee legisiA-
ture.
Gen. John c. Gilmore. colonel in the
adjutant generals department. was
placed on the retired list. on the 18th.
by operation of law on account of
age.
The sixth great oil gusher in the
Beaumont (rex.l field was dcseloped
as great producer as any If the
others. II is owned by the Haywood
Oil Co., Chicago concern.
The administration is informed
through official channels. that a
strong movement is setting in among
Cubans to make Tomas Estrada Pal.
ma the first president OF the Cuban
republic. The suggestion is eminent.
ly satisfactory to the United States
government.
DIR. Alexander Dowie, of Chicago,
has retained counsel to contest in the
higher courts of Indiana the Wood
medical law. enacted by the last legis-
lature. The Wood law strikes vigor-
ously at faith curists and makes tic
practice of Oowieism an infraction of
the law.
A crowded house of commons. on
the 18th. heard Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, chancellor of the exchequer
till the cost of the war in South Afri:
ca. IL was stunning in its effect. The
anti.war members declare that every
Boer killed has cost Great Britain
G 900.
Lucy LITER. lOe years old. died. on
the 18th. at Hicks store. in Harlan
county. Ny. from a stroke of paraly-
sis. Her first marriage was contract
ed when she WAS 40, her third at 10,
and at 100 she took leading part in
one of the Harlan county feuds
The engagement of Miss Ni:ian Sar.
toris. grand-sia lighter of Gen. Ulysses
:. Grant. to Archibald Balfour. a bar
rister of London. was announced in
ioris. who made her debut in Wash
inFtcn, three ears ago, is nov in
London.
\ romance of the inaugural hall
and a proposal of marriage made OF
board the Congressional limited ex.
press eliminated, on the 18th in the
marriage of Miss Matilda Agan. Of
New York city, to former Senator J.
Frank Aldrich. of Chicago.
Jockey Head had a narrow escape
from being killed at Newport. Ky.. on
the 10Th. He was riding Clipsetta. in
the second race. and the horse went
down as the field made the first turn.
Clipsetta was in front and the boy
fell right in the path of the fast flying
field. Six horses passed over his
form without leaving a mark on him.
The officials of the French foreign
office say that the French claim
against China for indemnity amounts
to 100000 900 francs.
The great chess event of the year,
the sixth international cable match
between America and Great Britain
for the possession of the Newnes
trophy. was begun. on the 10Th, under
the auspices of the Brooklyn and Brit
ish Chess clubs.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says
the students of the Great kaluga SEM
mary, near Moscow, INDUCED in a
series of eNceSses which eliminated,
on the 18th. in shooting at the bishop
of kaluga and the rector of the semi
nary, neither OF whom was hit. Fif-
teen students were arrested.
Mrs. NJ. \. Radcliffe was exonerated
suspicion of having voted Illegally at
the city election on April .. Justice
Haynes, after hearing all the evidence
in the case. dismissed the complaint.
The consummation of the project to
consolidate all the independent cereal
plants of the country is now assured.
The various properties. ten in num-
Der, will be- turned over to the Great
Western Cereal Co. at Chicago, on the
25th. The new company will compete
with the American Cereal Co.. better
known as the Oatmeal trust"
The list of officers accorded promo
tions and honors for services in South
Africa, prior to November 90. 1900,
when Lord Roberts gave up the COM
mand of the British forces in the
Boer war, fill 10 pages of the Gazette.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances IN the general fund. exclusive
of the SI5O.Oo0.O00 gold reserve in the
division OF redemption, issued on the
leth. showed: Available cash balance,
s152. .672.sIs; gold, ss5,6oI.s5s.
Aguinaldos manifesto to the peo-
pie of the Philippine islands was is
sued at Manila on the 18th. in which
he ccunsels all to unite around the
glorious sovereign banner of the
United States. under which they will
gain all the promised liberties which
they have already begun to enjoy.
James II. Ardorn. of one of the
mining companies of Dawson. arrived
at Seattle, WASH, on the 18th, on his
way to England. He said that the
cleanup this year in the Dawson
camp would, from a conservative es-
innate, amount to $50, ,O00. 900, max
ing it the biggest output in the his
tory of the Klondike.
A new high record for transactions
in securities was established on the
New York stock exchange on the 10th.
Total recorded sales of stocks ran up
to the enormous aggregate of 2,l6s.-
l. A.