Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-01-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A. II. Pierce, the Texas cattle king,
died at his ranch Mt Pierce junction,
in Wharton county. Tex, on the goth,
of pneumonia. after a few DAYS i'll
ness. He was union veteran of the
civil war.
Chairyuan of Sanitary Commission
A. j. Burr, at Wichita, Kas.. has is
sued orders to kill all cats and dogs
caught loose on the streets. The rea-
son for this, he claims, is that these
animals are spreading smallpox by
running into infected houses.
A real wolf, savage and hungry, in
roaming about in the vicinity of
North Seventy-second street and
Grand avenue. Chicago, and is soaring
the inhabitants of that par. of the
city.
Mrs. Mary Foreman appeared be-
foreI the Dawes commission, Mt vini-
n, l. T., a few days ago, and applied
for the enrolment of Switzler Low
rey. an aged Cherokee Indian, and
when asked why Mr.. Lowrey did not
appear in person for enrolment, as
signed the reason that he was Ill.
years old.
United States Minister Conger, says
a Pelin correspondent of the London
Morning Post, declares that no one
of the enyoys will recognize the en-
press dowager officially. although all
are aware that she has long exercised
the supreme power. He believes the
crisis will result in the initiation of
reforms in China.
Cadets testified at West Point, on
the 26th, that difficult or very obiec-
tionable tasks were given fourth
class men. and, when they refused to
obey the orders, were forced to fight
or leave the academy. A cadet from
Arkansas swore the social ostracism
was so unpearable that fourth class
men had TO resign.
Hog cholera has swept Bureau
county. III. Spectators are buying
the deceased animals and hauling the
carcasses TO Dixon. Within the last
two weeks many farmers in the south
ern section of this county have lost
hogs aggregating several thousand
dollars in value.
Placer gold fields of fabulous rich
ness are said to have Just been dis
covered in the Valley of the Pcnoles,
southwest of Oaxaca, Mexico. The
discovery was made by three Ameri-
can prospectors who recently arrived
in Mexico from Denver. Cot, where
they were ..grub-staked- by prom
inent mining men.
Capt. Hank Half has been selected
rs sailing master of the Boston boat
to be built to defend the Americas
cup. He has had great experience in
cup races. He sailed the Volunteer
and Defender m 1887 and 1895 respect
lively.
The american Crystal Palace Thor
oughbred Poultry and Belgian Hare
show opened in Kansas City, Mo-, on
the 27th, with about twelve hundred
specimens on exhibition.
More than six thousand persons,
four-fifths of whom came TO the Unit
ed States, emigrated from Christiania,
Norway, during the last IL months.
as against $500 in 1893.
Fire, on the s7th. destroyed the resi-
dence of Mrs. Harriger. at Brookville.
Pa, and tho mother and two ,iaugh-
tiers, aged five aud seven, perished in
the flames.
In runaway accident at Flint,
Mich, on the :7th, DIR. H. W. Howland
was killed and G. II. Quigiey. a prom
inent business mar fatally injured.
The czar and cza; ina>wi,i return to
Taarskce-Selo, near St. Petersburg,
about February 2.
A certificate of incorporation was
filed at Dover, Del. on the 27th, for
the Midland Canal Co., of Fargo, ". d.
Capital s1.000.c0o.
The corn crop of 1900 was one of
the four largest ever gathered. while
the oat crop has only once been ex-
ceeded.
Martial law has been proclaimed IN
the districts of Beaufort West and
Carnarvon. Cape Colony.
The Chinese court has entered
earnest objection to the razing of
any permanent Notifications and to
the maintenance of legation guards
at Pekin- Apparently the Chinese
court finds in the proposed legation
guards a menace to its own safety.
At Bloemfontein rumors are cur
rent that Gen. DeWet, President
Steyn and Gen. Haasbroek have had a
conference and decided to offer to
surrender, provided the colonial
rebels are not punished and the lead
ers, including themselves, are not de-
ported.
A corner in beans is the latest
novelty in the Chicago market. 1t is
being engineered by the Albert Dick
inson company. Within two weeks
the price has risen from Sl.s4 per
bushel to 500, and dealers predict q
further advance to $2.5o in the near
future.
At noon, ON the 9Th, ". H. Smythe,
grand secretary of the Free and Ac-
eepted Masons of Indiana. was shot
by . mysterious blonde woman, who
entered his ofYice, in Indianapolis,
while Mr. Smythe was alone, fired the
shot and made her escape without be-
ing seen BY asg outsider.