Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-07-25
TOPICS OF The DAY.



l. fosburvh. ON August 20. 1900. was
fairy gotten under way at PittxneId
Mass, on the 18th
Paris. on the 18th. recorded a tenn
Pcrature of s.. Brussels. o.: Am<s-r.
dam- y. Lisbon s. Frosty weather
prevailed in the Austrian Alps.
Naval Constructor Gilmore will visit
Havana shortly. to make a careful
examination of the big floating dry
dock which has been acquired by
the government by purchase from
Spain
The Orient liner ormuz. Capt. Coad.
from Sydney. " 5. W. for London.
which left Colombo. Ceyion. June 2s
arrived OF Gibraltar. on the 18th. with
two cases of bubonic plague on board.
In the course of an inquiry. con-
Quoted under oath. at johannesburg.
various non-commissioned officers and
men of the British army confirmed
the statement that the Beers shot the
British wounded at vlAkfontein.
Francis Truth. the divine healer
was again arrested at Denver. Col.
on the 18th. on n warrant charging him
with assault and battery. The com
plainant is Miss Lenore Elma Ladd. |.
former patient
A Shanghai dispatch to the London
Globe, dated July II. confirms pre-
vious reports of the rising of the
Yang Tse river. and says millions of
acres of land are under water. and
!. that the city of Hankow is threat
ened
The supreme tent Knights of the
Naccabees has decided that all old
members must be rerated on the same
plan as new members at the age At
which they joined the order.
A bulletin issued by the census Of
fiee shows that there has been a de-
crease of the Chinses population in
the United States since Iss0 of 1855.
the number now here being g. 500.
Francis Schlatter. known as a -di-
vine healer was arrested on COM
plant Of the Central Union mission
authorities. at Washington. on the
18TH for creating a disturbance in the
rooms of the mission He was charged
with vagrancy-
Gov Hill of Maine has designate,
Miss Mary Pr-bIe Anderson. of Port
land to christen the new United
State battieship Maine. which Is being
built by the Cramps Mt Philadelphia.
The heat in London. on the 18th.
. +-L all
season. the ofscial record being 5.
degrees The entire absence of anv
breeze added 20 the discomfort of
heat
Arthur Orr. builder of the coming
presses used for many years in the
United States mints in PHILADELPHIA.
Carson City. San Francisco and New
Orleans. died at his summer home at
Norristown. " Y ON the 18th, aged
81
The feature of the Epworth League
meetings ut san Francisco. on the
18TH was missionary work. the day
winding up with a great missionary
mass meeting at Mechanics pavilion,
NJ which addresses were made by sew
crsi prcuinsr. ministers of the Unit
Ell States and Canada
W. CLAYTON Piskersgill. British con-
sui general for the Pacific coast states
and territories, died, on the 18th. al
. sanitarium in Alameda. Cal. To
which he was conveyed a few DAYS be-
fore suffering from malarial troubles.
After being roboed on a Choctaw
train, returning from Fl Reno, Okla.
on the 18th. accompanied by his wife
and daughter. T. r Smith, an aged
man from Bosham- Tex, dropped
dead in a crowded coach
Kansas farmers are blowing up
their ruined corn fields preparatory to
sowing wheat and alfalfa to make
pasture fields for stock in the fall and
winter.
Cave Il Sons shoe factory at Rush.
len, England. was burned, on the 18th.
involving n loss of { 100000
A work train ON the Cotton Belt
broke in two. three miles north of
Texarkana. Ark. on the night of the
18th, and of the COG laborers who were
on board - were more OF less in jared.
Mrs. Urquhart Lee. of Chicago. has
accepted the chair of parliamentary
Law, an addition to the Allied wom-
ans club of the University of Califor-
MIA established by Mrs r. A. Hearst.
The municipality of Berlin has re-
eeived ], ,5o0.OOe marks. for benevolent
purposes. under the will OF Dr. George
veriing. the composer. who died at
Weishaden last mon-h-
Robert FoIger westcott. the head of
the we.tcott Express Co., aud father
in-law of former Capt Oberfin NJ Car
ter, United States engineers, died sud-
denly at Richfeld Springs. " Y on
the 18th
Lord Kitchener has commuted the
sentence of death passed upon "a Boer
prisoners to penal servitude for life in
Bermuda
The word Christian remains in
the Virginia bill Of rights. ss far as
the constitutional committee on that
document is concerned the vote for
its retention being seven to four
E s. NcHale. foreman in the shoe
department of the Indiana state pris-
on at Jedersonville, was branded on
the 18th. by Le Kelly, convict with \
piece of xhafting. in the presence of .
number of lady visitors
Dr. Joseph A. Chandler. veteran
Of the One Hundred and Fifty-Second
Indiana infantry. died, ON the night
of the 18th, having been overcome by
heat while returning from a profess
ional call
Indiana has just completed her sea-
sons job of packing French Pease,
having put away about ei.ooo,ooo cans.
which will add nearly s1.eoo.oo0 TO the
wealth of the state
The Prince Edward of York dia-
mond. found in South Africa In 1884
and weighing 60z earsts, . white,
perfect stone Of astonishing hre, has
been purchased. according to the Lon
don Daily Express, OF the diamond
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