Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-06-26
The Choctaw has completed its
extension to Amarillo, Tex.

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A vote on the Philippine reci-
procity bill will be taken June 26.
a monument to the memory of
Hon. Richard P. Bland was unveil-
ed at Lebanon, No., on the 18th,
The government will assist New
Mexico ranchmen in stamping out
the disease among sheep known as
"scab."
A monument to the Confederate
dead buried at Camp Chase, Colum-
bus, O., was unveiled on the 14th,
both Union and Confederate veter-
ans joining in the ceremonies.
Pedro Feleize, the leader of the
ladrones who captured and subse-
quently cut to pieces sersAant,
two corporals and four privates of
the Fifth cavalry in the Philippines
May 80 has been captured.
Mary Gusts Lee, daughter of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, was arrested at
Alexandria, Va, for violating the
separate street car act for white and
colored and was fined S.. Miss Da-
Wis got on the car for colored people,
the other being crowded, and the le-
gality of the law will be tested, as
this is the first case of the kind on
record.
A serious riot occurred at Patter-
son, N. j., between striking mill
workers and the police. Several mill
plants were wrecked and several Of
the strikers were wounded by the
police, who were compelled to use
their revolvers. There is num-
Der of anarchists among the strik-
ers and the police being unable to
preserve order, the militia was call
ed on.
A rather alarming situation with
regard to the epidemic of cholera in
the Philippines is sent out in a
report received by Surgeon General
Forward from Lieut.. Col. Heize-
man, at present in charge of the
medical department of the army in
the islands. In Manila alone to-
tai of 277 cases, with 215 deaths,
had occurred up to the date of the
report, with 453 cases and 30S
deaths outside the city. In the prov
inces the disease attacked twenty
two different places. In the CANA
rines, at :Nuena Cacares, the disease
appeared, and this has been the only
point where the army has suffered,
two cavalrymen and an infantryman
having the disease.
Special Commissioner Taft has
submitted to the pope the following
propositions to settle differences be-
tween the friars in the Philippines
and the United, States: (D Pur-
chase of the lands of the friars, the
price to be fixed by arbitration; (2)
the arbiters to decide the indemnity
which the Americans will pay for
occupation of ecclesiastical build
ings; (3) the above propositions abb
solutely condition on the withdrawal
of the friars; (4) if the other prop
ositions are accepted the Americans
propose to give a deed or by law to
grant a patent to ecclesiastical
buildings on public land; (5) to set
tie by compromise or arbitration the
several trusts for schools, hospitals,
etc., claimed on the one hand by the
civil, on the other by the church au-
thorities.
The construction of an inter-
oceanic canal, a question that has
been the subject of political agita-
ton and discussion in congress for
half century, is, in all probabil,
ity, about to be settled. The sem
ate last week, by vote of 42 to 81,
adopted the Spooner amendment, in
lieu of the Hepburn bill, which
passed the house some weeks ago.
The house bill provided for the
construction of the canal on the
Nicaragua route. The Spooner
proposition is an alternative one. 1t
authorizes and directs the president
to negotiate for the purchase of the
stock of the new Panama company
of France, and to secure perpetual
right of way for the canal from the
republic of Colombia. In the event
of the failure to secure this ar
rangement the president is instruct
ed to direct the construction of the
Nicaragua canal. The bill as pass
ed authorizes an issue of S130,000,-
600 of gold bonds, bearing 2 per
cen interest, to carry on the work
of construction.
Amosa Dyer and her 12-year-old
daughter, were found hanging from
the ceiling of their home at Okfu-
gee, !. T. 1t is believed they were
murdered.
Capt. Charles E. Clark, who
achieved fame and won the plaudits
of the American people by plotting
the Oregon around the Horn dur
ing the Spanish war, has been ad-
vanced seven numbers in rank by
the president, and appointed as