Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1902-01-02
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several OF then are suffering from .
mild form of zseasnkes.
Charles Preston. aged about %, of
Middlesboro. Ny. took little Jessie
Marion sleigh riding on Powell river.
across the Cumberland mountains.
The ice gave way and the girl was
drowned. Preston tried manfuIly TO
save the girl. and. becoming eraxed
over the matter, went to the child's
mother and committed suicide in her
presence.
Acting on an order received from
the secretary of the interior. govern
ment officials have stopped all build
ing and Improvement operations at
Ne ilester. |. t. until a schedule Of
values of all property has been pre-
pared by the town site committee.
\ former survey schedule was found
to be false aud the secretary of the
interior then took hand
The steamer sun. employed in the
Memphis and Fulton trade. burned
to the waters edge at Memphis.
Tenn, at an early hour on the morn
ing of the 25th, and four lives were
lost.
Jacques Francois Henry Fouquier.
the French publicist and former
member of the chamber of deputies,
died on the 26th- He was born Sep
tember I. 1s3s.
Civil Service Commissioner Proctor
is quoted as saying. in substance. that
Edgar :. Maclay has been removed
from the public service. and he knows
the reason why. therefore he has No
ground for appeal to the civil service
commission for redress.
Another big oil well was struck in
krox county. NY, on the 2Jth. Gas
came first and took FIRE from a forge.
burning the derrick and machinery.
After two hours oil began to gush.
spouting a sheet of flame 100 feet
high.
The exactions on tourists arriving
at the port of New York will. it Is
said. be made more stringent. and
tourists arriving in this country will
be called upon. in future. to pay full
duty on all extra wearing apparel.
as well as on everything else not on
the free list.
According to the report of the
Philippine commission the revenues
of the islands will soon be sufficient
to support the army. provide suffs-
cient police and pay all other de-
mands which wouIi naturally arise in
the inSltlar administration.
Emperor William. while walking in
the environs Of Potsdam. Christmas
eve, tossed several three and four
mark pieces to poor-lOoking persons
whom he passed The emperor's
Christmas bounty is never limited. but
this year he doubled his usual sub
scriptions TO charitable funds.
According to an estimate compiled
by the Railroad Gazette for 1901. the
mileage built in the United States
during the year ending December 81
approximates 4,5fs. The figure last
year was 4,s04, and in 1899 1859.
On December IL the first volume of
the complete census report on pop
ulation will be issued This is Is
months after the beginning of the
census. and the work has been done
in three years less time than was
required for the eleventh census.
Mrs Mckinley spent Christmas day
alone at her home in Canton. o. She
was urged to join the Barber family
in their Christmas dinner at the old
Saxton homestead. but declined to do
So She received flowers and loving
remembranees from all over the
country.
Eighty members of Company +.
Eighteenth infantry, were poisoned
while eating breakfast. Christmas
morning. at Fort Russell. wyo., and
for n time fully half of them were
in danger of death
1t has been decided in Rome to
send a pontifcal mission to the coro-
nation of King Edward. This mission
Will be organized on lines similar &c
the one which attended the Victorian
jubilee
Simon Owens, aged ZOE. was burned
Okla. on the 26th- He was born a
slave on Gen Andrew Jaekson's
plantation. and was crippled for life
at Nieksburg when the city was be-
sieged by Cen Grant.
7 Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
KalisPell. Mont, $4,000 for library.
provided the city furnishes n site and
si.o0o yearly for maintenance The
city already expends that amount
each year for library support
certificate of incorporation was
filed at Dover. Del, on the s6th, for
the Bell Of Thunder Mining Co., 20
acquire mines and mining rights. Cap
itsl. si.G0o.aoo. Incorporators- Ro-
dolphas W. Paraeman. Nampa. Idaho;
Clinton d. GreenIee. Pittsburg, Pa:
Charles W. Culver. Reno, Pa
A deed transferring the Pope BIZ
cycle works of hartford, Conn.,, from
the American Bicycle Co. to the
American. Cycle Manufacturing Co.
was fled in that city on the 2sth-
Revenue stamps indicating a eonsid- |
GRAFTON of about 100000 were at
taehed TO the deed
n j. Ayers, 4 young messenger of |
the Union bank of Brooklyn. who dis
appeared recently with $1,000 of the
banks money. was arrested in Mon |
treal on the 18th.
The River Arno has overfowed its |
banks and the waters have caused |
considerable damage at Florence and
at Pisa, Italy.
Bond purchases by the treasury |
department on the Goth. amounted |
to s53, 400.
Rev William r. corbyn. in his eigh- |
ty-eighth year. quietly celebrated, Mt |
Quincy, Ill, On the 26th, the fifty |
eighth anniversary of his ordination |
as an Episcopal minister, He was
graduated from Yale in 1889, and was
admitted to holy orders in 1896
Former President Grover Cleveland |
has accepted the appointment ON the
Industrial department of the Nation
al Civic federation. created at the re- |