Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-03-26
News Of the World

Carter II. Harrison has been
nominated for fourth term as may
or of Chicago.
The British house of commons
has appropriated $150,00o for an
exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
Tom L. johnson was nominated
for mayor of Cleveland, O., by ac-
clamation by The democratic city
convention.
TWENTY-FIVE deaths have resulted
from the epidemic of typhoid fever
which has been raging in Cornell
University at Ithaca, n. Y.
The crew of the United States
ship Dolphin rescued a large num-
Der of Cubans from drowning dur
ing storm in the harbor at Havana.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of
the president, has gone to Porto
Rico, where she will be the guest of
Miss Elizabeth Hunt, daughter OF
Governor Hunt.
An American company has dis
covered vein of gold in Mexico,
which is valued at $5,000,000, the
monthly product of the mine aggre-
eating 100000.
The amount of silver mined in
Mexico during the first five months
of the current fiscal year was $780,
677.S49. an increase of nearly $3,-
100000 over the corresponding
period of the previous year
President Roosevelt is planning
an extensive western tour, on which
it is expected he will start about
April /. He will spend two or
three weeks in Yellowstone Park in
search of rest and recreation.
\ representative of the English
government is in Washington study
ing the methods used by the United
States weather bureau with the in
tention of reorganizing the English
weather bureau along the same lines.
An ANALYSIS of the cotton move
lnent for the six months from Sep
tember |, 1902, to February 2S,
shows that S,S29,358 bales have
been marketed, an increase of
54,1SS bales over the previous year.
Eight men recently met in an
encounter with dueling swords in a
suburb of Paris and four of the
contestants were wounded. 1t was
said that the object of the encounter
was to demonstrate the harmlessness
Of duels as they7 are generally
Fought
The popular enthusiasm with
which Mr.. Chamberlain, colonial
secretary, was received upon his re-
turn to England from an extended
tour in South Africa has alarmed
the other members of the British
ministry who are fearful of Mr..
Chamberlain's gaining too great
popularity. Mr.. Chamberlain was
given a reception similar to those
accorded to victorious generals and
it is said he is now the strongest
individual force in English politics.
At a meeting of the directors of
the Missouri Pacific, held recently
in New York, A. C. Bird, formerly
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul. was elected vice president of
the Missouri Pacific. John d. Rock
efeller was elected member of the
executive committee to succeed Gen.
Louis Fitzgerald. No other change
was made in the list of officers.
The annual meeting of the Iron
Mountain directors was held at the
same time and the old officers and
executive committee were reelected.
George Hoosey, a negro herb doc
tor of Philadelphia, was arrested,
with Mrs. Catherine Dame, on a
charge of causing the death of the
woman's husband, and investiga-
tions which followed have led the
police to believe that Hoosey has
been implicated in dozens of muir
ders in Philadelphia. The police
believe that he has been making a
business Of poisoning people, receiv-
ing for his work from $40 to 500
in each case. They think this was
done in some cases to secure the in
surance on the lives of the victims.
Nathan C. Howard, who lived
near Lawton, Okla, was killed by
Glenn Hayes as the result of fight
over homestead claim.
James King and John Gibbons,
two young men of Brazil, Ind, who
had been boon companions prior to
their rivalry for the hand of a
Brazil young woman, were both
killed in a duel which they fought
over the girl at Sobdell, Miss,
where the young men were located
with a surveyors corps.
Ernest Wilfred Gabriel Baptiste
Legouve, celebrated literateur and
the oldest member of the French
Academy, is dead at the age of 96
years.
Over three hundred square inches
of skin is to be grated upon Miss
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