Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-08-27
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III. He was appointed postmaster at
Cruger by President Franklin Pierce,
and has been in continuous service
since that time.
Throughout the northern and eastern
portions of the corn belt the weather
has been too cool for maturing corn,
which is unusually late. The crop, how
ever, has generally improved, especial
ly in the central and western districts.
Sixteen of the rs men indicted on the
charge of attacking the jail at the re-
cent riot in Danville, H., were ar
raigned in the circuit court on the 18th.
They pleaded mot guilty" and attor-
neys have been engaged to defend
them.
Ten thousand survivors of the civil
war passed in review, at San Francisco,
on the 18th, marching to martial tunes
that inspired them to endeavor 40 years
ago. Above the national colors, borne
by every marcher, proudly fioated torn
and tattered flags. These. with empty
sleeves and limping gait, were eloquent
reminders of the sorrow and glory OF
war.
The concentrator and nearly the en-
tire plant of the Kentucky-Vermillion
Mining and Concentration Co., at Yer
million, Mont, was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss estimated at $l25,-
600 to $l50,000, with 100000 insurance.
Directors of the new Indianapolis
Southern railway opened bids at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 18th, for the
construction of the line between In
dianapolis and Sullivan, Ind. 10 miles.
The estimated cost will be s5,000,000.
Secretary Root left Washington, d.
c., on the 18th, for New York, and
sailed for Europe to take his seat as
chairman of the Alaskan boundary
commission, which meets in London,
September 3. Until the first of Sep
tember the war department will be
under the direction of Col. Sanger, the
assistant secretary, at which time Gen.
Oliver will succeed him.
The remains of the late Judge John
G. Long, United States consul general
and diplomatic agent at Cairo. Egypt,
who died as the result of an accident
in Dunbar, Scotland, July 2S. arrived
at Washington, ID. c., on the 18th.
The Topeka, Lawrence G Kansas
Electric Co applied for a charter at
Topeka, Kas., ON the 10Th, with cap
ital stock of $4,000,000. T. S. Salathiel
is the promoter. The line will be rs
miles in length
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the
10Th, appointed Senator H. w. Johnson,
of Montgomery county, Mo, judge Of
the circuit court of that county, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge r. d. Rogers.
The wooden ore steamer Queen Of the
West, from Cleveland. o., sank In Lake
Erie, on the goth. The crew of 10 men
and two young women, daughters OF
the engineer, were rescued by the
Anchor Line steamer Codorus, bound
for Cleveland. The steamer was val
ued at $4,000.
The Wyoming supreme court, on the
Goth, refused new trial to James Kef-
fer, who killed S. ], Warren at Derby,
December 20. 1901, and re-sentenced
him to be hanged September 25.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts and his
staff. on the goth, booked passage on
the steamer Mayhower, which will sail
from Liverpool, September %, for Bos-
ton, Mass.
The Missouri, a sister ship of the
Maine, built for the international Mer-
camille Marine Co., was successfully
launched at Baltimore, Md, on the
20th.
The Conecup Lumber Co.'S plant al
Montgomery, Ala, was destroyed by
fire on the goth. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, s50,O00
Gen. Nelson A. Miles left San Fran
cisco, on the Goth, to meet an engage
mept in New Hampshire, August 26.
w. j. Edwards, of Plains, Kas., was
shot and killed on the 20th. His sons
John and Roy surrendered, and admit
ted that they did the shooting. No
cause was given.
Fire partially destroyed the building
occupied by the A. S. Aloe Optical Co.,
cn Broadway, st. Louis, on the morn
ing of the 21st Losses were also sus-
tanned, by water, by the Simmons
Hardware Co. adjoining, and by T. ].
Reid Shoe Co.. opposite. water tower
falling against the third-story window
and flooding the building before II
could be shut off.
The first of the Americas cup yacht
races was started. but not finished, on
the goth, there not oeiag sufficient wind
to enable the yachts to cover the
course within The time limit. Reliance,
the cup deten ier, demonstrated her SUI
periority as I light wind craft, being
nearly two miles IN the lead when the
race was called uG.
The Grand Army of the Republic ma
tional encampment, on the goth, selected
Boston as the place i'll which the en-
campment of 1904 Will be held. Gen.
John C. Black, Of Illirti is, was chosen
commander-in-chief
An unknown young man from In
diana was shot in the side by one OF
four tramps, on the morning of the
2lst, 20 miles east of Wichita, Kas. He
died several hours later
David Stafford, an Emporia (Kas.)
business man, left. on the 2lst, for
Sheridan, Wyo., to investigate the mys-
terious disappearance of his son,
Lloyd Stafford, non-commission I'd Of
ficer in the United States army, sta
toned at Fort Mckinney. near Sheri-
dan.
Hazel Avery, self-confessed kidnaper
of two-year-old Olive Furlong, in Chi
cago, was. on the 2lst, sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary. The
baby was stolen June 20 and was not
recovered until June 80,
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic closed its
thirty-seventh annual session at San
Francisco, on the 21st, to meet in
Boston next year.
State Senator William P. Sullivan, OF
Christian county, Mo-. who was con-
victed, on the goth, at Jefferson City,