Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-09-01


University Of Illinois by the board of ha
trustees on the 23d. tn
The national board Of directors of
the knights of Columbus, in session at st,
New Haven, Conn, voted to hold the A,
October meeting on Columbus day at 90
the St. Louis exposition. an
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Cardinal Satolli and his party ar. uo
rived at Rome. on the gath, from Ma IN
pies. The cardinal return to Rome
not only satisfied but charmed by his IN
visit to the United States.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick left her ho- = 20,
tel In New York, on the oath, for Ell ca
lenville, In the Catskill mountains, w
where she will remain at the home OF
DR.. Emmett Dinsmore for scme time. mi
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ~,
Railroad Co. has completed plans for 10,
the expenditure of 81 900 900 in the de- -,
velopment OF terminals on It's holdings a.
In Clay county, Mo-, opposite Kansas :
City. g.
An autopsy on the body of a Korean, Tic
who was steerage passenger. .on the op
steamer Coptic, and who died after be- sa
ing landed at the quarantine station in
Honolulu, shows that he died from the th
plague. no
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The annual movement of currency ca
to the west for crop moving purposes an
has begun The sub-treasury In New ".
York. on the Gath, shipped by tele To
graphic transfer to Chicago the sum OF a.,
$50o,000.
John Morley, formerly chief secre ~
tary for Ireland, will sail for tho ~ ~
United States In October to spend 90
few weeks, but 1t is said he has de- d.
clined tempting offers to deliver a Sc
ries of lectures.
new position has been created or. ca
the Illinois Central railroad-that OF
division agent, whose duties shall be to or
have supervision of local agents and OF
see that the stations In their divisions 81
are kept in sanitary condition.
A Che Foo dispatch OF the 25th says r.,
there are Japanese spies in Port Ar 70
thur engaged in cutting the electric III
circuits connecting the land mines Al;
The besiegers can not advance east ~,
ward until the forts are crippled.
Fifty strike breakers at the plant OF -
Nelson Morris & Co.. in Chicago. quit 50
,,or,r hocausa the comnanv refused 70 dI
discharge q special policeman whom g
the strike breakers said had beaten I'll
Frank Norie one of their number.
Judge Theodore Brentano. of Chi IL.
cago, has issued an injunction restrain p,
,ifx- .>f tntprfar-
ing with the lodging of non-union en- ed
p,oyes in the packing houses at the ba
stock yards. The city will appeal.
The final assault on Port Arthur Is h,
said to be imminent Hundreds of Jap a,
anese guns continue TO pour q destruc- dc
tive fire into the city and harbor, o,
along the lines of forts and intrench-
ments preparatory for the infantry as RI,
sault. c.
The Chinaman held up by the Chi -, ~
nese inspector at Black Rock. N Y, :"
was Yu Kit Min, Chinese merchant -.
who had been visiting st. Louis. He a.
was travelling without his passports, ~
and was released as soon as his story :,
was verified.
Geo. J.. Money NuS AOiuihdtSN Ava =
delegate to congress, on the 26tn, by "
the territorial democratic convention ass
at Las Vegas, n. NJ The vote was: v
Money, III; Jerry Simpson, So. The 1,
convention adopted resolutions declar- ~
ing for single statehood. 10
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The body OF young man supposed, -
from papers found upon him, to be :,
Walter Kemp, of Roumania, Ind was !.
found beside the Union Pacific track, ~
batween Vining and Clifton, Kas.. on -,
the 23d. He had evidently fallen from :,
a train, breaking his neck. =
George Leandor. the American Di-
cyclist, died in Paris, on the 2Sd, from
injuries sustained IN terrible rail- al
The Pare au Princess as the result or
running into a motor cycle which was
pacing a race In which an attempt was
being made to break the record for e
one hour. -
The funeral services OF ex-senator
Vest were held at the Vest cottage al I
Sweet Springs, Mo, on the loth, con q
Quoted by Rev j. o. Shackelford as q
sisted by Rev. o. II. Morton A vast
crowd assembled The services we're t
brief and simple, The remains were 6
taken to st. Louis. b
President Francis Of the Worlds Y
fair talked figures to the American IN |
sttute of Bank Clerks, on the 10Th
lie con1ded to them that the daily ,
cost of operating the plant is s5l'ooc,
and that. including the repayment cI {
tbo government loan at the rate OF
x5Oo 600 every two weeks, the dlurnal
cost is $65, coo.
Calling his wife into the back yara
md bidding her witness his act, NJ ..
Boody. a prominent specuiator anu
stockman of Eldora, Ia, on the zoth'
n,acad a pistol to his head, and In the
nresence of the half-fainting woman,
nul,ed the trigger, sending buiiet
.aehire into his brain. He died al
most instantly.
p,. tho explosion of some dynamite
s .rd in the panic that followed it,
three persons we're lhJureu' va =,
25tb at the Hawthorne race .ia'N ~
Chicago. It is supposed that tne eap9
we're thrown on the floor OF the oe''ine
r,ne with the idea OF creating PANT
dnring which the cash boxes vi '"'
hookmakers might be robbed
A.. ver,es. amateur in the prize
aring Jack Monroe, OF butte, Mons'
went down and out before Champ'oa
Tsnss Jeffries, in the second rouhu
- the nrize fight for the world chan-