Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1900-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


The trial of pullman. Nolan AMI
Walsh. charged with attempting - d--
stroy Lock NJ. - of The Weiiand
canal. was begun at Weliand. Ont. on
the ss,h-
In the Methodist general eaufereus-.
IN the eth. Homer Eaton and ts~oFls
/ MAINS were reelected A. agents u
tie Book Concern at New York. \ 4
Jennings. at Cincinnati. and samuel
u Pye. at Chicago. Mr.. Pye for many
y,Srs managed the agency at y.
Louis.
oklahoma will this year take heF
place among the great fruit producing
>ertions of the country. strawb.rrIvz
have b. eu shipped in large quantiti-s.
several hundred bushels a day guin,
from Guthrie alone. Cherry shipments
to Ill the leading cities Of the north
u-gan on the stth-
Nearly 600 men were thrown out If
work when, at noon. on the etth. the
Converter and billet mills Of the Ilh-
noi~ Steel Co.. at Joliet. were closed for
an indefinite period. Only the blast
furnaces and merchant mills are now
I'tf.ning.
Ry tine explosion Of boiler in the
SawmiIl OF Capt. James \. MeFerrin. AZ
;surIeston. Tenn. on the 2sth. six per
sII> were killed. Capt. McFerrin him
self. the proprietor. aged IS years.
formerly in the internal revenue serv-
icc. is among the dead. His body WAS
thiown $50 feet.
Among the mass of dispatches tndi-
eating the approach Of the wars eni
a r. ferendnm j. in progress among the
I.,.r Fighting men to decide whether
th..-war shall he continued.
Gov. Bsckham Of kentucky. on the
,-ia., Issued 10 Hon. J. {. ;. blackburn
his commission as United States sena
tor to succeed William Lindsay. The
commission is certificate Of election
by the last legislature or January
for the term beginning in March. 1907.
The apartments Of Mrs. r. NJ. Belts.
wife of w-lI-knoWn physician at
1852 Court place. Denver. Col, we've
entered by burglar. on the s5th. ani
diamonds aud other jewelry valued ct
5000 were stolen Roy Brock a
young man living in the house. was
arrested on suspicion. but none of ths
stolen articles have been recovered.
A dispatch from Georgrtown. Britt
ish Guiana. On the 25th. said that
steamer, with three conveys. was car
ried over cataract in the Po'ars river.
British Guiana. 40 lives being lost.
The vault of the Bank of Dover.
Mimi. was blown open by burglars. on
the night Of the Gath. and 81 500 taken
The burglars escaped.
Eleven thousand additional troops
will be sent to South Africa IRON Eng
hnd during June.
Gen. Chatfes and his wife sailed for
the United States from Havana. on the
25th. on the transport Burnside. Prior
to his departure. Gen. ChaGee gave a
reception at the palace. which was
largely attended by Cubsns and Amsr-
leans. The Cubans regret 70 have Ten
Chaffee leave.
crisis in the fortunes of the al
lied Boer forces - OriteNcu 10 De Al
hand. II is thought that Gen. De Wei
and Commandant Olivier will be una
bIe to hold the Free State forces to-
gether IL the Transvaalers cross the
yaaI without making final stand in
the Free State.
Late reports from the seat of war
saw that the British were rapidly ad-
yancing. Gen Hamilton had effected
a junction with Lord Roberts. The
country in front of them was clear
of Beers to viljoen's Drift The Beers
were evacuating all their positions
south of the Naal river. and 5000 tad
already crossed TO the north bunk
The president and members of his
cabinet went to Fredicksburg. Va, on
the 2sth to attend the memorial serv-
ices of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac at the national cemetery and.
incidentally, to assist at the laying OF
the corner stone Of the Fifth corps
monument. presented BY Gen. Butter
field