Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-06-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

perimented with bubonic plague
germs, caught the disease and died.
Vaclav Pazlik, an aged Pole, in Chi
cago. stabbed his wife to death. on
the 9th, because she paid more atten-
ton, he said, to their son than to
him.
One man was scalded to death and
13 persons injured in a wreck on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, on the
9th, near Louisville, Ky.
Clara Nichols, society editor of the
Chicago Tribune, was crushed to
death in an elevator in the Tribune
building on the eth.
Four men carrying piece of tim
ber at Wooster, o., on the 9th, were
killed by lightning. The beam was
torn to splinters.
Capt. John NJ. Brinker, who first
proposed the holding of the Pan
American exposition, died, OF the 9th,
In Buffalo, n. Y.
About three hundred miners EN-
ployed in the Yellow Aster mines and
walked out on the 1etaoinshrdlumfw
mill at Randsburg, Cal, walked out
on the 10th. The miners are asking
for $3.50 per day in place of So.
The jury to try Curtis Jett and
Tom White for the murder of j. Is.
Marcum was secured, on the 9th, at
Jackson, Ky.
Gen. Baldwin, at Denver, Col, on
the 10th, ordered the United States
troops from Fort Grant and Fort
Huachuca, Ariz., to proceed to Moren-
ci, Ariz., where tie miners are on
strike.
Six hundred striking employees of
the American Cigar Co., in Kingston,
n. Y, marched to the factory, on the
10th, broke into the building and
compelled so employees to quit work.
Four persons were drowned in the
Allegheny river short distance be-
low New Kensington, Pa, on the
q 9th.
The property at Boston, Mass, of
the Bay State Gas Co., of Delaware,
was attached by Thomas w. Lawson,
on the 10th, in an action of contract
for S1,s50,00O.
The Western Federation of Miners,
at Denver, Col, on the 10th, elected
Charles II. Meyer president and Will
lam D. Haywood secretary-treasurer
Agreements were made in Chicago,
on the 10th, by which about five thou
sand workers gain better conditions.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, under arrest
at Kalkaska, Mich, confessed, on the
10th, to the poisoning of her brother.
John Murphy, his wife and baby.
A heavy snow fell, on The 10th, in
the mining districts of Colorado.
Miss Jessie Morrison began 25-
year sentence, on the 10th, in the
Kansas penitentiary for the murder
of her rival, Mrs. Olin Castle.
A train on the Great Northern ran
into landslide near Fort Benton,
Mont. on the 10th, and the engineer
and fireman were badly hurt.
Gen. Matos and the other generals
who supported him in the revolu-
tionary movement in Venezuela have
returned to Curacao island, and the
revolution is considered at an end.
James \. Watson, the clerk in the
auditors office of the District of CO.
lumbia government, who was arrested
for alleged enlightenment of large
SUMS, appeared in the police court at
Washington, on tie 10th, pleaded not
guilty and waived a preliminary
hearing. Bail was fixed at 100000
The food supply of st. Louis has
been largely curtailed by the shutting
off of receipts from nearby points
in Illinois. Meats, milk and vegets-
bles of all kinds are growing scarce
bread is short owing to the heavy de-
mands for relief purposes.
j. ]. Van Allen, the American mill
ionaire who bears the distinction of
being almost an exact counterpart of
King Edward of Great Britain, is
missing, and all efforts to locate him
since his recent return from Japan
have been fruitless.
Maj. w. II. Gibbes, who is said to
have fired the first shot of the civil
war upon Fort Sumter, died at Co.
lumbia, S. c., on the 18th. Maj.
Gibbes was a gunner in Capt. James
company, to whom Gen. Beauregard
sent the order to open fire upon Maj:
Anderson.
In q battle at the Shoshone agency,
in Wyoming, on the 18th, between five
Shoshone Indians and ten Indian po-
lice under Chief Dick Washakie, over
fifty shots were fired. The Indians
had obtained quantity of whisky
and were drunk.
James Dumas, proprietor of a trans
fer company in indianapolis, Ind, on
the 11th, killed Sarah f. King, wife
of Wesley r. King, a workman Mt the
Adams & Reynolds veneer works, and
then committed suicide, because they
had quarreled.
Herman Rennock was sentenced in
Chicago. on the 11th. to IA years in
the penitentiary for the killing of his
brother-in-law, Oscar Kreitling. The
attentions of Kreitling to Mrs. Rem
mock caused the deed
Four bodies of the Stout family,
who were drowned at 1881 North Har-
rison street. Topeka, Kas., were re-
covered on the llth. They were under
the wreckage of the family residence.
Striking coal miners at Morenci,
Ariz., on the nth, armed themselves
and disarmed the peace officers. Sol
diers have been sent to the scene.
Orc Copenhaver, of Indianapolis,
and William Jackson, of Evansville,
murderers, were hanged, on the 11th,
in the penitentiary at Michigan City,
Ind.
The business portion of Mays Lick,
Ky, was burned, on the 11th, includ-
ing the Presbyterian church; loss,
100000
George Duyer, wealthy farmer re-
siding near Alton, Ind, was shot and
killed, on the nth, by ms-lsed rob
bers, who took all of his money.
Jas Hill, for MANY wears a noted