Oxford eagle., 1903-07-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

death of Mrs. Mary Caroline Quinlan
at the home of her son-in-law, Puddle
Coates, in Anna, H., has led to
Coates arrest on the charge OF muir
der. 1t is alleged he poisoned her
with strychnine.
Emanuel Cromer testified at the
trial of Collins, at Union, Mo-, on the
nth, that Collins deliberately shot at
Chas. j. Schumacher, the murdered
detective, as he lay fatally wounded
on the ground in front of the Ru-
dolph house.
A movement has been started
among the retail dealers of st. Louis,
and has already gained strong head
way, TO do away with .,iactice of
giving away candy, toys, etc, with
purchases, to children.
The United States grand jury at
Montgomery, Ala, has found SO true
bills for peonage and conspiracy, in
volving is persons, including justices
of the peace, constables and employ
ers of labor. Judge Jones compli-
mented the jury on its work.
In the presence of 100 witnesses
Charles Barrett and Dora Wright,
white man and negro woman, were
hanged at South McAlester, /. T., on
the 18th. Barrett killed John Hen
nessey, an aged miser, and the
Wright woman whipped her adopted
daughter to death. Both confessed.
With the reception given on board
Rear-Admiral Cotton's flagship, kear-
sarge, on the 14th, the official visit
of the American squadron to England
terminated.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the S15O,OOO,0Oo gold reserve in the
division of redemption, on the 14th,
showed: Available cash balance,
S22S, 1881, ,673; gold, S1O2 2,260,o53.
The room occupied by Gen. Cassius
NJ. Clay, at Whitehall, KY, has been
stripped of weapons by an order of
the committee appointed, on the 14th,
by the Richmond court to take charge
of his affairs.
An express train on the Central
Massachusetts division of the Boston
g. Maine road, ran into the rear end
of an express train on the New York.
New Haven & Hartford railroad at
the union station, Clifton, Mass, on
the 18th.
Lee Brown. alias John Tinsley, the
negro who killed Patrolman Massey,
of Evansville, Ind, was reported, on
the 18th, TO be in critical condition
at the Jeffersonville reformatory. His
illness is pronounced to be pneu-
monia.
james Allison Bowen, of Chicago,
on the 18th, resigned the post of dep
uty United States consul general at
Paris, in consequence of continued
ill health.
pea1 .sami.,s, TSrTy vas ordered,
on the 18th, to command the naval
station at Honolulu, and Rear-Ad-
miral Miller has been offered COM
mand of the South Atlantic station.
At meeting of the directors of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., in
Philadelphia, on the 18th, the special
committee appointed to consider
plan for the adjustment of the
finances of the company reported IA
vorably to the board.
Nothing was accomplished at Pitts
burg, Kas., on the 18th, in the con-
ference of miners and operators and
the Joint convention stands adjourned
subject to call.
The American Hardware Manufac-
turers' association and the Southern
joint meeting at Saratoga, n. Y, on
the 18th.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $l50,000,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, on the 18th
6o5,O6o; gold. $1o1, 1,729,749.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed, on the 10th, against
Frank Tennyson Neely. New York
publisher. The alleged bankrupt, on
July Is, admitted his willingness TO
be adjudged bankrupt and notified
his creditors of his inability to meet
obligations.
BeforeJudge Mcmahon, in the court
of general sessions, New York, ap-
peared, on the 10th, for sentence,
Charles Stern, who, in 1896, while en-
gagged in banking business in that
city disappeared with $4,000 of the
banks money.
While there are some Kansas coun-
ties which need more outside help to
harvest the wheat, the larger part of
the harvest is completed.
Frederick Nelson, of Newmarket,
\. j., brother of Mrs. Charles Fair,
who was killed in an automobile ac-
cident abroad, had narrow escape
from similar death on the 10th.
After two days work, jury was
selected, on the 10th. in the case of
George Collins. the Union (Mo.) bank
robber, charged with the murder of
Detective Schumacher.
Abner Mckinley, brother of the late
President Mckinley, was reported
dangerously i'll, on the 10th, at Somer-
set, Pa, with paralysis.
Three indictments were returned,
on the 10th, by the federal grand jury
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Two are believed
to have direct bearing ON the post of
flee department automatic cash regis
ter scandal.
Maude Jordine was declared not
guilty of the murder of her two-year-
old sister at Bloomington, ILL.,, on the
10th, the preliminary hearing ending
with her dismissal.
A verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree was rendered by the
jury at Hamilton, o., on the 10th, in
the case OF Alfred Knapp, the wife
murderer.
Four persons lost their lives in a
fire early on the morning of the 10th,
which DESTROYED Bonner Springs SAN
itarium, at Bonner Springs, Kas.
The sixth annual convention of the
Epworth league opened auspiciously
in Detroit, Mich, on the 11th. with
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