Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-03-26

A broken engagement caused MISS
Mabel Green, of the University OF
Chicago, to commit suicide.
A fabulously rich strike of gold
is reported to have been made in
he Eldorado country in Arizona.
Mrs. Nellie Reichelderfer, a
school teacher, who resided on a
farm near Carbondale, ILL, was
murdered by burglars.
A. Mclaughlin, wealthy citizen
Of Paris, Texas, was shot and in
stantly killed on the main street in
that city by R. H. Moore.
Captain Edward Coffin, with
eighteen men, has sailed from New
York for Norway and from there
he will start upon a polar expedl-
ton.
Senator Arthur Poe German of
Maryland was elected leader of the
democratic minority upon his return
to the senate after an absence of one
term.
S. N. D. North, of Boston, form
erlv chief statistician of the Manu-
facturers' Census Bureau. has been
appointed director of the census to
succeed Director Merriam.
Six hundred lives were lost and
property to the amount of $500,0OO
destroyed by a hurricane which
swept over the Poumotu group Of
islands in the Pacific ocean.
Gator Heverin, the playwright,
died at his desk just after complet-
ting the climax scene of Tolstoi's
Resurrection. which he was drama
tizing for Miss Blanche Walsh.
Miller Reese Hutchison, an elec-
trical engineer, has perfected an in
vention in the nature of telephone,
by which. it is said, deaf mutes have
been enabled to hear without diff
ficulty.
The revolution in Honduras has
assumed such serious proportions
that squadron of war ships has
been sent there by the United States
to protect American in
terests in that country.
The Indiana coal operators, who
have been on trial in Chicago on a
charge of conspiracy to regulate
prices, were discharged, the judge
having instructed the jury to bring
in verdict of not guilty.
Four Servian officers, under or
ders from the king, it is said, have
Prof. Alexander Boris
larjevics to fight duels to the death
because he charged them with OBJ
tanning promotion over the heads OF
their seniors through servility to
Queen Draga.
J. Whitaker Wright, who for sew
eral years has been the best known
promoter in London, was arrested
as he left a ship at New York, on a
charge of swindling shareholders in
the London and Globe finance cor
poration of London out of an
estimated variously from
100000 to S150.000,000.
An international syndicate head
ed by I. NJ. Seligman, the Ameri-
can capitalist, has offered to assume
the debts of Venezuela to the pow
ers on certain conditions. English
capital is represented in the project
by the banking firm of Speyer &
Co., of London. President Roose-
velt refused to grant request of
the syndicate that the United States
guarantee to aid the
investors in recovering their money
from Venezuela when the loan be-
comes due.
A sensation has been caused in
Masonic circles at New York by the
admission to a lodge in that city
of Thomas Draper, known in sport
ing circles as "Shang" Draper.
Grand Master Crandall is said to
have seized the lodges charter and
taken steps to secure Draper's ex-
pulsion. 1t is said that the mem
bers who proposed Draper. and the
committee appointed by the lodge
to investigate his antecedents, at
the time he was proposed, will also
be expelled.
Major Bittinger, United States
Consul General to Montreal, has
rendered his resignation as the re-
suit of the trouble which followed
his criticism of the cuisine at the
Canadian hotels.
The orders issued to the Isla De
Luzon,. the Spanish gunboat cap
tured by Admiral Dewey at Manila.
to participate in the dedicatory ex-
ercises of the Louisiana Purchase
have been rescinded out
Of courtesy to the Spanish minister.
/ Federations are being formed by
the labor unions of Chicago as pro-
lection against the rapidly increas-
ing number of employers associa-
tons.
Doctor Michaud, surgeon on an
ocean steamer, injected atropine, a
daadl,- paican into his ypinS mis-