Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-03-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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orally denied all allegations.
The democratic judicial convention
in Detroit, Mich, on the 10th, nominal
ted Judge George L. Yaple. of Men
don, for supreme judge for a term
of ten years, to succeed Judge Frank
| A. Hooker.
Mrs. Arthur Pennell, who was in
jured In the automobile eccident IN
Buffalo. n. Y, which caused the death
| of her husband, died, on the 1ltn
without regaining consciousness. An
examination ee the automobile ds
proved the suicide theory.
John Gill and Charles Schley were
found not guilty on charge oi
larceny at Springfield. H., ON ths
| 18th, and were immediately rearresp
ed on fugitive warrants from Butte
Mont, where they are wanted Oh
charges of forgery.
The Cloth Casket Workers ane
Trimrners' union began strike foi
higher wages in Chicago, on the 10th
and six of the leading concerns thai
I manufacture undertakers' supphei
were tied up.
Arthur r. Pennefl, prominent fig
ure in the Burdick murder inyestiga
ton at Buffalo, was killed in an auto
mobile accident on the 10th. His wlft
was fatally injured.
| Two hundred machinists employed
in shops of the Kansas City Southern
railroad at Pittsburg, kas., qul'
work, on the 11th, as the result OF tha
failure of the company to accede &c
demand for an increase in wages.
In collision between passenger
train and a freight at Rankin station
Ky, on the 1fth, Engineer E. W. Bon.
ham, Fireman Ben Myers, Conductor
E. S. Bramwell and Mail Clerk James
Nolan were injured
| Announcement was made at Wash
ington. on the 18th, at a meeting held
by South American diplomats, thai
Andrew Carnegie was ready to imam
ciallv aid the inter-centinental rail-
way project.
Five hundred students engaged in
a class battle at Purdue university
Lafayette, Ind, on the l1th. Ponce
| filed patrol wagon with ringleaders
among the belligerent students.
At Kansas City, on the 1lth, police
used revolvers in quelling riots result
| ing from the strike of transfer drivers
for higher wages. No one was seri.
ously injured.
The bill creating a new text book
commission to select books for pub
lie schools for the next six years was
defeated in the Missouri legislature
on the 18th. So also the Jim Crow
car bill.
Five small boys lighted stick OF
dynamite at Buffalo, N. u, on the
pected to live.
The Cuban congress, on the 11th'
ratified the reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
Ice gorges in the Platte river broke
on the 18th, thus improving the Hood
situation.
Mike Karlosky was killed, John
| Foegk was fatally crushed and two
other workmen were seriously hurt III
an explosion at the Republic iron and
steel mills at East Chicago on the
10th.
The Kansas senate, on the 10th, de-
cided to make an investigation of the
supposed merger of the Frisco rail-
road lines.
President Roosevelt's formal accept
ance of the invitation to attend the
centennial anniversary of the pur-
| r +ar
received in ST. Louis on the 18th.
The Arkansas house failed to pass,
on the 10th, the senate bill to appro-
? pirate $4,000 additional for an Arkan-
sas exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition.
The Kansas house, on the 10th,
passed the senate bill prohibiting the
use of slot machines IN Kansas. Gov.
. Bailey says he will sign the bill.
Fourteen bodies were recovered, on
the 10th, at Olean, N. Y, where an oil
train exploded the night previous.
Fourteen persons are seriously in
jured.
Garret Hedeen, notorious moon
! sinner, was stabbed to death by his
brother, Riley Hedeen, in Polk coun-
, ty. Tenn, on the 10th.
Two women, Mrs. G. b. Evans and
Mrs. II. S. Myers, took the places of
; their husbands, non-union men, and
fdrove trucks about Kansas City, on
the 18th, in defiance of the striking
transfer company's drivers.
Mabel Green, aged 27, whose home
is believed to be at Lacon, ILL.,, oom-
mitted suicide in Chicago, on the 18th,
by inhaling gas. A broken engage
ment is said to have led to the sui
eide.
, Gov. Yates of Illinois received an
appeal for aid for the food sufferers
at Shawneetown, on the 18th, and
sent Assistant Adjt.-Gen. Ewart to
that place with 100 tents.
Adelbert A. Ames, former mayor of
7 Minneapolis, decided, on the 18th, to
return to that city and stand trial on
a charge of bribery.
Eight men were killed in battle
between rival turpentine camps neal
Orange Springs, Fla, on the 18th
. The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
R. ennell killed in an automobile ae
cident at Buffalo, N. Y, were shipped
to Mr.. Pencils old home in Maine
0 on the 18th.
, Mrs. Seth T. Paine, whose name ha!
: been mentioned in connection witt
a the Burdick murder case in Buffalo
4 N. Y, quietly left that city on TIL
!. 18th.
4 A sudden rise in the North Forl
a and Elkhorn at Norfolk, Neb., brok
) the dyke, on the 18th, and the tow
was saved only by heroic work.
The Chicago limited, west-bound
on the ninois Central railway, wa
e wrecked at Pomeroy, H., on the 18th
d and FIVE passengers injured.
: The joint scale committee of low
i miners and operators reached a
' agreement, on the 18th, affecting tn
: scale for the first district. The seal