Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-08-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

Roar-Admiral r. G. Taylor, of the
United States navy, who commanded
the Indiana at the battle of Santiago,
died at Copper Cliff general hospital.
in Sudbury, Ont on the 26th, of peri
tonitis.
Ex-senator Davis, democratic vice
presidential candidate. emphatically
denies the report that he is to marry
the widow of DR.. John Reynolds, of
Shepardstown, ". Va.
In a rear-end collision between
two passenger trains on the Rock ISL
and railroad at Jefricsburg, Mo-, So
miles west of st. Louis, on the 2Sth,
one man was killed, one probably fa-
tally injured and several others slight
ly injured.
On the 2Sth. Byron p. Humphrey
travelling passenger agent of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railroad.
with headquarters at Kansas City.
Mo, was found dead in his room at
the Hotel Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb.
State Bank Examiner Bergh, on the
2Sth, took charge of the state bank
at Mouston. Wis, and closed its doors.
The liabilities of the bank are stated
to be $137.901, of which amount s7S.-
704 is due depositors.
David Bennett Hill and Charles F.
Murphy. New York democratic leaders,
are said 10 have become reconciled at a
visit of the Democratic national COM
mittee and Tammaly leaders to the
home of Judge Parker, at Esopus, on
the 9th.
Albert Boenert, Theodore Styner and
Phil G. Erb, doing business in st.
Louis under the title of the Missouri
Rental CO.. were arrested, on the 9th,
by United States officers. charged with
using the mails in an attempt to de-
fraud.
For the killing of his aged fatherin-
law, August Raphael, in the kitchen
of their home at Tenth and Geyer ave-
nue., st. Louis, on March 16, Henry
Heusack will pay the extreme penalty
of the law in the yard OF the st.
Louis Jail on September G, unless the
supreme court reverses the verdict re-
Gently returned against him.
The report that Port Arthur had
fallen recurred 20 frequently on the
29th as to give rise to the belief that
there was truth in the rumors ane
that over the great Russian Gibraltar
of the east was flying the flag of the
mikado Whether true or not, there
had been severe fighting for three
days, both on land and sea.
The German foreign Office, on the
29th, stated that Russia had agreed to
fully indemnify German shippers and
their consisnees for any Losses sus-
tanned by the seizures of German ships
and the detention of the Prinz Helm
rich's mail.
Investigation of the assassination OF
Minister Won Plehve in st. Peters
burg, has disclosed a wholesale con-
spiracy 10 assassinate ministers, gov
errors and other high officials who
stand in the way of governmental re-
form.
Capt Van Schaick, Federal Steam
boat Inspector Fleming and former In
spector Lundberg were indicted by the
federal grand jury in New York in
connection with the disaster to the
steamer General Sloeum, on June 15
when nearly 1000 lives were lost.
George F. Golden. president of the
Chicago teamsters' union, was arrest
ed, on the 29th for intimidating. Aft
er many heated conferences between
Inspector Hunt and labor chiefs, Gold
en- was released on bail, The arrest
caused great indignation and excite
ment among the strikers.
The Pacific Mail Co.'S steamer ko-
rea, which. it was rumored. had been
captured by the Russian Vladivostok
squadron. has arrived at her destina-
tiou safely.
After iBdictipg ~ bookmakers. the
Chicago grand jury ordered Sheriff
Barrett to take immediate steps to
stop al gambling at the race tracks
in Cook county.
c. II. Ball, attorney for William
Church, recently convicted at Warren
ton. Mo. of tho murder OF his foster
parents, Mr. and Mrs. leater is col
iectius evidence TO show that young
Church is mentally irresponsible for
hi. actions.
In the British house OF commons, on
the 2Stn. Premier Balfour said the
acute stage of the Red sea incidents
had passed and that the Russian vol
unteer leet vessels would lie with
drawn. He laid down the British view
that no belligerent warship could is
sue from the Black sea,
The assassination of NJ Won Plehve.
in St Petersburg, has created a panic
among officials. some OF whom fear
fresh outbreak Of nihilism. Some claim
that the war with Japan is insignifi-
cart compared TO the peril nearer
home.
Special dispatches from Shanghai
and Yokohama, Of the 18th, said that
a general attack On Port Arthur was
in progress.
The London Times correspondent
al Toxic renews the assertion that the
Russian army in Nauchuris is using
cum-dum bullets.
Eight large sticks of dynamite and
two dozen percussion caps were found
Under the Santa Fe station al Ell Paso,
Tex. on the 27th. The explosives
were so arranged that is is thought
any heavy jar would have set them OF
On the 27th, Engineer Bud Durham
was fatally injured, and two men
named Inman we're seriously hurt by
the explosion of a boiler at Inman
Bros. sawmill near Minnowford,
Tenn. The mill was demolished.
Charles Kratz, the former st. Louis
councilman, indicted in connection with
the Suburban railway deal. is reported
seriously Ill at his homs