Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-12-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL ANu GENERAL.

Passenger train No. II. south-bound
from st. Louis, on the st. Louis. Iron
Mountain q Southern railroad, ran in
to an extra freight train at Swifton,
Ark, on the 22d. Harry Wells. fire.
man on No II, was burned to death,
and Engineer Deguire, Of the same
train, was pany hurt. Four passen-
gers were seriously injured, and Is
others were slightly hurt.
On the ed, William Holden. farm
hand. entered the Platte Valley bank
at Platte Center, Neb., and demanded
the banks cash. and on refusal of
Cashier Barney Schroeder to surrender
1t, shot the latter in the breast, inflict-
ing . serious, but not fatal wound.
The baud.. was afterwards captured.
The three negroes, whose lives had
been threatened by mobs at Lexing-
ton, KY. were removed to Louisville,
on the 22d, for safe keeping.
The American Art Exposition Co.,
having failed to satisfactorily complete
its side Of the arrangements. the pro-
posed trip of the Filipino constabulary
battalion and band from the Worlds
fair for weeks engagement In Madi-
son Square garden, New York city, has
been declared of.
The Red Star line steamship Kroon-
land, about which there had been some
anxiety. by reason of published reports
that she had foundered, came to
anchor at quarantine, New York har-
Dor, on the night of the 21st.
Briefs containing the arguments OF
counsel for Senator Joseph r. Burton,
Of Kansas, were filed, on the 22d. in
the United Stated supreme court.
Rear-Admiral John Russell Bartlett,
United States navy, retired, died at the
Marine hospital In st. Louis, on the
22d, of pneumonia. contracted while on
tour of inspection Of government
steam vessels plying ON the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
President Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Co. announced, at
a meeting of the board cf directors, on
the 22d, that the Worlds fair had no
bills payable beyond the comparative
ly insignificant current accounts.
Senator r. B. Tillman. of South
Carolina, has withdrawn his bitter op-
position tn DR.. Crum as collector of
tha mort of Charlestoo and he ia re-
ported by his friends as having passed
up" politics for the time being.
penbow's Montana Meteor" made +.
a,ght s~o,, IN. uyor,d,s fa,r ..rodrcm.
IN tho ood hut tta d,r;g,h,l,tv vas NOT
d.r,onstrat.a .s the r,otiva nova,
event deadn almost immediatelv after
rho ascens,on wss wade and a land.
,re wos osfoctad a. Iindonwooa Tou,
,,,Io. 80,
six negroes engaged in a deadly
ait a., ~ a.. - -. r,u~t,s
- IN Tho oad trs rort,c,r.nts ha,
9nr .rn,.d ,r,.h shot.,,ns .rd v,,sto,s
After tba hattie thraa law dead The
othor thr.. sscan.a
Nv tha .vn,os,on ~ the ho,lars n
n MiddIetor,s cotton r,n in ~,
town Of Walters MISC. ON the oath
two lives were lost and Ave persons in
jured, two of them seriously.
One man was killed and three Others
ihJuiou -. AAo' =.
cinnati. New Orleans & Texas racine
railroad at Highbridge, hy" on tn'
24th.
A monument 10 the memory Oh rres'
ldent Wliiiam Mehiniey "ae unse"eu y,
on the 24th, at the main entrance VI
Golden Gate park at Dan rianoraoo.
Otis LoVeiahu' "ho h..iou eo o
Geyer, farmer. near Ai'on' o' va wa
electrocuted IN the annex a' 'ne oA''
penitentiary Oh 'he s1."
ooin raa, % oa"n 80 u.rt wa,
hia,eu a. s':'oo.uo0' ~. a,..anonno - th.
Dequea,heu iol '"' main 00 ~
Du..n ,'- -,s.a &, ar.
rEe , - ~ ia Noh,a cro,r
whlcn ues'ioyeu S',h . paua Do on IN,
va ma,e'io''' ~ ~
1,h .,oo;oI troir hearing Presiden,
pan.ouoi, ana Marty orriveS in st
onis at gao a m. ON the 26th. ani
ros at once switched m siding insid,
.hn Xawin;stration entrance to tn,
,,,s-,,,n s,,,. ,,,haro ,ts occunants wer,
W. ~ nsnoso nnd,s,,rhed until tn,
o#c,oI dav onaned
stockholm dispatch of the 26tl
saws that Heinrich Ibsen has had sew
ers, attacks of heart trouble, and tha
b,s condition is such that there is littl,
hone for recovery.
tremendous excitement prevailed ii
st. Petersburg, on the 28th, when 1
became known that the car had re
ceived in audience a delegation from
the zemstvos for consultation over thu
demands contained in their memorial
II ia believed in TOXIC that impor
tant Developments in the siege of Por
Arthur are impending. The belle
seems to be based mainly on the un
official reports of the successful prog
ress of the sapping against the E
Lung. Sung Shu and Tung Kekwal
forts.
II is said that the dispatches sen
by Gen. stoessel. commander at Por
Arthur, sent by the destroyer Rasto
l.. Cho Lroo CONTAINED a fran1