Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-06-09


The postoffice department has
ruled that it is against the postal
laws to send by mail morphine o.
other poisonous drugs.
President Roosevelt will spend
the summer at his home in Oyster
Bay. where he will be formally no.
titled of his nomination for the pres
idency.
In pitched battle with outlaws
in Letcher county, Kentucky, Sher-
if James Day was killed outright
and VIM. Haynes received mortal
wound.
Ten men were suffocated by gas
from a small locomotive in a. coal
mine near Williamstown, Pa. Fiji
ty others were brought to the sur
face unconscious, but will recover.
Floods in the Kaw river has
swept away the homes of many
farmers along its route through
Kansas and Missouri. The loss to
farmers and railroads will reach at
least $2,000,000, and in some cases
farms will be entirely abandoned.
Pat Grove, of kidnapping fame,
has been heard from again. Grove
is alleged to have been a member of
gang who almost beat to death Jo-
seph Lilliger and his aged wife near
st. Joseph, Mo-, about two weeks
ago, in an effort to make the couple
divulge the hiding place Of their
wealth.
The japanese took Dalny May 20,
the Russians departing so hastily
they failed to destroy valuable prop
erty. Reports to the effect that Fort
Dalny had been taken several weeks
ago were false. Between the time
the Russians evacuated and the ar
rival of the Japanese, Chinese ban
dts looted the town.
=. A great scandal was created at
Joplin, Mo-, by an assault mad3
upon Miss Maude McGee, who hal
been chosen queen of the carnival,
by Mrs. Weyland, a prominent So
ciety leader. Mrs. Weyland ac-
cused Miss McGee of having hur
deposed as matron Of honor, and
when they met at the headquarters
of "a prominent cluD, Mrs. Weyland
attacked and severely beat the
queen.
According to a story told by a
miner named Phil Robertson, Tas-
colt, the alleged murderer of Mil
lionaire Smell Of Chicago, and for
whom the entire detective force of
the world searched for years, lies
buried in an unmarked grave in
Alaska. Robertson says that he
came upon miners shack while on
a prospecting tour, and found a
man lying on cot in a helpless
condition. At moments the sick man
appeared to be rational, at other
times he acted and looked maniac.
Both in his sane moments and while
delirious, Robertson states, the man
insisted that his name was Tascott,
and begged that his fate be made
known to the world. The Smell
murder occurred at the victims
home on the night of February l.,
1888. Robbery was declared to have
been the motive, though it is believ-
ed by many that this story was con-
cocted. The crime was laid at the
door of Willie Tascott, then mere
youth, and his disappearance from
the Palmer house, where he was
employed to operate the elevator, the
night the murder was committed,
pointed strongly to his guilt. Wheth-
er the man who lies buried in the
far-away gold region is really the
missing Palmer house bell boy, or
whether he was really the murderer
of Smell, may never be known, as a
positive fact, but the author Of the
above story is known to be reputa-
bic, and until the story of the
crime was related TO him by the dy
ing man he knew nothing about the
circumstances.
Henry Deeter, who demanded of
wealthy planter of near MARSHAL
town, Ia, that $1,000 be left for
him at certain spot under penalty
of death for failure to comply, was
shot and killed by an officer when
he appeared to get the money.
Hon. W. ]. Bryan heads the Ne
braska delegation to the national
democratic convention. The state
unanimously adopted
endorsing Col. Bryan and
the Kansas City platform
Four men we're killed in a dvna-
mite explosion at a railroad cut on
the JclIico branch of the Louisville
& Nashville, near Warwick, Tenn
The dead are James Berchall and
son. John; Berry McAlester and
John II. Huntley.
Five persons were seriously hurt
in a riot between lacks and whites
in Philadelphia. Three negroes
were shot, one stabbed in the side
and policeman received a severe