Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-06-09
News Of the World

AS a tribute to his memory for
services rendered in advocating and
securing the ratification of the Pan
anna canal treaty, Secretary Shaw
will have the portrait of the late
Senator Hanna printed on the Pam
anna bonds.
President Roosevelt delivered the
memorial day address at Gettysburg
Decoration day. The president was
escorted to the cemetery on the fa-
nous battlefield by a body of sew
eral hundred veterans Of the civil
| war.
Mayor Robert NJ. McLane of Bal
timore, committed suicide by shoor-
ing himself through the head with
a revolver. Mr.. McLane was mar
ried only two weeks ago and his
suicide caused big sensation. The
only reason his friends can assign
for the act is criticism from polit-
ical enemies caused temporary alb
erration of mind.
The American squadron under,
Admiral Chadwick, arrived at Tan
giers, Morocco, May 81, in connec-
ton with the kidnapping of Perdi-
caris, the American, and his step
son, British subject. A British feet
is also at Tangiers and unless the
sultan negotiates for the release of
the captives, decisive action will be
taken.
The dispatches report that the
japanese stormed and captured the
town of Kin Cho, about thirty-two
miles north of Port Arthur, May 27.
The fight was stubborn one and
the casualties were heavy on both
sides. The report of a battle at Port
Arthur last week, which was sent
out from st. Petersburg, was false,
though a battle at Port Arthur will
occur as soon as the Japs drive in all
the Russian outposts.
Ten men were killed outright and
sixteen others injured by the explo-
sion Of the boilers of the towboat
Fred Wilson; near Louisville, Ky.
The force of the explosion was so
great that it shattered windows in
Louisville, four miles away. Of the
thirty-three persons aboard the boat,
only seven escaped injury. 1t is
claimed an excess Of mud in the
boilers caused the explosion.
Cyrus E. McGrady, president of
the Seymour Ind National bank,
has been sentenced to six years in
the United States prison at Leaven-
worth, Kan. Alfred C. Parker,
president of the First National
bank Of Bedford, Ind, has also
been sentenced to five years in the
same prison. They we're convicted
of making false reports to the
comptroller of the currency.
John Barrett, the newly appoint
ed United States minister to Pana.
ma, while minister to Argentina
made a study of cotton growing in
that republic and declares that
there is section of Argentina AMI
Paraguay as large as the combined
area of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and South Carolina
equally well suited in climate and
soil for raising the best quality of
cotton.
Advices received in Washington
report the departure from Japan OF
another army division. While It's
destination is not stated, it is coo-
jectured that these troops are about |
to close is on the Russians rear in |
northeast Korea, cutting off the |
raiding parties which have threat
ened Gen. Kuroki's communication. |
There are no less than $4,000 SOL
diers in the expedition.
The supreme court of Missouri
has reversed the decision of the low
er court, where verdict was secured |
against the famous gang of fake |
footracers, who, it is claimed, rob- |
bed unsuspecting wealthy men of |
over million dollars. The gang
operated at Webb City, Mo-, in In
diana and at Hot Springs. 1t was
at the latter place their meth |
DDS were exposed, and where one of |
the leaders of the name of Williams !
was stabbed to death while confined |
in jail by an insane fellow prisoner,
who later committed suicide.
The postofiice department has Civ
en- notice that all star route carriers,
contractors and mail messengers
CARRYING mails between postoffices
and railroad stations and steamboat
wharves will be paid monthly in
stead of quarterly, beginning July
l.
A force of $4,000 Turkish troops
operating against the Armeriians are
reported to have burned forty-scven
villages and massacred the inhabi-
tants.
The first death of the season in
Chicago from heat prostration occur
red May 26.
The names decided upou for the