Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-09-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

absolutely denying the story that no
the murder of Gilbert Gates. He says
he is well and hearty.
With the arrival of number of
strike breakers In the packing house
district In Omaha, Neb.. on the 23d.
came 80 Japanese from the smelling
and manufacturing districts of Colora-
do. They were taken into the plant Of
the Omaha Packing Co.
Five persons were injured, one of
them dangerously, by the explosion of
barrel of turpentine In the cellar of
store In Armourdale, Kas., on the
23d. the explosion being caused by the
careless handling OF a candle by
workmen.
A tornado struck Sorrento. Italy, at
! midnight Of the 23d. Among the build
ings wrecked were the Hotel Tram
ontanO and the cathedral and monas-
terry of San Paolo. Several lives were
the greatest desolation.
Arrangements have been made for
Senator Fairbanks. of Indiana. repub-
lican candidate for vice-president, to
open the campaign in Missouri at Kan
sas City on either September 2 OF 3.
The black rust is said to have killed
the wheat crop in many places, in the
northwestern states, or cut it down to
such an extent that only the thresher
can tell the tale. The elevator men
and millers estimate the crop of Min
nesota and the Dakotas from Sc, 900, 900
to 100000 bushels for the three
statee.-
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train
No was derailed west Of Princeton, "a
miles north of Trenton, Mo-, on the
23d. injuring As persons, two of whom
are In dangerous condition.
Fire in the glue factory OF Armour
& Co., at Benson avenue and Thirty
second street, Chicago, on the Gath,
caused loss estimated at 100000.
Rear-Admiral John c. Watson was,
on the Gath, placed on the retired list
| Of the navy, having reached the age Of
| 81 years.
Mrs. Susan Stems Wyman Holmes.
| aged 81 years, an aunt of Postmaster
Frank Wyman, and one of the Oldest
residents of st. Louis. having gone
there before the advent OF the railroad,
died. on the night of the 23d, OF pneu-
| monia.
According to adyices received at Che
Foo. on the Gath. the Japanese were
SO close to Port Arthur as to have
driven the Russians from their parade
ground Scarcely a building remains
! undamaged in Port Arthur.
Admiral Kataoka reported to Toxic,
on the gath, that as the Russian bat
| tieship Sevastopol was emerging from
Port Arthur, on the 23d. she struck
mine, after which she showed decid-
ed list to starboard, She was towed
back into the harbor
| committee of business men of Wa
| coma, MINI. one of the villages struck
by the storm on August 20, has issued
an appeal for outside aid for those left
destitute of home and means OF exist
ence by the storm.
| Announcement IS made at the navy
| department that the cruiser Tacoma,
Commander II. F. Nicholson command
| ing. has been finally accepted from
TIE Union iron works, San Francisco
A wave of rejoicing and festivity
swept over Russia with the rising OF
| the sun, on the cath, on the christen-
| ing day of the heir to the Russian
throne.
The German-American bank. the
oldest financial institution In Sidney,
O., has been placed in the hands of
receiver Liabilities, s25o,000; assets,
5000 900.
| l.
Alfred Bolster. colored, aged u, Ia In
iail at Niohrara. Neb.. charged with
numbering his child with a saw. His
wife alleges that he killed the child
and buried II, and says she has been
afraid to reveal the facts, because he
had threatened to murder her II she
Gid.
After bitter fight. John c. Cutler,
of Salt Lake. Utah. was nominated for
governor by the republican state con-
vention, on the 25th. on the second
ballot.
A gold and copper discovery in Cha
peta mountain, in the Monarch dis
trict. near Salita. Col, has started a
rush OF prospoctors to that locality.
-Four persons lost their lives and sew
eral others were injured in tornado
that swept through Chautauqua coun-
ty. N. v, on the 25th.
The Russian galleries in the west
pavilion OF the Worlds fair Art Pal
ace were informally opened to visitors
on the oath.
Fire. probably the result OF s'pon-
9 taneous combustion in pile of leather
: goods broke out In the Manufactures
building at the Worlds fair carly on
the morning of the eth. An alarm
5 was promptly given but the fire was
nut out with hand extinguishers be-
. fore the arrival of the firemen. The
v damage was not more than $500.
}, According to a Toxic correspondent
I OF the Paris Matip, the japanese nave
4 discovered that there is no hope oi
i taking Port Arthur by direct assault
and that long siege operations viii be
necessary.
d battle. which was begun, on ths
J. Gath. between the Japanese and Rus'
d slams to the southeast OF Lao Yang
/, was still in progress on the night o
70 the 26th. The japanese, at last ac
j, counts, were advancing from three di
| -
l. Russian eastern front, and the adVanc'
was being stubbornly resisted.
Philip Weinseimer, president OF Tn
% New York Building Trades alliance
I, was arrested, on the 18th, on ne'
ie indictment charging extortion. Ii /
in alleged that he squeezed $400 out OF
ps contractor not to call strike.
" Seven men were burned 10 death, o
lc' the 26rh, in an oil fire at Hoboker
ne near Antwerp. Belgium. which dc
stroyed tanks containing upwards
pa 10000 900 gallons of petroleum
4 salvador Carrasco, the Philippin
49, oorstabulary sergeant VINO committe
md s,;cide, because of homesickness'
w. the Worlds fair, was buried with mi
M .ha itsry houors IN the jefferson EarrseE