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


Thompson shot and killed a young
white man.
The eastern railroads are making
wholesale reductions in operating
forces and cutting down expenses
all along the line.
Crazed from jealousy, Mrs. clara
Jones Of Batson, Tex, shot and kill
ed her husband, Graham Jones.
The woman fred five shots, all Of
which took effect.
The Worcester Mass Spy, pa
per founded in 1870, has suspend
ed publication, owing to financial
troubles. This was probably the
oldest paper published continuously
under one name in the United
States.
Chas. Green, a negro, had mar
row escape from being lynched by a
mob in the heart of New York city.
Green attacked two white girls
who were playing in a park, and
whose screams attracted a large
crowd. The police had to use their
clubs and threaten the mob with
their revolvers to save the prisoner.
An historic relic, copper plate
from which the Continental congress
printed certificates emitting the
holders to thirty Spanish milled
dollars" was recently unearthed on a
farm in Orangeburg, S. c., where it
was probably dropped by a soldier
Of the British army in the march
to the South in 1177.
BY the decisive vote of AL to
1SS, the Methodist general confer
ence in session at Los Angeles de-
cided not to make any change in
the church discipline in the matter
of prohibited amusements. The
question is one which agitated the
minds of the delegates to the pres
ent general conference perhaps more
than any other single problem.
The bandits who captured a rich
American named Pcrdicaris and his
stcpson in Morocco, demand a large
money ransom, absolute immunity
from pursuit or punishment for the
kidnapping and other crimes, and a
guarantee from the United States
and Great Britain that these stipu-
lations will be observed. The de-
mands are too preposterous to be
considered.
Japan paid heavily for her victo-
ries at Kin Chou, Nanshan and Ia
lien Wan, losing 5000 men in kill
ed and wounded in the repeated as
saults against these positions, but
she scored a sweeping and valuable
victory over the Russians, capturing
fifty guns, clearing the way to Port
Arthur and inflicting losses on the
Russians which, in the end, are ex-
peeted to total 1900 men.
United States Senator Mathew
Stanley Quay died at his home in
Beaver, Pa, May 2S, of chronic gas
tritis. Senator Quay's indisposition
began about a year ago. 1t was
recurrence of the trouble that beset
him during the latter part of 1900
and the early days of January, 1901,
when he was undergoing the strain
of a campaign for reelection to the
senate. Never strong man physic-
ally, the senator's capacity for work
was marvellous. He realized several
months ago that the end was near,
and awaited the summons with the
stoicism of an Indian. He was 20
years old.
Reports received in Washington
from the far east dwell at length on
the terrific power of the japanese
shimose powder, the nature of which
is an absolute secret. 1t is not used
to propel the shot, but for bursting
the charge of the army and navy ex-
plosive she'll. The result of the ex-
plosion has astounded the United
States army observers. The heav-
lest armor-piercing shell, with its
small cavity, is rent into countless
of sharp fragments which
arc hurled through the air with
such force that they tear through
the sides of an iron ship as would
a projectile from a machine gun.
Clara Adams, Melissa Brown and
Mary Adkins, cousins, engaged in
a desperate fight near Whitesboro,
Kv., in which the two first named
were fatally injured. The girls are
all under 20 years of age and the
trouble was over men of the COM
munity..
Seven freight and coal piers of
the Delaware and Lackawana rail-
road at Jersey City were destroyed
by fire. The loss is placed at ST.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
has telegraphed expert entomologists
of the department to visit Bexar
county, Texas, and make a thor
ough investigation of the fields. of
cotton which are said to have been
entirely cleared of the boil weevil
by the aid of ants.
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