Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-05-18

Train wreckers ditched a Santa Fe
passenger train a mile east OF En-
poria. Kas.. by drawing the spikes and
fish plates from two rails on a curve.
Six persons. occupants of the baggage
car. were seriously injured. two prob
ably fatally.
BY the resumption OF operations in
q number Of idle mines in the Pitts
burg tPa-) district. between six and
e-ght thousand idle miners nave been
put TO work.
known actress and songstress. VINO
played Little Buttereup" in Pima
fore" in one OF the earliest companies
to produce Gilbert and Sullivan's
initial success in this country. died at
her home in Chicago of heart dis
ease produced by nephritis. She was
46 years of age
NJ Jusserand. the French ambassa-
dor. declares that the French repre-
sentatiyes to the International Rail
way congress were keenly interested
in the rate discussion between Secre-
tary Taft and President Stuyvesant
Fish of the Illinois Central. despite
rumors TO the contrary.
Emperor Nicholas has sanctioned
an important law. permitting Poles to
acquire land by purchase in the king
dom of Poland, of which right they
were deprived after the insurreetion
of 1863.
The widsIy-heraIded May day dis
turbances in Russia appear to have
been a failure with the exception of
a slight outbreak in one of the peo-
pies parks in St Petersburg
Four more of those injured during
the tornado at Snyder. Okla. have
died. increasing the death list to III.
Several persons are reported missing.
and some of the injured were said TO
be in a critical condition
With solemn service in the old
cathedral al ST. Louis. Archbishop
John ]. Glennon was. on the 18th inst,
invested with the pallium. the insignia
of his episcopal office. by his eminence
Cardinal Gibbons Archbishop Ire
land of St Paul preached the sermon
The occasion brought together a large
number of churchmen or all degrees.
Howard Malcolm richner, the
author. lecturer and critic. whose
home was IN Boston. died in San
Francisco after brief Illness
Admiral Dewey is Ill at his home in
cold contracted during visit to New
York. II was not believed to be
serious.
Rich Jews are leaving Alexandrovsk.
government of Ekaterinoslav. Rus
sia, being disturbed by rumors of an
approaching Jew batting after the
kishineff order.
Judge Robert Dougless died at Col
orado Springs, Col. aged S5 years. He
went to Colorado in 1862 from Illinois.
Articles OF incorporation have been
fled at Salt Lake, Utah, of the Bene-
fetal Life Insurance Co., organized by
and under the direction of the Nor
mon church
Marquette, Kas., suspended all busi-
ness for three days during the funerals
of the victims of the tornado there.
A tornado swept down the main
street of Lawrence. Kas., on the night
of the 10th inst, unroohng several Of
the main business houses and putting
the electric lights out Of commission.
1t Is thought that the avowed policy
Of the administration in regard to rail-
road rate legislation may cause the
retirement OF Secretary OF the Navy
Morton from the cabinet.
The Chinese propose to resent the
American exclusion law by declaring
. boycott on all American goods
Mrs Joseph Menges, Of ST. Louis,
gave her husband a fatal dose Of
strychnine, mistaking 1t for quinine.
John Mccormick was fined sS7 by
Judge Williams. at Marion, Ind. for
having one cigarette paper in his pos
session. and went to Jail for AZ weeks
in default