Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-05-11

I - ANNAltfAkAAs AAl
Nearly all the churches In Kansas
celebrated the twenty-foar;h annlver.
sary Of the enactment of the prphih-
itory law in that state.
On Sunday. May : l203a foreign i'm
migrants entered New York This was
4 record breaker.
After a chase that LAD through sew
eral Atlantic coast cities. secret serv-
ice officer arrested Thos. Brewster.
/ Chas. Fairbanks and Robert Slack. all
of San Francisco CHARGED with sxten-
sive counterfeitiug operations. The Of
! hcer also got s3No in counterfeit
money. mostly So bills.
Fire. originating in the building of
the Cleveland COl News Co. caused a
loss Of sii5ooo
Walter Travis. a travelling salesman
from Baltimore. Nd. committed sui
eide at VI Reno. Okla. with morphine.
The FitxhBrh Lee Monument assn
citation has necn formally orr1nlzfd NJ
Richmond. Va monument is 20 BE-
erected in Richmond
The flrewen dinner 70 Hou Joseph
Choate. the retiring United States an
hassador 10 Great Britain. at tie Man
sion House. London. on the night Of
the 5th INST. was one Of the most re-
markable gatherings Of notablcs ever
assembled az the historic official resi-
dence Of the lurd mayor OF London.
Mrs James T. McGnire. aged IS.
walked all the way from her home in
Cedar county. Missouri. % jefferson
City. a distance of 80 miles. 70 in
te-cede with Gov Folk for the liberty
Of her fS-year-oii husband. VINO is
confined in the penitentiary on a
charge Of horse-stcaling
Ferdinand Wa-i. the one time
financial partner Of Gen. UIysse s
Grant. il is said. is 10 agaln become 4
part Of the financial ceater Of New
York CITY.
In a'letter adrlTessed % Acting Sec
rotary OF state Lconis Secretary Hay
speaks very hopefully OF his health.
which he says has improved steadily.
and he has gained in strength.
Fire. supposed to have been OF in
cendiary origin. vas discovered in the
Peabody Coal Co.'S yards in Chicago.
but it was put out before mHeh dam
age was done.
John f. Johnson. aged I03 years.
who came TO the United States IS
years aSo. and who for the last half
century has been a resident Of Co
lumbus. o.. has just applied for
naturalization papers.
Isaac y. Perry. who was charged
with having set fire TO the Chicago Car
& Locomotive Cos plant at Hegewisch.
H., to secure insurance money. was ac-
Quilted by a jury in Chicago.
Samuel W. Miller. OF Cedar Rapids,
Ia. who went to New York TO prove
that he was not the man wanted in
connection with the $4,000 bond stolen,
in 1878. from the Manhattan bank, has
been discharged.
Frank c. Graham. formerly manag-
ing editor of the Kansas City Times,
died from paralysis at the home Of his
sister of Carlisle. Pa.
The Roberts-Parker wholesale gro
Gerry house at st. Joseph. Mo-. was COM
pletely destroyed by fire. The loss IS
estimated at S500.000.
Jimmy Britt bested Jabez White. the
English lightweight. AT San Francisco
in a twenty-round argument Britt
landed the coup de grace just 20 Sec
ords before the close of the last round.
Secretary Taft has cabled to Gov.
Davis. at Panama, authorizing him to
return at once TO the United States.
placing Col. Gorgas in charge OF the
administration Of the canal zone until
the arrival there Of Gov Magool Gov.
Davis is suffering from malaria.
Wilhelm Deitz, who killed Russell
NJ. Lindsay. near Kansas City. Kas.,
on April 90. 1897. has been pardoned
by Gov. Hoch of Kansas. He had
served about seven years of a ten-year-
sentence.
Thomas A. Neal. clerk Of the court
| of the first judicial district of 0klaho-
| ma, is charged in n federal warrant
sworn out at Guthrie. with embezzle-
ment
! Felipe Alore. a wealthy ranobman.
enamored OF Mrs. Francisco Montorio,
| wife of a member of one OF the oldest
| families. shot and killed Mr.. and Mrs.
Montorio at Bingham, " NJ, and then
killed himself.
The Southwestern Iowa Bankers
association. at I meeting in Council
Bluffs. adopted a resolution-supposeti
TO embcdy the views OF Secretary Of the
Treasury Shaw-eOndemuing the na-
tionaI bankruptcy laws and urging
their immediate repeal
BY way of inaugurating the seventh
session Of the International Railway
congress in Washington. fash signal
previously arranged for-was sent
around the world. The circuit was
made in just seven seconds
The new Iowa ditch law has been
declared constitutional by Judge Gay
nor of the district court at Onawa.
Ia. which will result in hundreds of
drainage ditch enterprises being car
ried out
/ A tornado visited the vicinity of
Norfolk, Neb. Buildings we're razed.
small grain ruined and much other
damage done.
Otto Nickum, of St Louis. was
| drowned in the Mississippi by the
overturning of skin in which he was.
| with a companion. crossing TO the IL
| iinois side.
Mrs. Nettie Craven. who gained no
toriety by posing as the common law
! wife of Senator Fair, and who was re-
Gently taken to the Iowa hospital for
the insane at Mount Pleasant. is dead
/ Miss Annie Mansfield Sullivan. Helen
KeIler's companion and teacher. and
I John ALBERT Macy. Of the editorial
stan Of Youths Companion. we're mar
ried at Miss KeIlers home In Wren