Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-01-05

Count Cassini. me Russian ambassa
dor to the United States. celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary OF his entry in.
to the Russian foreign service on ia,
2sth.
The earl Of Suffolk and his bride
formerly Miss Daisy Letter. and Col
Colin Campbell and his bride. vito wa.
Miss Nancy Letter. sailed for Europe
on the 2slh
The recent capture OF Rihlune rloun.
tain by the japanese permits IN.
mounting Of heavy guns. aud give.
them command of the city and harboI
OF Port Arthur.
The farmers and merchants OF Clay
county. Ca. met. on the eSih. at Fort
Gaines. and decided TO burn their share
Of TWO million bales Of surplus cotton
hoping thereby to raise the price,
A Toxic dispatch says that practical.
iy the whole Of Admiral Togo's fleet is
ready to start southwark. II the Balti,
feet is sighted he will abandon III,
blockade cf Port Arthur and sail tC
mc,t il
A dispatch from St Petersburg. on
the 2sth. to a London news agency
says that the Russian authorities have
closed Moscow university until FED
ruary l. owing to recent student dis
turbances.
Republican members of the Colorado
legislature who are followers Of for
iner Senator wolcott. declare they vii
never indorse a proposition TO ccan
out Alya Adams. the democratic gov.
srnor elect.
The most severe blizzard Of recenl
years ragged throughout the terrilor,
lying between the Rocky mountain,
snG the srea' lakes. on the 9th. eaus
ins much trouble TO transportation o.
all kinds and impeding telegraph,
con. municaiion.
Russian officers from the Balti'
squadron are prepared to go before tbs
International commission in Paris
and insist that Japanese torpedo boat
we're present among the Huli fishing
feet on the occasion OF the DoggeI
bani. AFFAIR in the North sea.
iron his refusal TO answer questions
pY. to him in the grand jury rcon
King T.. Conners. a col0Fed republican
worker of Pueblo. Col. was. on III,
37th. sentenced 10 the county Jail fo
ore year and fined s2.eeo by Dsstrlc
Judge Noorhies. OF that city.
John p. Dolan. Thomas F. Bsrret
and Frank Garrett. all OF ST Louis
under sentence of i've years each To-
naturalization frauds. surrendered I,
United States :tarshal Morsey, on tn,
9th and began their terms of impris
onment in the Missouri penitentiary.
W. II. Jones. manager OF the Chics
go Office of the WasLburn-Crosby com
pany. wholesale -four dealers of Min
neapolis. Mimi. died in Chicago. OF
the e9th. from injuries sustained in /
skull ani neck were broken by tn
fall.
A syndicate for which Attorney p
ID. Quigley. of Cleveland. o.. is sDokes
man. is said TO be ready and willin:
to furnish bail up to the sum OF So
0ao to procure the release of Mrs Gas
sic J.. Chadwick. held in Jail in tha
city awaiting trial on the charge o
forgery.
II was officially announced. on tn,
2sth. that Chaunesy AiteaeII Depew. o
New York. would succeed himself for /
term of six years a United States sen
ator from New York state, eoatinuin:
a the colleague II senior Senator
Thomas C. Plat. Who has four year
10 serve.
A news agency dispatch from Rome
On the e6th. stated that Gen Stoessel
the Russian commander at Port Ar
trur. had Appeared to Gen. Nogi. tbs
Japanese commander. asking that hos
tilities be suspended for "a hours. ant
that ne be allowed in that time TO re
move TIE wounded from Port Arthur
Hou. Thomas E. Watson, OF Georgia
the candidate of the peoples part.
for president in the last election. in
eorporated p-i,h the secretary of stat
OF New York. on the 27th. stoel
company called Tom Watson's Mag
ayine.- for the purpose of pablishin;
and circulating monthly literary pc
riodieaI of that name.
s
Countess Montignoso. formerly tn
Crown Princess Louise. and divorce
wife OF King Frederick Augustus o
Saxony. by going to Dresden and ty
| ing to see her children on Decemte
-. has probably forfeited her allow
ance OF $3.50. one of the condition
of which was that she should not Sc
foot on German soil.
By petition in the United States dis
tr.ct court at St. Paul. Minn. on thi
| eth on behalf of the United States
Attorney-General Moody began a sui
sgains. the General Paper Co. an'
| ether companies. comprising what i
kEC We as the Paper trust. under an ac
| OF congress. approved July ,. 1890. en-
| ti-,ea An act 20 protect trade an
ecmr cree against unlawful restraint
and monopolies-'
W. l. Davis. Of the Dells Paper 4
| Pulp Co. of Ean Claire. Wis. one Of tn
| concerns mentioned as defendants II
the application against the Genera
Paper Co. et al by the attorney-genera
In the United States district court o
81. Paul. Mimi. says the General Pa
| per Co, of Chicago. was organized a
| .ott;r1 aganev for Sftcl uaDer com