Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-12-17
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song occupied offices in the same
building. and almost opposite each
other. IL seems that DR.. Pitts had
notified the owner of the building that
on account Of Birdsong's drinking 100
freely and making it unpleasant for his
patients by having rowdy crowds about
him, that either he or Birdsoug would
have to move. This enraged Birdsoug,
and is said to have been the cause OF
the tragedy. DIR. Birdsong is brother
OF DR.. j. 5. Birdsong, the husband OF
Mrs. Angie Birdsong, who killed Dr..
Butler Al Auu.trclla three years ago.
The railroad commissiou has been
notified by the New Orleans Great
Northern railroad company Of the COM
pletion of its Bogue Chitto branch,
which runs northwestardly from the
main line toward Tyiertown. The COM
mission expects within q very short
time 20 be notified Of the completion
and arrangements for operation of the
entire main line in Mississippi from
Columbia Junction to Jackson.
Mrs Marion Hooper escaped from
the East Mississippi insane hospital
one night lest week. Obtaining a lead
pencil with which to write letter and
shaving the lead into powder, she
blacked her face and disguised herself
as negress. Tying an old shawl over
her head and taking a marke. basket
on her arm she escaped from the hos
pital grounds and went to Meridian,
where she was captured and returned
no the institution.
While the current quotation for cot
ton seed among the Mississippi mills
is sl5 per ton, many of the mills are
paying much higher prices. and, as the
end of the season approaches, the usual
scramble for seed is about 20 take
place. Transactions at sl6 and sI7 per
ton are quite frequent. In some parts
Of the state the number of plants is too
large for the seed territory. and il is
these mills that are Offering the top
notch prices.
Judge j. L McCaskill died at Bran
don, aged 80 years. He was a lawyer
by profession, brave Confederate SOL
dier, a hero of the reconstruction De-
riod, state senator, consul to Dublin
during Cleveland's s administration, and
chancellor Of the Brandon district at
the time of his death.
An exodus of negroes from Adams
and adjoining counties TO the delta is
on. The labor situation has reached
an acute stage. Bankers, merchants
and planters have organized against the
labor agents and scant courtesy will be
accorded them in the future.
Gulfport is jubilant over the first
shipment of cotton ever sent out from
a Mississippi port. The shipment com
prised 10000 bales, together with |, 900
tons of cottonseed oil cake. This event
marks a distinct era in the progressive
history of the port.
The Clarksdale and Six Counties
Medical Society held very interesting
and profitable meeting at Clarksdaie
The counties composing the associa-
tion are Bolivar, SunHower, Coahoma,
Tallahatchie, Quitman and Tunica.
VIM. Seymour, a well-known citizen,
was murdered at his home near Ocean
Springs. He was some seventy years
Of age, and among the Oldest residents
of the section. 1t was . diabolical,
cold-blooded murder.
Capt. John A. Webb, member of the
Mississippi railroad commission, has
been appointed to act As adiutant-gen-
eral Of the Mississippi division United
Confederate Veterans, to succeed the
late Col. ]. L McCaskill.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress by Senator McLaurin to pay
years salary to the widow of the late
Charles Fitzgerald, the postoffice in
spector who was killed in Clinton few
months ago.
Il is reported that Iowa capitalists
have purchased site near Seminary
for the erection Of a paper mill, the
pulp to be obtained from bay trees.
The plant is to cost sl00, 600.
Acting Governor Manship offered .
reward of 500 for the arrest and con-
viction of George alias Lige Gilmore.
who killed his wife and George A.
Sharpiins at Greenville.
By ud luminous vote the North Mis-
sissippi Methodist conference put itself
on record as committed to constitutional
prohibition as the proper end and goal
Of temperance Legislation.
state Auditor Smith has issued a call
for statements showing the condition OF
the state banks throughout the state on
Nov. y.
Already some of the people OF Vicks-
burg are calculating the cost in dollars
and cents that the closing of the sa-
looms will mean in that community 1t
ia claimed that for the tirs. year after
the statewide law becomes operative
there will be u sheer traffic loss and
rental loss of at least s40,O 900 or $50, 600,
while the public revenues viii depre-
ciate in like proportion.
In the circuit court at Eupora Wal
ter Cooper was convicted of the MUIR
der of Sam Hightower, and Judge
Mclean imposed sentence OF ninety
nine years imprisonment
To secure appropriations for con-
tinuance of the boil weevil extermina-
tion work, cattle tick eradication and
geological survey ope.aticns WI De
unpernost in the minds OF .-.ssissIppi
congressman during the session OF con-
gress.
President F. L. Linker OF the La
favsrte County Farmers Union, has
,.JIaa a meeting of the union to be held