Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-01-26

MAS. CRooKr. cousin Of Nv Crosse.
who was executed recently in ireland.
has been arrested on the charce II starv.
ing her husband. gentleman og property,
aged fitty-seven who died "a short tim
ago.
"GRAxDNA" GARFIELD i gradually
sinking and il is Thought that shs will not
live more than a few days longer Mrs.
J. A. Garfield, Miss Mollie Cars ID AMI
one Of the boys srs in Europe. "Gran,l-
ma" Garfield is at Mentor at the old home.
stead and i attended by her daughter,
Mrs. TrobridZe.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURcHILL il being
iiontEed in Russia by the royalty, the
nobility and the aristocracy.
LIEUTENANT THIEs. Qnartsrmaster
Third infantry, died at Fort shaw, Mont,
on the Goth, OF erysipel a.. after an illness
OF but few days. He entered the service
as private In 1864
JOHN p. REA, commander in-chief of the
q. A. R.; Adjutant- General Fish, of Min.
neapolis, and Quartermast ter General John
Taylor, of Phil adelphia, were rendered n
reception on the night Of the Goth by La
feyette Post, q. A. II. in New York.
THE day express on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck two men In Carnies' tun-
mel near Meensboro, Pa, on the Goth, and
killed them instantly. Their remains
were mangled beyond recognition, but 1,
Is supposed they were trnmps.
REAR-ADMIRAL LOUIS HUTTON VERSE.
TERME, OF the British navy, committed sui
eide at Falmouth, on the 10th, in nit o.
insanity. He entered the service in lS-S
and became Rear-Admiral in ISSb. Ht
was on the retired list.
DoN CARLOS wants Spain to become a
great nation, and SAYS he is willing to fight
to make her such.
JUDGE j. T. KINNEY, agent Of the San.
tee Indians in Dakota, arrived at Ne
braska, City. Neb., on the 10th. after be-
ing nine days on the road. He reports
that loss of life by the late storm has
been greatly undcrestimated, and he
lieves Dakota's death record will reach
LOCO.
JAMES q. BROOKS, who has held the
office of chief of the secret-service di-
vision of the Treasury Department for so
many years, rendered his resignation
when the present Admins tration came
into power, and il was accepted on the
Goth, TO take effect February 10. John X.
Bell, formerly chief of police of Newark,
N. j., will succeed him.
JOHN PALMER assistant millwright at
Oliver Bros. & Phillips iron mill, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was dragged into the rolls on
the morning Of the 10th, and crushed to
death. Palmer was oiling the pinion
bearings when his feet slipped, and be-
fore he could recover himself he was
caught in the rolls and drawn through
feet foremost.
THE virtual. IL not actual, expulsion OF
ex-Queen Isabella from Spain is due, it is
| ascertained, to the discovery of plot TO
place her upon the Spanish throne as re-
gent pending the arrival at the age of
majority of her grandson, the baby King
Alfonso XIII.
| THE White Caps. an organization of
roughs who have long been the
| terror OF Crawford County, Ind i,
have committed another outrage. They
went to the house of Wesley Meeks, a
Baptist minister, dragged him from his
bed and whipped him most unmercifuiIy.
| They told him he was not providing for
his family well enough.
TELEGRAMs from Toulou, France, re
| port that the government arsenal there
has suddenly become the scene Of great
activity. Every thing is being hastene,,
to placs squadron of iron -ciads and all
| the available cruisers in readiness to sail
| The men at the dock-yards are workin =
extra time.
HATTIE OLyEv, of Vanderbilt Mich
threw her six-year-old child from .
Michigan Central train, near Lapers, On
the night Of the 10Th. The child was found
cut in two. The woman, who is a cripple
and uses a crutch, was arrested shortly
after the arrival of the train at Bay City.
| She claims that the child was drapped
| accident ally.