Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-03-22

A sRxAr snow storm RACED in Scotland
on the 18th Nearly all the railways we're
blocked with snow, and traffic was 81 Q
standstiil
An immense naturai-gas explosion 90
Cured at Toledo, O., On the 18th, entail
ing loss Of several thousand dollars A
travelling man named Fireman va. faaai-
" burned
FREpKRIcK CAROLYN. a carpenter, mw.
dsrsd his mistress IN a most brutal naar
ne~ with a hatchet. in New York. o. ths
10Th. The woman's name 10 unknown,
but she was n widow with three chfidrsu.
THE Ohio river was practically blczs-
AIDED at Browns Island, I've miles above
steubenvilie. D, on the I5sh, by the sink
ing. in one tangsd mass, Of eighteen coal
harges. entaiing a loss Of Zoo bushels
of Goa.
Ok the 16,h Acknowledged Garland
sent to the House Of Representatives sn
answer to a resolution calling for nfcrrna-
tion as To the amount OF money expended
for the apprehension Of nlicis distillsrs
and vioiators OF the Internal rsvsuus
laws He said that these expenditurss
were in paymsnt Of local deputies en-
ployed as guides TO officers in making ar
rests, bat failed TO state the amount paid
out.
The Chinese Immigration treaty was
iaid before the Senate on the 18th. Is Ak
eludes all Chinese laborers from our
shores except those now here, and makss
exceptions OF certain privileged classes.
BILL was introduced in the Senate,
~ the l6sh. to provide for the admission
OF Utah into the Union.
A. D. RATHER and R. Mundy, Of Temple,
TaH 49, .ls..f -
Santa Fe railroad bridge on Red river,
nine miles from Gainesville, on the Isth.
Rather gave up 500 and Q gold watch,
and Nundy con tributsd the modest sum
Of fifteen dollass.
DISPATCHES from Malta, Madrid and
Melbourne, Australia, stats that general
mourning was observed on the 18th for
the late Emperor William OF Germany.
The municipality of San Reno, Italy,
on the 18th. unanimously conferred hon.
orarv citizenship upon DIR. Mackenzie.
SIxrEES persons were drowned Oh
Bari. Naples, on the 18th. by the capsis.
| ing Of a Trieste pleasure boat
WHILE JAS Scariett was on trial as Bon.
ham, Tex on the 18th, for the murder of
Andy Laeefisid. in 1855. the latter came
into court I'D protested that he vas noe
a corpse.
SENATOR CARSor. father Of the Prssi-
| dent Of the French Republic. died on the
| 18th.
Irwa- stated on the 18th that General
Boulanger had decided TO enter the Cham
Der OF Deputies.
A REQUIEM service for the dead En-
peror was held in the English church in
Paris on the l6'h.
THE funeral Of the late Emperor Of
'hs presence OF a large coacourse of titled
mournsrs and OF the popu,acs Of Ber-
| lin.
AT Bellerflle. O., on the 18Th. John
Dan. = farmer, gel seventy wears, at
tacksd his wife with knife and then
went to an outhoase, where he cut his
own throat Mrs. Dean W II probably not
/ recover. It Is thought that Dean COM
nsitted the crime while temporarily in
| sane.
The funeral of Henry Bsrgh, late prssi-
| dent Of the Society for the Prevention Of
| Cruelty TO Animals. took place In New
York on the l6:h, and was largely A.
tended
Irwas reported on the streets Of View
YORK on the l6.h that Jay Gould had
reached Fernandi na, Fla
THE passage Of a bill 10 prevent food
aduteratioa was urged before the House
c0mmittes on eummere. on the IstA by
Mr.. Emory, OF Fhiiaielphia. president Of
the Society for the Prevention Of the
Adult-rati0n OF Food. and Mr.. c. b Thur
Der.
THE Indian Appropriation bill. rsporssa
90 tbs House on the i6sh. reduces ~
amount aliowesi last year sd. s&& 10 -
duces the items Of subsistsne~ and -
creases those for industrial schools