Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-17

The people OF Buffalo. N ", are cis-
posed to hold the natural gas company re-
kponsible FOR all damages occasioned by
the series of explosions which took place
in that city on the 10th.
TIE Senate privileges aud elections
com mittee devoted an hours eonsidera-
tin, on the lIth, to the Turpie case, and
decided that Senator Turpie was entitled
TO his seat.
UP TO the 10th. rain had fallen AT Wa
terloo, Ia, on fifty consecutive days. ths
aggregate rainfall being ovst sever
inches. The precipitation was general
oil over Northern Iowa
The Secretary Of the Treasury sen. 10
the House, ON the Itth. a cornEaunieatis.n
recommending that Sl0.e0~Ee sppr.,-
pristed Is supply deficiency in the sal
aries Of government store-keepers and
gaugers.
JoHS DILLON. the Irish patriot, vas sen
fenced to six months Imprisonment with
out hard labor. on the iith. on = char-.
made against him under the Crimes act.
In the British House Of Commons. on
the iith, Mr.. VIM. Smith. government
leader. declared that the statement pub
lished by the Dublin Catholic HsekIs
Herald, that the government had decided
TO endov an Irish Catholic college was
utterly bascless.
The temporary bridge used in the con-
struction Of the new iron bridge over the
Thames river. Mt Glencoe. Canada, gave
way, on the 10th. precipitating six men
into the water below. Alexander Wat
terworth and William Lamb were In
stantly killed. The others were seriously
injured.
The Democratic members OF the ways
and means committee, on the iith. took
up the consideration OF the various
amendments to the Tariff bfii that had
been sent to the committee.
IAAEs III. MURRAY, lincman in the
employ OF an electric light company in
New York City, was killed, on the 18th, by
shock while repairing an electric-light
wire.
III was authoritatively reported at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 10th. that Judge
Woods had received an intimation from
Washington that the decision In the cleo
ton conspiracy case against Coy and
Bernhamer, the Democrat politicians
convicted OF tally-sheet frauds, would be
reversed by the United States Supreme
Court.
The new barracks at Newport, Ky, will
be named F6 Hancock, and will be used
as resting place for troops that have
been on active duty.
A FINE portrait of the late Secretary
Manning will grace the center OF the new
twenty-dollar silver certificates.
REV. Dr. JAaEs DRUMMoxD, a prominent
minister OF the Episcopal Church, who
died recently in Cadiz, q. aged eighty-four
years, left large proportion OF his estate
TO the Church Extension Society
EIGHTEEN miners were killed outright
and many injured by fall OF rocks in
mine at Stassfurt. SaXony, on the 10th.
THE Government OF New Zealand has
s-ssrssl shs -~-~l ~AE ds~ss @s P-s-l~s--A
ing all Chinese ports as infected, To put a
stop to the admission OF Chinese immi-
grants to the colony.
IT is suspected that Enoch Mcmahon
and his farm hand, who were eremated in
the burning residence OF the former, near
Summittyille. Ind, on the 9th, were frs;
murdered by robbers, who afteTward fred
the house.
SEVENTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in a rear-end collision on the Erie
railroad, between Orange and Newark, y.
j., ON the Ilth.
HENRY NUSzEBRoCK, the first saloon
keeper fourd guilty in Cincinnati, under
the Owens Sunday Closing law, was
fined 80 and costs and sentenced to ten
days in the work-house
GEO. McDUFFIE, a negro preacher, was
hanged at Greensboro, Ga. on the IIth.
for the murder OF William Cheney, also
colored.
THE trial of the notorious Diss Debars.
in New York City, has been set for fEs
23d.