Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE Due DeGramont was slightly
wounded in duel with NJ Rambeaud.
near Paris, on the 81. The duel grew out
OF dispute over turf matters.
THE 1000 -guineas race run at Newman
ket, England. On the Cd. was won by the
Duke of Portland's brown colt Ayreshire:
the same owners brown colt, johnny
Morgan, second. and the Duke Of West
minister's chestnut colt, Orbit third.
The Connecticut State Democratic con.
vention was held at Hartford on the sd.
The attempt to make rails with the
new hands at the Edgar Thomson Steel
works, on the I'd. is declared by Sheriff
McCandless Of Allegheny County to have
been a success, notwithstanding the con-
trary report by striking Knights of Labor.
THE Hennepin County (Minn.) Repub-
lican convention, on the I'd, declared for
Blaine.
Six HUNDRED enthusiastic delegates
were in attendance on the Pennsylvania
State Prohibition CONVENTION at Harris
burg on the ID
MAURICE b. FLYNN, the New York poll
tician and contractor, was arrested in
Richmond. Va, on the I'd, on an abscond-
ing debtors warrant.
THE Iowa State Democratic convention
was held at Dubuque, on the ad. for the
selection OF delegates to the st. Louis con-
yention.
JOHN STEINER, a Cleveland (OD saloon
keeper, was fined So and costs and SEN
fenced to thirty days in the work-house.
on the Cd, for violating the Sunday law
a CONVENTION to form n farmers trust
convened in Topeka, Kas., on the LIST.
About 800 delegates were present.
REPRESENTATIVE THos. RExD. of Maine,
was renominated for Congress by the First
district Republicans on the I'd.
A REPORT from st. Paul, Mimi. on the
Sd, says: The Bad river is again out Of
its banks, and the drives OF the logyers
who are coming down the swollen stream
are greatly endangered.
THE Treasury Department reports the
net increase in circulation during the
month OF April to have been -, 36o, ,5s6
MINNIE FoRsYrHE, Mt. Vernon (O.l
girl. eighteen years old, tried TO murder
her father. on the 81, by beating him over
the head with club. She broke his arm
and fractured his skull
THE Idaho Republican Territorial con-
vention met in Boise City. on the id, and
chose Blaine delegates 10 the Chicago
convention
BILLY CARSON shot, in self defense. and
killed Thomas j. Tobins, a former COM
panion Of his fafher-the famous scout
Kit Carson, at Fort Garland, Cal, on
the 81.
THE strike at the Elgar Thomson Steel
works ended, on the id, in the defeat of
the strikers.
THE President sent the following nomi-
nation to the Senate on the ID: Henry
George, OF Kentucky, TO be agent for the
Indians of the Colorado River Agency in
Arizona
An arch in the new Board of Trade
building in course of erection at Column
bus, o., fell and killed two workmen on
the I'd.
THE Pope has decided that Archbishop
Walsh shall remain at Dublin
THE Supreme Court OF Massachusetts
confirmed the conviction of Mrs. Robin
SON, the Wholesale poisoner, on the ID.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury received
bond-sale proposals, on the ID, as fol-
lowss i,is3, ,0J registered a., at prices
ranging from 1853. TO I2.; ss5i. 100 cou-
pom 4s, Mt lsss TO Iss; sl,T.s, 80 regis
tered AS, at l07s TO l075s; and 81, AT, so
coupon AIS. at fOsI, and made tho fol-
lowing purchases: S60, 800 registered 4s,
at ia6h; $4,000 coupon As, at 1885,; STD, :
80 registered 4tss, at 107s., and 4, coo cou-
pom AIS, at f01t.
JOHN L SULLIVAN started on a spree on
the night Of the 1st, in Boston, and landed
in the station house about daylight the
next morning.
A WARRANT was issued at 81. Paul,
Mimi, on the 4th, for the arrest of Charles
McGeachy, theatrical agent for crimi-
nal libel In making damaging statements
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THE Supreme Court Of Ohio affirmed the
Judgment of the trial court in the case OF
William George, the murderer, and SEN
fenced him TO hang on the 18th
L w. HOLMAN, OF Boston, was arrest
ed. on the I'd, charged with conspiracy To
murder his half-sister, Miss Emeline d.
Holman, Of Worcester, Mass.
The entire day, on the 4th, was devoted
by the Methodist conference, in session
cluding women delegates. The debate
was still pending at adiournmenL
An explosion occurred in tunnel In
process Of excavation near Messina,
Italy, on the 4th- Six workmeu were
aA0 q 6r A04AbcA
lured. some fatally.
GEORGE SUTTON, q master mechanic,
was killed, and Michael Curran, a labor
er, had his jaw and back broken, by being
struck by a train on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, while work
ing on the new bridge at Rye, ". Y, on
the 4th.
PRoF. G. +. STANLEY HALL, Of Johns
Hopkins University, has formally accept
ed the Office OF president Of Clark Uni
versity, lately founded in Worcester,
Mass, by Jonas G. Clark.
THE New York State Board OF Arbitra-
ton concluded its investigation OF the
brewers lockout on the ith, and prom
ised an early report.