Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-24
OXFORD, MISS, THURSDA,, n

A Caucus OF the Republican Senator'S
was held, on the 18th. which lasted four
hours. Discussions on the Fisheries
treaty. the Mills proposition on the Tariff
bill and general politics, including the
Southern investigation, took place.
ON the 18th, at I.lanefidt. Wales, the
tithe collectors and the police. who were
protecting them, were attacked by the
people. A general riot ensued. in which
thirty-fi persons were injured, seven
OF them severely.
As the westbound Boston express due
ai $50 n m. on the 18th. was running on
the drawbridge at Norwalk. Conn, the
| rails spread and the locomotive and FIVE
cars ran the length OF the bridge on the
ties. The locomotive stopped within six
inches OF the edge of the bridge. The es-
cape from n terrible disaster was miracu-
lous.
| SENATOR NEsT's resolution to inveSti-
| gate the alleged Meat Trust does not create
any furry among the Chicago cattle butch
ers or dressed-beef men. They express
| themselves willing 10 give the commission
all the information in their possession
whenever the Senators will come TO in
vestigate.
| THE American Baptist Publication So
| ciety held its sixty fourth annual meeting
/ in " Washington on the 18th. The total re-
ceipts from all sources for the past year
were >:iS2, ,t91. One hundred and twelve
new publications have been added 10 the
society's catalogue, and e9.31, ,s0T PAM
| phlets and tracts were printed during the
year.
Mrs. PARSELL, mother Of the great
Irish leader, has declared her intention
Of returning to end her days in her old
home in America.
| The London Times, OF the 18th. says that
the only point of interest in the Parnellite
manifesto is that while Mr.. Parnell de-
clares the party to he entire strangers to
the plan of campaign, forty members OF
the party meet and justify il.
1T was stated, on the 18th, that Mr.. Will
fred Blunt had written to the Mayor OF
| Cork that he had heard, on very high
authority. that it is most unlikely that any
| further action will be taken by Rome in
regard to Irish affairs.
THE records OF Fremont County, Ia,
were partially destroyed by the burning
of the. courthouse in Sidney on the 18th.
HoN. CHARLES l.. JEwETr, of New Al
bany, was elected chairman of the In-
diana Democratic State Central commit
tee, to succeed John X. Gordon, deceased,
| on the 18th.
WHILE trying to start fire with kero-
sene, on the 18th, Mrs. Matilda Larson, of
| Omaha, Neb., was fatally burned.
FRED HAMBURG and Charles Sunberg
were killed by an explosion Of dynamite
| at the Palmer mine, at Cascade. Mich.
shortly after midnight, on the 18th. They
were in n small powder house, and appear
to have been in the act os running, as the
staple from the door was driven into the
back of one of them. The cause Of the ex-
plosion is unknown. Both men leave
families.
SAMUEL J. TILDxS, OF Columbia County,
N. Y, nephew of the late Ex-Governor
Tilien, has been offered the position OF
Superintendent OF Railway Mail Service
and will probably accept.
THOMAS JONES fatally shot his wife al
Dunlap, Ia, and being pursued by mob,
sent bullet through his own head, in
fiicting a fatal wound. The murder was
the result of an old family quarrel.
DIR. FRrTzoFF NAUzES, OF Stockholm,
Sweden, with four Norwegians and two
Laplanders, has started for Greenland t.
explore the east coast of that country.
Mr.. JOSEPH Il. ANDERSON, Prohibition
nominee for Governor Of Tennessee and
president of the Bristol National Bank.
died in Bristol, on the 18th, at the age OF
sixty
THE General Term of the New York Su.
preme Court decided, on the 18th, that the
Third Avenue Railroad Company, of Kew
York City, being by its charter forbidden
to use steam as a motive power, can rot
substitute the cable system in place oi
horses.