Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

GREAT floods, caused by ice gorges at
several points in the Upper Missouri, are
driving settlers in the bottom lands from
their homes.
CLAUS SPREcKEIs, the sacharine king
of the Pacific coast, arrived in Baltimore
on the 2sth, to inspect the advantages Of
fered by that city for his proposed sugar
refinery.
A RUMOR was current at engineer head.
quarters, in Chicago on the 18th, that Chief
Arthur was seriously considering the
matter Of resigning his Office, and that a
thorough reorganization OF the Brother
hood would be the result.
More than two hundred houses we're de-
stroyed by fire in Kikinda, Austria, on the
18th
atives, on the 2sth, passed bill prepared
by the Knights OF Labor to pro-
hibit the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany from compelling its employees TO
join the relief association
The jury in the famous Patterson mur-
der case at Cheyenne, wyo., was dis
charged on the 18th, after being out eighty
one hours without coming to an agree
ment.
THE funeral services over the remains
of ex-Lieutenant-G Governor Dorsheimer
were held in Grace Church. New York
City, on the 3lst.
DISPATCHES from all parts OF the State
OF Alabama, on the 29th, reported floods
and washouts, with much damage. All
railroad travel was suspended.
THE State central committee OF the Pro-
hibition party of Connecticut voted on the
2Sth to call a convention at Hartford.
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MALCOLM W. FORD has been restored as
an amateur athlete by the National Asso-
citation He had been pronounced ineligi-
BILE for alleged participation in profess
sional games in lss5.
SIMON o'NEILL, an old soldier, who en-
tered the army in 1877, and served through
the civil and three Indian wars, suicided
by hanging st Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
NJ. II. SIDEBorroN, of Somerset, KY,
was arrested on the 18th and confessed to
the murder and robbery, on the 18th, OF
Thomas Wilson, an old soldier who had
gone to that place TO collect proof to aid
him in getting pension
THE New York jury in the case Of Law
yer Sewell, who was charged by his cook,
Ellen Foye, with assault, rendered YER
dict, on the 18th, in favor of the defendant,
and awarded him 500 for counsel fees.
THos. TX. SKILLMAS, of Piainville. y. J..
cut his throat in the presence Of his pa
rents and other relatives on the 10Th, and
instantly expired. He had been driven
insane by the report that he was suspect
ed of murder.
THE Crosby High License bill passed
the New York Assembly by vote OF G5 to
81 on the 18th.
Coon FRIDAY was generally observed by
business men throughout the country by
the closing Of boards Of trade and com
mercial chambers
A MONTREAL (Can.) detective was,on the
9sth sentenced to fourteen years impris-
onment in the penitentiary for robbing
Grand Trunk railroad Offices
JAS. T. WALKER, an aristocratic young
counterfeiter OF New York City, was on
the 18th, sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary with hard labor.
An Eastern combination Of manufaetur-
ers OF doors, sash and blinds, 10 advance
prices and control production, was formed
al Boston. on the 3sth.
THK military barracks at Posen, Prus sia,
have been thrown open for the shelter of
people rendered homeless by the floods
TIE marble-workers' strike at Boston
was declared OF on the nth. by the State
Board knights OF Labor.
HAKRV LovErT, % Philadelphia was
killed on the 9th at Lynn Mass, by an
electric shock while experimenting in an
electric company's works
o. j. CoCGHITS, publisher OF the Bing-
h4mfOn N. " Dtsp9trh, was arrested en-
the 9Oth on a charge OF criminal libel in
alleging that Police-Ofieer Donely had
led girls astray.
The report from Nantucket, Mass, that
one Of the crew landed from the wrecked
steamer Canonbury was III of cholera, was
denied on the 30th.
The report OF the Erie railroad for Feb
ruaFy shows an increase OF 81, $50 in net
earnings, as compared with February,
1877.
The Russian Government has decided
to spend half million roubles in the
construction Of forts and barracks at
Piezagor, Zirrienkir and Luez
ORDERS have been issued by the Russian
Government for all artillery brigndes In
Poland to send half of their reserve am
munition TO Kisveheinif. where q flying
corps is to be organized to operate against
Bulgaria
BY the oVerhowing OF the M0nsn rirsr,
IN Prussia, fifty villages we're completely
submerged,