Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-07-19


town, Ireland. on the 18th on the death
OF Mr. Vaudeville, who Is alleged to have
died from ill-treatmentre in Tulls-
more Jail
JAMES MORGAN, leading dry goods
merchant of Milwaukee, will be nominated
for Governor OF Wisconsin by the Union
Labor party's convention, to be held at
Oshkosh, July II.
THE Supreme Court Of Minnesota has
granted n stay Of proceedings in the case
OF Tim aud Pete Barrett, sentenced to
hang on the 18th, at st. Paul. for the mur-
der of the street-car driver. Tolefson-
IT was stated. on the 1lth. that Queen
Natalie meditatei decamping from wies-
baden with the young Crown Prince
Alexander. and that the German police
were ordered to frustrate any such at
tempt
KING MILAN formally, on the 9th, in
yoked the aid OF the authorities OF the
Prussian Province OF Hesse-Nassau to
force his wife, who was stopping at
wiesbaden. to surrender to him the
Crown Prince.
Buck RIDGE CoLLrERV, ut Shamokin,
Pa. owned by the Reading company.
which has been idle since the disaster OF
1883, at which time seven men were
smothered b. fre-dam?, resumed opera
tons on the 1lth.
THE fire in the De Beers diamond mine
at Kimberly, Cape Colony, has been ex-
tinguished. and the exploring party who
descended the mine, on the 18th, report
that twenty-four whites and 200 natives
had been burned to death.
The Amalgamated scale was signed, on
the 18th, by three firms, viz: The Wayne
Iron-works, OF Pittsburgh, Pa, G)D EN-
ployes; Lang & Co, at Chartres, Pa, 400
men, aud the Licking Iron Company, of
covington, KY, employing 1000 men
THE German police, on the 18th, or
dered Queen Natalie to leave Germany
within twenty-tour hours, and before
leaving tn surrender her boy, the Crown
Prince Alexander, to King Milan's pleni-
potentiary, who took him to Belgrade.
AVERY TRUEsDALE, an army comrade OF
General Harrison. with infinite pains
completed a cane composed OF 1880
pieces OF wood of thirty EIGHT kinds, one
for each State, which he has forwarded to
General Harrison as a token OF esteem.
CitrNDE 1hlSPi, ltdll3u Premier, Is eX.
pected to arrive at Carlsbad, Bohemia,
August II. Prince Bismarck and Count
Kslnoky, Austrian Premier, will arrive
subseque ntly, and the three statesmen
of the allied Powers will hold confer :
ence.
some friends of Mrs Dudley, the En-
glish woman who shot O'Donovan Rosa,
are said to be making an effort to secure
her release from the asylum for insane
criminals at Auburn, N. Y. There is
some question as to the legality OF her de-
tenticn.
1T is stated on good authority that un-
less the British Government takes some
action in regard to Mr.. Parnell in refer
ence to the recent charges brought
against him by the Times, he will bring q
suit for libel against that paper in the
autumn.
THE United States steamer Swatara ar
rived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from
Nonquitt on the 10th. The gossip aboard
was that, though General Sheridan is
comparatively comfortable in his new
quarters, he can be expected to live but a
short time
SENIOR ANTONIO FLORES, President o.
the Republic OF Ecuador, was pre-
sented to President Cleveland by Sec-
retary Bayard. accompanied by Minister
Romero and Mr.. Flores'private secretary,
on the lith- The audience took place in
the blue parlor.
PREMIER FLooUEr and General Boul an
ger fought duel with swords, at Neuilly,
short distance from Paris, on the 18th.
Both were greatly excited and both were
wounded, the valiant General being
punctured in the neck and fainting in the
al ms Of his seconds.
SURROGATE RAysox, of New York on
the 18th, granted the application Of Mrs.
Louis c. Hammersley. now Duchess OF
marlborough. for an allowance %
sioo,ooo for her present support and main
lenance out OF the income Of the estate
lett by her first husband.
SYMPATHY and pity for the convict's
family led the President, on the 18th, to
commute the sentence OF VIM G. Mckee,
VINO was convicted in May, 1883, OF rob.
oihg post-office in North Carolina, and
sentenced to two years in the peniten
uary, to eight months in Jail.
IHE fleet which will accompany EN-
Peror William as an escort on his yisi,
" russia VIII be the largest that Ger
many has ever put out to sea IL will
consist OF six iron-cIads, four dispatch
ships, four vessels Of the training SQUAD.
ron and hotilla Of torpedo boats.
TIE half-breeds on the banks Of the
NisAatchewan are getting desperate, and
are preparing for another armed rebellion
against the Dominion Government The
people claim that since the late rebellion
tneir condition has been rapidly growing
worse, until now it is simply deplorable.
GENERAL CLINTON B. FIsKE, Prohibition
candidate for President says the bright
ness OF the outlook for the Prohibition
ncket could not be better. He ia receiv-
ing thousands of letters daily from per.
sons heretofore voting with the old mar.
Ties, all giving assurance Of the writers,
support
ALL STREET man who knows a good
ueal about Mr.. Gould's affairs, said. on
,as yth, that tbs ex-king Of the street il
.aoie 70 become either insane or a CON-
hrmed invalid. as the result Of his pres
eht indisposition- The fact % his Illness
=, however, emphstieally deaicd in other
quarters.