Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-07-05
OXFORD. MISS, THURSDAY, JULY s. 1888.


THE new building erected by U. U. Mills
on the grounds Of Bellevue Hospital, New
York, ns training-school for male
nurses, and presented TO the city by that
gentleman was accepted by Mayor Hsw-
lit on the 18th
RoBERr HALE, Secretary OF the Minne-
apolis (Minn.l Board of Trade. died sud-
denly on the 2sth. He fell down an eleva-
tor shaft in the Nicollet House on the cath,
and his death Is attributed TO this.
NEWPORT (ky.l inventor claims to
have produced a smelling furnace BY
which he can produce from common clay
aluminium s6S per cent pure at n cost Of
one dollar n pound, while the present cost
Of aluminium is one dollar an ounce.
MRS. GEO. MARSHALL aged sixty eight,
living in Council Bluffs, Ia, committed
suicide, on the 2Sth, by shooting. De-
ceased remarked few days previous that
she thought she had cancer, sud 1t is
thought brooding over this caused her TO
commit the act.
SrxvE BRoDIE, the newsboy, who f.
swimming from Albany to New York
City, arrived at Yonkers at 9:20 e. IN. on
the 2sth.
GEO. II. GIBSON, the electrician who shot
himself, on the 27th, just before his mar
riage was To have taken place, because his
tailor disappointed him, is not dead. as
reported, and may recover.
CUBA is still overrun with bandits, who
prey upon rich planters. At Ahrsns,
near Cienfuegos, Daniel Cueto, a rich
planter, has been kidnapped. His family
has been advised that he will be held un-
til $4,000 in gold is paid for his ransom.
Marciai Ochanez, a noted bandit belong
ing to Garcia's band. has been captured
The Ssndown Park (Londonl first sum :
mer meeting was held on the 39th. The
race for the Electric stakes, n plate OF
two hundred sovereigus, for three year
olds, was won by Mr.. K Beck's bay colt.
Bullion; Hazlehatch second, and Juggler
third.
REV. FRANCIS XAVIER WESSISGER. of
the Society OF Jesus. died in Cincinnati,
on the 18th. OF old age. He was bora in
Germany in 1875 and came to this coun-
try in lsts.
Ar Melville Gardens, bingham, Mass,
on the 2sth, where thousand East Boston
people bad gathered for n picnic, a boat
containing party OF four was upset in a
small lake and Maggie Campbell, aged
nineteen, was drowned
CAPTAIN BURNETT, detective OF
Charlestown, W. Va, has succeeded in
capturing David Straton, a notorious des-
perado, and one OF the leaders in the
Hatfield Mccoy feud, aud he is now in
| jail.
| WENDELL WHTrCONB, while engaged In
killing rats in his barn near Marley,
Tenn, on the 2sth, with shotgun, acci-
dentally shot his two young daughters,
who were looking on. One OF them was
| instantly killed and the other fatally
wounded. The father is prostrated with
| grief.
GooDENoUGH & WEfGELox, book pub
fishers and dealers in Sunday school sup
| plies at No. 122 Nassau street, New York
City, made a general assignment for the
benefit Of creditors on the 2sth.
LILLIAN W WARRES HAMAERsLY was mar
ried at half-past one O'Clock, on the 18th
to the Duke OF Marlborough by Mayor
Hewitt Of New York, at the City Hall.
ALBERT Z. ERANE, cashier for Hirsch
| & Co, importers OF buttons at Nos. AZ
and 429 Broadway, New York city, disap
peared few weeks ago. Investigation ot
his accounts revealed that he had appro.
priated 5000 OF the firms money. De-
tectives were put on his track. and he was
traced to Montreal, where he is now
under arrest awaiting extradition.
MRS. j. J. GRIFFITH and Mrs. DR.
Walker, OF Jennertown, Pa, started in a
| buggy. on the 2sth, to visit relatives in
the country. Each lady was accompanied
by little daughter. While descending a
steep hill the horse ran away. The Grif-
fifth child was killed by being thrown
from the buggy, and both ladies wers
probably fatally injured.
| WEsrMoRE 81 BAKER, a dry goods firm.
of st. Paul and Excelsior, Mimi, made al
| assignment on the 2Sth.