Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-07-11
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TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERA


OS the 1st. IN New YORK Cfrv. 8ata,..-
ives arrested Reynobls Ttus<on. AZ MI
wa1kee, Wis. for the alleged lar-anv os
sSo,Fo worth q watches there. Tir,sou
vas turned over 10 Detective Kelly os
Milwaukee.
Mas CHARLES FISCHER. VII. oe . mar
chant tailOr ot Brazil Ind. while kin
ding the kitchen FIRE. on the fse. was hnr-
rioiy burned By rAs sre i-sairfns the coal
oil IN the can causing an explosion.
prompt relief was summoned. al sis.
may recover.
sxcaErARr BEATNK and Walker Blaine
have gone - Bar Harbor. Ne, where the
former viii remain until September.
rresldsnt Harrison coutennplafes pnyiu-
the Secretary n visit some tine in July.
NAVAL C&DEr HxRBxRr l. DRNPka. 0e
Ellsworth. Klts-, who was recently admit
ted to permanent duty "a an Fasiga. has
been made n Second Lieutenant aaI as
signed to duty IN the Marine Corps.
ACTIVE operations commenced at the
Norfolk Navy Yard at the beginning OF
the new fiscal year. AMI several hun lresl
mechanics and Iaborers were put to work.
The working force Is to be increased -
L500 men
W. J. LKxCHsAx. aged seventy years.
died at his home in Centerpoint Ind. on
the fst.. from the effect % a snake bite.
His body became much swollen. fnvoIving
the lungs. For many years be was a
practicing physician
FIVE weeks ago DR.. Knowles. Indiana
State Veterinary Surgeon. killed two
horses belonging to a maa uamei EaIs.
1T Carlisle. Eads himself was sufrsrin J.
with glanders, and word has been re-
cefved that hs had died from the disease.
DANIEL AJArvEIS. twentv-three years
old who IL n police officer in View York
City, attempted to end his life while on his
way TO his post OF duty by shooting him
self IN the right side. Ha was rem0-ssi
to the hospital a prisoner. He Is believed
10 be out Of his mind, AMI will probabiy
die.
THE oficial vots Of the recent election
/ IN Pennsylvania as received and com
| puted Is as follows: For the prohibition
amendment ssi.1IT; against, t>t s4f: ma
| lority against. i.s.0aS- For the suffrage
amendment aholishing the p0II-tax quail
ification. 1sa. III; against 40 :333s; majority
against s36, 80
/ CARDINAL GIBBONS has received bean
tfful present from Pope Leo KILL It i
a large golden and richly-ieweIed 0steu
soriuni, and was sent to the Cardinal as
souvenir OF the Pope's jubilee.
A PASSENGER train on the Norfolk &
Western railroad went through a washed
out culvert. near Roanoke, Va. at 1.0l
u H., on the IL The entire train. con-
/ sisting OF locomotive, baggage, express.
smoker, passenger AMI two Pullman
cars. was piled up in a heap ot wreckage
which Immediately caught fire from a
l. n,
a large number Of dead and wounded
/ passengers and train hands pinioaed in
the debris.
The German officers in the service OF
1 China are about to resign.
Ar his own request, Colonel John G..
Parke. Of the Engineer Corps. superin-
/ tendent OF thu West Point Military Acad-
envy, was. on the u, placed ou the retire.,
/ list OF the army. Colonel PariSe had
served forty years as an army officer.
The members OF the Cherokee Indian
/ Commission left Washington for their
/ homes on the IL They will % to the
/ Cherokee country about the 18th
/ THE Norwegian ministry resigned on
L the IL
Mr. THoxAs = MORGAN, OF Rhode
/ Island the new Commissioner Of Ilslian
/ Affairs, arrived in Washington. aa the
1 I'll, To take charge Of the Indian Office.
A DKsrRUcrfvE warer-spout broke over
I Altoona Pa-. a=d vicinity, on tbs. night ot
7 the IL AMI several persons were pros
I rratesi by lightning during the storm.
ELI NIX the coroner who has been IN
+ vestigaEing the fatality which occurred on
the View York. View Haven & Hartford
railroad Few miles north % Nsw H1v-
sn- Conn. On the s,tll. haatlsd his report
T IN ssafe's-Aftaruey Douiittle oa shs : :
Z He finds that the accident was eauset by
the criminal earslesszsss 0t Thomas
Shields. a section boss.
raz Chaafaaqla " " Assembly
Z sEenesi LIS sixteenth annual session on
the IL
rHx tenth annual meeting ot the
League ot Aaserisan WheeImen WIS be-
gun at Hag-rStowa. MI. on the IL
rHoxAs McBaTDE and Alex Hart were
Instantly killed ald several other per
sssns we're injured by the bursting Of an
immense steam bleaching vat II the
Lvoas lEAl paper mill on the IL
FaCR business blocks at Haley, Idaho.
we're Destroyed by IRE, oa the 81. causing
a loss oe sass.ossl.
Tax belief existed n Paris on the q
that Cabinet crisis would result from
the charge made by NJ De Cassaguac IL
th4 Chamber af Deputies that " Theve-
not. Minister Of Justice. was the accom-
plsee 0f n Meyer n the Credit MobIliel
fraad=. for eunnsctl0R with whlea ".
Meyer has been sent To prison. Some e1'
element Sas accasi0ued-
The British Cabinet has decided to ap'
point committee Ga royal grants, &
deal with tie whole subject OF grants q
members ot the royal family from III
imperial treasury The powers et tn
committee IN fixing amounts IN case
where they recommend Appropriation
dt public money VIII be hnits'L
rHx veterans OF the Second Connection
Light ARTILLERY, Battery 3 Dedicated
their monument at Gettysburg on t1e 81
Il : Of granite. ten feet high
FzznEzacx DoCGUAss caile-l en N
President. On the III 70 thank hint fol
his appointm=nr as Minister % Elyti
.ud TO recommend Chas- :. Morris for
Minister ~ Liberia Il is expected tA1l
Morris VIII get the appointment
THx German gun-boat W0lf has Deel
,ffxpatched 10 the Marshall Islands q
take back - Samoa King Aa-letoa
whom The Germans carried ct-
HxRz VoS wxILESD@ editor OF the lat
Crown Prince RnLoIph's work o. Austro
Hungary. died On the 3d
ARcHDEAcoS GOODYEAR OF re Eas
African Missions. died.on the 81. n Lon
don
TIE Society OF Authors held their an
nuaI banquet AZ the Criterion club, L.on
don. on the IL Earl Pembroke presided
I and over two hundred authors were pres
ent. Speeches were made adEoeatin
measures for the better proteetio1