Oxford eagle., 1889-06-20

IHx will % the late Carl Ross. o, Lon
don. has been catered FOR probate. The
instrument makes heqaests ax<r~xStiur
fsseN
THE steel torpedo depot ship valr,s
vas launched at Portsmouth. Ea~laud.
on the i3th- She Is the largest -~s.el the
British Government has ever built.
LORD ApxLsxKr PxRRv Cxcrt- the evan
geliSt. who was drowasd at Picsou. Oar
on the 18th. was brother Of the present
Marquis ot Exeter and distanfiy related
to Lord Salisbury.
IHr Iowa Stats Normal School sraslu-
sted ffty-thrre students, on the f1sh. a
gain of tw~nsy-one over last year.
A CALI for . Territorial convention in
Oklahoma has been issued. signed Nv
Mayor Dyer Of Guthrie and committee
OF citizens The convention i to bexia At
Guthrte. "Wednesday. IaIy IL.
VIM SIMPLE. the well known iry -Dosi,
merchant Of Allegheny City. Pa. died ou
the 18th. axed sixty-two. Mr.. S-npl~ hHs
been Engaged IN the dry goods business
IN Allegheny since fsss. and vas largely
interested in . number % railroads.
banking institutions. etc He had su.a~s@ss
4 fortune of aboHt SzaF1. .nsGl
THx period - mourning prescribed for
the late Emperor Frederick OF G-rrpanv
expired on the itth-
Ir = probable that n date will xaa1 b..
nxed for the marriage OF Prince Leopold
/ q Prussia sai the Princess L.sliss OF
I Schleswi<- Holst-in. which vas inssefi- :
nitely postponed When Emperor Fresl-r-
/ ick diesi
THr Prince ot wales, ,ou the fSth. visites
the Brittsh-auieriesa Home in Paris. sup-
ported BY the Christian societies. He -x.
pressed himself a. highly pleased With
the Institution. and particularly euloSiz~d
Mrs. Lewis. through whose instruul~ntal-
ttE the home was founded.
I'VE Lord Provost os Edinburgh has re-
fused TO confer the freedom % the city
zpoG Mr. Parnell on the occasion Of tho
visit OF the I-ish leader in July. The sen
Tor magistrate present a. the ceremony
VIII therefore offeiate.
BANQUET was given on the evening os
the 18th by the executive OF the Paris Ex-
ibition- Among the TO guests we're sew
erai Cabinet ministers and many dipla-
mats General Franklin. the American
Commissioner tn the exhibition presided
ADvTcss from Malone and other points
/ in View York ss far east a. Champlzir.
say that the report Of the powder expIa-
sion At BrOokvilIs. Ont, oa the 18th. was
/ distinctly hearl at th1se places.
THs Comptroller ot the Currency. on the
I 18th, declared n second dividend OF ten per
cent. in favor OF the creditors os the FL
/ delity Bank OF Cincinnati. making in all
thirty-fvs per cent. on claims proresi
amounting TO - 81 ess. The bank failed
/ June N. iss.
The ship-builders In Great Britain
I have never been so busy a< at prps~nt.
They are so hard pressed that many OF
| them are absolutely refusing all orders
| for new vessels
A SCOTLAND YARD detective Is said 10
be in New York watching developments
in the ease Of the murdered Or. Croufn
and the men under arrest there charged
with completely in the crime.
PATRICK A. WARD, president OF the
Irish American Republican Club 0s Iu-
dianspolis. and n prominent CIaa-ua-
Gael man, committed suicide. on the i3sh,
by taking prussIc acid-
KING LEOPOLD 0t Belgium Is seeking
tn interest American capitalists in the
development OF railways ia the Congo
country.
THE fatalities resulting from the Ar.
magh (Ir~Iandl railway disaster. reached
seventy-six- on the issh- thus exceeding
the number lost In the wreck OF th. Tay
briig- several years ago. which hereto
fore ranked as the most terrible in the
history ef the United Kingdom. by two.
OK the 18TH Efwari CrawIey and an
other man known as the Australian -
were burned to death in n fire at Lad
vile. Col, which resulted from \ drunken
0rgie.
The New Hampshire Republican caucus
chose W. z. Chandler aS the party nona-
inee for United States senator on the
f1lh-