Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-08-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN ERTEp.
PERSONAL ANo GENERA

partment have been appointed =, r,.as
at West Point on the 18th. sn exsn1in.
candieates for admission 4, the Military
Academy
SENATOR EEAsTs. who IL going abroad
20 nave his eyes treated has been grant
ell a special passport BY the STATE De-
partmeut
FhKsEDEyr HARRISON will visit Indian
apolis oa the e3i, to remain two or three
days The occasion sor his return Will be
the eoruer-st0ue laying of the soldiers
monument. and tho visit will also Afford
the President an 0pportunitv 60 attend
the reunion of his old regiment. the sew
entieth Indiana the date OF which has
been changed 10 suit the Presidents con-
venieure.
THx STATE Department. has received an
official invitation for this TnEfei States Z,
participates in the View Zealand aud south
Seas exhibition to be held ths coming
winter. On account or the absence of A
appropriation for this purpose the invita-
tion viii uof be accepted.
The military. civic and ds.oratfvs dis
pIny in Berlin, on the Isth. in hopor of
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria vas
extremely brilliant
Ex-krxs MIr-Ay OF Servia. havfnr r.
fused to give his parental consent IN
King Alexander's meeting his mother
outside Of Servia- ex-QsIeen Natalie will
start for Belgrade. on the 18th. aud hold
The meeting there
THE eleventh animal convention Of the
Ancient Order Of Foresters met in Min
neapolis. Mimi. on the 18th.
The Grand Council Of United Friend.
Of the State OF New YORK met az Buffalo
IN annual session on the 18th. About asD
dsieyste= were present, inciutsins. a aa,l =
Der Of ladies' representing councils of
women
The cruiser Chicago was taken from tn =
dry dock NJ Brooklyn. on the 18th. and
the Boston was put in tns next morning.
THERE are II go Osid Fellows In Maine.
an increase OF 1us during the year, and
the order Is IN fourishin- condition.
The Hay and Straw Dealers, A Assus,ia-
ton OF the State OF View YORK met in
Syracuse on the Ilth The feasibility Oe
establishing Stats agency to regulate
the shipments Of the association was dis
cusseti
SEVERAL shoe manufacturers Of Gin
cinnati have been asked their seIIin =
prices. The offers came through Brad
streets Agency. and were represented as
coming from Engiishmeu who ars al
ready IN the East, whore some purchases
have been male. Ualixs the brewery
syndicate. this shoe syndicate offers cash
Tor all purchases. their purpose being to
run each factory bought as an individual
concern under charge of a manager.
FIVE more companies signed the coks
scale. on the f4th. and l,009 mors ovens
we're started on the 18th
The old river-Iand trouble WIS revived
1t Fort Dodge. In. on the IAth. By the ar-
rest Of three settlers charged with mn
licious trespass. for returning % their
farms. from which they hasi been evicted.
and securing the hay crop.
JUDsE DAVID $. TERRY was shot through
the heart and Instantly killed IN the depot
5ining-room at Lathrop. Cal. on the I Attn.
by Deputy United States Marshal Nagle.
tor sIapping Justice Stephen j. Field, OF
the United States Supreme Court, IN the
taca.
The iowa State Republican convention
was held ut Des Moines on the 2sth-
Every county In the State WIS repre-
zented. A resolution favoring Chicago
for the Worlds Fair in 1892 was adopted
SUPREME JUDGE W. L. PIERCE. OF Cali
tornia, while talkin on tbs street At san
Diego. on the 18th. with ex-Governor
Murray, Of Utah, was shot in the back by
W. s. Gieudennin and severely wounded
A decision given by the Judge adverse I'd
Glendennin IL supposed to have been the
cause OF the shooting
Ar Carbon Hill Walker County. Ala,
Superintendent c.. P. Seymour ot the
Kansas City Coal and Coke Mines was
shot from ambush, on the i4tl. while rid
ing on horseback Some time ago he
took several officers to Carbon Hill 10
stop Illicit distiling. and it is supposed
that the moonshiners shot him
ON the I4th, Civil Justice Ambrose
Mcneil. who was counsel for Sheriff
Flack in the recent fraudulent divorce
proceedings in New York City, resigned
from the general committee and the or
ganixatiou committee OF Tammany Hall,
requesting suspension OF Judgment as
To the propristY OF his course. and PROM
ising 70 show that he acted uprigntiy in
the matter.
FERDINAND BAEER. aged thirty two.
German barber. OF Columbus. o., cuu1-
mirted suicide on the I4th. He placed a
44-caIiber revolver ut his head and a e.
caIiber at his hsa RI and fred. both shots
taking effect
THx Atlanta Consti tuition serves notice
uuou Assistant PosfmaSter-Geaeral
Clarkson that neiEh er the AdmfnIstra-
ton nor any OF iEs servants viii be per-
mirted 10 SANDER and misrepresenE At
lanfa-
THREE men were killed anil several
others seriously injured by tbs explosion
OF a threshiny machine engine on the
farm of Charles Dinsmore, eighteen
miles southwest OF Aberdeen. Da1-. on
the i5th.
THREE French iroucIads and dispatch
boat sailed TOR Crete on the I4th-
WARRANT was issued. on the IJth- for
the arrest OF Justice Field on complaint
OF Mrs. Terry who charges him with conn.,
pIicitv in shs killing OF hsr husband
TIE Constitutional convention Of North
Dakota. on the 18th, adopted the report OF
the committee on election franchise as
reported back by the committee on re-
vision This makss it necessary % SUD
NIT the question OF w0manss Suffrage
other than the right to vote AZ all school
elections. 70 a vots Of the people
An Informal reca ption vas given Sec
retarv Tracy and his daughter. Mrs. w Il
merding. on board ths revenus cutter
Dispatch. Mt Bar Harhor, He on the nlzs1t
Of the 18th. about fifty personal trlenis
being present Secretary Blaine, accom-
panied by his daushtsr Harrist. Coa-
gresham Morse and Mrs. Llsursnanr
Mason assisted IN receIEin---
GEORGE SLATER. a we'll known jour
ual.sr OF New YORK City. died IN Roose-
vsIr Hospital On tina 18th Mr. Slater was
for = long time financial secretary or the
Press Club. OF which he was member AZ
the time of his death
Ir IL positively asserted that Emperor