Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1890-04-24

WHILE Acronzut l. r. Craig vas mai.
Ing tallcoa ascension at Toreka. EaS
on the 18th. be fell forty feet. srs.ai,.
ing probably fatal injuries.
II his address az the banquct in Min
neapoliS on the evening of the Is;h.
Henry Willard promised in behalf o. ,Ae
hdison Company - have The sane elec-
tricai exhibition that was a. the Paris
Exhibition taken TO the Minneapolfs
Exposition which opens in August
WHES Commander McCAila. OF Tho
United States ship Enterprise appeared
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. on tho
issh. Commsniaat BrAine furnished hirr
with a copy Of the charges against him
and deprived him Of his sword.
THE eogored convention at Richmond
Va, adioarned on the 18th. after adopting
resolutions indorsinx the Republican
party. denouncins the Democratic party
and Governor Mckinny. and elecsing a
State executive committee.
The bark Sarah. Captain Hale. from
fayal, Islands Of Azores was quar-
antined at Boston. on the 10th. with
several cases OF smallpox among her
passengers
The Republican members Of the
ways and means committee struck of
the entire duty on sugar the last thing
before presenting their Tariff bill To the
House on the 10th. In lieu Of duty the
bill provides for a bounty of two cents
per pound on ali domestic sugars
A cIRcuLAR addressed by the German
Government to high-school directors
calls attention TO the frequency Of suicide
among the scholars. The directors are
urged TO be lenient With backward pa-
pills
The widow and Eve daughters Of a
Russian army officer. residing in Mos
COW. locked themselves up in their
room. on the 18th. and turned on the
gas to escape the surerinys Of poverty.
When discovered they were all dead.
1HE remains Of Representative sam
uel j. Randall we're Inferred in Laurel
Hill Cemetery. At Philadelphia. on the
18th A large coucourse OF friends and
admirers Of the dead statesman met the
funeral party at the Pennsylyania rail
ruad depot aud escorted them 10 the
cemetery, where the last Sad rites were
observed in \ simple and impressive
manner.
The Chicago and Yo-ktOwa. Of the
American squadron OF evolution. ar
rived AZ Malta. Gu the nth Salutes
were exchanged between the vessels
and the British forts
LoUIs FEkSkE & Co. dealers in raw
- g. - a. IL
at No ii0 Grand street. New York City.
assigned. on the 18th. without prefer
ences- The frm expect to settle in
full
The grand jury Of Burlington County.
y. J.. found an Indictment. ON the 18th.
against Mrs, Carrie VAnderyrift. one Of
the most prominent womea OF Barling-
ton and a leading church member.
charging her with attempting 10 poison
her son. Frank c. Norman. aged txen-
ty-three. ~ whose death she woald have
received $4,000 insurance
An American syndicate has pur,haseI
a controlling interest IN all the binding
twine factories OF Canada except one
in Ontario.
THOMAS JAMES Was killed AMI Robert
Livingston fatally and sam Clark
severely injured by the premature ex-
plosiOn OF charge Of dynamite in the
limestone quarry At Cementville. Ind,
on the 18th
President TAGGAED OF the New
Hampshire Senate. took the oath of
ofice and entered upon the duties OF
acting Governor on the nth
Dr. LYMAN ABBoTr says be has no in
tention of resigniny the pastorste of
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn He can
not imagine how the rumor OF his res
ig-ation could have originated