Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1890-10-23
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Columbus on the isth.
The Treasury Department: has decided
that books imported for the use OF col
leSes- schools. etc, are admitted 70 n "a
country under the new tariff law svb-
siaati2lly as they were admitted under
the old tariff Law. and subject 70 tho
same restrictions
SENoE RAMON BExGoFcurA. OF Gya-
tenala- son-.n law OF General Ra--ua-
dia. who was murdered on the United
States ship Acapulco. arrived in wash
ington. on the 18th. 70 prefer a claim
against the United States for sur-cn.
| dering the General 70 his slavers.
eoSsREssNAS JoHN L Wu-soS. who
returned to Spokane Falls. Wash. frou,
Washington. u. C.. recently. re ports the
loss OF his pocket-booIs containing SO -
coo in securities, $3.50 in greeubacks and
gold and other valuable Papers
KING CHRISTIAN Of Denmark gave A
dinner at the palace in Copenhagen. on
the Isth, 70 the officers of the United
States cruiser Baltimore The United
States Minister and Mrs Carr were also
present
The Navy Department on the 18th.
ordered Lieutenant-Commanier Hitch
cock and Walton Green before the ex-
ar'ining board for promotion The pro-
motions are occasionet By the death Of
Coflmander Huntington
JACK MCAULIFFE, the champion
lightweight pugilist of America. was
arrested in Brooklyn. on the 18th. on
suspicion Of having caused the death of
his wife, Katie Hart the welI-known
soubrette; but on the report OF the cor
oner thatdeath had resulted frsm valvu-
lar disease OF the heart. McAuIifre was
discharged The fact of his marriage
to deceased was only made public after
her death
FLORA MALLoY, the six-year-old
laughter OF John MalIOy. Of Hazel
tine. Ia, who had been missing from
her fathers house for several days. was
found. on the 18th. in swamp near the
>itY sunk 20 her neck in the slime and
life nearly extinct She died after being
carried home
IoHS SPRINGER who taught school
sixteen miles south Of Hastings. Neb..
fa-'esi to appear AZ the sehooI-aouse on
the 18th. and search being instituted.
his stinEer-pail was found BY the ruad-
side. Tho dirt Wzs torn up a. IL there
had teen scustse. and in a muddy spos
near " we're found foot prints AMI 4
revolver stamped into the mad He Is
thought 10 have been una-slered and his
body Sccreted
CHARLEs IT. THoESE. alias Dorsey.
and Geor-e H. Shsan. who made dar-
ing escape from the State prison az San
Quentin. Cal. recently. we're captured
N Chicago on the ljth- ThOrae vas
serving 4 LIE sentence fOr murder and
stage robbery. and Shian was in dzr-
ance for holding mp an entire railway
train They will be conveyed back 70
San Quentin prison
LUcY HALE. Of Lansing. Mich. has
been granted a pension as the daughter
Of Nathaniel Wallace. private in the
Fourteenth New York Volunteers dur
ing the revolutionary war. She viii re-
ceive $40 per month from September y.
1890.
THE LELAND Hotel a. Syracuse, y. Y.
was destroyed by fire early on the morn
ing of the 10Th At least twenty-five Of
the guests are said TO have los: their
lives either by burning or in their ef-
forts to escape from the burning build
ing by leaping from windows. and :
large number were seriously burned or
otherwise injured. among them Cora
Tanner. the actress
SHORTLY before Midnight. on the 18th,
David C. Hennessey, chief OF police Of
New Orleans. was shot down by three
unknown men Pistols we're used BIZ
Hennessey's assaiIants. and he received
four shots, one in the stomach, which.
il Is believed. will prove fatal
UNITED STATES CoSSUL CAERoIr- At
Palermo. Sicily. Eil probably be trans
ferred to some place bey0ni IlalY. be
having ceased TO be a persoaa -Tzss -
the Italian Governmen. AMI mGniclpal-
ity Of Palermo on TIE strenxta OF his
sonaunieatioas 10 she state Depart
ment in regard % briganda-e-
N tho Vermont Legislative Assem-
big. on the Isth. Justin = Morrill, was
formally elected Unise1 States Senator
for SIX years. frOm Mach next
DIX MctioSIsAI- Of New York City.
charged xith malpractice in the case Of
Annie GoodEin- vas sentenced. on the
18th. 10 fourteen years in STATE prison
The otservatOre Eomanof Vatican or
ganl publishes the political programme
Of the Catholic party IL Is hased upon re-
stOration OF the P0pe's temporal power.
bat accepts 70 : geat extent the princi-
pie Of Italian unity and the m3inte-
nance Of a2ocryphal represe eation-
The caskets containing the remains
Of the late Emperor Frederick, Prince
waideua- AMI Prince sigismand were
removed. on the 18th. from the Friend
esenkircke AZ P3tsdam and placed in
the new mausolcum az that place
By an explosion At the 0tis Steel
Works At Cleveland. O. on the l6th.
three men we're injured Four tons Of
molten metal were p-eeipitated into 4
pool Of water. the metal flying in every
direction and filing the air with a
sitting vapOr. How the two hundred
employees who were IN the building
escaped sufoea.ion is considered almost
q miracle
FAYMAsTER GEORGE A. DEERIN6. T.
S. ". was found dead in bed a. his resi-
dence in Washington on the morning
of the 18th He had died during the
night Of hea-. disease He was in his
forty seventh YeaE
The Compromise bill-the one giving
the Governor power to remove the Board
of Public improvements OF Cincinnati.
their successors 20 be elected n the
nex- April eIecticn-passed the Ohio