Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-07-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BaIU.
PERSONAL AND GENERA,

L = "a Nhscn was a rsartv
tNenty meuhsrs of the Junior try-
matte club Of Newark. Nj waS -,n
a'wn y 4 train on the New Yors.
lake Erse & Western railroad =.
fasslIe on the sth- Thomas Uar. ,--..g
y. was instantly killed and p-,g
Dunn- Thomas Hill and John o-Er~f.
were seriously, though not f.sallv
hurt y
SoHE eonsteruation has k-e- ezzs-ss
az Lishurr- f9uriShin- town 1, a.
n"rth OF Ireland having intimate eao-
nestlons with Belfast. by ,h.. Discovery
OF a IePer among the paup~rs of ia.
town
l IHE German government Is pr~7ari-~
70 prosecute any trader who nav b.
found responsible for creating a eorur,
in corn
ES-CoSsREs<MGS Joax r. Psrxrz
OF Pennsylvania. died OF heart df~eas..
at sunbury on the 9Th
AE GLADSTONE went to Hawarte-
on the 1th- 10 attend the funeral Of hfs
son
W l. HAKErs. widely known a. a
writer on base ballazd other sporting
topics. died at his home in New York
on the 9Th Of e0us1su.osiou.
/ RIOToCs strikes hav,. occurred ar,.,---
the reape-s at Velietri- an agricultural
town about Il miles from Eome
Troops called out to ssbsiss the rioters
killed two and vo1ussed several Of
I them
| FOREMAN Wx- G. BERf and his hsIp~r
James Quinn were caught IN a hsr~
. clay eru>her at Evart-s tiI. works az
{ AKRON o. On the -th. anil horriblr
nlzngissl Quinn died within L few
moments and Berg cannot possibly re-
cover
1 A MOB OF negroes attempted 70 Ivu-h
a fellov-ne-ru. James Davis. At Be-
held Va on the ssh- but were pre-
vented BY white ef:izezs. Davis ! IN
I jail On 4 charge OF numbering another
Ue-rO-
Er direction Of the president. Se,-
ond Lieut. Eu-ene r WIIS.su- Of ~.
I kE-Ss artillery has been detailed A. pro
fesssor Of military S.riencr. ansi ta-ris.,
a. the Ohio state university ss Coguaa-
bus
/ HEGH officials near tn th.. perSoa Of
the ear are said 70 bsIieve that the
Russian auto.crat csJntemplates vis5tfu.-
Paris during the coming autumn
I Two FREIGHT trains on the CTeve-
land Canton * Southern railroad eDI-
( lBiest near Newburp-. o. early on the
morning of the sth- and : number Of
/ ears were smashed into xind1in- wood
I Five men were badly hurt. two OF them
( probably fatally
NEs- POTTER PALMER. of Chicago.
was granted private audience with
Nine CaruOt. wife OF the president of
the French republic. IN Paris. on the
sth- BY special invitation Mr. and
Mrs Palmer occupied the presidents
I private box At the opera
/ The steamer Australia from Honolulu
brings news that George McFarIane.
I half-Owner of the Waikapee plantation
I has brought suit against the Hawaiian
I Commercial Co, of which Clans Sprecsx-
( els Is president. for taking fOrribIss and
I Illegal possession OF the plantation
One million dollars damages are
. claimed
THE wheat crUpof the state of Wash
ington IS said to he in danger Of partial
destruction By gophers and squirrels
The report of the board of vi>itors.to
the United States military academy has
been submitted to the secretary of the
navy The board in its report recon-
mends that the age of admission be
I fixed from I5 TO Is. instead OF - to 20.
/ rs according to existing Law The Off
GERS In charge of the academy. the re-
port says. are able and deserve the
/ highest eOmmeudation. but the oslious.
K brutalizing and un-Amerieaa habit of
/ hazIng has not as yet entirely dIs7p-
peared from the academy
The German government has in
formed " Ribot. Freneh minister of
foreign affairs. that the relaxation of
the passport regulations for Alsaee-Lor-
raine. ordered at the time of the recent
Swiss railroad disaster IN order 70 ena-
bic the friends and relatives of the dead
and wounded or missing to seek for the
victims. has been made permanent
OK the 9Th Secretary Foster directed
the reinstatement of James c Wins
well examiner of silks in the ap-
praiSer's Cffsce at New York Mr.
! Winswen was suspended By Appraiser
Cooper on the charge Of Endervalua
tion of silks An investigation by
treasury officials disclosed the fact that
the charges were zrourdles<4
The first certificate Of admission
which Yale ever granted 20. a worn
an was received by Miss Irene W.
Colt. of Norwich. Coon-- on the sth-
Prof Seymour. of Yale. notified Miss
Colt that she had passed the examIn1-
ton satisfactorily and would be ad-
mitted
CHRISTIAN DAHLES, prominent eitE-
zer of New Britain Conn, fell under
the wheels of a train at New Haven on
the 9Th while attempting 10 alight from
ear while il was II motion His
breast was rent open and his heart and
lungs torn from his BODY
THE German steamship Cleopatra
which recently struck sunke1 rock
in the Straits of Magellan was stranded
TO prevent her from sinking The pas
tenzers and crew were saved The
steamer Will be total loss
CoCSr MICHAEL PLArEz- wealthy
Russian landowner, was murdered and
robbed. On the sch- while travelling On
An express train of the Warsaw < s.
Petersburg railway No arrests have
yet been made
MITCHELL BRos' planinz uil yard
and eighteen dwellings together vItn
Is coo. 900 feet Of lumber, az Jennings,
N,ch were burned o. the night o. the
- IT,. tn=x - rTzeed AZ 500. 0(C- II