Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-05-07
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burne OF Chicago on entering upon his
duties, on the 2sth. was to issue an or
der 10 the police department to close
mp every gambling house in the cisy.
The convention Of the association of
medical superintendent of insane aSv-
fums met IN Washington on the sssh.
SECRETARY PRocroK has taken no
further action in the lynehing Of Hunt
At WalIa Walla- Wash. and IL a court
OF inquiry IN the matter is ordered. n,
Indicated by President Harrisonx teIe-
gram the order for the court must
come from the president himself. a. the
secretary of war has no power to order
courts Of inquiry.
The New York court Of appeals. on
the 18th. decided in favor of the law
firm OF ShipDan. Larocque 4 Chnate in
their suit against the Bank of the State
of New York to recover about ssoo. 600
drawn from their deposits in the bank
by their confidential clerk, j. z BedeII.
through forged Endorsements. for which
ne Is now serving a twenty-years' term
IN Sing Sing.
J. CoSovER, James Huntley and
James Hall were arrested in New York.
on the s3th- charged with swindling
the Chase national bank of New York
city and banks at Detroit. St Paul and
other western cities by bogus drafts.
and by representing themselves as
agents of prominent horse dealers
IRWIN C. SrrNr. of San Francisco.
manager of the estate of the late Sena-
tor Hearst who owned large interest
tn the Anaconda mines reported sold to
the Rothschilds. says that he knows
nothing of any such sale having been
effected
| The Russian government has issued
= decree ordering the enforcement in
St Petersburg of the same measures
against the Jews as formerly decreed
against them in Moscow. Certain
places in the city are specified where
they may live.
| The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
railroad statement for March shows a
decrease Of <3s1,3s4 in net earnings
compared with March last year
OS the s3th Chattanooga Tenn, suf-
fered from a $50. 900 fire covering n
space Of twenty acres, insurance. $780,
oo0
i
owing to circumstances beyond her con-
troll she will leave Scrvia-
| or the f27 deaths in New York city,
on the s9th, only two were from grip.
| ENGINEER JAMES CUMMINGS was
killed and Fireman Smith terribly in
jured by the explosion of n freight loco
motive in the Ogviensburg IN " rail-
road yards on the 18th
PRESIDENT SrICxSEr of the Chicago.
Milwaukee 4 St Paul Railroad Co.
has written y remarkable book under
the title of The Railway Problem. in
which he advocates state ownership of
all railways
The New York senate al diourned sine
die. on the 5ash. without having acted
on the assembly's amendments to the
Worlds fair appropriation bill, which
was thus killed
stated, on the 50th. that nothing was
known Of the visit to Rome of the
journalist Engieman. who claims to
have been sent by this government. To
indemnify the families of the Italians
lynched in New Orleans No one has
been sent to Italy for that purpose
THE late Thomas c. Barring. who died
recently in Rome. left most of his for
tune to his cousin. Baron Revelstock
to enable him to maintain the dignity
of the peerage conferred upon him
Lord Revelstock was Obliged by the
Earrings failure to greatly reduce his
expenses
ALL the new collateral trust bonds
of the Union Pacific railway necessary
to wipe out the floating debt of the
road will be taken BY the Equitable
Life Insurance Co. and Jay Could
The bonds will bear interest at the
rate of per cent
A CRISIS in the Austrian cabinet is
imminent The German liberals and
the conservatives have split on the
school question and neither has q ma
jority. No reply 10 the speech from
the throne can be voted
The Portuguese have occupied Massi
Kessa in Msnicziand- The British set
tiers have evacuated the posts. This is
understood 10 be in accordance with
the modus vivendi between Portugal
and England
ON the 3oth the Massachusetts, house
refused to reconsider the vote by which
the bill prohibiting the employment of
| Pinkerton detectives was passed
The first session Of the seventh par
lament of the Dominion of Canada
was formally opened. at Ottawa. Ont,
on the 3oth-
| The celebrated French painter.
Adrien Marie, died in Senegal from an
attack of yellow fever.
liz the elections at Geestemunde. on
the soth. fifty-five districts give Prince
Bismarck 6,e5s. and Schmalfeld. social
ist, ATS There is no doubt of Bis
marck's election
THOMAS CALLIHAx, aged 50. of Co
lumbus, o.. fatally shot his wife three
times on the s0th- He is insane, and
imagines that he is to be sent to an
asylum The insanity is the result Of
terrible injury received in November
The couple have eight grown children
The governor of New York will not
call an extra session of the Legislature.
The opera house at Troy, Ala, fell
In. on the 29th. while . party of young
people were rehearsing an amateur per
formanee- About twenty persons were
buried In the ruins. two of whom were
killed and several seriously injured
The cornerstone of the San Fran
cisco Theological seminary tPresby-
terianl was laid on the soth- with ap-
propriate ceremonies at the site. two
| miles west of San Francisco