Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-04-02

a COMMERCIAL trcaty between Ger,
many and Austria has been agreed
upon
The grip Is losing iss hold on New
York city
TIE local-option license bill was
killed in the New Hampshire house. on
the asth- BY a vote Of Is6 20 it1.
THE statement that the Portuguese
authorities in south Africa have pro
claimed state Of siege In Manicaland
i not credited in London On the con
trary. the announcement i seni-offi-
cially made that the Portuguese gov
ernmcnt desires 20 maintain the nso.ius
vivensi and to svoid in any way inter-
fering with the British South African
Co. or with subjects ~ Great Britain
stationed in Manicaland
Local trainmen report that while
Engineer Burke was diving in the Mil
waukec Wis hospital he repeated con-
stantly in his delirium: MY God! some
one has cut - air brakes They also
say that much larger sum OF money
was lost by the express company than
was admitted. and intimate that the
wreck on the Chicago i Northwestern
near Racine, on the s5th. was planned
by robbers.
The German government Is perplexed
over the Austrian demand for iis-riru-
nation in favor Of Austria-Hunrarian
cattle. and hesitates To come to dee /
sion on the subject. a. To yield may in
volve Germany in commercial difficult
ties with Russia and America
Gov. PATTIsoS Of Pennsylvania de-
cided. on the 27th. To issue writs for the
extradition of James Hughes. grand
master workman Of the assembly Of
garment cutters, wanted at Rochester,
y. Y, on charges of cxtortion and con-
sPiracy.
a BILL was passed by the Maine house
of representatives. on the 3Tth. provisi-
ing that no person shall be allowed to
vote who can not read and write his
name
THE government has been granted
three months extension Of time in which
to introduce testimony in its case
against the Bell Telephone Co.
Mrs CATHARISE TICK was burned
to death. on the 27th. in a fire which
completely destroyed her house at
Jaynesville, Me.
The Berlin bourse is disturbed by ru-
mors of movements of Russian troops
on the Austrian aud German frontiers
The men employed in paving the
streets of Boston have been granted a
nine-hour day by the contractors.
THE Boston Car Spring Co. with a
factory at Roxbury. Mass, wen. into
insolvency on the 27th.
AFFAIEs are rapidly reaching crisis
in Sligo, ireland, when bloodshed will
be unavoidable.
Bishop RYAN is sick at the Providence
hospital in Washington. ID. C.
JOHN BgoDERIcK. New York letter
carrier who supported his sisters. com
mitted suicide. on the 27th. by cutting
his throat with razor lie was
Obliged To lay off one day recently on
account of sickness. caused in great
part by cigarette smoking. and il is
supposed he was temporarily insane
when he took his life
SENATOR NALTHALT. and ex-Cov.
Lowry. of Mississippi have accepted in-
vitatiOns TO deliver orations at the un-
yelling of the confederate monument
1t jackson. Miss. on June 3.
THE capture Of a gang of counter
feiters II Dobria. in Poscn, ON the s1th,
Will probably lead to the uneartbing of
an extensive nihilistic plot.
4 BUTTE Mont all-night saloon was
raided, on the night of the 26th, by
masked robbers. who forced the bar
tender TO open the safe and give them
SI.fOO belonging to wcrxmen who had
left it there for safe-lSeeping.