Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERA,

ht@heeu " the ] leralS i
eadequase. il viii again become p,..,.-.
AIRY 70 eoerce them into subraf..i,,
and this could only be done bv a nDi,g,s
party. . ~iaite1
~ DANskEnCs counterfeit has b..er
uncovered in the - Louis sub-tr.,~,,-,-
~ - bogus - silver certificate and
treasury officials as we'll a. bank e,.b.
lers pronounce il one of the r,o~, sLili-
ful counterfeits ever known IN ~.
country '' e'''s
THE Alabama state fair opened a.
birmingham on the soth. Gov. Ior..
maize the opening speech. Iary,.
crowds were in attendance. The e.
hibit Is very creditabie.
DoS ALctDEs M0yrERo. the L -rus-uav-
an minister of finance. who rec,.n.lv
rendered his resignation. has rpconsi,i-
cred his determination and wiz remain
IN the cabinet
OSE Of the mills Of the Columbia
Powder Manufacturing Co, lo,.ate,t
about J miles from Farminr,lale. n ]
blew up with terrific force on the aOtb
u l. Van Sots and Geo. woolev. WIN
were in the mill ut the time. were in
stantIy killed
JoHS REDMOND has resigned aS mann
Der OF parliament for Wexford. Ireland.
and viii contest the seat for Cork made
vacant by Mr.. ParneIIs death.
GEN- RIGGS. governor Of the stat, ~
Nuevo Leon. Mexico, has ordered n
likeness Of George Washington 10 be
removed from the front OF a heer -
( loon owned bv Americans in Manterrv
as be believed that Washington WAS ton
great and good 70 have his portrait used
as a sign for beer saloon. The pro-
prietors Of the saloon claim damages.
and say that Secretary Blame has been
appealed to-
PROF ISAAC c. RUSSELL. who was
sent by the Unites. states government
and the National Geographical society
TO explore the region about Mount St
Elias. arrived at Vancouver. r. C.. on
the 10th. and left at once for the east
via Seattle. Wash. One of the party
Thomas White. was drowned.
The Burlington passenger train. No.
5. which left Chicago ut O'Clock on the
evening of the 10th, went into the ditch
at Monmouth. Ia. The engineer and
five passengers are said u have been
killed The train either ran through
aswiteh or jumped the track
JoHS RUsH. a young white man. was
taken from the Jail at Columbia, La.
by a mob, on the night Of the 18th. and
lynched for having murdered Hagar
Sterling. an Old cuiored woman. who
resisted his forcible entry of her home
while drunk.
On the goth the new revenue cutter
Galveston, which WIS built in Baltimore
at = cost Of slsa. zoe. arrived at Calves
ton, Tex. and was received with n na-
tional salute of twenty-one guns by the
Galveston light artillery. 1t will be
placed in service at once and take the
place of the revenue cutter Dix. the lat
ter going to Mobile.
Gov. STEELE of Oklahoma, admitted
to a reporter ON the alst. that his resig-
nation had been rendered to the pres
ident. but declared in emphatic terms
that he had not been te ndered the office
Of pension commissioner.
BEATRICE COLLINS, aged ~ years, the
mysterious New York beauty who was
undergoing u sentence of two years for
passing counterfeit money, and John
Bush alias John Miller. aged - years,
4 well-known burglar, escaped from jail
at Reading. Pa, on the 20th. presuma-
bly, with the aid OF some one connected
with the Jail
The schooners Percy and City Point.
which sailed from Gloucester. Mass,
on cod-fishing voyages. August %. have
not been heard from since, and It is
thought they have been lost with all on
board The Percy carried a crew of
twelve, and the City Point one of four
teen men.
THE walls ef Wo Chang. China. have
been covered with posters announcing
that all missionaries will shortly be put
out of the way. The placards are the
work of the secret society known as
the kolahut-
The tenth annual convention of the
American Street Railway association
was opened ut Pittsburgh. Pa, on the
2lst-
ABOUT fifty Albanians attacked n
party of Moutenegrins near Slionitza
ON the 21st. and killed six of their num-
Der.
The St Petersburg Bourse Gazette
says the report of the prohibition OF
the export of wheat from Russia Is un-
founded, but that oats and potatoes
NAV be prohibited from expectation
soon.
The Fifty-second congress has not
vet met, but there have already oe-
Cured eight vacancies among those
elected last November. Five of them
have been caused by the deaths OF Gen
Spinola. of New York; MIR. HouciS, OF
Tennessee: Mr. Gamble, of South Da-
kota; Mr.. Ford. of Michigan, and Cen
Lee. of Virginia Three vacancies
have occurred through designations. all
in New York, to accept something bet
ter.
CoxsrL G. ". GRIFFIN. who came
home on a leave of absence from sgd
new. Australia. died in Louisville, ky-,
or the night of the 3Ist, of Bright's dis
ease. Mr.. Griffin was born IN Louis
vile. March s. 1s40. He has served As
consul at Copenhagen. Samoan Islands.
New Zealand and sydney He has been
in the public service almost continuous
Iy since 1s7L
FIVE companies of United States
troops, infantry and cavalry, are on the
march from Fort Russell and Sidney,
wyo., to the scene Of the Ute outbreak.
that occurred four years ago. IN the
northern part of Routt county. Col,
where trouble IS apprehendeL
Gov. NORTHES Of Georgia vetoed the
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