Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-02-26

MARr BsooxrSa, colored. was ar
rested at Omaha. Neb.. on the nth. bv>
Kansas City authorities. charged with
numbering an aged German in that city.
September Is 1851.
The new steamer Havel. Of the North
German Lloyds line. which left her
dock in Hoboken. " v. on the 18th.
for Bremen. ran into aud sank the ital-
ian bark Mascot in the lower bay. Two
of the bark's crew were drowned
Br frc in Brooklyn tenement. on
the 18Th. Ave persons lost their lives.
and another was 81 severely burned
that he viii probably die
The President. on the 18th. signed
the bill for the construction Of suitable
Indian industrial schools in Wisconsin
and other States
THxsE Is '-tals- Of erecting . statue
10 the late General sherman in New
York City.
To Rev. FArHxR THOMAS EwISs
SHERMAN the following statement Is
attributed Ny father was baptixesi
in the Catholic church. married in the
Catholic church and attended the Cath
Ole church until the outbreak Of the
civil war Since that time my father
has not been q commuricant~
THE committee appointed at the last
session of the General Assembly of the
Knights of Labor To investigate al
legged irregularities in the accounts Of
the secretary-treasurer of tsss. met in
executive session in Philadelphia for
that purpose on the 18th
The Grand Opera-Hou>e ut Rcches-
ter, N Y, was destroyed by fire early
on the morning Of the 18th The Wind
sor Hotel. adjoining. which was uno.,-
cupied- was badly damaged The fire
WAS started by an explosion
JACOB C. BENDER an attorney of st.
Joseph Mo. has been disbarr~d from
practice before the Interior Depart
meut for ''sharking~ IN pension claims
The glass factory at New Glasgow.
n j.. has been closed down on account
of over production and no market The
hands have left for the United States
H. h ESos. the president of the Mis-
| souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Com
pany. died of pneumonia at his resi-
dcnce. in New York on the 18th
A MAN and woman registered at the
Prescott House in san Francisco. on the
18th. 2s Mr.. and Mrs Greve. Next
mornin1 both were found unconscious,
having been asphyxiated by gas
Iy a rear-end collision in the Fourth
avenue New York Cityl railroad tun-
mel on the sDSt. between the New
Haven local and an empty shop train
4 So
seriously injured The wreck caught
fire. and the accident was rendered
more distressing. moment later. by a
third locomotive. running light. crash
ing into the rear of the New Haven
train. in which the casualties had oe-
CURED Several Of the bodies taken
FROM the wreck were found to be hor-
ribly burned
The ServiAn Ministry resigned On the
sosh-
TEE ManufactEr~r's Record Of Balti-
more Md. reports that an English
company has purchased a large water
power property in South Carolina whieh
will be developed for manufaeturin1;
purposes. and tha. \ Manchester cot
ton mill company has sent an exper,
to examine the location with n view 10
building q mill to employ 500 TO l,ooo
hands.
The Southern Emigration and Col
onization Society has been incorporated
ut Little Rock. Ark. to aid and assist
emigrants and persons who may wish
to emigrzte from the States of Georgia,
Mississippi. Louisiana. Texas and Ar.
kansas, and seek homes in Oklahoma
or any of .he Western States or Terri
tories open To immigration