Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-04-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN HRIEr.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| GEN- GREEN X RAIN. commissioner
~ pensions. was reported. on the 18th.
as quite seriously i'll from the grip in
Chicago
REVENUE officers raidesi contraband
cigar mandatory in New York. ON the
18th and arrested Nateau Imperial and
Antonio Sutri. who were engaged in
making and packing cigars. and seixe,i
the paraphernalia and ~. 600 unstampei
cigars.
| ARCHBISHOP RYAN Of Philadelphia
has issued an order that in future Cath
olics viii not be permitted to bury their
dead on Sundays
STRONG how Of natural gas has
been struck at Pleasantou. Cal. BY
some workmen who were boring a well
in Odd Fellows cemetery The gas was
struck at . depth of 100 feet
| The wine-maI<erS of the west side of
Santa Clara valley. Cal. have formed
an association To secure better prices
for their products
| JUDsE GARREr :. VAN wAGaoyxR.
Of Sc Louis, sucrumbed to an attack
OF the grip on the 18th He was a
native of Patterson. v. j.. but settled
IN 81 Louis. in ts5I He will be re-
memberrd as the presiding Judge in the
famous Maxwell mur,ier trial. and his
ability as a jurist Is best evidenced
from the fact that none of his rulings
in the case were set aside by the higher
courts
| BRIBERY Is the charge upon which i've
of Colorsdo's best-known citizens have
been indicted by the grand Jury of
Arapahoe county They are. otto
MearS, president Of the Rio Grande
Southern Railway Co. Jerry Frank.
Fred walsen- ex-senator A. NJ Steven
son and Edwin Mitchell
| A FARMER named HoIeomb. living
near Laeenter, Wash. placed some giant
powder in stove. whirh exploded.
demolishing the house and setting fire
TO the ruins Two daughters of Hol-
comb. aged IA and Is respectively, were
instantly killed and Holeumb and his
wife were seriously. IL not fatally, in
iured
MIS-. EMMA LEErE. of Guilfor,i. Conn,
aged 81 years, was killed. on the I4sh.
by n vicious horse She was holding
the animal by the tridle. when he sud-
denly reared and came down on Mrs.
Leete with his fore feet. breaking her
back In twoplacrs@
| DE- GEO ~ BRAN was arrested at Elk
tou- Nd on the 1fth- upon the charge
Of being the burglar who murdered
Mrs Granville Richards and seriously
wounded her husband DIR. Bran is -
YEARS old and has wealthy and respect
able relatives
| MIS- SIDNEY HESDRICKs. Of Chicago.
has fallen heir to -. ooo. 600. her share Of
the So ooo, ooo estate left by Isaac Phil
lips, of Easton. Mass, who died in 1854.
after having amasSed fortune in ths.
slave trade. One hitch the heirs encuur1-
tered was proof of the birth Of Philips.
They at last learned that the certificate
had been buried with the family Bible
in the coffin with Phillips, niece. J une q.
f>ssS The grave WIS opened few days
ago and the recorvi found
The twenty-sixth anniversary OF the
death of Abraham Lincoln April Isl
was eOmmernorated BY the veteran re
Publicans of Boston by n reunion IN
fremont temple The day was also the
thirty-seventh anniversary of the forma-
tion of the republican party
| The efforts to re-es:abIiSh the pro-
vincial bank at Buenos Ayrrs, with
500. 600, 600 capital have not succeeded
This. together with the dissensious in
the Union Civic. makes the political and
financial outlook of the Argentine re-
public gloomy
| SIR CHARLES Tupper arrived in Liv-
erpool. on the 18th. from New York
He declined to be interviewed on the
result of his mission To America, say
ing Secretary Btaine's views must be
reserved for presentation in the high
est quarters.
| The United States coast defense ves-
sci Monterey. just nearing completion
at the Union iron works. san FranciScos
viii be launched on the 18Th in the
presence of President Harrison
| The widow of the late United States
Minister Swift was expected to leave
Japan for home on the steamer sailing
from Yokohama on the 18th
THE Manipuri> are fortifying their
position at ThoboL The delay in for
warding British troops IS regarded in
Calcutta as a serious error.
| MARY FRANCES HALxoaD. wife of E
w. Halford- private secretary 10 Presi-
dent Harrison. died on the 18th. IN
Washington
i GRACE HAWTHORNE. the Americas
srsrsss. has been adjudged bankrupt
in London
i PRoF. KoeH's lymph has been intro
ducei IN Shanghai
DURING March French imports in
creased -. g.&. 900 francs and exports in
creased "a fsT. 600 francs. as compared
with March ESQ
FIVE persons lost their lives during
the burning Of q house opposite the
Enixhtsbridge (Londoul barracks on
the 18th
4 CHoLEzA Is raging in Siam. there be-
ing an average Of forty deaths daily.
wx- MARsDES. Of ChatfeId- Mimi.
dug M some wild parsnips. on the 18th.
| which he mistoo< for zrtichokeS- His
mother and her two sisters. Beatrice
and Eta Johnson ate them An hour
afterward Mrs Marsden died IN con-
vuIsious. and the life Of Eta Johnson Is
despair-d Of
THE wife Of ex-Ccngrsssuan Chan
der. of Massachusetts,. died At St Au-
justine. Fla. on the 18th
ii Tzx LONDON Times syupa-hizes with
the American determinations rot 20 al
low vile social diseases Ike the mafz
TO take root. but reminds Is that we
!. displayed little Indignation when socie-
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