Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-05-21

Two men were killed near FloriS<ane
Col, by being struck by train while
riding on a hand car
GREENS in the island Of Corfu con.
tinue excesses against the Jews
DISPATCH from Punxsutawnev. Pa
says that sixty miles Of forest land
were on fire.
DESPITE all the efforts Of the govern
ment To stamp out the disease, trichi-
nosis continues - exist in some parts
OF Germany. Six persons have recently
died from the malady in Meiningen and
fourteen more are suffering from its at
tacl<s
THE strike of machinists at the Ma
tioual tube works, Pittsburgh. Pa
after fifteen weeks ended in favor of
the men
THE switchmen or the Chicago q
Northwestern were paid of and sud.
denly discharged on the morning OF the
ifth- The company had been prcpar-
ing for n step of the kind for some
time Announcement was made that
discrimination would be made in re-eu-
gagement
The influenza epidemic Is seriously
increased in the south of Russia. In
Russian Poland the disease has deci-
mated the population of many villages.
The combine has decided 10 restrict
the production OF anthracite coal and
advance prices 81 n ton October I.
ALGERIA Is again devastated BY
iocustS A caravan from Morocco
traversed through swarms of Iocusts
for thirty-two days.
ONE school boy was fatally injured
and four badly hurt in Birmingham.
Ala, by the fall of lot of bricks from
building next to the school
The grand jury of Meade county. s.
D., has returned five indictments for
murder against the assailants of Few
Tails. friendly Indian, and his band.
killed last winter by cowboys when on
a ahuuting expedition
SECRETARY FOSTER has notified the
collector of customs ut PHILADELPHIA IN
dispense with ten of his weighers and
has also directed the appraiser to re-
duce his force
Br an explosion in the Moss collierv
at Ashson-under-Lyne, England. one
workman was killed aud a number seri-
ously injured
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reportl for
tbc seven days ended May It num-
bered 80. compared with sss the previ-
GUS week and sIs the corresponding
week Of last year.
SIX men were severely burned by an
explosion Of gas in a sewer in New
York City
OS the DneiPer river in Russia a fat
boat containing a number of working
men eoliided with steamer bound un
the stream and sank almost immediate
IL. drowaang nineteen Of its occupants
The captain of the steamer il blamed
for the accident
All the drivers and handlers, of the
Adams Co. at Louisville. XIV. have
struck This was the result of the re-
cent order requesting their employees TO
furnish bond The strike was likely -
spread over the country.
VARSIsHTNG day in the Paris salon
on the Champ de Mars was a brilliant
Success The crowd was enormous
RUFUs MooRE was publicly hanged
before a.0oo people at Trenton, ia. for
the mur'ier of a rival in love
SEVERAL lively battles between work
men and police occurred in Brussels.
Many men were arrested
A roBAcco smuggier near the frontier
at Gibraltar WAS shot dead by the
guards The Inhabitants of the neigh
boring villages, who are in sympathy
with the smugglers. attacked the
guards. wounding two of them The
officials returned the fire. killing two
villagers and wounding many others.
The guards were in the employ of the
tobacco eompanx.