Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-09-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

a1at sne mas been buried aft~.
her maniscal meanings are afssr~..i,,,
and her attempts 70 lias--a.e h~-.-'s
rom the coffin are painful IN l..h.,ls
sosnang that her troubled family can
say or do can convince her osh-r~,..
tnan that she is buried under ground
An organization il declared 20 -.
ior the purpose Of bringing the Central
american states into the United S,a..s
nrst as territories and then as .~parz,.
states IL Is claimed that ex-See-~,.-r
Blame 10 interested in the scheme
Among other prominen, men SPOKEN az
IN connection with the plan is s~~re-
sary of War EIkinx
AFTER a pitiful experience In auar
antane the passenger Of the STEAMSHIP,
Normannia were landed from the
steamer cepheus on Fire island. on IA.
18th. and provided with comfortable
accommodations at the Surf hotel Il,
the presence of an armed force IN.
brutal mob on shore who hac refused
them landing suddenly disappeared
The Seaside hotel at Ro.rkawnx y
=, was burned to the ground earlv on
the morning of the 18th Loss est
mated at $4,000.
SHonrLr before midnight of the ls;h
Mr.. Ed OMeagher Condor. insp~ctor Of
buildings for the United States treasury
department, called at the Associated
Press IN Cincinnati in perfectly sound
health and fun Of vigor He desired TO
contradict n dispatch sent out from
Washington announcing his death
THE gross earnings of the Wabash
railroad for the year ended June 20.
isss. were eis. sso. ssl- Is: operating ex-
penses. SO. So. ses- a5: net earnings. q. :
SO, 500. Is. miscellaneous receipss. slpg.-
4sass Total, g. .s57.ss. After nav
meut OF interest on bonds znd mort
cages there remains surplus Of sei.-
<-5s7.
AsTHrE MCKEE RANKIN was. on the
18th denied divorce frUu, his wife.
whom he sued at San Francisco on the
ground of dcsertion-
IT Is reported that lar Gould will be
elected president Of the Wabash Rail
road Co 1t the meeting of directors
soon to be held in New York
6EoRsg FoRzxSr. n nephew Of the
celebrated confederate general Of that
name. attempted to kill Col J. L Tar
lor in Memphis Tenn on the 18Th.
and instead fatally wounded clerk in
the store of Ro~t. Taylor 4 Co. whom
he missook for Taylor.
ForR miners were killed ey an ex-
plosion Of "a. in the Nottingham mine
at Plymouth. Pa. on the I5th-
DEPUTY SHKRG~r WITTY. Of vasaIiz:
Constable Hill, of Sanger. and several
others came UPON Sonszg and Evans.
the train robberS ~ Sampson fat. Cal.
on the 18th. and attempted 10 arrest
them. but they escaped after Sxht in
which Marshal Nessinnis. Richard Ol-
rem and q man named Wilson were
killed. and Deputy Sheriff Witty was
again wounded
ix . duel st The Hague. on the night
of the 18th. between Baron Won Cart
ner Griebnow. attzehe of the German
legation. and the Marquis De Vzlladero.
secretary of the Spanish legation the
latter received a bullet in the leg. which
mended his wounded honor and took all
the fight out of him
A REPORT comes from Brussels that
the monetary conference VIII be held
in that city in accordance with the
wish of the ma jority of the powers
PRINCE Hermann of Scharburg Lippe
was thrown from his horse while rid
ing near Linz, Austria. on the 18th.
and sustained fracture of the skull
His condition is critical
TEE steamship companies are paying
. heavy penalty for their csrelessness
in accepting steerage passengers. as
NAV be seen from the fact that the
Hamburg-Ameriean steamer Columbia
sailed on the 18th. for southampton
without n passenger, either cabin or
steerzSe, or a single ounce of freight
Other vessels have Jared but little bet
ter.
REV Dr. TALMk6E and Mr.. Louis
Klopsch. who visited Russia 70 dis
tribute the cargo of the Christian
Herald relief steamship Leo in the
famine provinces. sailed from Liverpool
for New York. on the i4th. on the
steamer City of Paris
cAsIEsRAx was received at the de-
partment of state. on the Iith- from san
jose, Costa Rica, stating that Press-
dent RODRIGUEZ had declared himself die
tator; that several political arrests had
been made and that excitement ran
high
A LETTER was received at the New
York Times Office on the night Of the
18th. stating that two deaths from
eholera had been discovered IN Albany,
NY. The board of health had exam
iued into the cases and reported them
true Asiatic cholera
ii. RYDEH. the ex-AmerScan consul al
Cou<nhagen. who is under arrest tor
frauds in connection with the admins
t-z.iou of estates that were intrusted
% him in his Official capacity. has con-
sessed TO further fraud n Withholding
the payment Of Legacy He has also
confessed that he stole books from the
Athenxum Reading club
A GREAT crowd was attracted Al
wsrdner & Barnett's big hour miiis a'
Springfield. O., on the i4th. By the sen-
sstional stoppages Of the mills great
newer wheels BY three monsters eeAS
The eels were caught IN the buckets
~ the wheel and on Investigation
proved to be ~. 81 and 8 feet long.
respectively. and weighed nearly ten
pounds
Mrs. JULIA AspzEws. Of stoops Fer
Pa committed suicide, on the i4tn'
by taking Rough on Rats she was
,sken with cholera morbus and mag
ind she had Asiatic cholera Ratner
than suffer with the terrible disease
she took the poison
JoHx PRATT, of Hornellsvilie, y T..
nr-E .ha Ia se War- fArallv S1Ol