Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-09-29
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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rom the conclusion cauS..d he a.,
rapid motion of the train n, , do,.n
'a'e a lew miles west of New Hart
.oeu' conn, on the 2uth- Five carr ~
.he train were blown to pieces and
.he'r contents scattered TO the winds
frees on both sides of the road wer.
blown down, the track was torn nv
and large hole, twenty feet in d;,r,n-
ter and ten feet deep. was made in N.
roadbed. ''''
.usroAHousE officers were, on the
S.,h' sent to the house of ex-Navor
Cnapin, Of Brooklyn. for the purpo-.. OF
seizlng both his own and his wife.s
trunks On the technical charge of hav-
ing violated several of the federal
laws. Mr.. Chaplin and his wife arrived
some days before. from Europe and
were given permission to land bv
Health Officer Jenkins
Lord hAGIN. who belongs to one Of
the first families in the peerage of Ire
land has been arrested for vagraucv in
winnipeg. Man, and sent to the com
mon jail Tor two months. lie was AT
one time an inspector in the Roval
Irish constabulary, and still draws a
handsome pension for past services.
Drink caused his fall.
The Fifteenth regiment. after ba;r,,
on duty al Homestead, Pa. seventy-one
days, broke camp, ON the 10Th. and took
the train for home. This leaves but
one regiment (the SIXTEENTH now on
duty, and il is the general impression
that 1t will soon be withdrawn.
HoRArIo h. WATERWAYS will has
been sustained and tine poor Of Coven-
try, r J., viii be benefited to the
amount of $4,000.
The convention of democratic clubs
of Pennsylvania met in Scranton ON the
Goth.
RockAwAY BEACu. y. j.. the famous
seaside summer resort. was visited by
a destructive cOnfiagration on the 10th.
All the hotels, the SEASIDE museum
and many other buildinCS-about 100
in all-vere destroyed. Robert Phil
lips. aged 80. was burned To death. and
several other persons were severely in
iured- The loss will reach nearly
81. .OoO. 600
REv. J. W. ARSEY Methodist minis
ter in Michigan. who made 4 rrputa-
tiou because he raced horses week davS
and preached rzttIing sermons Sun-
days. and who was thrown out of tas.
church for IT, Is going hack 20 IN. pull
pit lie. however will race the s-rzs-.n
out having won six hrs; purssS in ths
Greenville meet and lowered tsuarzn-
tees record to s-so. lie viii leave th-
track and SullSey just in time - aslE the
conference for pulpiE
NOKRfs :. BARNET. If New York city.
recently met Prince Bismarck -
kissengcn. in Bavaria. and h.. says that
the Iron ehan-ellor sp-ssSe - his inssu-
tior 10 visit this country during the
Worlds fair az Chi-aga
THE Fall River Mass ssIob-- prints
statements to the efFert that Lizzi. Her-
den. several weeks before the murders.
consulted a Providence K L lawyer
as To the disposition u her fath-r's
property IN the event II kis death. III.
lawyer W give evidence AZ the trial
TFtE negroes of I.arne,i. Ea~ hav-
organized and sworn to prevent r~p.--
tition % the recent lynchinz - Hugh
Henry. one Of their raer- Two white
men in particular hare be~n thrs-atenrzd.
and the town i now watched ~ an
armed patrol
Haven. Conn. was shot and instantly
killed By her husband about II o'eloeS
on the night Of the Goth. Potter. who
was alone with his wife af the time.
says he was cleaning rife when the
weapon was discharged He was. how
ever. placed under arrest and viii have
10 answer 10 the charge Of man
slaughter.
The French anarchists posted the pro-
gramme of their proposed celebration
over the official programmes for the
fetes in celebration Of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the proclamation
of the First French repablie by the na-
tional convention
Mrs. ]. NJ. ARNAGGsr. of David City,
Neb.. a middle-aged woman. the wife
of a farmer. was arrested. ON the 2ist-
charged with poisoning by arsenic her
mother-in-law. two years ago. and her
former husband. VIM \. Roberts. five
years ago.
AN electric motor in Cleveland. O.,
colIided with a Pennsylvania freight
train at the Cedar-avenue crossing On
the alst. and number of persons were
injured. two of them. ii was thought.
fatally.
TuE annual convention of the SUI
pr-me council of Free Masons of the
thirty-third degree of the United States
was held in Providence, T. l., from the
20th to ED. inclusive
The Long Islanders are taking legal
steps to compel the removal of quaran-
tined passengers from Fire island.
The shears in the eleven-ineh plate
mill at the Carnegie steel works IN
Homestead, Pa, broke, on the 2lst, en-
failing a direct loss of about $4,000 to
the company and causing the suspen-
sion of work in the entire department
In was reported on the 2ist that I'd
ward Parker Deacon had been pardoned
nv President Carnot. the pardon to be
made public, among others. on the I'd,
the one hundredth anniversary OF the
reclamation of the First French re-
public. ,
In the G. A. r national eneampment'
on the alst, on the motion OF Gov.
chase of Indiana, indianapolis was
chosen as the location for the twenty
seventh ercampment, in ls9S, without
o,,osition. The date will be nxed oy
the counsel OF administration after con-
f.-arre with the citizens
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TAYLOR OF
the q. A. r. reported TO the national
encampment, on the @lst; keeeipts
for the year, sS5,s6o-75; expenditures