Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-03-31
TEE explosion of barrel Of ben.,ne

TEE explosion of n barrel OF benxine
In drug warehouse nj Amsterdam. 90
the sd. killed ak persons aud injured
twenty-seven- some of them fatally.
-Four houses were destroyed
A BILL Is now before the New York
Legislature To repeal all provisions Of
the legal code relating 20 imprisonment
IN civil actions. thus abolishing the last
ves,ige of imprisonment for deb,
TIE steamship Majestic arrived At
New York on the sad. and J. Coleman
Drayton and Hallett A. Borrovxe were
found TO have made the voyage without
an effort TO slaughter each other.
ASTHoSr GoULp. n well known law
yer and ex-recorVier Of Albany. y. V,
was found guilty. on the ssth. of aiding
and sbe;ting ex-Bookkecper George +.
Whitney. OF the Albany city national
bank. in embexxling the banks funds
and falsifying its aeeountx Sentence
was deferred Whitney is serving .
seven years term of Imprisonment for
his crime.
The Hotel Elduno. in Mount Wash
ington. Md. was burned to the ground
at 1880 n m. of the s&th There were
large number of guests in the hotel
at the time. but owing TO the heroic
efforts Of the employees. all were res
cued in safety Loss estimated at SIS. :
o0o. insurance. sii.o
The Wood ~ Parnell formerly
Wood - O'Sheal will case has been
settled out of court on terms sa,isf,e-
tory To all parties
The Paris Dcbats says the anarchists
Of that city are experimenting with
poison with \ view to substituting IL
for dynamite.
The house committee on appropria-
tons. on The cath. completed the sundry
civil appropriations hilL The whole
amount recommended in the bill Is
So 1877 being io.02s. i6s less than
the estimates and sI1ss5.Sss less than
appropriated for the curren, fseaI year.
The senate committee on territories
has ordered favorable report On The
house ball providing for the refundinS
of the debt OF Arizona NJ 5 per cent.
interest
RETURNS compiled in Chicago show
that the total increase in registration
in the thirty-sour wards Of the city and
Cicero Is <e.seo over last year. Thou
sands of names are said 20 have been
Illegally added TO the registration
lists
The Tennessee Rides. eolored CON-
psny Of Memphis. disbanded. on the
.5th. as = resul, of the action Of Judge
Dubois in ordering the arms of the com
pany eoufseatei during the excitement
following the lynehing Of the three ne
groes recently The judge feared the
members of the company might at
temp, 20 avenge the lyBehing and use
the guns ut their srmory to that end
The PruSsian government has pro-
hibited all Russian Jews from crossing
the frontier. owing To the prevalence
OF typhus fever among them The de-
cree Is TO be stringently enforced. and
i; Is reported that the guards on the
border have already shot four Jews
who tried 10 elude them
JoEL l. HkRr. prominen. citizen OF
England. Ark. and Sheriff j. W. Will
ianss. ordinarily the bes, of friends.
quarreled. on the night OF the s.,h,
while drunk. and Williams sho, Hart
dead
THE importation OF cattle form
SPAN. Portugal. Sweden and Norway
has been prohibited by tae English
government. owing TO the prevalence
of the foot-and-mou;h disease in tn.
former countries
THREE more of the ringleaders of the
recent riots in Berlin were sentenced.
on the 25th. one to four years. another
to three years and one 10 two years a
hard labor