Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-10-27
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TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


MA, NAY coLvIN, girl Ii years old from
meoo City, Mo-, was arrested. on ,ha
,stn' Tor stealing horse and buvvv :,
o'' SCOTT has. week previous The
morse was found in her possession h,,,
the buggy had been disposed ~ g.
,au been travelling over sou,be-,,
Kansas for a week with IN. s,ol.n
property 'He stolen
IHE comptroller OF the currrrcx
"- iS.h' authorized the Chemical Ma
,'onai bank. of Chicago. to conduc, /,
wr'ncn -, OF ITS banking business ON the
worlds fair grounds.
JUDGE CLuTE. at ALBANY. Y Y .v.
ne Will not hand down decision IN ~,
reck case during the present tern, -,
the court He will have his deris;o,
ready at the opening of the nex, term
tion. 'ie eiec-
IHE steamship City OF Paris of ,h.
inman line arrived in New York on
the nth, having again broken IN.
wes,-oound record from Queens,o,yn
TO Sandy Hook. by making tn. run in
Gays, IL hours and ~ seconds Ucr
days runs were as follows. "A. -os
ouS' o5o-oeating the record-and ass
lhe average speed was 20. 20. the best
on record
YEN. U. q. HowARp. United STATE.
army. commanding the department ~
the east. in his annual report tn IN.
secretary of war. makes som. inner
tant rccommendatio touching th. Va
uonal guard of the United States. He
says the military under its new name
OF National guard has reached a degree
OF excellence never before attained.
AUGUSTUS I. KERR, an accountant
VINO was arrested in Liverpool on
charge OF forgery and embezzlement
preferred by his late employers. the
jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Co. Of
Kansas City. was taken to London. on
the 10Th, to be arraigned in the Bow
street extradition court.
FoCR Mexican outlaws formerly
members of Garza's band, who have
been committing depredations in Texas
border counties. have been captured
and will be tried at san Antonio.
IN late encounters reported from the
island OF Crete four Christians and four
teen Turkish soldiers were killed and
twenty of the soldiers were wounded.
A LAReE sewer in course of construc-
ton in the Steinwaerder portion Of
Hamburg, caved in. on the 10Th. bury
ing fourteen workmen.
ALL Of the main business places in
IN ell -
stroved by fire on the night Of the 18th.
The total value of property in Illinois
listed for taxation by the assessors aud
board of equalization is ss5i. $40. soo.
The Iron Age reports a most encour-
aging outlook in the iron trade
Tux Protestant Episcopal convention
At baltimore made \ separate diocese of
western Tennessee.
AcroRJo +. SHERIDAN has returned
from a professional tour OF the globe
that lasted ten years.
The death Of Miss Mary Atkinson.
aged .. is agitating the people of New
Castle. Pa II is believed that she died
while in . trance
oS the 18th two distinct earthquake
shocks were felt in Morgan county.
Ind.
REGISTRATIONS of voters closed in ST
Louis on the night of the 18th. About
s.. 900 names are on the list.
SECRETARY HESTER of the New Or
leans cotton exchange says that the
south wants no change in the form OF
cotton contracts
" III
on the 10Th. of alcoholism He was for
merly wealthy banker at Gallatin.
Mo-, and afterwards lived in Gorden
Plains, kas.
MRs. LUcY WHALEN. a neice OF Jo-
seph Smith. the Mormon prophet. died
at Burlington, Ia, on the 10Th. aged -.
She was n firm believer in her uncle's
CHARLES BAKER. n farmer residing in
johnson county, Ind, sold and deliv-
cred 1000 bushels of wheat for si.G00.
For twenty years he had not tasted
liquor. but his appetite returned, he
drank to excess. was waylaid and
robbed of all his money.
on the evening of the 10Th. while
at Emporia, Eas.. premature dis
charge occurred. seriously crippling
Julius kowalski and Lane :. Adair, the
formers arms being torn nearly to frag-
nents and the latter losing part of one
hand.
THE four children of Josh Matthews
and wife, living near Claremont, ;. C.,
20
The father and mother had been III at
tendance upon some religious ohserv-
ance. and had locked the children in
the house, which caught fire.
AT Junction City. kas., on the 18th,
Miss Lottie Southwell. p years of age,
took strychnine and died. Unrecipro-
-ated love is assigned as the cause OF
the act. Her parents reside in Iowa.
The steamship Hekla from eopen-
hagen arrived at Quarantine. OFF New
York. on the 21st, with the first immi-
grants which have come over since the
presidents proclamation was issued
immigration for twenty
lays
THoxAs COLE and his wife. living at
$3.50 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago,
were asphyxiated, on the night of the
10th. by gas which escaped from a
haIf-open jet in the parlor adjoining
their chamber.
Cor. ]. II. woop. pioneer museum
died at Adrian, Mich, on the (,
,Jst. of Bright's disease. aged IL Al
one time he conducted museums at /
St. Losis. Philadelphia and /
Chicago. /
STEPHEN FEIKE. banker of Sardinia,
q. was shot and killed, on the .lst' ny !
George Justice, his farm hand. IN
-,,,.,y-eI over a crop of corn which both ,