Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-04-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

EE41ANsN1 y HAA " ne TLNn - -
ss charged with one Of the bs---s,
schemes % defrzua an insssrz-~~ con-
PAW On reeor'i. appeared before Iastfr.
Merrill. of Oshkosh. VS. On ths Ssh
for preliminary exzminzti0n- bu. th~
case was Po>sponed IN order to give
more time for investigation bv the a.
tOrueys
PETER W PEEsOS. 4 wealthy 5verv-
man Of South Omaha Neh. who vvss
living apart from his wife. was found
dead IN bed in his ot=i-e on the morn
ing Of the 18th with his skull f-5etur,.f.
The murder had evidently been eoru-
mItted with 4 club found on the prem
ISe<-
= PENCE BisNAsrE. the famous Iron
Chancellor Of the German empire. i
very near death according 10 a private
czblegrzm received IN New York on
the 18th The person who received the
news Is Or Emil Dcrn. who was for
many years IN aid-de-eznp on Count
von Noltke's staff
Rev JAMES HHI- Baptist minister Al
Cascade. Ia. has received from the
war department n medal Of honor.
awarded hy the secretary for diStin-
guish ed conduct ~ the battle CT Cham
Pton HILL before Vicksbury Mr.. Hill
was At that time rrst Lieutenant of Co.
/. Tventy-first Iowa infantry. and the
act was the capturing Of three con
federate pickets single-handed and
bringing them into camp
JAMES WHITCoNs RILEY. the poet. q
superstitiouS UPon his arrival al a
. Baltimore hotel. the other night, the
clerk gave n key 10 the bcll-boy and
told him 10 show the Poet No. IS, one
of the best rooms in the house What
exclaimed Mr. Riley. a. he sharply
eyed the bell-boy. "A eross-eyed coon
TO show me to room No b Well, not
tonight He was given a room with
a number more to his liking
MAKTHA BELL who for years boasted
that she would come hack after death
aud demonstrate the truths Of spirit
uaIisrn. was stricken with aPoplexy At
. her home in Brooklyn. Y Y, on the
night Of the sTth. and died before med
icaI attendance could reach her Miss
Bell was % years old
The captain of a cattle Steamboat
sailing from Liverpool. maTOoned nine
American stOwaways at CaPel island.
of the Irish coast. recently. which II
uninhabited- They were rescued BY
the crew of 4 fishing boat and Conveyed
to the nei-hbOring hssdland Of knocka-
doom, whence they proceeded to Queens
town
FRANK NFCoIIS. the big mill owner
at Jordan. MINI. has made an assign
ment for the benefit Of his creditors
The assets and liabilities can not be as
ee-tained- Careful estimates. which
iu,.Iude 100. O0O bushels Of stored wheat
make the liabilities about sl9o.0e0 The
assets will be about s70.o0a
The cholera scare Is back again A
train load of $50 immigrants was
stopped at Windsor. Ont, on the @stn-
upon orders from Washington DR.
Duffeld refused them entrance into
Detroit until satisfactory evidence was
furnished that they had undergone
proper disinfection-
A DISASTROUS fire al Alton. Ia. on
the morning of the 2sth- destroyed a
half block of the business portion OF
the citv, causing loss Of thousands OF
aoIl.-s This i the second cOnhagra-
,ion within a few weeks. both tres de
Strovinx about $50, 90 worth Of prop
erty-
SrvrNrY-FTvE eore-makers employed
at the WOrthiugtcn pump WORKS -
Elizabeth. y. J.. struck on the sta
-, ,,..o,ut OF the firms refusal 20 dis
rbar~e a uou-unioa man who had been
rmpIoyed at the foundry for TWO
weeks
CH.zrrs TouEs. local manager Tor
.h. American Preserves Co OF Bunalo'
Ny. has disappeared leaving letter
....;rS that he 5 a dsfzHlter- Ine
amoun. Of his shortage 5 placed a.
somewhere between $4,000 and s--'V0e-
nv the 18th St Barnabas' Protestant
EDiS.oual church. Of Baltimore, Nd
was entirely destroyed By nre- Inc
r.e,,r- Rev. Joseph Z Fletcher. SAYS
the loss viii be about sSaceo-
THr first Official act Of Judge serugzs
of Memphis. Tenn ~hO sEieeseSs'i
I,5sra Dubose. impeached. was 10 dis-
- the case Of Lille Johnson eilar 80
yrith being an accomplish q Aiiee
. Hf;,.-l,..II h the killing Of Fresia Ward
rvpExErrEE company with cap
- ~ ssO OOO. oc0 has teen toT1ed II
j Trenton. y. J.