Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-01-11

IT seems probable that Srperinteud
ent Byrnes suggestion that she mem-
bers Of the police and other public de-
p~artmeuts of New York city give ne
half of n per cent OF all salaries to a
fund for the unemployed Will b. acted
upon
Br a break in the ice On the River
Spree. al Cottbu& Braudcuhurr- On TN.
-, twenty-five OF = large party OF
youthful skaters fell into thc water.
and despite the heroic sTorts 81 res-
euers from Ice and shore. Eve of th~m
were drowned
GEN- JcES T. SrEvENsox died at his
residence IN Boston on the 81.
TgE steamer Egyptian Monarch. OF
the Wilson line. arrived az New York.
on the 81. ten days overdue. having
been tw~enty-four days cut from Lon
don
Mr. ASbREw CARNEGIE. accompanied
b. Mrs Carnegie. left New York for
Alexandria. Egypt. on the 9Th. on the
steamer Columbia
The venerable Elizabeth Peabody
died. on the 4th. AZ her home in ia
maiea Plain. Mass. in her ninety
fourth year.
HAIRY kENNEpT. the w~elI-known
ventriloqri.t. died. at midnight Of the
sd. at his home in Brooklyn.
\ LoNG-DIsTANCE telephone Is about
to be put in operation between Berlin
and Stockholm. Sweden.
ARCHDUKE SALvAToRj OF Austria
has perfected an automatic mira
~illeuse that will fire from $50 10 $50 shots
a minute. smokeless powder can be
used in all weatherS Forty thousand
rounds have been fired from one bar
rel OF one of the lew guns without the
barrel showing any defect The weap-
ons cost 1000 forms each.
THE Victoria Park hospital for con-
sumptives, in LonaOn, caught fire from
a defective fue in one of the attics on
the sth- SIXTY patients were hastily
removed to another ward The FIRE
was extinguished before il had done
serious damage
The Cunard Steamship Co has or
dered the laying down Of two new
steamers each vessel TO be Of 5000
tons burden. They will be built nv the
London aud Glasgow Engineering ard
Iron ship Building Co
ADvTcEs from Apia, capital of Sa-
moa, via Auckland. y. T.. show tina.
since the departure Of the war ships
from the Islands the natives have again
become restless and further ,roubl. is
feared
ArToSRGFH letters on the religious
situation have been exchanged by the
zar and the pore The disposition on
the part Of both I r~e-eStablish 4 relig-
ious entente IS apparently irn1er than
ever.
SECRETsRY HokE SMITH has disbarred
Wesley Flanagan. Of Jamestown. Nv
FROM practice As attorney before the
interior department for demanding an
Illegal pension fee
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the grand cru~s Of the imperial order
of the Medjiiie upon Mr. Maxim the
inventor Of the q~uiek-6ring gun bear
ing his name
OK the Isle of Wight the mercury.
on the 5th. registered degs above zero
tFahrenhcitl. which is the loves.
point reached there in 100 years
Dr. IFaER. the new German governor
of the Marshall islands. will sail for
his post at JaIuit on February rs
Ar / o'clock on the morning of the
5th three masked men bound aud
gagged Village Marshal e Sags, of
Delavan, Wis, and then blew open the
P~ost-ofiee safe. taking $500. mostly in
stamps. They then went TO HoIlister &
Calkins livery stable. ordered a double
rig, bound and gagged the stableman
and drove away. The rig was found
four miles from town