Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-10-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Eventa


A FIRE broke out in the Jerome hotel
atCape Vincent.N. Y. at o'clock on the
morning of the 25th. and burned most
OF the business part of the village.
The Jerome hotel. the Hotel Augou-
quln. eight stores. the telegraph office
and the post offer were consumed
A TERRIBLE waterspout visited the
village of Suchil. in the mountains of
Durango, in Mexico, on the a4th. The
deluge carried away a wooichoppers'
camp of ten families. and all are be-
lieved to have been drowned A num-
Der of other cases of drowning are re-
ported.
The president. ON the s5th, appointed
Gen William Ward Duftield. of Detroit,
Mich. superintendent Of the coast and
geodetic survey, 70 succeed Prof T. C.
Mendenhall, resigned The position is
worth ~. coo per annum-
ON the s5th the new battleship Maine
started from Brooklyn ON her contrac-
tors trial trip. She was provisioned for
a two weeks trip. in ease il was neces-
sary to extend the trial for 50 long a
/ period.
SEVERAL men and some valuable
stock in Piekaway county. o., have
been bitten by mad dogs All show
I dangerous symptoms.
A MURDER shrouded in mystery was
committed in the very heart of Cleve-
land. o.. some time during the night of
the e4th- James B. Caven. general
freight agent of the Valley railroad CB.
a -
known assassin Five bullets pierced
his body, and when found shortly after
he was dead.
The charge of forgery against Caro-
line Ellsworth. daughter of the Mil
[ wauISee millionaire. Isaac Ellsworth.
was nolle pressed in Chicago on the
25th- Miss Ellsworth was charged by
several Chicago merchants with OBJ
tanning goods by forged checks. The
case Is said to have been settled out
side of court by the girls father.
The Brazilian government has given
notice that the reciprocity treaty be-
I tween the United States and Brazil
viii be abrogated by Brazil on jam.
7 ary I next. II Is expected that the ex-
ample of Brazil in Withdrawing from
I the reciprocity treaty with the United
States will he followed by all the other
countries having similar treaties
SAMUEL E MORSE. United States CON
/ sul-general at Paris. has sent tn the
state department an abstract of the
official report on the wheat crop in
Z France for 1894. II is estimated bv the
French stafistieizns. says Mr.. Morse.
/ that the crops of 1894 throughout the
world will be 35 per cent in excess Of
the worlds demands for consumption
and seed.
IT is reported from Tahiti that Count
/ Festich de Toina. who. with his bride.
/ sailed from san Francisco in October.
/ last year. in n trading vessel bound for
/ the south seas. il dead The countess
is the daughter of ]. T. Haggin. of san
/ Francisco.
The American Sugar Refining Co
tSugar trust issued orders, ON the s5th.
| for the closing down of oue-half of the
refineries under its control. II is said
the trust purposes to eurtail produe-
ton and put up prices.
/ MRs. REBEccA A. CARNEY. widow OF
Thomas Carney, second governor OF
Kansas, died at her home in Learen-
worth, ON the e5th. of cancer She was
SO years old and removed TO Leaven-
worth from Ohio in 1860.
JUDGE GREEN, of Pekin. Ill. on the
e6th. overruled the motion for a change
of venue in the case of the Little mine
rioters, and gave notice to the defense
to prepare for trial. These are the
cases in which John Geher, an ex.
member of the Illinois Legislature. led
q mob which committed the murder
and destroyed the coal mine near
Peoria
The steamer Ohio. down-bound. col.
Iided with the schooner Ironton, up.
bound. in tow of the steamer kershaw,
/ 10 miles north of P-esque Isle. Lake
Huron. at 1890 A. m, ON the a6th, and
both boats sank in half an hour. seven
members of the crew of the lrontou
were missing.
The stable of Daniel Moody, in Phil.
adelphia. was burned. on the eSth,
and twenty horses perished in the
flames. Five dwellings in the rear OF
II the SlaU1t WGft uASkAI u8A1AkElf NAg
occupants escaping in their night
clothes.
The store-room attached to Justics
Underwood's courtroom. at lbs Clark
street. Chicago. was broken into
shortly before midnight of the e5th
and a load of condemned gambling
tools, obtained in a raid on No. Il
Quincy street a week before, was re
/ moved
HUGH RoASE. son Of the late john
seldom Roane. ex-governor of Arxan
sas. u brakeman on the Cotton Belt
railroad, was run over by switch en-
gine at Buckner, Ark. on the night ol
the s5th. and fearfully mangied-
ID. C. CALDWELL, prominent In mbei
dealer of Frankfort, Ind. was arrest
ed, ON the asth. by Maj. Carter, of ths
United States secret service, to answer
the charge of counterfeiting. The ar
rest of Caldwell created a big sensation
at Frankfort, where his standing ha,
been first class.
WITHIN two months, when more
horses shall have been inoculated. ths
Pasteur institute at Paris will send oui
an antl-dlpntneria serum 70 the prov
inces. This serum will also be sup
piled to druggists in the form of q pow
/ der.
FRED LANoSrE. the well-known cir.
Gus clown travelling with Robinson.
show, is lying at the point of death in
the house ~ John Robinson. at Ter
race Park. near Cincinnati from in
iuries reosired 1t the hands of a rohbei
ON the night of the s5th-
Mzss MINNIE Urz. on the 10Th. Al
Fargo. " D.. secured a legal sep&ra-
ton from Il J. Utz, the millionaire
shoe manufacturer of Rochester, " Y.
She was granted $4,000 aIimony and
the custody of their child
A LIGHT earthquake shock occurred
at q N of the 3-th, at Chicouti N
and Bay St Paul. east of Quebec. Can
The shock lasted about thirty sec
onds
II was reported at Shanghai. on the
asth, that the native officials had re
eeived news that the Japanese attacked
the Chinese forces at Anchow and vi
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