Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-02-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ADMIRAL DA CANA the Brazilian in
surgenk commander in the harbor of
RIO Janefro now knows where he's at
He has been informed rot only By Adj
Riral Benham- but by other foreign
commanders that inasunuch as belIixsr-
eat rights have not been eoccesisd to
the Brazilian rebels. any act looking TO
the hamperiug of commerce in the har-
Dor Is piracy, and will be treated A.
such in future.
IKE Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals in New York eitv
Is moving in the matter OF supervising
he fad OF the ladies in wearing 50
called chamelons confined by chains as
breast pins. and s~hop-keepers dealing
in the reptiles have been notified 10
cease their sale The reptiles sold As
chamelons ar~ nothing more than a
species of green lizard common along
the tributaries OF the Mississippi delta
The Kansas City MO- SQUIRT Of ap-
peals. on the 18th. through Judge
Smith, decided that a telegraph com
pany Is rs much 4 common carrier ~ n
railroad company. and. therefore. when
It does business in more than one state
IL comes under the Interstate eoEa-
meree Law.
ERED j. SKrFF. who was chief OF the
department of mines and mining at the
Worlds fair. has been selected as the
Permanent director-fn-chief OF the Co
lzmhian museum in chicagoat a salary
OF -. a year
G. & BGHL- a wealthy Efninx nan.
was foGnd dead IN his ~-E. "a a hotel
n Grass Valley, Cal, on the 18th. hav-
ing beer asphyxated with gas which he
had forgotten to turn of when retiring
He had been there a week examining
mining properties He Isaves a wife
At Tempe. Ariz-
AT Tifhn. o. On the night of the
18th, a young ma named sharp shot
and fatally wounded Miss kistie kIess
and then killed himself Sharp was in
o with Miss kIess. but she had re-
fused to accept his attentions because
Of his bad habits
CHAKLEs DEEHER shot and killed Mrs
Bertha Huneker and then attempted to
commit suicide by shooting himself in
the wonsan's apartments in St Louis
on the evening Of the nth IL was n
Ease Of misplaced love and jealousy
Ex-Csov- CAxPREEL- Of Ohio declares
that he i permanently cut Of politics
He gives politics the credit for the
disastrous financial condition in which
he fn1s himself, all BIS speculative
ventures having zone ron
Ex-Gov- THox&s IT. NcoxrrsmT Of
Kansas was nominated on the 18th
hy the president a. envoy ~extrzarsii-
nary and minister plsniposentizrv 70
Bolivia
THE university Of Brussels was the
scene of riosous demonstrations On the
soth. growing out Of the refusal % the
university authorities - allow VI.
jacques Elize EeelaS. the well-kno~u
French ~gssxrzpher aud anarchist. To
lecture within the walls Of the uni
verSity.
WILLIAM Boris was sentenced at
Toledo q. On the s2th. to inprisou-
mens in the p~enitsntixry for two years
longer than his natural life by Judge
Lemon He was convicted Of rohhinx
. secondhand store and life sentences
was added under the hzhitzzI criminal
lzu.
JrpsE BCrLks. ia the United States
circuit court Mt Philadelphia. decided
In favor OF the Sugar trust In the suit
brought by the government 10 hare
ser aside. as Illegal the taking cf The
Phii2delphiz refreriez into the trust
The bill Of complaint was dismissed
Tw-STr-rorE o< the rioeing miners
frou MANSFIELD Pa, we're lodged n the
[Alegheny county S4il ca III S9th-
TER initial step looking to the o a
~version Of the OhsS canals into electric
waterways was taken in the general
pxsembly On the 18Th
LETT Lrck fvAsoEF and his broth
= Stajan we're convicted On the suth-
u enu~psring 10 murder Prince Ferdf
Pan1 OF Rnlsaria- LEea was sea-
Greed "a ffte~a years imprisonment
>ad StzIza 10 thrr< year@