Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-08-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IT Is generally supposed that mining
= the most hazardous Of all pursuits.
but recent statistics 20 - show that
Il n really safer than railruading
These figures are to the effec. that in
ls9e there was but one fatal accident
% every ~ employees aad one non-fatal
one TO every i51 in the coal mines.
whereas there was one man killed for
every 10 men employed and one man
injured To every = IN the railrozd
service
HEzEAFrxA. fur the first time in the
history Of the country, the stars and
Stripes VIII toat over the national cap
itoi every day. whether congress Is in
session or not n provision 10 that effect
having been inserted in the sundry
civil appropriations bill The credit
for this new departure IS due to >ena-
tor Hale
CHAScEfL0a CASTfELD of the Unixer-
slty Of Nebraska has declined the pres
isteney Of the Ohio State university.
to which he was recently elected BY
unanimous vote Of the board of trus-
tees
II - expected that Glasgowas ex-
ports TO the United States viii increase
some sseo.eoo in value owing to the pas
sage Of the Gorman bill
The supreme grove of the United
Ancient Order of Druids began a two
days session at Columbus. o.. on the
I4th- Fourteen states were repre-
sented-
Iaxrx O.-rxs-w ku. . Ss.s-.s
President Adams and a grandson of
Charles Francis Adams. died Of apo
pEexy At Quincy. Mass. on the I4th.
aged 81
THERE Is reason 70 believe that the
the governments claim against the es-
late of ex-senator Leland Stanford will
oe tested in the courts before there has
been any actual default in the paw
ments> Attorney-General Oiney's mo-
tiee to the executrix of the governments
claim has interfered somewhat with
the closing up OF the estate. and may
result in the closing up Of the univer-
sity-
FRkDEKcx NAsLk, lately the mayor
of Leoptschafen. a village in Baden.
Germany, was arrested ut New York, on
the Isth- on the steamer westernlznd-
on the charge Of forgery. The arrest
was made on complaint from the act
ing German consul The prisoner is
charged with forging the name of his
brother for something like $1,000
The cyclone which swept over the
province of Cui5zd Real. spain, on the
18th. was accompanied BY q terrific
storm of hail Over 800 persons were
injured. and several thousand domestic
animals were killed The damage 10
crops in the province ID estimated at
S3Oo. .0oa
JOHN McDoSALD. employed in the
ginrOom of the Galveston Tex cotton
seed oil mill in attempting 10 prevent
the seed from eiogging IN the gin. on
the evening Of the 18th. got his right
arm caught in the gearing and was al
most instantly killed His arm. chest
and side were horribly lzeerzsed, and
his neck was broken
Hon CLIFTON T. BRxcxISzrDGE. of
Arkansas. qualified as minister to Rus
sin ON the I4th- Mr.. Creckinridge ex-
pectz 10 leave the United State in
about . month and viii make several
stops en- route
oS the 18th Dennis Norton . pruni-
nent rish-American citizen. dropped
dead On the street in Burlington. In,
Of heart disease He was aged IS years
The police Of Rome say that three of
the anarchists arrested in the suburbs
Of that city. on the l4th, were IA = plot
70 asszssinate Premier Crispi TIE
bomb 20 be used by the assassins had
been prepared. and 6igznti- one Of
those arrested. had been chosen TO
throw il ut the premier.
Os the night Of the 18th. Frank
Proteous.& = farmer living seven miles
from Kalamazoo. Mich. mistOol his
young wife. who had arisen 70 close .
window, for q burglar, and shot hsr
ksroagh ths hsa<s