Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-07-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ONE of the'worst consequences of the
great strike viii not end when work is
resumed The capacity of the country
to furnish employment to labor is be-
ing diminished at such frightful rate
THAT worlSingmen in every line of ae-
tivity will feel the effects years hence
Particularly is this true of railroad en-
ployment. The huge cost of the boy
cott must be met somehow. and the
only means apparently at the disposal
of the companies will be that of economy
in operating expenses. and everybody
knows that economy in such cases falls
principally upon the wage and salary
list
HENRY WARD BEEcHER. in his lecture
The Ministry of Wealth. used to il
lustrate point by the power of resist
anee of beams of various kinds of wood
under pressure. The ministry of wealth
nowadays seems to be to bring the
greatest amount of pressure possible on
labor to squeeze more wealth out of its
pores. and as we see. sometimes the
screw Is given q turn too much.
THE after-part of the steamer Ross
the 10th Frank Smith. son of the
captain. was burned to death. En-
gineer Connell. of Grand Haven. was
seriously and probably fatally burned.
and Will Leroy was nearly suffocated.
The eonvicts in the house of cor
rection at South Boston. Mass, broke
out in open mutiny. on the 9th, and it
became necessary for the officers to use
their firearms before the men would
retire to their cells. One man was
wounded in the face, and several were
severely dubbed.
BY collision between the Russian
passenger steamer Vladimir and an
Italian steamer. IN the Black sea. on
the night of the sth. the former was
sunk near Eupatoria and sixty persons
drowned.
EUsHNE v. DEBs and several other
labor leaders were arrested in Chicago.
on the 10th. ON warrants issued by the
federal grand jury charging them with
conspiracy. . They were released ON
SiO. 900 bonds each.
DANA BOWMAN, a Springfield 10.
dairyman, was shot and killed. On the
9TH. by Charles Mckay. his hired man.
The fatal shot was fired while Bowman
was attempting to assault Mckay with
a dray pin.
A PORTION of the Lewis wharf At
Boston collapsed. on the l0th. bury
ing five men in the ruins. two Of whom
Were taken out dead. and the Others
seriously injured The accident was
caused by the giving way of the under
piling.
GENERAL MASTER woRKNAS SovER-
EisN of the Knights of Labor An
nounced. ON the iIth. that proceedings
would be Immediately begun in Wash
ington to inpeaeh Attorney General
Olney for his action in causing the ar
rest of labor leaders
EVERY employee of the street railroad
company of Youngstown. o.. went on
strike at midnight of the 10th. and on
the morning of the 1Ith not a wheel
was turning.
THEpension appropriation bill. passed
by the senate on the 11th. carries an
appropriation of $50 900. 900.
WHITE BEAR VILLAGE. Mimi. was
the scene on the IIth. of an incendiary
fire that nearly wiped out the business
| portion of the town
HOWARD ACTION. an Indiana militia
man, was killed by passing train at
the partially destroyed bridge on the
Monon railroad across the Calumet
river near Hammond, Ind. on the IIth-
ADDITIONAL shocks of earthquake
were felt in Turkey in Europe on the
l2th. Scores of dwellings. churches
and other public buildings were top
pied over. and hundreds OF, people were
buried under the ruins. On the island
of Antigoni all of the buildings except
the monasteries We're wrecked
WESTON B. THOMAS. who was worth
$500, 600, and was one of the best
known business men in Indiana. was
fatally stabbed in barroom fight at
(, Brighton Beach. suburb of Indian
apolis. on the Isth, by Winnie smith,
n fast young man
DR- HostxR F. FULLER Of Worcester,
Mass, has accepted the presidency CT
f, prury college at Springfield, Ne