Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-04-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Six berS OF the senate COMMITTEES.
on the District OF Columbia decided.
on the 9Th. by a ote of { to :, that
they would make an u~nfavorable re-
port on the nomination of Charles II.
j. Taylor, of Kansas. to be recorder of
deeds for the District of Columbia.
JOHN MURREL. of BEDFORD. y. Y.
visited a neighbor. who was i'll, on the
night of the LIST He took along his
gun His neighbor died while he was
with him. When preparing to leave,
Murrefs gun exploded. killing him in,
stantly in the where the corpse
lay.
Edison says that he has worked
steadily for seventy-twO hours at a
stretch and never felt the loss of sleep.
II is safe to say that Mr.. Edison could
not pass an examination for an appoint
nent on a metropolitan police force.
The treasury statement published on
the I'd showed a deficiency for the
month of March of 81, 394, 49,, making
the deficiency for the nine months of
the current fiscal year $50, 49,, G2T.
EMMETT SEYMOUR, who, on the I'd.
ACNatAtAl1 Nhtti NG1A1 NtuAtuNt III
the Anamosa tla.l ~penitentiarv for
grand larceny, was r~earrested just as
he stepped from the prison door. II is
understood the charge this time is for
the murder of his father-in-law, Geo.
+. FifeId.
WALTER BERDAS stlrted. on the I'd.
TO ride on a bicycle from Denver. Col,
to Paterson, n. j. The distance will
be $500 miles by the route he will
take. He will strive to make a long
distance record.
MARGARET WALLER, - years of age.
was executed in Walton Jail. Liver
pool. on the I'd. Mrs. Walber in No
vember last murdered her husband.
The woman. who was extremely Jealous
Of the deceased. confined him in a gar
ret and chained and ~padlocked him
until he was hardly able to move, and
otherw Use brutality ill-treated him IN
Ill he died.
Mr. BRAIDk, the American consul.
and Bingham, the British consul at
Blueields. have been given their pass
ports by the N~icaraguan government
because of their ''pernicious activity
In the Mosquito territory, by which the
rights of Nicaragua were disregarded.
THREE naval vessels were put in com
mission on the ad-the Atlanta, at Nor
folk. the Alert at Mare Island. and the
Marblehead at New York. The Alert
is already assigned to Behring sea serv-
ice, but the others have not yet been
disposed Of
Col ENGLISH. a brutal uxoricide,
was taken from Jail at Bakersville, y.
C., early on the morning of the 3lst.
by a mob and hanged. He had been
confined for about a week and the talk
of lynching. which wa freely INDUCED
in when he was first -inearcerated, had
lied out, and the sheriff ceased to fear
any effort in that direction.
WILLIAM BARNES met with a tragic
death at Ringers Lake, Ind. on the
I'd He was breaking a colt, when the
animal threw him on a hedge fence
which had just been trimmed. He was
impaled on a sharp stick which pene-
trated his neck. He was dead when
found.
CONGRESSMAN W. l. WILSON. who is
still at ex-Congressman Cables ranch
near San Antonio, Tex. took a horse
back ride on the I'd, and is rapidly
gaining strength and health.
JAMES OWEN O'CoSNoR. whose aspira-
tions to fame as Sha<espearean scholar
gave him much notoriety in Isss. died
recently in the insane asylum at Nor
ris Plains. n. ].
Mrs. MARY w. FAULKNER. widow of
the late Hon j. c. Faulkner. and
mother Of senator Charles J. Fanlk-
ner, of West Virginia. and Of Judge
Boyd E Faulkner, died suddenly, on
the Sd. at Winchester. Va, Of eongss-
tiou Of the lungs