Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-08-30

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WITHOUT de bate and without ohlec-
tion Senator Hill. on the Goth. secured
the passage by the senate of his bill
providing for expediting the claim OF
the government against the Stanford
estate arising out of the personal LA
bility Of the late senator Stanford a.
an original stakeholder in the Central
Pacific Railroad Co.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue says il viii be exceedingly diff
cult to secure effective treasury regu-
lations under the provision a. il stands
in the alcohol bill. and estimates that
II VIII result in loss of $40, 0Oo. 600 in
revenue IL not repealed.
Mrs. MARY JOHNSON. a widow. who
lives near the soldiers home at Leaven.
worth KzS-. on the s9th.- instantly
allied an old veteran named Patrick
Donohue. Mrs. johnson alleges that
Donohue invaded her premises for the
purpose Of stealing fruit
ELIJAH DALTON. one of the tve white.
caps sent TO the Indiana state prison,
south. at JeFersonville. under a fivs
years sentence from Salem. died in
prison on the s0th-
GEORGE l. RUSSELL. one Of the ogigi-
nal seven brothers who constituted the
now powerful house of Russell & Co,
engine and thresher builders, Of Mas
sillon. o.. died on the sIst
PoLICE SUPERISrKS BYRxKs OF
New York city. on the e0th. preferred
charges against Police Captain steven.
son of the Mulberry Street station.
Stevenson IS charged with having re
eeiyed bribes while in command of the
Leonard Street station He will be
tried before the commissioners.
HIRAM BERKsNTrH was blown 70
pieces and Andrew Roose and four
other persons were fatally injured. on
the 2ist. by the explosion of the boiler
of a threshing engine on Berlxsmith' 5
farm. miles south of Byron, H.
JoHS PErERs. manager of the Fud.
den Lumber Co. at Aekley, Ia, was
found in his Office, on the morning OF
the eoth. with bullet hole in his head
and barely able to speak He said that
he had been shot and robbed of IS, 600.
He was mortally wounded
The confederate veterans associa-
tion Of Atlanta, Ca, took the initia-
tive. on the 10th. for the erection of a
joint monument to the memory of Gen.
Mcpherson of the federal army and
Gen w. H. T. Walker of the confeder-
ate army, who were killed within a few
yards of each other. The grand army
post Of Atlanta will join the monument
movement.
PEoRLE of Chelsea, Wis, a village
lately destroyed by forest fires. have
appealed to Gov. Peck for aid. saying
they are without food. clothing or
shelter, and have no means TO obtain
either.
The court of inquiry investigating.
At Shanghai. the circumstances at
tending the sinking of the Chinese
transport Kow shung by the Japanese
war ship Naniwa has rendered deci-
sion holding that the Japanese com
mander in firing upon the transport,
was justified. and therefore the Japap-
ese government viii not be called upon
20 make any compensation for the de-
struction of the vessel
An unknown man fell of an east
SeN--1 - x " OAA eAAC II oEt W ne fouQ
at the depot in Salem, o., on the s3d,
and was instantly killed. his body be-
ing cut in two. The victim is supposed
to have been = tramp who was beating
his way.
LAvrERs and jurists to the number
Of 200 occupied the front seats in Con-
vention hall in Saratoga, y. ", when
the seventeenth annual meeting of the
American Bar association was called
to order at 1880 g. m on the esd-
Miss EDITH CLARK was terribly
burned. on the I'D by her clothing ig-
hitting from q spark from locomotive
on the Panhandle road at Grafton sta
tion. Pa She may not recover.
COMMISSIONERS MILLER of the inter-
nal revenue bureau says the income
tax will be collected notwithstanding
the failure of congress to make an ap-
preparation therefor.
A s. TUcxER. . Chicago board of
trade broker, shot himself dead, on the
esd. in Washington park He had been
posted on change by the manager of
the clearinghouse as having failed to
pay his debit balance.
THK Pail Mall (London) Gazette saws
II is stated that the Norwegian mem
bers Of the party assert the unfitness
Of the American members of the Well
nan Aretis expedition 70 take part In
such an enterprise