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

JANIS n. IEoNANs. named for the
Interstate commission, i
now a state s,nator from Woodbury.
county. la III to five years ago he was
a resident Of Idfalo. and was a warm
friend Of President Cleveland in his
early career. lie is considered a very
able man.
THE Spanish cabinet has resolved to
establish public works in the provinces
of Granada, Cadix and Andalusia for
the relief Of the thousands of unem-
ployed workmcn.
Tue Iowa state senate. on the 81,
killed the valued policy bill by tabliug
an amendment, President DUNCAN rul-
ing hat the bill went 10 the table with
the amendment
The propeller William II. Barnum.
which left Chicago on the lst. loaded
with $1,000 bushels 81 corn, was lost in
the straits Of Mackinac on the. ID
The nomination Of Michael Ryan to
b. assistant treasurer of the United
States at Cincinnati was ordered to he
f~avorabiy reported, on the 81. by the
senate committee on finance.
\ FREE-FoR-ALL fight between about
t~hirty-hve tramps ON one side and rail-
road trainmen. under the leadership %
Detective Graday. occurred asthe west
bound mail train pulled out of Leb-
anon. Ind. on the 18th. Two Of the
tramps were seriously hurt
Ex-SBERfFF LEoNARD TREssEr. re-
Gently convicted at Mansfield. O.. Of
embezzlcmeut on the first of several
indictments found against him. was.
on the lth. sentenced To two years i'm
~prisonment in the penitentiary.
Paul j. SoRG. 81 Middleton. was
nominated by the Third (o1 district
democratic convention. on the 9Th. as
its candidate for congress to succeed
the late George ". Houk-
The pope had a fainting fit. on the
81, which lasted half an hour. He
rallied. however. and showed no signs
Of weakness thereafter.
GIN. FRVE's peace army crossed the
Mississippi river n ~. Louis. on the
4th. and proceeded eastward.
THERE isa deficit Of sls5. 900 in the
Kentucky state treasury.
BY the c1ving-in of one Of he shafts
Of the koscheleu mine. near Breslau.
on the 5th, eleven men were killed and
4 large number injured The killed
were nearly all buried beneath the
falling earth aud debris
Ir leaked ont, on the 5th. that the
Exchange national bank Of Eldorldo.
HAS, had been robbed some. DAYS he
fore Of SIS. 200. The robbery was kept
a secret in the hope of catching the
thieves
CARDINAL 1oSErH BENEDICT DIT SNEr.
archbishop Of Cantania. died on the
5th. He was born in ISIS, and was
created a cardinal in 1859.
THE execution Of Prcndcrgast, the
Chicago assassin. has been further
postponed until July =
TAFF's grain wharf at WonIwich.
England, was burned, on the 5th: loss.
$3.50, 600.
Tue United States cruiser Lancaster
arrived at Suez on the 9Th.
The president, on the sth. sent to the
seBate the nomination Of Lycurgus r.
Woodward, of California. TO be com
missioner in and for the district of
Alaska. to reside at O~unalaska-
About zoo of the striking carpenters
at indianapolis, Ind. went to work.
on the 9Th, at the union scale.
King HUNBERT, accompanied by Sig.
Boselli, minister of commerce., in
dlstry and agriculture, left Rome ON
the 5th, for Venice, to meet the Ger
man emperor.
FRANK p. SLAvIN. the pugilist, has
been formally adjudged a bankrupt
by the I~lou,iou courts. His liabilities
are 400, ard his asset roth:ng.