Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-08-02

Or the I'D the Canadian revenue cut
ter Petrol seized the American steamer
Louise ON the east side Of Point PeIe~
The Louise was engaged in the fishing
trade and is charged with tr~sp~ssing
in Canadian waters
ON the ssth the British charge a af-
t.ires at Toxic wired the British eoa-
sui at Shanghai that japan had agreed
To treat Shanghai as outside the sphere
Of operations in any warfare that
Japan may engage in with Corea-
TES houses were destroyed BY fire on
Van Horn street, between Oakley nd
Lesvitt streets. Chicago. on the I'D
Four children were killed and a num-
brr of persons injured
THREE bogus checks. aggregating
$1,000. drawn on the Columbia ma
tional hank of Washington. have been
passed in New Yorkeity. The Lineoln
national bank was victimized 20 the
extent of 81. 500. and the Fourteeth
Street national bank for $50, so The
cheeks were signed David Coleman
and were indorsed e o. Rice. paying
teller" Mr. Rice Is the teller of the
Washington bank
The republican convention of the
first congressional district of Maine
met in Biddeford. on the saith. and re-
nominated Hon Thomas b Reed for
congress-
OS the s5th, Judge Baker, of Chi
eago. held Mrs Warren Springer to
the grand jury on the charge of at
tempting to brihe Jurors Mzrrnan and
Slider in the land-eondemnation suit
of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated
Railroad Co. w. Warren Springer She
WAS released on s.. 600 bonds
The eoo-foot bridge OF the Northern
Pacific railroad across the Aminieon
river in Wisconsin, was entirely de-
stroyed by forest 6res ON the s4th- II
will take crew working night and
day at least q week To replace IL
THE seconds respectively Of Deputy
Denoux and Jean DrAult. Of the social
ist journal La Libre Parole. Of Paris,
agreed on the ssth. that there was mn
ground for y duel b~tvveen the two
gentlemen
REroRTs from central and western
Kansas are very diseouraging. The
corn crop will be failure in morr
than half Of the state. In the western
third of the state the crop is totally
ruined, while in the central third .
fair crop will be raised only in sections
uhere local rains hsv. faflenL The
corn in many fseld< has earned up
DxrxcTrvKs from Dxnver arrested
John Mullins. Herman Rubb&<e and C.
c. Nickname at Coier.Ssj sprinxx. Col.
ON the e5th, for comp,icity in tarrinx
and feAtherisx Ada Gen T.rsney
They were held in bonds of ss,ea II
n said that enough evidence has been
secured toeonvict the suspected parties.
A SHANK mine feet long, captured in
the sound on Oyster Bay, Long Island
was towed ashore on the 18Th When
the shark was cut open its stomach was
found 20 contain . child,s finger, which
had been badly laeer.ted-
On the etth the French chamber of
deputies passed the second. third and
fourth articles Of the anti-anArchfst
bill
SrK JoHS hzsorT. = wealthy ner-
chant of Cork. has offered . cup valued
at ioo guineas TO be competed for in an
ocean race between the vixilant, the
Britanni. and. IL possible the Satanita,
fhe date 20 be determined upon by the
owners Of the three yachts mentioned
In the United States court In chica-
90. on the e5th. Judge Woods over
ruled the motion 70 quash the in-
formation against Deh ct al. and
postponed the further hearing Of the
case until September 5. The defend
ants viii now give bonds
Orro e. kIHscHBAUA, merchant, real
estate dealer and manager Of million
dollars worth of ST Louis property
owned BY the Burnes estate. Of St Jo-
sepA- No. has mysteriously disappeared
from St Louis, and no elew TO his
where4bouts can be learned
THk house, on the esth, passed Dele
gate Fynns bilI empowering fourth
ciazs postuzsters to aduinister oathz
in peazzen eases. The objec< is 20 avoid
sac inconseniences exp<rieneed "
these who live IN sP4rsely-ssttisd