Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-05-02

ArAAEA ANN NMtAN MAFta =
her homo in washingtSa city. oa N.
-5th. in her 6fty-sixth rear. She vas
native & Indiana. having bcen horn
and reared at Lafayette. IN that state.
She was a writer Of nueh force and .
pet Of no little merit She wrote al
most exclusively under the nom de
plume 0f Emily Hawthorne
JoHS PEEKPILE. shot sRa killed hi.
wife at sydney. O.. on the esth. Mr.
Perkpile had b~en arrested. ia com
pany -ish several men. and sentenced
10 hfteeu days imprisonment Per<-
pale went to the Jail to paw her sne,
and calling his wife 10 the barS drew
. revolver and shot her dead
WAGON load of nitrogIyeerin.. COZ
tanning 20 quarts. expIosi-d J mile
from BlufftOn- O.. on the 18th, with .
shock that was felt for forty miles
VIII Elmer. the driver. was blown to
atoms. and Of the team only q part of
one horses neck could De found
DUEISs the week ended the esth
failures in the unised states. as re-
ported by r g. Dun 4 Co. were 10.
against ITs for the corresponding week
last year For Canada the failures
Numbered 9. against - last year.
AS explosion Of hre damp took place
in a eolliery al Denny. Clustering.
Scotland. on the .sth. while IL men
were working in the pit Thirteen Of
the number we're killed and several
were injured
Az attempt was made 10 wreck q
Santa Re east-boand passenger train
near Pasadena Cal. on the niSht Of
the 18th 4 b-0wlder and plank placed
across the track we're discovered By a
young lady named Wilson who dashed
into her houSe- seizees lamp from the
table and SHec~eded in tagging the
train just in time to avert a eatas-
trophe
Ex-CoxsUL IoES l. WALLER has been
placed in the French civil prison of ~
Pierre. the military authorities refuS-
ing to keep him any longer in Fort -
Nicholas. where he had been detained
since his arrival Mr. Waller i row
awaiting ais transfer 20 some fortified
place. probably 80 the ISLAND Of Mar
yu<rite. where the late Marshall Ba-
zane was inferued-
A Bf@PArCE from EerIin avs the
National Zeituu- declares that ia
pan must not De allowed TO drive ter
man trade out 0f China. nor TO acquire
a permanent military fo.ssiag in China.
sGeh a. would enable her 20 shus the
door in Gerxzny's Ease. perhaps IN
agreement with the United states.
TEE in~arx~nts IN the Nanzznsllo
district Of Cuha have adopted tactics
followed in previous risinSs zaa arg
levyiRg "a the owaer>hSr of pZantz-
tisus Of money 2ad armS Threzts are
Easss ~ th. iasar<<asS that = their
demands are nct csSnpsied wifh the
terrh VII ~ spPJs<d 20 the s-sd> es
standing cane z1d the plantation
buil1ing-S
woazD'. FsgE eiplozzS awarded %
exhibitors whose exAiei.s were tzxawz-
by mentioned oy the Judges are being
rr~pzr~sf IN ~x-~rr<>ru= " zs the eu-rzu
Of engraving ant printinx. znd wiII b.
sent cut IN about SIXTY days. together
with the medals Eogx hsinx struxx at
the Philadelphia mizE The diplomas
y NA-A " c-A1&T1AGANs EAaE&sG4 A4A4
prin;et On japan paD~r-
ia SrNBEk % AE-rscza cattle dealers
are negotiating for the pzrehas. Of the
large herSts which are held n the
Huzstecs dissrirt. n the STATE % Vera
Cruz Mexico. znd whaeh rzsxe over
portions of the s.ateS Of Paebla aass
Hidalg0
On the sSrh E-- DR. " = Dsayrr. a
weIl-kEoxz preacher Of the Neshoais;
Episcopal church. died a. BzItizcre.
Md He ~x- T5 years old. and Was bora
in Azrzu- SWitzerl2nd He was ws1eI '
known as a writer Of rvlixhous sub
jects4
FOCK towns IN Hunzzry.-Nozrir
kut0z. VilIOTz and R1dolfsxrzde-xere
almost destroyed By the recent foods.
The damage amounts 20 5.oasa, ,0oo
on the 3sth Sloan Hzrss. color-d
who shot aud killed Lzmiy Rap1ey on
D-eember }, 1884, was hanged AZ Abhe =
Vile : T. lie died exelaiminx that ne
would be in Heaven BY dinner time
ANOTHER battalion of infantry en-
bsrks al Cadiz on May IN order 10 re-
enforce the Spanish troops oa the
island Of Cuba