Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-06-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Traportant Even.x.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

iication of Sir Edward Clarke for the
release of Oscar Wilde on the ground
that the indictment under which he
was tried and convicted was defective
JACOB kEIYER and wife, aged 20
were horribly and probably fatally
burned at Wooster. o.. on the 18th,
through earelessness in lighting q
Gasoline stove The woman was
burned about the body and head. and
her husband. ir endeavoring to carry
the stove ont of the house. threw the
burning fluid all over himself
A WAsHfNGroS dispatch OF the 18th
says there is reason to believe that the
United States government will have
occasion. at distant day. to give an.
other Interpretation of the Monroe
doctrine as applicable to the aequisi.
tion of an island of the coast of Vene
zuela. to Be used by Germany for q
naval station
COMPTROLLER EcKEr.s. on the 18th.
appointed r K Beard receiver OF the
First national bank of Pella. Ia
which failed about two weeks before.
Two HUNDRED weavers empl loved a,
the Hamilton mills in Amesbury.
Mass. went on strike. on the 18th, for
a 10 per cent increase OF wages.
TERRIFIC storm struck kenwood.
Ia, on the 18th. The house OF John
Rose was demolished. and Mrs. Rose
died from injuries received. Mr.. Rose
had shoulder dislocated. Their baby
was carried some distance from the
house. but was found wrapped in a
quilt unharmed-
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND arrived al
Buzxart's Bay. Mass, on board the
yacht Oneida at SIS o'clock on the
morning of the 18th.
FcUR men attempted to rob the TX.
change national bank Of Colorado
Springs. Col. ON the 10Th One o.
their number had. however, weakened
and given the authorities a tin. and
when the robbers entered the bank
they found themselves looking iutO
the rcvolvers of the sheriff and bis
deputies who were waiting for them.
All were arrested.
CoUST ERfCH kIfNASSsEss. governor
of Lower Austria, will undertake. %
preside over q temporary cabinet OF
neutral construction Count Kilmann-
segg i n Protestant. and necessarily '
meets with opposition which he nor
his colleagues could long withstand i.
his administration were undertaken
with an idea Of its virtual perma-
neney.
The Western Schuetxenband began
their annual shooting fest at Milwau-
l<ee ON tine 10th. There were sharp
shooters present from Cincinnati. Chi
cago. Omaha, st Paul. Minneapolis
aad other cities numbering about $50
sExrr men were killed and three sc
riously injured by an explosion Of pow
der in the baliste factory at Avigliana.
Italy, on the 10Th. The explosion wa
caused by the earelessnes - Of some OF
the victims.
JoHS CURTIN. the Irish d yuamiter who
is confined in Portland prison. will sail
for the United States shortly after his
release, which will take place almos;
immediately.
| The Tippccanoe Memorial zSSocia-
tion, on the 10th. observed. at I.afay.
elite, Ind. the eighty-fourth a-niver-
sary of the battle of Tippecanoe. when
Cen William Henry Harrison defeated
the Indian warriors under the Prophet.
half-brother to the celebrated chief.
Tecumseh.
! NEARLY all the heads of the bureaus
of the war department. with Gen.
Ruger, ON the 10th, viewed aud ap.
proved the new regimenfal flag de-
signed by Assistant Secretary Of War
Doe. A sample hsg was in ten Does
office, and all agreed that it was much
more tasty and better adapted 10 the
service than the flag now in use.
The north-bonnd MiSsoari, Kansas A
Texas st Louis flyer. which left IIoas-
ton, Tex, on the night Of the 18th,
was badly wrecked at Eureka. Tex
The conductor walked back TO Homs-
ton aud reported that fve coaches
loaded with passengers were in the
ditch He feared many WEIR badly in
/ inred. His porter was missing
A STATEMENT prepared At the treas-
ary department shows the aggregate
receipts srom internal revenue sources
during the el@ven months of the pres
ent fiscal ye4r. ended May ~. Isas. "a
have been stsi $50. $50 a gain of about
$50. soo over the nsesl period last year.
y. 7. ArxTss. ex-presiaeus Of the Col
orado savings hank. Of Denver. aud
Charles q Atkins. ex-cAShier Of the
same institatian. were arrested, on the
soth. under indictments charging them
with receiving deposits in bank
knowing 4 10 be tnsolvent-
oS the 18th Jsdge barrett. in the
New York eoart Of oyer and terminer.
sentenced ex-Foliee inspector William
". Mclaughlin. convicted ofextortion.
% two years and sin months in states
,sri@on.
coSsoboEE BuScK h.s been appoint.
I'd 10 the command Of the North At.
l.ntie squsdroa. 20 sacreed Admiral
Meade.
In consequences Of the disorderly
seene which occurred Ia the Italian
CHAMBER II deputies. On the 18th. a
motion vas prepared and signed by a
large namber Of the deputies of the
majority. asking that the precedare OF
the ehsmb<r be modified - a. TO per
mis the sasp~n>ion of deputies guilty
of siolsnt acts Ia the chamber The
Isutica was referred. oa the e0th. 10 the
permanent eomHaittee oa procedure.
HARHr HkTwsRD. who was To have
been h4nged at Minneapolis. MINI. on
the sist. for the maricr Of Catherine
Cling. has been granted = stay Of exc.
cation b. the supreme court for thirty
days. upon eoadition that the case be
argued daring this term. which ends
Juiy &
A voKK On the sehool debate was
reached IN the Manitoba legislature
On the evening of the Isth. All the
amendmentk we're voted down. and
Manit0has Answer. refusing TO re-es-
tablish separate schools. was adopted.
AT l-so O'clock OF the morning OF
The >oth Gre destroyed about $500. o00
worth of property belonging to the
seattle wash Consolidated Street
Railway Co fhe eonpany's power
house was totally destroyed, together
with twenty-five cara
TAE death watch was sre-established.
on the 2oth. over DR.. Robert W. Bu-
ehanAn. the candemned wife-poisoner.
whose seoond re-sentenoe 10 be exc