Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-05-09

NhtcH npeneu IN t3T% Town. on the
%. proposition was submitted TO alb
sorb Bechuanaland.
TnE preliminary examination of Dur
rant on the charge of numbering Miss
Lamont was commenced at San Fran
cisco on the I'd
The secretary Of war has ordered two
companies of the Fifth infantry. now
stationed at Fort McPherson, Atlanta.
and the two troops of the Third caval-
~. with the regimental band, now at
Benton Barracks, Mo-. to attend the
encampment of the national guard to
be held at Memphis. Tenn, beginning
May II and ending May si.
THERE is an alleged shortage OF
about ss5, 900 in the office OF the county
treasurer in Doniphan county, Kas.
When the present treasurer. J. Dew.
eranx. took charge last October, he
discovered something was wrong. and
an Investigation has revealed the al
legged shortage
WILLIAM Ill MEs0uTER. assistant
cashier of the First national bank Of
Omaha, Neb., committed suicide, on
the I'd, by shooting himself through
the head at the residence OF George
Barker. president of the National Bank
of Commerce. No cause for the &C, i
known
A rEIEGRAx received at the secret
service bureau in Washington from
Hamilton. Ont. on the I'd, stated that
Mrs NJ 7. Mack, charged with being
member of the Chicago postage-stamp
counterfei;iug gang. had been commit
ted for extradition-
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pcarance of Capitalist James q. Me
Nab from Duluth. MINI. on April n.
was cleared. on the I'd. by finding his
body in Lake Gnesen- tt is supposed
to have been an accident
THERE is said to be good reason for
believing that the eivil-service COM
mission will be completely reorgzn-
lied The voluntary resignation of
Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt il
soon TO be followed by the involuntary
retirement of Commissioner Lyman
THE Chinese officials of the maritime
province of Fo-kien, in which the
island of aForinosa is situated. have
sent A memorial to the throne protest
ing against the cession Of the island to
Japan They offer to contribute the
purchase money instead of Liu-Kum-
vi
ACCORDING to a statement published
by the Marine Hospital bureau there
were 1890 deaths from smallpox in the
United States in 1894, SIT of which oc-
Cured in Illinois.
A CYCLONE of frightful fatality
visited Sioux county, la, on the Sd, dis
mantling nearly a dozen towns, and
destroying crops. buildings aud other
farm property in its track. and caus-
ing loss of human lives to the esti-
mated number of coo The work of
rescue. promptly entered upon by the
survivors, was greatly hzmpered by
pitehy darkness. deluging rain and
wreckage strewn everywhere.
The pope has expressed his entire
approval of the conduct of Archbishop
Agliardi- papal nuncio to Austria,
whose attitude upon the Hungarian
ecclesiastical bill was denounced in
the lower house of the Hungarian diet
on May day.
BE straHltf ~ n 6tr D&uN>. from
Chicago to ogdensburg with 5000
bushels of corn. ran ashore on Nor
gan's point, about . miles west Of Port
Colborne. Ont. on the 3D. She then
caught fire aud was entirely consumed
OK the ID the transport steamer An
tonic Lopez arrived at Santiago de
Cuba from Spain with sa& regular
troops
WARREN I. THOMPSON was arrested
in Chicago, on the ID. in connection
with the eounterfeiting postage stamp
case He was held in S, 900 bail
SERAPHrSE CESErrE and DeIphine
Chaput, two girls who jumped from
fourth-story window during the
fire in the Mcdonald Tobacco Co.'S fac
tory in Montreal. Can, recently, and
received external and internal inju-
ries, died. on the ID. at Sotre Dams
hospital.
Br an explosion at the American
Powder Cos works near Concord.
Mass, on the Id. FIVE lives were los,
and three buildings demolished The
company's big magazine narrowly e.
eaped.