Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-05-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of ImPOrtsn. Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

JOSEPH w. RTpgEwAY. one of the
,ioneer residents of Wabash. Ind, died
1t his home in that city, on the 30th,
iged %. He was born In Green coun-
| iy, Pa. and moved to Madison county,
Ind, in ls4c, and to Wabash county in
1855. He was married sixty-five years
ago. aud his wife died two months ago.
The United States treasury receipts
Turing the month OF April did not meet
the expectations OF the officials. and
he indications now are that the deficit
1t the end of the fiscal year will be lit
lie. II any. less than sss. .ooo. eoe.
The steamer A. Everett. Chicago to
Buffalo with ~, 600 bushels OF corn.
vas sunk BY the ice in Lake Huron,
twenty miles above Point Auxbarques.
On the night Of the eeth. The crew
succseded in escaping from the wreck
and were piehed mp by . passing
steamer.
CHARLES Z. SwApSER and Charles D.
tddings. for years prominent attorneys
sf Dayton o.. were disbzrred by the
circuit court, on the sosh. for embez-
ling sums Of money from clients.
The supreme court of Michigan. ON
the 3eth. ordered . new trial in the
case of James g. Clark, who was con-
victed in the recorders court at Detroit
Of willfully and fraudulently forg-
ing and altering the tabulated election
returns of Wayne county on the state
salaries amendment in Is92. Clark was
never sentenced.
The home of Stanford Kimely. in the
country near Atchison, Kas-, was
burned. on the 30th. during the tempo
rsry absence of Mr. and Mrs Kimley.
aud their two children, aged J years
and Is months, were cremated- The
origin of the FIRE is unknown
The body of DIR. C. S. Dixon. q prom
inent citizen of fAshland. Wis, who was
lost in the woods last winter. was found
by searching party on the 10th
CRUCIAL test of Carnegie Harvey
ized plate armor took place at the In
iian Head proving grounds, on the Ist.
IN which. after all the required tests
had been successfully resisted by
plate is feet 81 inches long. feet
5 Il-i6 inches wide. of tzpering thick
ness from Is to g inches, and weighing
y, 800 pounds. a i3inch Carpenter
shell. weighing i,I0o pounds. dis
charged with q velocity Of i.slo feet
per second with striking energy of
Is. coo foot tons, was almost pulverized
apor the plate. which was penetrated
only 20 the depth Of 10 inches.
TIE Baltimore railroad tunnel, one
Of the most remarkable engineering
ssats Of modern times. built under the
city of Baltimore. Nd. from Camden
station To Bayview junction. on the
Philadeiphi& division Of the baltimore
& Ohio railroad. . distance of ~
miles. was formally opened for bust
aess on the lst
A NoKrH-BoUxD passenger train on
the Chicago & Alton railroad was
boarded by three robbers ut n point
one mile north OF Carlinville. Ill. on
the night of the ist, and in the fight
which ensued with the train men.
Engineer Holman. one of the oldest
engineers on the road, was killed The
robbers were pursued and captured
ON the steamer vigilaneia, which ar
rived At New York. on the Ist, from
Havana, was Ramon C. Williams, con-
sul-general of the United States at
Havana Mr.. Williams declined to
ssy anything about Cuban affairs
The town of Patterson. kasS. was
visited by dezth-deaiing cyclone. on
the iss, which destroyed property to
the value Of of saes, 600 and caused the
heath of many persons and injury to a
great many others.
GUATEMALA has united with Hondu-
ras in dispatch to Secretary Gresham
asking him to use his good Offices to
bring about q peaeeabse solution of
the Nicaragua dispute with Great
Britain
LAkIxgR, a small town in Union
sounsy, Ia, was nearly wiped out by
IRE on the lst Seventeen business
aouses were burned The loss and in
sur2nee are unknown The IRE is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
The bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer
Chick, Of Mount Clemens, Mich, were
sotiied. on the Ist. that there Is de
fAlcation of funds amounting to about
$40, 600. and they are requested to make
the shortage good.
TEE department of state received a
cable message from Ambassador Bay
ard, on the ID. stating that Great
Britain had accepted the guarantee
made by Salvador of the payment of
the Indemnity by Nicaragua in Lon
don within y fortnight and that so
soon as Nicaragua should confirm the
guarantee and so inform the British
admiral the latter had been instructed
10 quit Corinto.
on the 9th Warden Sage of the Sing
Sing IN " state prison sent out invi-
tations to the witnesses selected to at
tend the eIectrocution of Dr. Buchan-
an, the wife-murderer. the date of
whose execn tion had been twice post
poned through efforts of his attorneys
in his behalf
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Goeso pow
der mills, near Xenia, o.. were in Gin
einuati, on the lst. arranging to ship
forty carloads of powder to Cuba
They would not say whether the or
der was from the government or the
insurgents
LIErr. NALKSrrS GALLEsE, who sur
rendered ffty Spanish soldiers to the
Cuban rebels. and who was afterward
arrested and turned over to the Span
ish military authorities. was after
trial by court-martial, shot, on thl
lst. in the fortress Of Cabana at Ha-
vAnz-
SECRETARY CARLISLE. it is stated.
will enter the Kentucky campaign
about the 18th of this month, and de-
liver two or more speeches. at points
yet to be selected. in favor OF sound
currency
JOHN Herr, who is said TO have fall
en- heir to 81, SOC, 900 by the death of
Charles Essthon. a wealthy califor-
Hizu. in 1898. died at M2teawan, n.
u. on the I'd Hun nursed Easthoff
twenty years ago through an attack Of
typhoid fever. when no one else would
60 near him, and the entire estate has
been his his reward
Cart. JoHs BRowS. Jr. died at his
home on the island of Putin Bay,
Lake Erie. on the night Of the I'd
Capt Brown was "a years old and was
the son of John Brown, the hero of the
historic scene at Harper's Ferry before