Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-07-09

VIENNA tt>pItsn OF the III stated
that an agreement had been concluded
between Servia and Montenegro pro-
viding for common action against
Turksy and Austria in regard to all
national and religious questions
Gan. A K LAwroS. of savannah,
Ca. died at the Clifton Springs, y. Y,
sanitarium on the 3D. He was in the
confederate army.
CHICAGO is making efforts 10 raise
money 10 erect n life-size bronze figure
OF the late DR.. George h. Root, the
well known composer of patriotic war
songs.
j. E HARDY, q high wire performer
from Toronto, Can, made two daring
trips across the gorge at Niagara Falls.
" v, on a three-quarter inch wire
rope. The wire was about i60 feet
above the water.
JAKE WILLIAMS, a negro, 20 wears of
age, was lynched in Madison county.
Fla. by a mob of - men. who took
way to Jail for an attempted assault
on n young white woman.
A BRUTAL murder and suicide occur
red at Winnipeg. Man, recently. Will
lam Warren, while intoxicated. cut his
wife's throat and gashed her face and
head terribly with n razor. He then
drew the weapon across his own throat,
dying almost Immediately.
THE steamer Kawanura Maru col
iided with and sunk the Hozui Maru
OF Hiroshima, Japan. during q storm,
anil t7s lives were lost
FoUR boys were drowned and II per-
sons were hurt by the collapse OF q
wharf at Boston on the 3Oth- The
citizens were celebrating .'Farragut
lay and the wharf was oyercrowded-
THE operatives in the pemberton
mills at Lawrence. Mass. uum bering
300. have been informed that the plant
wili be shut down at once
The fiour mill aud elevator of Beck
Bros. at Cecil, O. was destroyed by
tird on the 30th. The night watchman
was missing and was supposed to have
perished in the flames
ORE6oS's eight delegates TO the dem
ocratic national convention at Chicago
will present ex-Gov. Pennoyer's name
for president Failing in that they
will present him for the vice presi-
dential nomination.
Two performing bears got loose and
trotted off to the mountains near Ha-
zleton. Pa. and the huckleberry pick
ers of the section were said to be afraid
70 work
The Bradley wire works at Pitts
hurgh, Pa. has been closed down by
the nail trust to keep up prices and
nearly 1000 men were thrown out OF
work
A FISHING crew at Long Branch, N.
j., brought up two eorpses in their net
recently
MORE than /. 4OO. 900 spindles in the
cotton mills at Fall River. Mass, are
to suspend operations during July and
August
MRS JoHS McCuLLoUsH was found
brutality murdered near Rtverdale, Ga
and her husband was arrested for the
deed Fears were entertained that he
might be lynehed
Ar the L A w. races at Peoria, III
on the s7th IL c. Wood. of Chicago. re
dueed the worlds bicycle half mile
record from 50 seconds TO Sd 4-5
A. c vauhess and g. C. Bicl<er, of Chi
eago. reduced the worlds half mile
tandem record from 50 seconds &c
81 IS
| EARSIE FRENCH aud viii Hoeppuer,
of St Paul, Mimi, had q fight with
four-ounce gloves before a select audi
ence for the hand OF q girl with whom
they were both in lore At the end of
the seventh round they were 50 ex-
hausted that the spectators interfered
and the referee decided the fight 4
/ draw.
1 AT Beirstadt station. near Colorado
Springs, Col. a passenger train on the
Gulf road ran into an engine standing
ak the water tank Both engines wer,
wrecked and Engineer shannon killed
Engineer ORourtEe and Fireman Con
a'irs were seriously iajuFed. No Ias
agzeEs were harmed.