Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MARQUIS pI RUpTSI. Italian prime
minister. has spprised the vatican that
the exequaturs hitherto accorded To
italian bishops will be withheld unless
the pope permits Catholics TO take part
in public elections
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce decided to post
pone indefinitely the consideration of
the bill proposing reduction of Pull
man palace car rates.
The senate committee on axricul-
ture, on the 18th, authorized Senator
Warren to make a favorable report up-
on the animal industry bill
THERE is n probability that Gen. o.
o. Howard may be named rs q member
OF the board of managers of soldiers
homes, to succeed Gen Franklin.
EXPERIMENTS at London do not YER
lfy the claims of Chicago doctors that
the * rays are destructive of the
baccili of contagious disease.
The Potts Bros. Iron Co. posted no
tices in its mills at Pottstown, Pa, on
the 18th. that the wages of its pud-
dlers will be increased, May /, from
". rs to s.. IS per son- About one hun
dred and fifty men will be benefited
by the change.
w. b PETERS and John Voney, both
engravers, were arrested by federal
officers in Chicago, on the 18th. on n
charge of making and selling counter
felt postage stamps.
An explosion took place in a collie ~
at Wilmington, near Durham, England.
on the l4th- Eight miners are known
to have been killed, and il is believed
that is IN ~ ~iii lose their lives.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Association of Democratic clubs
eonvened at Washington. on the i4th,
and called n national convention of the
elahs. to meet At ST Louis on Septem-
Der 30
THE organization of q Dunkard eolouy
has been completed af Anderson, Ind.
taking in IS families. They have closed
. lease ON 1900 acres Of land in North
Dakota. and will move June 1 to their
new home.
WARRAyrs were issued, on the 18th,
from the United States district at
torney's Office in Philadelphia for the
arrest Of John ID. Hart. owner Of the
steamer Bermuda. and the ships Of
tieers. on the charges of filibustering.
JOSEPH ZLAMEL was electrocuted in
the state prison at Clinton. " ". on
the 18th. He murdered his sweet
heart. Theresa kamorz. by cutting her
throat at Johnstowu on August 20.
1895.
BURGLARS blew up safe and
wrecked bank building at Diagonal.
Ia. at 1 n ~ of the 18th. Citizens
were awakened and opened fire. aud
the burglars left their tools and ned
without booty. A bottle of unex-
ploded nitro-giycerin was still inside
the safe. and the bankers feared TO
open it,
TAT Central City, Col. during a case
in court. on the 18th. Smauel Coxing-
ton visitor charged with endeavor-
ing to intimidate u witness. denied the
assertion hotly, and being threatened
with arrest, pulled q gun and killed
ex-Mayor Williams and mortally
wounded City Marshal Kehler. Cow
ington while endeavoring TO escape.
was shot dead BY Henry Leaman-
BURGLARS looted the private bank IN
Pioneer, o., ON the night Of the 18th.
They succeeded in opening the vault
without the use of explosives, and
then, after probably taking all that il
contained changed the combination 50
that the vault could not be opened
Two EXPLOSIONS Of powder in one of
the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks
Co. near Crosse Point. Ill. on the
18th, killed three employees and in jured
q number of others The building
was badly wrecked and the ruins were
almost entirely destroyed by fre-
In is said TO be impossible to estimate
the numbers of the belligerent Nata-
beles in South Africa The whole
country Is now in the hands Of the
rebellioas natives, and they are mAss-
ing In great force