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


Co.'S works at Cleveland. o.. on the
ID assumed a serious aspect While
$50 police were guarding 500 worknc
along the streets they had to use their
clubs on the strikers who followed.
Albert Saunders. an employee of the
works. was knocked of his whee. by
a brick and drew his revolver and shot
striker who died soon after. The
police hurried Saunders into an of1ce,
Int the mob wanted to lyneh him and
the mayor had to- order soldiers 10 tho
scene before Saunders could DO taken
TO the station.
TEE latest cholera news from Cairo,
Egypt, staie.t that 1tis cases were re-
ported for June and 3,59s deaths
A w. BsKEs and others. changed
with flibustcring in connection with
the steamers City of key West aud
Three Friends. were discharged BY the
United States commissioner at Key
West, Fla, on the ground that u. evi-
deuce was not sufficient to hold them.
The corner stone Of the monument
to bs erected to the newo~r OF Issr~--
son DAVIS wns laid at Richmond, Va. /.
on the I'd with impressive ceremonies
Gen. stephen d. Lee. of Mississippi,
was the orator OF the occasion. II was
the last day Of the reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans associ.
alton.
RUFvs Buck. Louis and Lacky Davis.
Naomi July and sam sampson. meru-
bers of the Buck gang. were hanged at
Fort Smith. Ark. on the Ist
AN explosion occurred in the arsenal
near Fort Moselle. Germany, and ss
men were killed and 100 others batly v
in jured-
Mr. HOBART. the nominee for vice
president. visited Gov. Mckinley mt
Canton, o., on the ist and had a pri-
vate conference with MIN. Mr uo-
bart left afterward for Cleveland To
confer with Mark Hanna.
Ar three o'clock on the morning If
the list another CAVERN occurred in tine
ill-fated Twin shaft Mt Wnkesbarre,
Pa. and drove the rescuing party back.
The reseuers were reported as making
very little progress in getting towards
the bodies Of the eutombed miners
The Red Star packet boat Rahma-
nieh, bound from Suahim to suez.
broke her shaft. driftcd upon a reef
and foundered- Sixty persona were
/ drowned, most of them Greeks.
/ A NEW political party has been or
/ ganized in the state of Washington,
called the free coinage republican
party. committee was appointed q
select l. delegates to the bimetallic
Z SON ~an 4 ~.
MRs. HARRIET BsECHER STOWE. the
authoress Of tie celebrated volume
Uncle Toms Cabin" died at Hart.
ford. Conn. on the ist aged ~ years
She was stricken with paralysis.
I CREzESzo MERoLA, who murdered
Emanuel Loro. was hanged for tine
crime at Scranton. Pa, ON the lse
The first annual convention OF the
Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance OF
the United States and Canada met al
/ New York on the s9th.
SIXTEEN prisoners broke out of jail
at Tecnmseh, Ok, aud escaped ON the
18th.
IN n quarrel over the admission OF
eolored children into the white diStricl
school ten miles east of Guthrie. Oh,
j. H. Swain. n negro school-teaeher
was shot and killed by W. n. Arnold,
a white school direetor. Arnold eave
himself up He claimed Salf defense
and showed several knife cuts inflicted
by Swain
THREE fleeing whisky peldlers can
tured n locomotive st Mikesnxev. I
T., and forced watchmaa to rus
them westward into Oklahoma. They
then knocked the watchman on tn.
head and turned the engine loose ane
after mad run of 81 miles it stopped
near Oklahoma City. OiS.
BECAUSE Miss Mary Kanc, 1t Aurclia
Ia, would not accept his attention.
James Mahouey shot her three tines
IL was thought she could not recover
Mahoney was jailed
A QUARREL over n live stock deal NJ
San Antonio, Tex, between Georv,
and Morgan Brown. stock men. anl
sam Johnson, a livery stable kseper
resulted in the killing of the Brow .
brothers by Johnson
HERMA5 COLE. an aerouaut, tied Il
ascend in his balloon at Grand Eapids
Mich. ON the Goth. but the wind dashet
it against building anil he foil out.
landing Gu his head, and died an hou,
after.