Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-08-20

An Eastern Minnesota freight train
van into . Great Northern engine a.
Ground Hous=. Mimi. demolishing
both engine and killing VI. Moore. n
Great Northern fireman
Ii Hrxe CHANG. China's aged vice
roy viii, IL was said, avoid san Fran
cisco when he visits this country. a
circular having been posted on the
walls Of Chinatown branding him as a
traitor in his connection with the late
war with Japan IL was said By those
well rosfe that Lii Hung Chang would
certainly be killed IL he went to san
Francisco and that he was well posted
ON the fact
HALE JOHNSON. the straight-out pro-
hibitionist candidate for the vic. pres
sdency OF the United States. was Off
sally Informed at the Auditorium at
chicago oa the 18th of having been
nominated by the national convention
Of that party ut Pittsburgh. Pa, fo-
the Office
THE story in detail by the explorer
himself of DIR. Fridjof Nansen's arctic
expedition and the adventures of his
party. together with the scientific re-
suits obtained, were given to the world
by the London Chronicle on the 18th
The statement was very lengthy.
A REcESr special To the New York
Sun stated that exPresident Harrison
was = candidate for the United States
senate and would make the fight for
the place this fall.
Two hundred of Maj MeKinley's old
tcnrndes in war called on him on the
l3th nt Canton. o. They came from
Cleveland principally, but many were
from dfRerent points They were the
survivors of the Twenty-Third Ohio
solunteer infantry.
An appeal will he sent from New
York. signei by over 100 physicians of
the counsry. to the general couneil of
calling Attention to the non-observanee
by Spain in the Cuban war Of the stip-
ulstions sgreed to at the congress held
by the socicty and protesting against
the destruction by Spanish troops of
the hospitals of Cuban insurgents
MAxr prostrations from the heat
were reported at Chicago on the 10th
Dead animzls, victims of the heat,
were - numerous that the garbage
mem co1ld not keep the streets clear
Of then
TnK toog continued dry weather has
psodueod > water famine around Paris.
Tex. snd in the vicinity of Ben Frank
Lin A epidemic OF typhoid fever has
broken oat on account of people being
1ugced TO drink stag gnant water.
A BEspArcH of the 10th said that the
number Of deaths from the heat in
Greater New York was lss and addi-
tionsl victims were being reported
hourly. The prostrations were almost
innumepable.
THE steam schooner Point Arena
went On the rocks near Point Reyes,
Cal The crew was saved, but the ves-
sci wss wrecked.
LExxrR DAVIS, of Red Cloud, Ind,
shot her husband because he accused
her Of going to Sabbath school to meet
the SUPERINTENDENT She was arrested
TnK Popolo Romano. of Rome. re-
call1ng the lynching of Italians at New
UrlGana Il 1891 and referring to the re-
s,es4 lynehing in that city of three
ltnInu4 urges the Italian government
20 cnII - Intention of the European
powe8n - Ne strange position of for
eiRn1TG - america and to promote the
c0lIeekfoo netion of the powers
A T1x1onr train broke in two near
Lansing, Mich, on the lIth. The
break was not noticed by the engineer
and the resr end crashed into the for
ward part. demolishing and piIing the
csrs II every conceivable shape. A
rnup was Instantly killed and an
b<her fatally Injured.
TnE rcpublican national committee
was sid TO be running three large
printing establishments in Philadel-
phia. two II New York, two in Bslti-
more aud tuo in Washington turning
out cnupnfGn documents The Offices
ht px<111eIphia and Baltimore were
wor1<I1G 16nble time and with two re-
Two pn1neneer trains eollided on the
ulincIe Ceu<ral road at Birkbeck. near
Clfnfau, III, on the lst ard two per-
nons were ki1led and ten injured
Tn E><ional Butchers Retail Pro-
f,e1Ive 1snociation was holding its lIih
nnno&I SESSION - Denver, :ol., on the