Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-05-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The duke and duchess Of counaught
arrived a. Moscow from ST. Peters
burg on the 18th The duke will rep
resent his mother, Queen Victoria. at
the coronation ceremonies
ARcHDCKE CHARLES LouIs, Of Aus
sria. brother of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph. died in Vienna on the 18th
The announcements of his death ere
ssed feeling of SORROW throughout
Hungary, where the archduke was
very popular
As FAST freight No. 81 on the Lake
Shore railroad was pulling out OF Air
Line Junction O., on the 18th, the air
hose broke. setting the front brakes.
An empty stock car In the middle of
the train vas crushed like paper box.
and of the seven tramps who were rid
ing In IL. one. Edward Haven. Of
Washington, Ga. was killed and 9ve
were more or less severely injured
THE steam schooner Albion from
Cooks Inlet arrived as Port Townsend.
WASH. on the 18th. bringing no It'd
ings Of the brig Blakeley. which lefs
Port Townsend for SIX Nile weeks
ago. carrying passengerx stock aud
freight and alleged 20 bc greatly over
loaded.
LIEUT.. PxAzI Is going north again.
and = steamer Is being atted cut at St
Johns. " r. for that purpose. The
object sof the expedition Is 20 secure
for the Philadeiphia Academy Of Sci
enee the s0-son meeeorfte near Cape
York which Lieut. Pearv discovered
last wear.
TIE executive council ~ Pretoria,
Transvael. on the 18th. decided that
the purishmento OF Col. Francis Rhodes.
Lionel Phillips. George Farrar aud
John Hays Hammond the leaders Of
the reformers who were sentenced 70
DEATH shall be Is years imprisonment.
TwESrr-xrsHr killed outright, 50 or
more injured, some Of them fatally,
and q property loss aggregating abou;
81 900, 900. Is given rs the estimated
damage done BY the cyclone in Mar
shall. Nemaha and Brown counties.
Kaa
On the s0sh the president recognized
P. L Hudson as consul Of the Argen-
tine Republic At Chicago. and A. J.
Ballot rs consul Of Salvador at Seat
tle. Wash
FIRE the result Of spontaneous com
bustion. broke out in one Of the coal
bunkers Of the hastle-ship Indiana, in
the Brooklyn navy yard. on the 18th,
right next TO one of the magazines. III
WAS extinguished before any seriou,
damage was done.
OS the 2Osh, Coroner Dobbs Of New
York county. " Y, gave. and ex-Con-
gresham Ralph Hill. of indianapolis,
Ind, took possession of the body of
his daughter-in-law, Mrs z Z Hill.
who committed suicide. on the sth
inst, at the Colonnade hotel in New
York city. Mr. Hill said he would
have the body cr emated at once
IN a FIRE at boarding house in
Providence. T. l., On the Goth. Vim
cenzo Rizzi was suffocated Several
other men were taken out Of the
building in an unconscious condition,
one Of whom VIII probably die.
The Southern Presbyterian general
assembly net at Memphis. Tenn. on
the 3lst-
EIeHr miners. who were At work
200 feet below the surface on the third
level OF No. shaft of the Ashland
mine Al Ironwood. Mich. on the 2ist,
were entombed by the sudden falling
Of body Of ore They were all res
cued alive and but little the worse for
their terrible experience by q party
who dug through to the shaft from
the Norrfe mine
TEE Canadian Association Of ANA
teur Oarsmen viii hold IT'S yearly re
gattz st Brcesvlile, Ont. On Augasl
sas :.