Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ar New Straitsville, o.. on the lsth,
eight ears of coal standing on the sid
ing at mine No. ywere let loose By un-
known persons and ran half . mile
down grade through n switch. making
n cousplete wreck. The Columbus 4
Hooking Coal and Iron Co, who owns
the mine. have offered n reward of S.
600 for the arrest of the guilty parties.
WILLIAM DCFFY. a linotype operator
employed in the composing -room of the
Philadelphia Enquirer, set in six days
the enormous amount of 40, 800 ems of
nonpariel type. His average an hour
was .. ise ems. lie worked of the hook.
ordinary run of daily copy.
The big steel bridge uniting Sgpe-
rior. Wis. and Duluth. Mimi. was
opened for traffic, 90 the 18th, with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
toR more than mouth farmers of
Oklahoma have been harvesting nearly
day and night. sunday included wheas
is about all in stack aud hundreds Of
threshsrs are rI.nning. The wheat
yield for the territory viii be far
greater than hrst expected
CAPT. CEI. Of the Italian Bersaglieri.
has invented q riie from which - shots
a minute may be fired without remov-
ing the weapon from the shoulder.
Tests Of the rev arm are being made
By the Italian government
JosEPH MoRnsoS. farm laborer. has
been arrested At Bridxeton. y. j.. on
the charge of attempting To kill Mrs.
Abbie Meyers. aged 20, for whom he
worked. Morrison says that he was
hired 10 kill Mrs. Meyers By her rela-
tives.
BY reason of the breaking of the con-
Meeting rod attached To the governor.
the teton iy-wheel Of pair of Co-liss
compound engines Of the Tacoma
wash Railway Co, went to pieces, on
the Isth, completely wrecI<ing the
plant and building and causing dam
age To the extent of $4,000.
A rEKRIBLE railway disaster occurred
at q Gjentofte, Denmark, about midnight
of the i3th. The express from Belsin-
goer ran into \ passenger train stald-
ing at the station. wrecked eight car-
riages, killed 40 persons and injured
60 others, most of them of the artisan
class
MRs. Z. j. IsBELL was Instantly
killed. on the ta,h, by falling down an
elevator shaft in the dry goods store Of
>cruggs, Nandervoort * Barney in 81.
Louis.
OAKLAND. Cal. on the 18th. royalty
entertained L. 90 delegates who atten :
ded the International Christian En-
deavor convention just closed in san
Francisco.
FAILING to get q formal invitation,
the king of Siam. who is touring the
world, refuses to visit America
Ar Springfield. Mass. on the 18th,
between Ilsa0 u m- and s.:so p. M 4ss.
inches of rain fell
AT Danville, Ill, on the 18th, about
400 foreign coal mine strikers attacked
q cageful of colored miners as they
reached the top of the shaft with
knives and slaves, but were bested and
driven to the woods Later the stri<-
ers attacked u train on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois carrying miners 10 the
city. The miners inside the coaches
opened fire, and about so shots were
exchanged 1t is reported that one
miner was killed
The Minnesota board of pardons, on
the 18th, decided unanimously not to
recommend the pardon of the Younger
brothers from the Saltwater peniten-
tiary. where they are serving Life
sentence for the Sorthfield bank rob
berry and attendant murder of Cashier
Haywood
REPRESENTATIVE SIMPSON, OF KAN
sas, on the I4th. introduced in the
house q resolution directing the speak
er to appoint u committee OF five to in
vestixate the Sugar trust
THE California mine. one OF the most
famous Of the lost mines OF southwest
California. has bseu re-diseovered after
untold hardshipe and sufxerings, by
two prospectors-
Two LARGE reservoirs In the Fishkiu
mountains, which supplied water TO
the towns of Matteawan and Fishkiil.
burst their walls. a. two o'clock on the
morning of the 18th, and the water that
was released swept through the
Dutehess valley, causing the death Of
several persons and destruction of
| much property.
Ex-CosoSER JAMES McHALE. for
wears a prominent figare In Chicago
and Il,inois state politics, died In Chisa-
20, On the isth, osdsopsy, he was u
ysass old