Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-09-02

truit lMieh.l t,,,ari 81 Trade op~rato,
who es'Sapps arcd several days ago wM
found. on the ssi. ou Belle isle
Around his neck a handkerchief hac
been knotsed ani then twisted with
lead pencil cuiii the victim strangie,
o. death.
fBkNiHE MEflSE. addresSing the delc
gates to the council general of the lie
Partmcnt ~ the Seine and the munici
pality Of Paris. oa the 25th. ON the rise
in the price Of wheat. declared that he
would submit the question to the cabi
net. adding that he would not hesitate
to reduce the tariff IL the rise was
genuine aud not speculative.
THE London Echo asserts that the
duke aud duchess % York have ac-
ccptcd the Invitation Of the premier o'
Canal la. Sir Wilfrcd Laurier. to visit
Canada during the spring Of ls9s while
ON their way Ia Australia
EiGmr persons broke jail at Welsh.
". Va. on the s5th. aud made .heir
escape. Seymour Grey. who was to be
hanged September :. was among the
fugitivcs. ~ were two negroes who
murdered policeman at keystone.
TnE large boiler in the Adam,
County Lumber Co.'S mill at Decatur.
ind.. exploded. on the s5th. killing
Nern Reynolds. the seven year-old son
OF Clarence Reynolds aud fatally in-
juring William Lewis.
Ink North German Gazette an.
nounced. on the e6th, that Dr. Won
liOlleban, the Prussian minister at
Stuttgart, Wurtemburg. had been Sc
lccted FOR the post of German ambassa-
dor To the United States
TnE reinforcements the Spanish gov
ernment intends to send to Cuba will
start from Spain in October. IL is said
that they will number from 5000 To
20, 900 men.
TnE Plcasanton stock farm Mt Oak
land. Cal. the famous training and
breeding establishment of some Of the
worlds greatest race horses. has been
declared insolvcnt by Judge Hall.
A SPECIAL. dispatch from bombay, On
the 10Th, said that cholera had broken
ont in the Northamptonshire british
regiment.
SHIPMENTS of grain from the port of
Chicago this season are the heaviest
IN the history of the lake trade.
TnE French cabinet has decided that
there is no ground at present for modi-
flying the duties ON cereals.
Il. e.. DUN 4 Go. in their weekly re-
view II trade. on the 2sth, say: spec
ulative markets have their turns of re-
action. but business has none this sea
son. gaining at stcadiness which is
most gratifying. The starting oi
works, increase of hands employed
advance in wages aud in prices OF pro
duets and the heavy movement oi
crops are facts before which all specu
lative influences have tn bow
sIGNUSD MoERis. who is wanted in
brooklyn, y. y. for having violated
the postal laws in connection with an
alleged directory swindlc. was arrested
in san Francisco on the a6th. lie was
arraigned before Commissioned Pea
cock. ON the s5th. and date fixed for
his examination. bail being required
meanw bile in tho sum Of -. 500.
JERK BlAxrER. president of the Ten
nessee Central railway. and W. J. Tot
ten, representative of the Carnegis
Steel Company. Pittsburgh. Pa. closed
n contract, on the eth. for 500. 90,
worth of steel rails and fittings To b.
used in the constr Iction of the road
The delivery of the material will begin
in about six weeks
The London Financial News, of tn,
e5th. said: The French cabinet i,
considering the floating Of loan o
$50. OOa. 600 in = per cent. bonds. part
Is for the redemption of the floating
debt and partly for the recons.ructior
of the French navy
IL Russia n workman with a horse i,
paid rouble and 90 copecks per day
The rouble Is valued at 5i.i eents ant
the copeck is the one-hundredth par
Of a rouble. \ great deal Of the ma
chinery still in use in Russia IS verl
crude.
TmE king of Siam, who arrived il
Potsdam, on the a5th. and was receive,
with every mark of honor by Emperor
| William. placed u wreath of flower
upon the tomb OF the late Empero
Frederick of Germany.