Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-07-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE German Christian Endeavor
society convention met in st. Louis on
the aIst.
A. COLBY and Roy Becxwith. lessees
of the Tanzy mine in Tuolumne coun-
ty. Cal, had up TO last accounts, taken
es2, 900 in bullion from the pocket re
Gently struck. and there was more in
sight.
The executive committee in charge
of the celebration to be given at Ere
mont. o., September ., when Presi-
dent Mckinley will visit that city,
have issued invitations to W. J. Bryan,
Grover Cleveland and Horace Chap
man, the democratic nominee for gov
ernor of Ohio. to be guests of the city
the same day and take part in the ex-
ercises-
A SPECIAL from Constantinople says:
In spite of the presence of the Euro
pean troops, the Anglo Hellenic revo-
lutionary societies keep sending agents
and arms into Crete
SENIOR MoREr PkK-pEReAsr, the
Spanish liberal leader and former min
ister. delivered brilliant speech at
Saragossa, on the night Of the 18th, on
the Cuban question He violently at
tackled the policy Of the government,
especially its methods Of campaigning
in Cuba, and declared that autonomy
must be proclaimed
A DISPATCH from San Francisco says
Ex-Gen. Hubbard. of New York, is the
most prominently mentioned man as
the probable successor of Col. Crocke T
rs first vice-president Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Co.
THE famous Broadmoor Casino. the
sioo, 900 pleasure resort of Colorado
| Springs, Col, was burned to the ground
on the 10Th
F. FORD. n prominent business mar
of Holyoke, Mass. died as his home, or
the eist, As the result of \ bicycle &C
cident. He collided with another
rider.
| Rev. DR. TALxAGE has been forced
to sever his connection with the First
Presbyterian church of Washington
owing to discussion among its mem
bers- DR.. Sunderland is now in charge
| Of the church.
| MISS JEAN IxGELow. the distin
| guished poet and novelist died in Lon
don on the night of the 10Th. She wa
in her seventy-seventh year.
The president signed the deficiency
appropriation bill on the soth-
THE beginning OF . litigation in
which Yale university is interested Il
| the extent of $3.50, 90 was marked in
| surrogate's courts in Batavia. y. ", on
the Goth. when objections were filed &c
the probate over the will Of William
Lampsou. late of Leroy. who left the
bulk of his estate to Yale
REPoRrs from various parts OF th'
country tell of preparations on the par
of individuals and parties for pill
grimage to the new gold fields Of Alas
ka and British Northwest Territory
Victoria, H. C.. is full of prospeetiv,
miners, waiting for transportation
northward-
NINE members Of the crew of tn,
steamer Concho were drowned, on th'
2ist. in consequsnce of the sinking o.
the vessel name,t. Oh the Isle Of Wight
as the result of n collision with the
British steamer St Fillans-
/ FouR women and two men wer'
killed by an explosion in the loading de
partment OF the armory of the Win
chester Repeating Arms Co. at New
Haven, Conn, on the stst. Five other
were taken to the hospital badly in
| iured-
The Constantinople correspondent o
the London Post says the Turkish min
isters have accepted the frontier pro
posals made by the European powers
but the sultan has mos yet ratified theil
acceptance
| Law and order have triumphed n
Leadville, Col, aud all the great gam
sling halls are closed The gambler,
sdmit that they have been beaten. anc
sill go to the new Monte Carlo, neal
Denver.
CHARLES HEIsAcH. . welt-knowr
slaek and tight wire performer. OF
Neenah, Wis, has decided to initiate
Bsordin and walk . cable stretched
across Niagara Falls
HORACE NouLroz, q pioneer kansan
and for many years capitalist ans
| politician by turr- was burned q
dsash, v1 the 2tst, 1T his home IN kir
win. Kss-. BY the expiosion Of iamT
| which he was carrying
WALL street was greatly excited q
learn the other day. that James r
KeHn, famous as Jay Gould's prineips
4 adversary in the olden days, had en-
| t,red the market again and that ths
/ market had paid him q, ooo. 900. withir
n DAYS, in return for the honor.