Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-05-13

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


FoREsr fires are starting up again
around Ashland. Wis. A hiy fire was
raging across the bay. on the Sd. and
another was threatening Brule on
the Northern Pacific.
EDWIN +. THoRSE. the actor. died in
New York city. on the 9Th, after long
illness.
0HE statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued on the 81. showed.
Available cash balance. $esi, 2ss. al:
gold reserve, siss. .6o9. 3s5.
FIRE broke out at p. m, on the 9Th.
in a crowded charity baxar in Paris, at
which the flower of the old French
zristocracy were present An indie
seribable panic ensued. as a result of
which hundreds of lives were lost. the
bodies of large portion. including
men and women, being incinerated-
Latest reports put the loss of life at
$50
JOSEPH T. DUNLOP, publisher Of the
Chicago Dispatch. left Chicago. on the
sth. in custody of Deputy Marshal John
A. Logan, for Joliet to begin his two
years term in the penitentiary.
ACCORDING to official reports re-
ceived at the palace in Havana, on the
81. "a battles were fought the previous
day. as follows: In Santiago, six.
Puerto Principe. two; Santa Clara. ten;
Matanzas. six. Havana. two; Pinar del
Rio. eight The aggregate losses, as
officially reported, were: Cubans. 81
killed; - prisoners; Spanish 81
wounded.
GES. HORACE POTTER, United States
ambassador to France. sailed for MS
post on the 5th. Previous to his de
parturc he was presented with beau
tiful silyer-bound Illuminated album by
his friends of the Union League club of
New York, whose names, after those of
President Mckinley and cabinet
adorned the pages
A SPECIAL from Webster City. Ia, on
the 81. said: II is given out that the
amount of Cashier II. II. Espes' defal-
cation from the savings bank of Rad
cliffe IS in the neighborhcci Of SIS, Coz
Espes has left for parts unknown
COLLECTOR ku.RRErH Of New York
city received from Secretary of the
Treasury Gage, on the ~. q series of
regulations aimed TO PRIV ,ent the im-
portation Of spurious and sdulterated
teas The new regulations which
must be put into effect at once, provide
for the expectation or destruction of all
teas which do no, come up to the stand
ard fixed by the new regulations
ADMIRAL MEArE tretiredl. L. S. n.
who had been i'll .; Washington city
for three weeks. died ut DIR. Johnson's
private sanitarium. on the 4th, Of grip
aggravated by appendicitis
A COLLISION occurred OF Girdless
lighthouse, on the coast of Scotland.
on the 9Th, between the British steam
ers Coldynee and Gringoe. The Colby
nee sank and II of her crew wers
| drowned.
A MAN named Lawrence, confidential
| servant of Mrs Arthur II. Blair, of
Chicago, has disappeared. and with him
diamonds to the value of 5000 and
| Sc. 500 in money. He was sent to make
. deposit in Mrs Blairis safe-deposit-
box, but took the contents instead and
skipped.
GEN. SMoLEysKI says that Prince
| Constantine ordered the Greek retreat
| from Matt and that the order was .
bluuder. Prince Constantine says that
| he did not order retreat. but that a.
| commander-in-chief he assumes the re-
spopsibility for it
FIVE anarchists. $. convicted OF partici.
patton in the bomb outrage of June
last, at the feast Of Corpus Christi. were
shot to death at Barcelona, Spain. on
the 4th They died shouting: Long
live anarchy
The senate, on the 4th, passed the
bill to provide for free homes on the
public lands for actual and bona fds
settlers, known as the free Homestead
bill;- yeas, AZ; nays, IL.
| JAMES H. ALDRIcH, the defaulting ex-
cashier and paymaster of the Kansas
City, Fort Scott s. Memphis railway
and its branches. appeared in the Grim
inal court at Kansas City. Mo-. on the
| 5th, pleaded guilty 10 the charge OF
embezzlement and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary-
The beautiful residence at winwah
Park. near New Rochelle. N. y, OF
President Green of the Columbia Navi-
cation Co, was burned, on the 5th,
causing loss of 100000, including
many valuable pictures