Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-10-14

tnE Chicago Great Western railway
mas prepared a plan to snake il c,,-
pioyes stockholders in the romp.nv
and President sticl<ney has issped =
circular on the sabjcct ints,i-- ,bc
employe, To heeciAe ipin, owners o,
the rad.
sEvEN-Foor vein % exceedingly
rich golt ore has been stru,lk in H..
Rcd River mine at Acton. Gal Tbe
vein = sprinklei thielSiy with free
gold. The report said that there an
pcared 10 b. tens Of thousands Of tons
OF the richest ore ever struck in tina,
part of The state.
Tue 'lrought around nabuaae Ia
was reported serions on the ,sh. The
pastures were all dried up auI Warmers
are feeding hay to their cattle.
ThE plant Of the Zimmerman Pack
ing company at Portland. ORE. was
burned the other day. Resides the de-
struetton Of the meat in the, building
some sheep were also ercmated. Loss
$50, 900.
ACCORDING TO dispatches on the .,h
the drought was general no, only in
Kansas Missouri. Iowa. Nebraska. Ok
iahoma and Arkansas. but in all OF the
central and northern states. including
Illinois Indiana. Kentucky. Tenncs.
see, Minnesota and the DakotaS
The result of four-handed duel
fought ON country road few miles
from Noultric. Ca. was the death OF
Henry Neismith. the woundfnp Of his
son Nathan and nm rpheaval in usu.
ally peaceful community. which sent n
mob OF determined men and blood
hounds after those who did the shoot
ing, Henry Harris and his sou Robert.
II was believed that they were both
wounded.
TuE first party of - 81 number of
Mennonite colonists from Kansas were
stopped in Robertson county, Tex. the
other day by armed men. Who threat
ened them with death aud destruction
of property unless they turned back
which they did. They will try To set
tie in some other portion Of Texas
MAR sandy Springs. Md, William
Timmons shot and killed William Hin
ton, his father-in-law, inflicted A
wound which will prove fatal to his
wife and also shot the wife Of John
Hinton. his wife's brother, causing "a
serious but not necessarily fatal
wound. The shooting wa,, the result
OF a qrarrel between rimd IONS and his
wife.
The application for hearing Of the
Kansas City stock yards ease was
argued on the 7th before Judge san
born. Of the United States circuit court
at St Paul, Mimi, and the LAWYERS
finally agreed upon a stipulation for a
hearing about October Is before Judges
Foster and Thayer and the motion for
n hearing before Jrdge 'sanborn was
withdrawn.
The forest fires that have been rag
ing in Manitoba for the past three
DAYS have broken out more furiouSlv
than ever. Ten or Il persons were re
ported To have been buried to death
and the tirc was rapidly spreading over
the boundary line into Dakota Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth of
timber. grain and farm buildings have
been destroyed
THE Carnival pageant at Kansas CITY,
Mo, on the eth was n parade of all ma
tions, glimpses Of the life aud customs
in other countries being shown. Uncle
Sam marched at the front, being seven
feet eight inches tall and dressed in
the traditional costume.
THE seventh Day Adventists OF the
southwest opened n two-weeks' meet
ing at Guthrie, Ok, ON the 5th Eight
hundred Adventists were present and
600 more were expected.
FoUI of crew of seven men were
recently drowned at North I.enp
Branch, n. j., by the capsizing Of their
fishing boat. A huge wave struck it.
SIXTY villages near Tung Chou,
China, containing over $1,000 inhabit-
ants. have been destroyed by floods
and the people drowned or forced to
flee. Chinese authorities estimated
that $4,000 to 10000 were drowned.
SEVEN houses in North Des Moines.
Ia, recently caught fire from n blaze
in barn in the vicinity. Loss. about
ss0,O 900.
c. V. RopsERs. Of East Dallas, Tex,
was probably fatally stabbed by n
negro at St Louis on the night of the
Yelled Prophets paradk
ABOUT 2s frame busip1s houses and
residences were burned on the 9Th by
fire which broke outI in the Dexter
park pavilion at the Union stock yards
at Chicago. Many horses also lost their
lives in the eonfiagration, the number
not being known.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch stated
that Commander Ballingtou Booth alb
solutely denied the report that nego-
tiations were in progress for union of
the Salvation army and the American
Volunteers.
Two men were killed and ten injured
by the blowing down of big new ho-
tel NJ Lindsay park. Charfevoix, Mich.
The men were at work on the structure
when storm caused il to collapse,
through not being properly braced.
CLEARIS6s at the Kansas City, Mo-.
banks during the last nine months
have been enormous. The record. ac-
cording to Bradstreet's, is SS9i, $50, ls3.
This is sss. $50. 6ii in excess of the cor
responding period of 1896.
Two factions of the congregation of
St. John Baptiste at Chicago quarreled
in church on the Sd and continued it
in the street afterwards. where il eul-
minated in n pitched battle between
200 Armenians, Assyrians and Arabs,
men and women both taking part.
Black eyes and bloody noses were
abundant and two of the contestants
were seriously cut A wagon load of
police finally succeeded in restoring
quiet.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred on the
Kansas City & Suburban Belt railway
near Kansas City. No. ON the 5th.
Five cars were umoled into a ditch
by n switch engine. Two persons were
injured.
The fall festivities opened at St
Louis on the 5th with the annual pa
rade of the Yelled Prophet and the
grand ball afterwards The subjects
for the floats were representations of
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