Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-08-26
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Event.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

burned Tor hrc-wood the big flag pole
On Mount Tacoma. which Oscar brown
oi 'te-Elum. risked his life 10 carry ,o
thc top ot the mountain FIVE years ago.
~ stephen J. Field, associate Justice
OF the United States supreme court.
were to retire now he would leave he
hihd him record OF service longer
than that of any other man who ever
sat on the supreme bench.
HENRY GABLE. an old and experi-
enced miner, who was one Of the frs,
M join the rush to the klondike. has
returned to San Francisco, and tells a
story calculated to deter others from
going north In search Of gold.
CHARLES COMPTON. the actor, died in
London on the 10th.
HENRY &. HANsnRorau. United
States senator from North Dakota. aud
Miss Mary lierri Chapman. poctess
ot Washington. u. C., were married at
the Hotel burlington. in New York
city, on the 18th.
\ SPECIAL from Rome. on the 10Th.
said: lit is reported that the pope will
eNcommunicate Prince Henry OF Or
leans aud the count of Turin, as duel
ling il forbidden by the Roman Cath
| clic church,
FREDERICK WILDE, n striking coal
miner from Mount Olive, ILL.,. who went
To 1T. Louis five weeks ago. was ground
to pieces beneath n Missouri Pacific
train at Howard station on the 10th.
1t was TO all appearances a case of pre-
meditated suicide.
TnE presidents secretary. ]. Addi-
son Porter. on the 10th. made the fol.
lowing announcement: Ethan Allen
Hitchcock. OF ~. Louis. has accepted
the ministership to Russia, and will be
appointed Immediately.
NAVAL officers are considering the
question OF constructing dry docks SUI
ticiently large to accommodate our
largest war vessels. The matter will
be submitted to congress at the next
session.
The post office department has pre-
pared advertisements for contracts for
all star and steamboat mail servic, in
all states west of the Mississippi. ex-
ccpt Minnesota Iowa aud Missouri
These contracts, embracing about >. 700
routes, will run for four years. begin
ming July 1, Is9s. Bids will be opened
in the second assistant postmaster gem
erals Office December 1.
TuE big wagon Works Of the Mitch
ell Lewis company. at Racine. Wis,
began working l. hours per day on the
10th.
TnE Peruvian government has or
dered the banks of Peru to withdraw
from circulation, within 80 days. and
to stop the further emission of circular
checks, payable to bearer. which are
classed as' being nothing more or less
than bank notes in disguise.
NorICE of contest of the second will
Of Charles Coudert, OF New York, which
devised his property to his seven chill
dren, was filed, ON the 18th. by the
widow, Mrs. Mary Coudcrt, whom
former will made sole legatee.
TnE twenty-third annual convention
of the American Bankers associati.d
met in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th
WILLIAM oBRiES, formerly 81 the
Seventh United States caalrs' mas
been granted pension o'e.@ month
and s. ZOO back pay. Us whereabouts
is unknown to his a,orneys
A MOVEMENT looi-ng To the connec-
,ion of Denver o.d the Black Hills re-
gion Of Sontb Dakota by railroad is
said tn n, ir progress in Wyoming.
As. re,ult of the decline in silver
the I. -dartine mine ut Idaho Springs,
col. discharged its force of men work
i.g on the silver lodes on the nth.
IS the two weeks ended on the 18th
over 600 becves were sent to Havana
from Florida, most of them from the
kissimmee river ranges
The Rock Island Railroad Co. has
requested the farmers of Grant aud /
Garfield counties. Okla, to reimburse |
the company for 50, 0cO bushels of wheat
furnished for seed, in 1894, when there
was n crop failure.
In the Wisconsin assembly, ON the
18th, both the express company and
sleeping car taxation bills were passed |
over the governors veto.
TnE former government boat John
A. Dix, recently turned over to the
Louisiana naval reserve, sank in the /
Mississippi at the fo9t of jackson street,
New Orleans. on the 18th
Mrs. MARcELISA VALDEZ and a girl |
named Francesca. Mondragon were shot
in Guadalupe, a suburb of Conejos,
Col, ON the 18th. by Pablo Gallegos.
Mrs. Valdez was wounded in the head
and the girl in the arm and thigh.
Both will probably recover. Gailegos
was discarded lover of the girl. lie /
escaped.
The wheat pit of the New York pro-
duce exchange was wrought up to
fine frenzy Of buying activity, On the
18th, inspired BY the European demand
and partly by the report of damaged
crops in the northwest, and the price Of
wheat went capering upward till the
dollar mark was reached and passed by
. fraction of a cent.
The employees of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Co all over the United States are
in receipt of letters from the California
headquarters Of the company. saying
that salaries reduced three years ago
would be advanced Immediately.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Co. has acknowledged the
business of claim made by the Kan
sas state board of railroad commission
ers of exorbitant freight rates on that
road, and agreed to substantial reduc-
tions, to take effect September ].
W. Ii. l.. DAVIS, aged 30, wealthy
farmer. living near Rockmart, Ca.
was killed and his house wrecked, on
the 18th. by the explosion Of II dyna-
mite cartridges he had placed under
the kitchen stove for drying.
OS the 18th the directors of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad de-
clared quarterly dividend of one per
cent.
ALL that was needed, on the 18th, for
any man in Chicago to make $50, 600
was to have 1900, 900 bushels OF wheat
That much wheat could have been
bought the day before for scs5.ooo
and the buyer only needed to hold II
one day and the s5o,c coo was his
GRAIN is moving out Of Nebraska at
the rate OF 500 cars tsy. Three
fourths Of this is new wheat and the