Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-09-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Inportan, Event.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


forger. Since January / last he ha,
shipped s!7 stolen bicycles To auction
dealers in Chicago. st. Louis and Kan
sas City.
FIVE children were drowned In the
harhor AT Toronto, Ont. on the sal. by
the eapsizing of float on which. in
company with ten others, they were
attempting To cross from the mainland
To the brcalSvatcr. where they intended
10 go bathing. The other children
were rescued by boatmcn. Three Of
the bodies of the drowned were re-
covered
WORK was resumed In all depart
ments of the Britton tin-plate mill at
Cleveland, O., on the All. the strikers
accepting the terms of the company
and going back to work Work was
also resumed in all departments Of the
Union Falls mill a, Cleveland.
FRANK WEBER, of Buffalo. and War
rcn Bush and Charles Glasuld, of Chi
cago. lost control of the boat in which
they were sailing on the Niagara river,
on the 22d, and were carried down aud
over the Horseshoe fall in sight of
thousands of Mortified people.
a HAVANA dispatch, ON the esd. said:
Spanish troops recently captured n
Cuban hospital in Matanzas province
with % inmates. The troops fired the
buildings, first placing all the dis
abled men in their cots and burning
them alive. The Others, II in number.
were tied to trees and shot to death.
their bodies being left there.
A rA.rY of eight men and women
left West Superior. Wis. on the Goth,
in small sailboat to go after berries
along the south side of Lake Superior,
intending To return on the 2s1. Moth
ing had been heard of them. when, on
the cath. the captain of the steamer
Gilbert reported passing capsized sail
boat n few miles out, and it is supposed
that all were drowned.
ARTICLES of incorporation were filed
in Denver, Col, ON the cath, for the
Wheat Belt railroad. which will CON
meet with the Denver 4 Rio Grandc
near its intersection with Saguache
county, and extend in n westerly di-
rection about - miles. IL will enable
the farmers of the richest wheat rais-
ing portion of Colorado to find ready
market for their products
Consul GRIMkE at Santo Domingo in-
forms the state department OF the com
pletion of n railroad from Puerto Plata
to santiago. about 40 miles. over two
mountain ranges American and Brit
ish capital is invested in the road. aud
several American engineers have been
engaged in its building.
A HUGE derrick spoon, weighing
900 pounds and containing half n ton
OF salt. fell 20 the deck of the steamer
Fitzgerald. which was loading at an
Illinois Central pier in Chicago on the
Esd. Andrew kruper, laborer, was
Instantly killed "a
W. X. 0'HEARS. cashier of the Jack
son County bank. of Black River. Wis i.
who was arrested on the charge OF re-
ceiving money after he knew the bank
was insolvcnt. was bound over. ON the
23d, to the fall term of the circuit court
The Jackson County bank, which was
closed in September last, was reorgan-
lied and re-opened ON the SD.
Az imperial trade was issued. on the
eith, committing the sentence OF death
to be imposed upon the nine Turks
who were engaged in the massacre OF
Armenians Mt Tol<at in March last, to
penal servitude for life in Tripoli and
iiarbary.
FIGARO says the French government
must fix maximum price for bread or
reduce the customs duties, and warns
Premier Meline that it is inadmissible
for him to allow himself to be titled
the dear bread minister
A DISPATCH from Christiania. Nor
way. says that Walter Wellman has
been there to discuss projected polar
expedition with DIR. Nansen, who thinks
his idea u good one. Mr.. wellman ex-
poets to make his start next summer.
The steamer Rosalie departed from,
Seattle. WASH, on the a5th. for Ska
quay with 100 passengers and full
load OF horses and supplies for miners.
She also took number OF wagons te
break the famine ut the pass
The power-house of the Federal Coal
CO., operated by L. W. Powers ut Fed
eral. Pa. on the Pittsburgh. CHARTERS
& Youghiogheny railroad, was de
stroyed by incendiary fire shortly after
midnight on the 25th.
INdigging well at Cushing, 40 mile:
east of Guthrie, Okla. on the cath, q
inc vein OF coal was struck at depth
Of IS feet
| A. L. HASKISs, a widely-known Chi
cago sporting man, was killed by the
collapse of folding bed on the a3th.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg say
that the czar's decision to meet Presi
dent Faurc at Croustadt was reached
against enormous pressure upon the
part OF the German party. The dis
patch adds the officers of the Frencl
sauadron at Cronstadt were enter
tained, on the a3d, by their Russian
colleagues.
| PROF. w. w. CAMPBELL, OF the Lici
observatory, San Francisco, will heac
the expedition to India, made possible
through the generosity of the late Col
c. f. Croclser. to observe the next to:a
eclipse of the sun.
CHIEF OF POLICE PETER CoSLIS wa
retired, on the 25th, by the New Yorl
police commissioners on his own appli
cation. He will receive pension o
S., 900 year.
on the s5th the president appointed
VIM. r. Holloway. of Indiana, to b'
consul general at st. Petersburg
Russia, the commission being dates
August 81.
ALL the British army officers ON leav'
of absence have been ordered to rejoiI
their regiments immediately.
TELEGRAM was received at the Jap
anese legation in Washington. on thu
s5th, announcing the death OF Coun
Mutzu, ex-minister of foreign affair
and japanese minister to the United
States in 1885,
PRArrcALLY all the small bakers II
New York city have met the advanc'
in the price of -four by decreasing th'
weight of bread. A fve cent loaf o
bread weighed pound before tn
b,o,,, in wheat and -four, but now !