Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1898-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ir appears that the decadent dons
are AZ last learning what are the real
conditions in Cuba weyler's misrep-
resent tations kept them in ignorance
for two years They are now discuss
Spain IL Cuba should be abandoned
Not until recently was abandonment
talked of ut Madrid Cuba's indepen-
dence really looks like an accepted fact
of history.
SUBSCRIPTION books for the 81. 500, 900
first mortgage i've per cent gold
bonds of the ST. Louis & san Francisco
Railway Cos southwestern division
were formally opened At the Office of
Redmond. Kerr * Co, in New York
city. on the 10th, bat were Immediately
closed. the bonds having already been
heavily over-subscribed-
EFFORTS are being renewed to secure
The passage of . bill by congress to de-
| tine train wrecking with intent to rob
and to provide the penalty of death
therefor. In the last eight years the
number Of hold-ups on railroads has
increased steadily from /. in 1880 to 30
in 1897. In eight years there have been
sis hold-ups. IS people killed :and 81
wounded by the robbers
| THOMAS A. EDISON has made . dis
eovery which gives promise of revolu-
tiouixing the iron business of the
world 1t is nothing less than a new
metal. which, admixed with iron. rem
| ders cast-iron Is tough and strong rs
wrought iron The discovery was made
purely by accident.
THE state department has received
from consul-General Lee a communi-
| cation relative to the situation in Cuba
in which he says the Spanish plan OF
autonomy is doomed to speedy failure
An early collapse Of the present policy
Is predicted. and Gen Lee can see no
solution Of the Cuban problem short Of
| intervention by the United States
LIEUT.. Cot FHkDE9ck FUNSTON. son
Of former Congressman Z IL Funston.
Of lola. kzx. has returned from Cuba
covered with scars, and having achieved
| the highest rank to which IN American
hss been promoted He was Gomez
chief OF artillery. and operated the IA
nous dynamite guns-
An unexpected fall of snow At Los
Angeles. Cal, on the 10th. did no dam
age to the orange crop. which Is now
being harvested in prime condition
BS the falling Of . cage in the cres-
| ton mine at Ninas PistraA Mex. on
the nth. eight men were hurled 500
| feet 10 the bottom Of the shaft Five
were killed outright and the remain
| ing three were notexpeeted TO survive
ANEW disease resembling e1aeer has
| developed in Kansas farmers herd
recently purchased in Colorado Forty
heifers, or IS per esnt Of the herd. are
| affected. many of which may die
| BuxF reports from Fort Smith. Ark.
| on the Inorning of the i.sh. stated that
| the city had been struck by . tornado
| about II O'Clock on the night of the
| iIth. spreading dessruesson in every di-
| rectio1- Thirty persons were believed
| to have been killed. and fully one hun-
| dred injured Fire added to the hor-
| rors OF the situation
r. A. LARsY. president Of the State
| savings hank of Bate Mont. Was
| shot and killed in his osfice on the lith-
| The killing Is believed 10 Dc the oat-
come of litigation resulting from the
| big explosion which occurred in Butte
three years ago
JUSTICE A. W. NEWMAN. Of the Wis
consin state supreme court. who fell
on an icy sidewalk and sustained
| fracture Of the skull. died on the Isti,-
He was o. years of age and had been .
member of the supreme court for four
years
MARCUS A. HAMA received the full
| vote in joint session. At ColumbuA O..
on the 18th, that was given him on the
| separate ballots in the two houses on
the nth. for both terms ~ United
| States senator.
The Inland Iron Forge Co. Of Chica-
go. started up, on the lsth. giving en-
plsyment 70 80 ma.