Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1899-08-24

fiAhAAsNN - 1AAAAfN Nt~tRENNtA IN u frff aeF.
Mo-. October Ii. I.es. was accomplished
by sheriff T. &. Nudd and Deputy Mar
shall Lindsey At small town named
Fanshawe. about TOO miles east of Ard
more. l. T. Freeman was sentenced 10
he hanged on Dec~mber IL. I >,s9 but -
capped two DAYS before by pulling tbs.
boards of the ceiling Of his cell.
>oME time ago DR.. T.. v Wells. living
near Russell. Miss. sho, and fatally
wounded negro while in the ac, OF
stealing his cattle. since then several
attempts to assas>inate Dr.. Wells have
been made BY ne-rOe>- This has
aroused the white people and notice
has been served 10 the negroes that
amy further hostile movement towards
DR. Wells will prreipitate raec con
fict.
THE county Pssashou~s at >tanwood.
Mich. was burned the other night
The IRE started in the insane ward.
Adoiph Mnrrin was burned to death
and many Of the 10 inmates OF the main
building narrowly escaped
Jack NeCoRNNcK. of Phfadelphis.
knocked out Md Mecoy in the firs,
round at Chicago on the 18th The
bout was to have beeu six rounds and
Il was generally thought that Mecor-
mack stood no show AZ all
BY an explosion in eolliery in t;ia-
morganShire. Wales. - persans were
killed and 80 others were in danger.
Pathetic scenes at the mouth of the
mine were witnessed a. the bodiss We're
brought up.
Two hundred people were poisoned
At Oregon. Ill. the other day by lem
ade which they drank at a picnic. No
fatalities were reported The poison
ing was supposed Ia have been the re-
suit of citric aeia in the lemonade sold
at one of the stands
Ex-JUD.iE RIcsaRp PEENDEEss AT. one
Of Chicago's most prominent lawyers.
died in that city ON the 18th of anasmia-
August the operation of transmission
Of bloud from John Morrissey. young
man whom the attorney had helped to
a successful career. was performed
Mr.. Prendergast showed a temporary
improvement, but in n few days re-
lapsed into his old condition
THE schooner Anna arrived from
Behring sea Mt san Francisco the other
day with 5t6, 600 Goldfish. weighing 800
tons. >he reported that all the fishing
sehooners in the Arctic had done well
this season The steamer schooner
Pacific. from Copper river. Alaska, rs-
ported that the salmon catch was very
Large. The largest single seine haul
made this season at kariul< brought in
l6,Ooo red salmon. besides other fish
FoUK roads have joined in the boy
eott on the Kansas City. Pittsburg &
Gulf. They are the Santa Re. the Mis-
souri, Pacific. Missouri. Kansas 4 Texas
and Rock Island At the end of the ten
days notice specified by law all traffic
arrangements between the Pittsbury a
Gulf and the four boyeotting lines will
cease.
Coz H. X CASE. of Chattanooga.
Tenn. one Of the ave members of the
e. A. T. committee appointed to inves-
tigate the oiice OF Pension Conmis-
sioner II. Clay Evans. denied emphati-
eaIIy the report that the committee has
decided to exonerate Mr.. Evans Each
mans views will be sent TO K u Brown.
of GAINESVILLE. O.. who il chairman of
the committee. lie will draft n report
and this will be submitted to the com
nnittee at its meeting in Washington.
September = Then. ard no. until
then. will anyone know what the re-
port Is
THE democratic state convention at
Des Noines. la, nominated n ticket.
headed by Frederick t. White for gov
ernor. The populist state eOnvention
also met and indorsed the Democratic
ticket The Only populist ON the ticket
il W. IL Calhoun for railway commits
sioner-
BoLrIxs democrats from every eoun-
ty but nine of the 119 composing the
state of Kentucky met at Lexington
and nominated n full state ticket.
headed by John Young Brown for
governor in opposition to the regular
Democratic ticket headed by William
t,oebel. which was nominated at Louis
vile in june
A DISPATCH from Manila on the 18th
stated that the United States wsrship-
Baltimore and Concord made an unsue-
eessful attempt to tow off the United
States TRANSPORT Hooker, which had
grounded in the channel of Corregtdor
island, and II was believed TO be imPos-
sible to hoat the Hooker.
Mrs LrLY LASsrRr. the actress.
waS recently married. at the island oi
Jersey to Hugo tisrald de Bsthe, the
oldest son of Sir Henry Pereival de
Bathe. Bart. The prince of Wales Is
said to have been in the confidence oi
the pair and sent n telegram OF con
gratulationS The ceremony was prt-
vate.
ANAS supposed to be Edward klkins
or Duluth. Pa, was instantly killed os
Missouri Pacific freight train at ths
foot of Main street. in Kansas City, NO
liz fire at Pxwnee. Ok. the grocery
store of ]. L. Phelps and the livery s'-'
BILE OF j. c. Bareh were consumed
Buxch lost ten head ef horses in the sse'