Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-05-17

DURING n severe storm NJ La crosse,
Wis, the other afternoon lightning struck
the house Of James Eagan, severely II not
fatally injuring Mrs. Egan, and in . less
degree her daughter, aged thirteen. Al
New York on the same day the sash and
blind factory of Bradley q currier was
struck and fred, the loss being 10000.
Two lives were lost by the burning Of
dwelling I'm West Madison street, Balti-
more, Nd, the other morning, John +. Adj
ans, aged eighty three, and colored cook
being sufYocated and burned while In bed.
A colored chambermaid leaped from third.
story window, broke ono Of her ribs and
received other internal injuries.
MRs JESSE X. GRANT. mother Of cx'
President Grant, died At Jersey City, N. j.,
on the nth, aged eighty-five years.
A BREWER and an undertaken fought
duel with brosdsworsis near Chicago, ILL.,,
the other day, the former being wounded.
MATTHIAS BRADY has been arrested
for threatening the foreman OF the jury
which convicted his brother In Dublin, Ire
land.
ANDREW j. SMITH. President Of the
Manhattan Insurance Company, New
York, has been arrested on a charge Of
perjury.
SECRETARY TELLER has recommended
that suit be begun against the Union Pacific
Railroad, TO determine the true meaning
Of the net earnings clause Of the Thurman
act.
EDWARD O'BRIEN and Thomas Doyle
pleaded guilty TO charges Of murder and
conspiracy in Dublin, Ireland, on the ilth.
PAUL STRoBAcH, United States Mar
shal for the Southern District Of Alabama,
has been indicted at Montgomery for pre-
senting fraudulent accounts.
MCDONALD, the last Of the four men
who robbed Little Rock IL Fort Smith
train, killed the conductor and disabled a
brakeman for life, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree at Clarksville,
Ark.
FouR murderers paid the penalty Of
their crimes on the 1ith. Sylvester X.
Makinson was hanged at Cambridge, H.,
for the murder of Mrs. Copeland near Ke-
vance on tho Goth day of last August; An.
gelo Cornetti, the Italian murderer Of Dan
lei Cash, fcllow-convict at Sing Sing, N.
", December 81, 1881, was hanged in the
prison yard; Jerry Blalock was hanged al
Newport, Ark, for numbering Thomas
Brandenburg In cotton field In 1880, and
John w. Jackson, at Jackson, Ohio, for the
murder OF Samuel L. Hull.
THE Standard oil-works at Com
munipaw, N. j., were struck by lightning
on the 10th inst. and set on fire. Th'
| flames communicating with the oil tanks ON
| explosion followed another, and at last th,
storehouse where the barreled oil was KEEP
was attacked, which succumbed. Six lire
men were overtaken by flood of BLAZING
oil and perished. The loss was estimates
at 81 800, 900, the property destroyed includ
ing twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, ST,
barges, a dredge, three docks and five bricl
buildings.
A LOCKOUT occurred at w. S. Kimbal
e. Co.'s cigarette factory, at Rochester, N
| ", few days ago, seven hundred femal
employees being refused work. The firm
had thrice refused to advance the twenty
per cent. demanded, and fearing n strik
refused to give the employees work whel
they arrived at the factory.
| AMAsA STONE, the millionaire railwa,
| and iron magnate, committed suicide a
| Cleveland, o., on the 1lth by shooting him
| self through the heart with revolver
while suffering from temporary insanity.
By boiler explosion near Napanee
| Ind, the other afternoon two men wer,
killed and three others fatally Injured.
RECENT disturbances in Wu Chang
China, have been repressed. Thirty -fv,
insurgents were beheaded.