Oxford eagle., 1888-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
TYLER Bros, manufacturers VI steel
tubing, New York and Boston, with mills
at South Boston, and half owners of the
Christiana Rolling Mill at Wilmington,
DEL, have suspended. They claimed $50, :
coo capital
WM. MILLNAN was hanged in the yard Of
the jail at Charlottetown, z. +. l.. Tues
day, for the murder Of Mary Tuplin on
July last.
GEORGE kENAMoRE and his fifteen-year-
old son were burned to death, in Greene
County, Mo-, on the 11th, in the destruc-
ton of their home.
Mr.. 7. b. JOHNS, one Of the most sue
cesssful lumber merchants in the West,
died at his home, in Terre Haute, Ind, on
the 10th.
CHRISTOPHER NUGENr, one Of the best
known men in Newark, N. j., and at one
time owner Of the largest morocco manu-
factory in the world, died at his home
recently poor man.
On the 18th DIR. C. T. Agnew was report
ed seriously ill of peritonitis, at his resi-
dence in New York.
PRESIDENT FRANCIS l.. PATTON of
Princeton College was banqueted by the
Princeton Alumni Association of Chicago,
at the University Club.
THE fourteenth Iowa State encamp,nent
of the g. A. r. was more largely attended
than any previous one In the history of
the association.
ON the Erie railroad two locomotives
and 100 freight cars were piled up in a
mass Of ruins by a collision, on the 18th.
No one was hurt.
On the 18th VIM. II. Barr, OF Philadel-
phia, called at the New York City
Coroner's Office and identified the effects
of the young man who sui:.ded ut the Con-
tinental Hotel, on the 9TH, rs those of his
son, James II. Barr.
AT Youngstown, o., William Anson's
mower and reaper works were destroyed
by fire, entailing loss of S2J0,0OO, on the
18th.
US the 18th Ensign Ryan, OF Philadel-
phia, who enticed Miss Preston from her
home in Pittsburgh, Pa, and abandoned
her in New York, agreed to make partial
reparation by marrying the wronged girl.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, Geo. Ii.
Aver called upon the superintendent of
police, confessed to a robbery of his emf
ployers, Browning, King & Co., of Ptila-
delphia. Of the sum of $500, and surren-
dered himself.
On the 9th an extra freight train on the
Erie railroad was wrecked one mile east
of Carrolton, N. Y, by which brakeman
named Powell was instantly killed, and
many other trainmen were hurt.
THE April meeting of the General Ex-
ecutive Board, Knights of Labor, con-
vened in Philadelphia on the 10th, with a
bare majority of the members present.
CowARDLY assault was made upon an
of ha Eva Ia \ n
the 10th, by crowd Of toughs whose ac-
tions he had criticized.
MISS JENNIE STEVENS, a school teacher,
of Waterville, Conn, has been missing
for several weeks, and it is feared she has
met with foul play.
By an explosion of natural gas at the
pump-works, south Of Muncie, Ind, on the
9th, workman named Green was fatally
injured.
PRINCE BISMARCK held long confer
ence with the Emperor on the 10th.
THERE is much curiosity in Paris as to
whence the Boulanger party obtained the
funds necessary to carry on such an ex-
tensiye campaign.
CARDINAL HOWARD will reside in En-
gland in the future, as the climate OF
Rome does not agree with him.
THE Prince OF Wales has donated ffOO
for the relief of the sufferers by the floods
in Germany.
THE late Emperor of Germany left the
sum of thirty marks to each invalid SOL
dier of the war of 1870.
In Philadelphia, on the 11th, Mrs. Hook
man, aged thirty five, was fatally injured
by jumping from a window of a burning
building.
MR.. X. II. SoULE, general manager Of
the New York, Lake Erie & Western rail-
road, has resigned his position, to take
effect April 30.
AT Rome, n. ", on the 18th Virginia
Jackson was found guilty of the murder
of Morton Metcaf and sentenced to be
hanged on June 10.
OS the 18th bill was introduced in the
Senate identical with the Bryce bill in the
House, to define and establish an anchor
age ground for vessels in the bay and
harbor OF New York.
THE Oregon State Republican platform
denounces the tariff policy OF the Presi-
dent.
On the 18th John l.. Sullivan sailed from
Liverpool for America.
DURING the deadlock in the House bills
having special assignments to DAYS COW
cred by the time thus occupied lost their
standing.
On the 18th there was some talk among
Republicans Of filibustering against the
Tariff bill. but il was not general.
DR. MACKENZIE has discoved that three
tube in the Emperor's throat is defective,
and has ordered a new one.
On the 18th Mrs. Margaret McClain, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, brought suit against
christopher Lamb to recover 5000 dam
ages for the death of her son, with the
murder Of whom Lamb stands charged.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident was re-
ported to have occurred at Avoca, Ia, ON
the 18th, but it proved to be hoax
The First National Bank OF st. Johns
vile, y. y, was robbed, on the night Of
the 18th, Of $4,000.