Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-01-12
Ann BALDWIN. late cashier of the Vi.

AMn BALDWIN, late cashier Of the VI
delity Bank OF Cincinnati, is dead.
The preparatory steps to what prom.
ises to be q long and intercs ting contest
over the will Of Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart,
widow OF A. 7. Stewart, of New York,
were taken on the 9th before the Surro-
gate in the presence OF notable array OF
lawyers, who have been engaged to take
part In the controversy.
The Union depot in Atchison. Kas., was
totally destroyed by fire ON the 9th, in
Guiding the hotel contained in the build
ing.
THE body Of Archie McNeill, the editor
Of the London Sportsman, has been found
near Boulogne, France. He had besn mur.
dered and robbed.
A VERDICT OF mot guilty" was rendered
at Allentown, Pa, on the 6th,. in the case
against Annie Bruckner, charged with
the murder Of her husband on October q
last.
In the primaries held at New Orleans on
the 9Th, the official count shows that sixty
five Nichols delegates were elected and
thirty-nine McEnery delegates.
JOHN NEVILLE and companion were
caught in a snow-slide near Glenwood
Springs, COL, on tho 9Th, aud carried
down the mountain side several hundred
feet. Neville was killed, but his com.
panion escaped with slight injuries.
The hands in one small cigar factory
in New York struck on the eth
on account of reduction of
wages. The reduction is general
and other strikes are expected. II is
thought not improbable that three thou
sand hands will be out within a few days.
SMITHS hackers want Sullivan TO give
series of exhibition contests with Smith
throughout the world, ending in California
Sullivan has refused. Smiths managers
are averse to a real fight.
b. s. HELLAS, OF Bachelor Grove, Oak,
was frozen TO death in the storm OF the
I'd. He had gone to Louisiana, two miles
distant, TO procure medicine for his sick
wife, and was lost when returning on foot.
FLORA SANUELs, the mother of large
family and dealer in groceries and
jewelry, is missing from her home in
Utica, n. Y. She is supposed to be in
Canada. and is wanted for forgery. Mrs.
Samuels has also left debts behind her
amounting to about s, 600.
HARRY HALL, life convict at the Ne.
braska State peniten tiary. escaped from
that institution on the evening of the 9Th,
souri, Pacific train south. He is described
tall, light hair, about thirty years old
and weighs 160 pounds.
A TELEGRAM from the Russian frontier
of the 9th states that eight Nihilists, in-
cluding the Cossack Tschernoff, con.
demned to death for making an attempt
upon the life of the Gar during his visit
70 TOt l.
at st. Petersburg.
INFORMATION of the killing of Bernal,
the famous Mexican bandit, has been re.
ceived at Nogales, Ariz Bernal and a
portion of his followers had desperate
fight on the 9th near the town OF Cosala,
Sinaloa, with Mexican troops, during
which Bornal was killed and his mother
and three or four followers captured.
WILLIAM WELKEI, of Vincennes, Ind,
shot himself through the body on the
evening Of the 9th, and when the doctor
relieved him OF the bullet he stated that
he wanted to die; that he had lived long
enough. Welkel is young man lately
employed by the electric light company,
and was married to widow recently.
They did not live happily. He will die.
WHILE the west-bound express on the
Lake Shore railroa@ was running at a
high rate of speed about twenty five
miles east Of Erie. on the 9th, boy who
started to go from the sleeper to the din
ing-car was blown from the platform by
the gale then prevailing. The train was
stopped and the boy was picked up, but
he had been so injured that he died be.
fore Erie was reached. The unfortunate
youth was the son of DIR. b. NJ. Gassoway,
of Portland, Me-, a surgeon OF the United
States navy.