Oxford eagle., 1888-04-19

-FOUR men were killed and several in.
tured by the wrecking of construction
train on the Kansas City, Memphis &
Birmingham railroad. sixty miles west OF
Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th.
DAVID waLKER, the Bald Knobber
chief, was found guilty at Ozark, Mo-, on
the i2th, and sentenced Ia be hanged
RECEIVER was appointed and an aca
counting ordered of the assets OF lmrs
kiralfy. on the 18th, by Judge Bookstaver,
of New York City. at the suit OF David
Goodman.
GENERAL W. II. GBsoS aud f. J. Trot-
ter, of Ohio, were chosen a. delegates to
the National Republican convention on
the 1lth. They are both enthusiastic
Sherman men.
A MOB OF farmers took negro named
Jerry Smith out Of the Memphis tTenn.)
Jail, on the 18th, and lynched him. He
was charged with attempted assault on a
white girl.
BREApsrvrrs exports from tho United
States during March, isss, aggregated
sa,0t0, 30, falling of from last year OF
Si,OeO, ,3p.
JOHN X. LOGAN (coloredl pleaded guilty,
at Topeka, Kas., on the 18th, to falsely i'm
personating a Government official, and
was sentenced to two years'imprisonment
The Owens Sunday bill passed the Ohio
Legislature, on the 18th, and went to the
Governor for his signature.
roKEsT fire which started near Fall
| mouth, Mass, on the 18th, threatened to
lay that town in ashes, and caused great
| CONSERVATION among observation-disclosures, who
fastened to the scene TO fight the flames.
THE strike of Italian laborers on the
Meriden & Waterbury railroad. was end
ed, on the lath, by the company paying OF
the men and discharging them.
THE buildings of the Liberal Club, erect
ed in Birmingham, England. in 1876. at IL
cost Of f6l,000, were sold at auction on the
18th for f2,a0O-ff0,0o0 less than the cost
of the ground upon which they were
erected.
CHARLIE, the seven-year- son OF Jo-
seph Campbell, of Rolla, Mo-, while try
ing to effect an entrance to an outbuilding
in the yard of his fathers residence, fell,
and his head and neck being caught in u
partly-opened door fastened by stout
| cord, he was strangled to death before as
sistance could be rendered.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by District
| Assembly No. 81, Knights of Labor. of
Philadelphia, TO the friends of organized
labor, asking for contributions To assist
| in paying off the indebtedness incurred in
the late strike in the Lehigh Valley coal
| region.
THE Maryland Republican League met
in Baltimore on the 18th. Ii is said to
have been in the hands of Mr.. Blaine s
| friends.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
on the 18th, as reported by 4. q. Dun s,
Co, were; For the United States, 200: for
Canada, %: total, 222, as compared with
227 the previous week, and 10 for tho cor
responding week of last year.
FIRE in Nanticoke, Pa, on the 18Th, de-
stroyed n number of buildings, and at one
time threatened the existence OF the town.
Mr.. GoDKIS has reiterated his charges
against MISUNDERSTANDING Maynard, of
| interference in the custom house man
agement to accomplish political ends, and
has offered to produce the witnesses.
| Ex-MAYoR GRACE of New York has been
actively engaged, during his brief stay i'm
London, in interviewing prominent bank
ers and politicians, and has become quito
II social lion.
| TWENTY meetings proposed to be held
in County Clare, Ireland, on the 18th, un
der the auspices of the National League.
were proclaimed by the British Govern
| ment.
THE Chicago & Atlantic railroad re-
duced its passenger rate from Chicago to
Boston, from nineteen to seventeen dol
lars. on the 18th.
MsIsrER PHELPS arrived from England
on the steamer Aller on the 18th. He
said he had not been recalled and tbs
Enthusiastically had not been offered I,
him