Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

IHE rOunuuouSe, macnine ana black
smith shops of the Northern Pacific
Terminal Company at Albina, Ore, Were
burned on the 18th. Loss, Si5, 900; insur-
ance, $4,000. Seven Oregon Railway and
Naviga tion locomotives were damaged
and passenger coach burned.
The Pesther Lloyd SAYS that Russia's
candidate for the Bulgarian throne is the
VoIvode Maiks Milanoff OF Kucsl, lead.
ing Montenegrin commander. The paper
considers, however, that he has even less
chance of success than the Prince Of Min
grelia-
JAMES GRINDER attacked his wife with
a hatchei, at Rochester, N. ", on the
18th, inhicting three savage wounds in
her head. Thinking he had killed her, he
ran to the crossing of the Buffalo, Rvch-
ester & Pittsburgh railway, and threw
himself in front Of a rapidly approaching
locomotive. He was instantly killed. He
leaves nine children. Mrs. Grinder may
recover
JOHN MArHIo, a Frenceman, and a Bel
gian named Alix, a foreman at the Stand
ard Plate-Glass Works at Butler, Pa,
were almost instantly killed while pIac.
ing sheet Of glass in position on the
gginding- plate on the 10Th.
EDWARD CoFFEY, the conde mur-
derer who cut his throat in his cell at the
Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail on the 18th,
was still living on the 10Th, and may re-
cover. His condition is much improved,
but he is not out Of danger, and a change
may come at any time either for better or
worse.
Miss MARY A. BROWN, a maiden lady,
residing in Norristown, Pa, and pos
sessed Of considerable property, has been
swindled out of 81, 600 by Philadelphia
woman who made investments for wom-
en- She conducted a ''ladies' bank" and
promised large returns for every dollar
invested
The validity of the Bell telephone pat
ents were established in Mexico ON the
le+h - = the First District Court of the Re-
public.
The Turner's at Green Bay, Wis, want
all Anarchists expelled from the North
American Turnerbund
GENERAL GREssER. prefect Of police at
st. Petersburg. states that the police are
convinced that there has been no organ
lied plot against the Cars life recently.
But no police in the world, he says, can
prevent attempts Of individual desper-
ADDE'S 10 kill the Gar.
The house of August Wintross was
burned on the 18th, ten miles west OF
Duluth, Mimi, and the family were
obliged to trudge nearly mile barefooted
and in their night clothes to neighbor's
house. All were badly frozen. Farmer
Wintross will probably lose his feet and
legs. A school teacher living in the house
was also seriously frozen.
GOVERNOR SEMPLE has signed the bill
giving the ballot to the women OF Wash
ington Territory.
RoBsRr ORME, a farmer of the township
OF LONDON, Ont, while returning home
from the city on the night of the 18th,
was waylaid, murdered and robbed.
There is no clew to the murderer.
BALFoUR was hooted and called a liar
by the populace Of Dublin on the 18th.
PUBLIC Indignation has been aroused
In the State of Puebla, Mexico, over the
assassination. within q few months, in a
remote part OF that State Of several Fr-e
Masons whose political and religious ideas
were repugnant to the fantical clericals.
WHILE four thousand Chinese workmen
under command of several mandarins
were making q breakwater to stem Hoang-
DO Hoods they were engulfed by a sudden
rush OF water and only a few escaped.
GENERAL BRAGG is in daily consultation
with the principal officials of the State
department in reference to his duties as
Minister to Mexico. There are now peud-
ing . large number Of diplomatic ques-
tions between the United States and Mex
leo, which req uire careful treatment.
among these Is the demand recently re-
newes by Secretary Bayard that Mexico
must renounos the claim to extra terrific
rial jurisdiction which is made in the
Cutting and other cases
IHE National Pure Food convention met
IN Washington on the 10Th About one
hundred aud twenty-five delegates were
present. representing nearly all of the
leading examinations in the country.
JAhks 4 NowLIS was hanged at Cam
bridge. Mass, on the 20th, for the murder
o. Sso. a: Goldman. his employer, Jan.