Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-02-21
CRIEEs AND cAsuAIrrvs

SA6ss AND CAsUALTIES.
cwiSG to misconception OF orders on
the part OF the men in charge OF an .,st-
bound train, on the IIth. a collision oc-
CURED on the Norfolk & Western rail-
road. near Pearlsburg, Va. Two freight
trains came together with terrific force
Engineer Lindawood was instantly killed
and the firemen OF both trains were seri-
ousiy hurt. The trains were badly
wrecked.
OS the 18th the extraordinary term OF
the oyer and Terminer Court OF New York
City was in session a short time. judge
Daniels received the formal notice Of the
change OF venue in the McQuade case, and
Colonel Fellows then moved for the trial
or Thomas b. Kerr, who is indicted for
bribing the aldermen for their votes in fa-
vor Of the Broadway franchise.
BURGLARS fatally shot wm. st. Clair.
proprietor OF gentlemen's furnishing
store at Williamsburg. a suburb OF Pitts
burgh, Pa. in his store on the 18th. The
murderers escaped.
In tho Brown murder trial at Mason
City. Ia, on the 18th, the jury returned a
verdict Of not guilty. The verdict gives
general satisfaction.
FIRE totally destroyed the chemical
laboratory of the State University at Co.
lumbus, o., on the 18th. Loss, $50 OOO
The nremen had great trouble in saving
the main building. The origin OF the fire
Is unknown.
FIRE destroyed the new court house lust
completed ut Donaldsonville, La. at a
cost or $4,000, on the 18th, and many VAL
liable records were lost.
In the Bow Street police court. London
on the 14th, Patrick Molloy was ar
raigned on the charge of swearing
falsely before the Parnell Commission.
Molloy pleaded not guilty and was COM
mitted for trial.
The famine in Anhul and Kiaaasu.
China, is spreading. In one province 300. :
Wo families are starving, and altogether
several millions are suffering from famine
caused by two years drought.
CHIEF ENGINEER EDWIN WELLS OF the
United States steamer Omaha, committed
suicide at Shanghai, on January 8. by
shooting himself through the head during
fit Of temporary insanity.
A FTyE-YEAR-oLD child OF c. W. jack
son, of Beatrice, Neb., fell through the
IL on Indian creek, on the 18th. The
mother saw the ice give way under the
little one, and ran out to save her. The
ice broke with her, also. but she managed
10 save the child.
A WEALTHY New Orleans cigar MANN
facturer named Nicholas Merland. shot
himself on board ferry boat, on the 18th.
and then jumped into the river and was
drowned.
On the 18th Robert Montgomery, one OF
the sixteen countefeiters arrested recent
iy in Butler County, Pa, by ysecret-service
agents, was given a preliminary hearing
by United States Commissioner MeCand-
less, and was held for trial in default OF
:, 900 bail
A LOCOMOTIVE boiler on the North
Pennsylvania railroad exploded near
Bening Station, Pa, on the 18th. killing
the engineer and fireman.
A srREEr-cAR was run into by a train
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near
Chester, Pa, on the 18th 1t was thrown
from the track. and four lady passengers
and the driver OF the car were badly hurt.
The cashier Of the Continental Oil Com
pany Of Denver, Col, William E. Jones,
who took 1900 of the company's money
and fed to Canada, was brought back a
prisoner, on the 18th. He had spent all
the stolen money.
The lumber exported from the United
States to Havana, Cuba, in 1888. amounted
to 1880, - cubic feet-s, ,453, ,9i3 feet white
pine and 1,956, IA feet yellow pine.
AT Pittston, Pa, on the night of the
18th, John Gray, a Scotchman, was shot
through the heart and killed while trying
to fire shanty occupied by three Italians,
to which he had haen reFussd admitfauca