Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-01-24

THE operating room ot the main sfnrs
OF the Western Cuiou Telegraph Company
n Washington ts undergoing euIarxs-
meut and extensive repairs IA ureer rsre
demands which tho inauguration VII
bring apon thr Office
IT u sait Walter Evans. ex-cumuiis-
sinner of Internal revenue. NAV b. ~
appointed % his oil placs by the ineom-
ing President
THE Bucharest Epoca saws that a mo-
nan vii be introduced IN thu R0umanian
Chamber of Deputies for the iEnpeachmeur
af the Brafiana Ministry.
sHucN 1f earthquaks was felt IN a
port1un Of the Leith valley and in Western
Edinburgh. Scotland, au the 18TH. but No
damage was done.
DrnENG the attack on the German mis-
sinnary station at rugI. zAnzibar. the In
surgenrs massacrest four German mission
aries. QUE NJ whom was a wamnn. Three
missionaries ssfl int0 the hands af the
Arabs and are held tor ransom. Ons OF
TIA prssanerx - y xoma<-
THE German Steamer Lnbeck. rom sa-
moa. which arrived as sydney. " sw.,
on the nth. reported that all was quiet in
Samoa on the -ta inst
1s joint e0nveutson. IN the f-ti. the two
houses Of the Michigan Legislature elect
e't James Mcmillan Senasor. giving INN
Ovotes, against - for Melbourne r. Ford.
HARaY WILLIAMS. Of Crawcor ryIsvilie,
Ind-. was shot twice IN the right breast
and killed IN a dispute over a game at
S-arsts ut Bedford, Ind, on the murnin., of
the 18th.
CHARLES AUSTIN. for twenty wears a
bookkeeper for BsIssev & Mcleod. OF
Troy, has v. Y. abscunde,t with si0,00o of
the company's money
OK the 18th. Stars S.untor G-vser. of
Tolesll. o.. permitted n newspaper cor-a-
spondent IA take the copy of a speech
which he intended tn deliver next day.
The correspondents failed eo return the
copy sEd when the question came up. tho
senator could not deliver his speech.
The directors Of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, on the 18th. declared tsin rr-rr-
lar qIarteriy dividend of two per cent,
payable February II.
Iy the United States District Court al
Baltimore, Nil. Chptain Robert Mills OF
the oyster schooner Chickora was. on the
nth. found guilty OF brutally beating his
dredgers, and sentenced uI a fiua Of S5g
ansi one year IN jail.
The Jury II the Ridenour murder case
at Winchester, Va. were out one hour, on
the 18TH, and brought in verdict 0f nut
guilty. Immediately loud cheers arose
from the great crowd assembled Ride
nour hnai previously been twice convicted
and sentenced ID be hange,t
THK Ohio State Board OF Partinns. ON
the 18th. ununimOuiy voted to ask Cow
ernor Foraker ID commuts the sentence IT
Mrs. Mary L. Garrett. sentenced % be
hanged January -. t0 Imprisonment for
life in the penitentiary
NJ De LEssEPs was. on the 18th. elected
president, and his SON Charles vice-pres-
Atent Of the new Panama Canal Company.
The body Of the wife Of a half-bree,I
named R0lade, which was buried twenty
miles from W Wnnipeg Man. sixteen years
ago. was exhumed. recently, ami found 10
be perfectly petriiissL
THE ease af the Commonwealth w. En-
ginrer Cook. charged with causing tina
Mud Run Pal disasser. has been post
p1nett until March. when all the railway
employees concerned viii be tried at once.
THIRTY persons were killed IN an ex-
plosinn OF fire damp in the Hyde C0lIiery,
near Manchester. England. on the 18th.
Mrs. G. u RALFH arOse from the dinner
table at SIOUX City, La. on the I1th. picked
up u revolver and blew out her brains
The Woman was IN ilf-heaIra and de-
sp0n,lent because ot loss Of property IN
England, where until recently she and
her family rssilIetL
The appointment by Governor HOvey OF
Indiana Of Colonel " z RlIckIe as Adlu-
tant-GeneraI ereut.d a vacancy upon the
Indianapolis Board OF Police Commis-
siouers, which was filed by the election
OF Harry ). Sew, OF the Indiana polls
journal. san Of CaIaneI Jahn C. Naw.