Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1890-09-11

lHE New York Equalization Board
has announced the Assessed v,l,,,, :, ~,
real and personal property in that state
to be sS.Gs2. 653, o..
SA'h CEocKETr. aged nineteen. a
biil-Pcster. was killed al no. Noi,..
Ia on the night Of the II. while on tor
OF a building witnessing a hrc.worL /,
ulSpiay- By some mIschanre be canrh,
hold Of live electric-lirht wir, ant -.
c"'Ved fatal shock. His hands we're
burned in terrible manner.
N response TO a dispatch from tho
New York State Board % Arbitration AZ
To existing trouble. a subcommittee ~
oi the Brickmakers' Association called
on the board. on tho t,h. and stated
that they had nothing 10 arbitrate and
that they proposed 10 run their wards
and employ whom they pleased With.
outany di.tation- The board sasi sh.v
would get the statement Of the waIk.
ing delegates and transmit il TO the a..
sociatiOn
LENuEL y. JAYNES. a nurse At Belle
vHe Hospital. in New York. was arrested.
on the 81. for dosing a patient to death
with carbolic acid. which. he SAYS. was
administered by mistake.
iUDcE EpwAED r. Noyrs. Of Cincip-
natl. dropped dead in the street on the
9Th, just after leaving the Supreme
Court room whore he had just heard an
injunction case
The American Social Science Asso-
citation met in Minneapolis, Mimi. on
the 4th.
TnE Panama Railroad Company hav-
ing agreed to pay their laborers tho
former rate Of wages, the strikers re-
turned to work on the sth.
THE steamship City OF New York
sailed from Queenstown a. s.45 D. m. -.
on the ith. and the steamship Toutonic
followed fifteen minutes later. There
were large number Of bets made b.
tween passengers on the two vessels as
to the result OF tho race.
IT was reported in Constantinopie, on
the 9Th, that body Of Armcnians had
crossed the frontier from Persia 10 as
sist their prosecuted brethren in Tur-
key.
The Navy Department on the 5th. is
sued advertisements for bids for the con
structIon Of three steel tugs. These are
the vessels for which bids have once
before been advertised and received
but found TO exceed tho appropriations.
The Department has therefore. ma
terially modified the requirements IN
der the present calL
a DISPATCH from tho city Of san Sal
va'iOr says that General Ezeta il en-
gagged IN forming a legal government
for the Salvador Republic. pre- paratory 10
demanding recognition from foreign
powers
THE Socialist congress at Bilbao.
ended with little result The eight
hour scheme is looked upon with small
favor by Spanish workmen-
STANLEY is enjoying himself in the
Alps and has gained greatly in appetite
and strength. He has climbed the Forno
glacier.
Mis- WILLIAM RoBINsoN. of Port
Huron. Mich, has married her adopted
son, George Robinson This makes his
foster mother his wife: his granimother
his mothsr-in-law. and bis foster sis
ters his step-chiljren- Eeing the legal
father Of his wife's children. he i his
Own legal father lie il twenty three
years old and she i forty-three-
Business failures occurring through
out the country, during the seven days
ended the 5th. numbered, for the United
States. I65. and for Canada. III total.
eOa; compared with is9 the proceeding
week For the corresponding week las,
year the figures were s0i, representing
IL failures in the United States ami
= in Canadx