Oxford eagle., 1890-06-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

COLONEL THOMAS NJ BAYNE. Con-
yressman from the Twenry-thiri Penn-
sylyania district. declined renomina-
tion- on the -. and Colonel William VI.
Stein was then nominated Great dis
satisfaetion resulted and resolutions
were passed demanding that the cen
tral committee call new convention
10 place another man in nomination
THE jury in the case of the late Mar
row Gauge disaster at Oakland. Cal,
after n short deliberation. rendered a
verdict on the 81. that the victims of
the accident came 20 their deaths BY
drowning; censures the railroad com
pany for not taking sufficient meas
ures TO signal trains, and finds Engineer
Dunn guilty of manslaughter.
THE Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the Forest Oil Company for ST.
600. 600 and n promise TO take the re-
manning 500. 600 stock at above par, and
is negotiating for the purchase of the
Anchor Oil Company. the second larg-
est and richest producing company in
existence
ESGISEER Folk. while repairing a
pump in the Gallagher shaft of the
Midland eompany's mines at Leadville.
Col. on the night of the Sd. fell to the
bottom. 4 distance of 209 feet and was
rushed into a shapeless mass
The fast stock train on tho Illinois
Central railroad was completely
wrecked. on the i;h. By washOut near
Ackley. Ia More than 100 head Of cat
tie were killed The train men escaped
uni ljured-
THE steamship City Of Pekin made
the fastest time ever made from Hong
Kong TO san Francisco. arriving in the
latter city. on the 4th. after run OF
fifteen days and two hours
THIS Marquis de Mo-es has been sen
tencei to three months Imprisonment
for trying to incite the people of Paris
agairst the Government on the occasion
of th- May-Day demonstration The
Anarc hist. Valee. was sentenced TO one
months imprisonment for similar
sffense-
Two deaths from smallpox have oc-
cured a. HillsborO, \. NJ The quar-
antine laid by the citizens short time
ago was declared of and the guards
taken away from the infected families,
which seems TO have increased the
spread of the disease.
HEKK KKUFr, the gun-maker OF Is
sen, has made proposition toeonstruet
shsp-canal connecting the Danube
With the Adriatic sea
The Gar OF Russia has issued a ukase
ordering the abandonment Of the Rus
sian antiJewish policy for one year
This measure is understood 10 have
been taken in Difference 10 the numer-
tus protests against the recent whole
sale explosions Of Jewish merchants,
LAWYERS and other prominent Hebrews
which have taken place in Russian 20
land. Southern Russia and other parts
Of the Empire
OK the 4rh George Hale, aged forty,
fell from the roof Of house At him
Grove. W. Va, and was impaled on the
sharp points Of . picket fence one
picket tore open his abdomen MS
wounds are probably fatal
FIFTEEN children we're rendered IN
conscious by a stroke OF lightning
which struck the Blissman sehool-nouse
At Flandreau. 5. D.. on the Sth- AL
subsequently recovered
TIE first reception Of the newly
formed Northern Society was held ~
Atlanta. Ga, on the 5th- and was
largely attended BY Northern-born and
Southern-born Geo-gians Interesting
speeches were made BY prominent clti-
xens The society is on the same gen
eral plan as that Of the Southern So
ciety OF New York
Tsx Ftna Rolling Mill Of Wheeling,
w Va. was on the 4th. sold 10 an In
eIish syndicate for s7so,0oa