Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-02-19

AnS susirc ptaut OF the Irf-State IAN
Company at kcokuk, Ia. was complete
ly destroyed by fire on the 10th. How
the fire originated is mystery. The
loss to the company is placed at about
s65.o 900. but the plant was fully insured
The fire will be severe blow to the 200
persons who were employed by the com
pany.
HORRIBLE reports of deprcdations by
wolves have been received from Szansiu.
Hungary. On Baron Woodlaur's estate
alone twenty peasants have been de-
voured by the ravenous beasts. The
government authorities arc organizing
party of hunters which will under
take the determination of the wolves.
w. +. WHARTON. Assistant Secretary
OF State, and Miss Susan Lay were
quietly married in Washington on the
10th Rev. DR. McKin, rector Of Epiph-
any Episcopal Church of that city, per-
formed the ceremony.
The commission Of experts appointed
by the court to examine into the ques-
tion Of the sanity Of James NJ. Dough-
erty. who imagines that Mary Ander-
son is in love with him. and who shot
and killed DIR. Lloyd nj the Flatbush
IN " Insane Asylum last fall, re-
ported on the iIsh. that Doughcrty Is a
monomaaiac. and is las dangerous a
lunatic as il has ever been the lot Of
the commission To encounter" Dough-
erty will be sent To the asylum for in
sane criminals
BksILto RoHEEo. citizen Of Calls
teo. y. NJ. was shot and killed. on the
night of the 9th. in his bedroom by
some unknown as sasssin. II j. claimed
by many that il isanother political mur-
der, Romero having been n strong Re
publican
rAvoRABIE report has been ordered
on the bill for tine erection of 4 new
custom-house in New York City, at a
cost not to exceed $4,000, coo.
THE Iowa Assembly Of the Knights
of Labor convened in annual session at
Des Moines on the IIth.
WILLIAM MARCUS MORTON. ex-Chief
Justice of the Massachusetts, Supreme
Court. died at Andovcr. ON the 10th,
after lingering illness. lie was sew
enty-two years old.
A SCORE of lives were lost, on the
isth, by the explosion of the boiler in
the Quebec CAM worstcds factory.
For some cause the machinery was not
started that morning, and most of the
400 employees had been dismissed and
had departed for their homes.
GESERAaE- +. BRAGG, of Fond du
Lac, Wis. has received $500 from the
- p.t,I paslr..,I (>,,,,.,y f,r -, ;,,~;o.
received by Mrs. Bragg in railroad
accident about Ave years ago.
W. II. ADAMS, former ianitor, per-
petrated bold robbery of the Citizens
Bank of Minneapolis. Mimi, on the
18th. but was pursued, overtaken,
knocked down and jailed.
FIVE persons were seriously-some of
them fatally--burned. at four o'clock
ON the morning of the 18th. at West La
Fayette. Ind, by terrific natural gas
explosion. which completely wrecked
the building in which il occurred, which,
together with an adjoining building.
was destroyed by fire.
FRANK SMITH. the nineteen-year-olsi
train robber who held up a train in
Ohio and robbed the Adams Express
car last October. confessed his crime
and pleaded guilty at Urbana, O., on
the 18th. Smith has agreed to reveal
the names of his aecomplices. and his
sentence will be made lighter in conse-
quence.
IT is the intention of the Czarina TO
go to Athens to meet her son. the
Grand Duke George, who was injured
while travelling in India The Grand
Duke will remain in Athens until con-
valaSeapt