Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-01-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JOHN REED. convicted of attempted
rain wreeking At Greenbush- y. Y.
September T. was taken into court at
Dannemora prison for seven years
His accompliees. Arthur Buell. and
Thomas l. Cain. entered pleas of guilty
10 the Indictment Buell. was given
two years in Clinton prison and Cain
three years and eight months The
three men broke down and sobbed aloud
when sentence was pronounced
AxAS named Hallett. of Camden. Ne,
who had been in Boston selling horses.
was robbed Of s., 400 while asleep on a
night Pullman car on which he was ne
turning home on the asth-
LIZ fight at Clinton. Pa, on the 5oth,
James Grundy literally cut Edward Me-
10y 70 pieces with huge knife before
byssanderx could interfere and disarm
him
W. C. MURRAY, q prominent merchant
tailor of Toronto. Ont, has fed to the
United States leaving a large number
of creditors His total liabilities are es-
timated at $4,000
HENRY LUTz- eighty-tvxo years old.
who has been a tramp in this country
tor many years was arrested near
South bethlehem. Pa. recently, by
three detectives and taken to New
York City. He Is wanted in Germany
for numbering a whole family thirty
years ago
AUNT F. SY SMITH, a peculiar char
acter, who lives at the foot of Sinking
mountain. near TalluIah Falls. Ga.
was recently raided by revenue officers
and 800 gallons of Illicit liquor de-
stroyed
A DISPATCH from Shanghai announces
the death of Prince Chun, the father of
the Emperor of China
The total production of cotton in the
South for the last six years was "a. .Ooo.-
600 bales. worth. including the value of
seed sold. about 8. 500 Ooo. co.
GENERAL SPINNER died at his home
in Jacksonville. Fla. on the 3ist The
remains were taken to Mohawk. N v,
for interment-
ANDREW BoRsExsox. who was con-
victed at LitehfieId- Conn. of murder
IN the first degree for the killing at New
Milford of Elma Anderson, was SEN
teneed- ON the SIst-to be hanged January
.. 1sSs-
The family of BENJAMIN Sours was
poisoned at Luray, Va, on the Ist- by
eating pumpkin pies which were sup
posed to contain rat poison Mr.. Sours
and one child died and the others are
dangerously i'll
FIRE did 5000. 600 damage in Clinton
On " prison on tbs LIST Three hundred
prisoners stampeded in an attempt to
escape, but they did not succeed in get
ting out
The escaped murderers, wordugo and
Juan Jacinto. were surrounded. on the
LIST, IN the Black Hills. on the spur of
the Tucson mountains, three miles from
Tucson, Ariz The refugees are well
armed
Dr. Koch. who had left Berlin for a
short vacation suddenly returned to
the city on the 1st He was summoned
back to attend a patient to whom BY
accident an overdose of the lymph ad
been administered
JOHN T. MILLER. living near Lewis
burg. o., was placed in the county Jail
~ = Ct1lEt CECEtL--CFtLGc Qf--
tective, on the 3lst, charged with max
ing counterfeit gold coin His arrest
was the result of confession by one of
his agents
PATRICK McCABE, unmarried. met .
horrible death at GARDENER & Downer's
ioe-house at Sehodaek Landing, n. ",
on the 1st- His clothes caught IN q
revolving shaft. around which he was
carried until mangied beyond recogni-
ton
VlcroR SIuDLET, very fast young
man of nineteen was arrested in Lin
coin. Neb-. on the Sist, for series of
forgeries- Studley is son of the late
Editor Studley of the Albany On. W
Express Young studley's forgeries are
said 10 aggregate several thousand dol-
lars
ExeISEKR COOLEY, of Minneapolis.
MINI, has created excitement among
people who own property on the shores
Of beautiful Lake Minnetonka by an
uouneing that the level Of the watsr in