Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-12-08
ISs., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1892.

NicE-PREsIpEyr CrorGu Of the Crra.
northern railroad says he expects to
nave the road completed 10 Seattl.
wash. by the sist. when the business
men OF St Paul will hold n vr~,, d.,,.
onstratson in honor Of the event
IHE steamer Chilcat arrived a, Sat.
tie, wash, on the 1st. from Ala,Isa.
with s.s90 cases Of salmon the lax,
pack OF the season. She reported severe
weather At juneau. with two feet a.
snow on the level.
JAY Govr.p, the great Huanci.r and
american railroad king. died at the
s,ouid mansion on Fifth avenue. New
fork city. at OILS n m. on the ri. q,
pulmonary consumption. lie was in
his hfty-sixth year.
iHE official count % the vote Of Wis
cons'n has been completed. amt /. n,
follows; Peck (den.l. for rovrrnor
ils.l9s; >poouer (rep.l. i70, s54. Pecs.,
plurality, 5.s44.
IwrSrv-FoCR new cases were re-
cetved at the smallpox hospital in sat.
tie. Wash. on the fst
kiRE IN tenement house in FIushins
avenue. Brooklyn, on the morning n
the ID, resulted in the death OF two
persons-father and child-and the Sc
rious injury Of at least . half dozen
others
MAJ T. HEINRICH. OF the Fourth
siiesian infantry Germany. has beer
sentenced by court-martial to one year.
Imprisonment for causing the death ot
seven privakes last summer. Heinrich
commanded his whole battalion te
swim the river Niesse in all their nc.
euutrements. and the seven men wer,
drowned.
The number Of arrests for post Office
ourgiaries in the past year was sos. as
against lf3 the preceding year. !. los
post Offices were reported to have been
entered during the year There wa.
only 5.0eo complaints of all kinds re-
eeived during the year. which is 81
less than last year
THx annual report of the fourth
assistant postmaster general show.
that the number of Establishments oi
new post offices during the past year
was .. los. a greater mum ber than during
any previous year. with the exception
OF 1890, when il was 4.Fs7
COMMODORE W I. FOIsER. chief o.
ordnance. returned 10 New York, on
the I'd, from Bethlehem, Pa, after ac-
cepting n lot Of barbette arrnor for IN.
new war ships lie says the result ot
the tests was in the line OF general ex-
eellence which has characterized the
nickel steel srmor from the first
JAMES SrRArHKR. keeper Of n saloon
/ in Grrencastle, Ind. was shot and
mortally wounded, ou the night Of the
ist, by a tramp who entered the saloon
at the hour of closing. and demanded
strather's money. The latter reached
I for his gun, but was shot before he
could use it The assassin escaped.
| GEORGE l. BAGLEY. the 500. 600 ex-
press robber. was arraigncd. on the
/ I'd, before Judge Charles Waterman OF
the district court at Davenport. Ia.
and pleaded not guilty. As far as
known the defense will be insanity.
some days viii elapse before the trial
/ begins.
A FIRE in the tenement house SIS
Flushing avenue. Broolslyn. at o'cloct
on the morning of the I'd. resulted in
the death of Michael Doyle. 30 years
old. and Nellie Doyle, } years oId-fa-
ther and ehild-and the serious in jury
Of at least half a dozen Others
LIZZIE BORDEN was indicted on two
counts for the murder OF her father
and step-mother, by the grand jury al
Taunton. Mass. on the I'd
THE steamer Graystolse, of London
was wrecked at the mouth of the river
EIbe, on the III, and her entire crew oi
twenty-three persons were drowned