Oxford eagle., 1894-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIRE works of the American Grape
sugar Co. a. Buffalo. y Y. were de
stroycd by fire on the 18th The lives
Of sixty Of the night worSmen on the
top hoors were imperiled. and after
The fire many OF them were missing
Loss. 81. .e00, 900; insurance. sJO0. .O10.
THE American Railway union has
asked Judge Duudy of the federal
court at Omaha. Neb.. to order saiaries
Of monthly paid men on the Union
Pacific restored 70 the figures existing
prior to September last. and that the
restoration date from the receivership
in October.
The Belmont mill at Wheeling. ".
Va. resumed. on the 10th. after ten
months idleness, employing 500 men.
The operating of this mill viii start
other departments soon. giving en-
ployment TO nearly 1000 idle hands
By an explosion of dynamite in dy-
namite laboratory near Doeinitz. in
Aecklenburg-Schw on the 9th. the
bodies of three workmen were literally
blown to the winds. while five Others
were horribly mangled and fatally in
jured. The wrecsage of the buildings
was s.rewn about the adjacent fields,
some of the debris being carried half
4 mile away.
GEORGE WILLIAM THOMAS BRuDES-
ELL-BKucE, marquis of Ailesbury, died
in London on the 10th He was born
In 1868.
A DAsrABDLY attempt was made at
Huron, O., at midnight of the 9th, to
wreck train No ;. the east-bound flyer,
on the Lake Shore road By the
meress accident the attempt was dis
covered in time to prevent what would
have proved rival of the grea: Ashia-
bala disaster.
The second trial of Richard $
Heath. charged with the murder OF
Louis Il MeWhirter. prominent poll
tician of Fresno. Cal. resulted. on the
18th. in another disagreement. the
jury. which had been out five days,
standing ten for conviction and two
for scquittaL
The United Mineworlxers' convea-
dered general strike, to begin April
81.
The snow at Northumberland and
bloomsbury, Pa, was two feet deep,
on the nth. and still falling
The Rock Island officials have com
plimented Engineer J. ID. Mckinney
and presented him with $3.50 gold
watch for ignoring the signal of train
robbers few months ago and prevent
- ". 4 II a
at the engineer struck the cab.
DURING the temporary absence at
noon, on the 18th, of the clerk and
cashier OF the Wallace Exchange bank
Mt Beaver Falls, Pa, thief. who had
gained an entrance 10 the celler, cut a
hole through the vault floor and robbed
the bank of IS. 500 in cash. making
good his escape and leaving no clew to
his identity.
The town of Belview, Mimi. had a
narrow escape from being completely
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Eleva-
tors belonging to Mulford Elevator Co.
and the Interstate Grain Co, of Min
neapolis. were burned, with 5000
bushels of grain; loss, $1,000.
MAJOR, the anarchist, who was ar
rested in Paris, on the llth, on sus-
piciou of having exploded bomb in
front of the house of Judge Peie, in
Argeuntel, was liberated on the l2th,
for want of evidence
A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked
the home of William Malseed, Of Nc
Keesport. Pa, on the t2th. Mira NAL
seed and her 19-year-old daughter Efie
were fatally burned BY the explosion
ALFRED ANDERSON, serving : life
term in the Anamosa TIA penitsntiary
for the murder of ! farmer near Fort
Madison last fall, escaped from the
prison on the night Of the llth. his
flight not being dsleeted until the next
morning. The state offers reward of
~ for his capture