13 Apr 1905
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1905
Page
1
A long Mississippi ledge covers Russo Japanese War movement with Vladivostok dispatches and Russian orders, plus local civic progress. Mentions St. Louis politics, Taft railroad rate talk, mine disasters, and new industrial projects in Jackson, McComb and Leflore with growing rail and factory activity shaping the state.
A compact column highlights industrial commercial and agricultural development across Mississippi. It surveys resources and items gathered from various locales, emphasizing progress and regional growth.
The Mississippi Railroad Commission filed 1905 assessment reports for railways and electric lines. Highlights include Golf and Ship Island Main line at 159.25 miles, Southern Telephone Company main line 27 miles, Electric Railway and Power property valued at 56 000, Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad main line 174.4 miles, Cumberland Telephone Company property value 462 075, Southern Railway main line 17 798 miles, Great Southern Railway main line 18.78 miles, Memphis and Charleston Railway 541 miles. Cross receipts and gross revenues assigned to Mississippi last year are noted for each line, with capital stocks ranging into millions.
The Newton Record notes a man in Beech Springs Adams county named J. P. Pinter claims his father Me. P Pinter is about 111 years old and a German native who came to the U S at age 23. The elder Pinter supposedly landed in New Orleans then Alabama before Mississippi and filing land under government grants seventy six years ago. His son asserts he appears far younger than his age. In Adams county a pigeon farm run by Mrs A P Merrill reports 1500 breeding pairs and weekly trips to New Orleans for pigeons.
A prominent stockraker offers a remedy for charton using four ounces each of iodine, lartshorn, and oil of spike, plus twelve ounces of spirits of turpentine. Mix and rub the affected part with a flannel until it blisters, then question the swollen parts.
The state reports fair progress in plowing and planting with cotton preparation fair, corn widely planted and oats and sugar cane growing well. Weather ranges from favorable to wet across counties like Coahoma Leflore Sunflower and Washington, with fruit prospects cool in the north and peaches failing in some areas.
In a Plymouth Church service Newell Dwight Hillis denounces Rockefeller gifts to the American board of foreign missions. He condemns wealth and trusts, quoting the duty of the strong to bear the weak and the danger of gifts without gratitude, warning of a future shaped by economic power.
The federal grand jury in Portland indicts 15 prominent men from Oregon and Washington for conspiring to defraud the government of public lands. Named include State Senator R A Booth of Booth Kelly Lumber Co and several officials, businessmen, and a minister from Rowbur, Seattle, Fossil and other locations.
Augustus Kinz of Minneapolis left a fortune, and in his will he provides for Henrietta Bateman, daughter of a former sweetheart. Henrietta, once of Minneapolis and later Montclair, Colo., will receive about $150 000. The story recalls Kinz courting her mother years earlier, then marrying someone else.
The new Indiana marriage law will take effect in days and declares marriages performed out of state by Indiana residents void upon their return unless a bona fide residence in the state where married is proven. Gov. Hanley plans bold enforcement to curb elopements. Additional briefs note Taft railway-rate cuts welcomed in Panama, a drowning death in Perkins Oklahoma, and the elderly Mrs. Watkins in Ill., with descendants. One item mentions Gen Powell Clayton leaving Mexico for Arkansas on June with a farewell banquet planned.
A readable fragment discusses John D Rockefeller III heir Johnnie Rockefeller and his stance on wealth, economics, and status among the American elite. The piece frames his views amid coverage of wealth distribution and social privilege.
A 1900s column cites Rev Newell Dwight Hilles critique of John D Rockefeller's gift to the American Board of Foreign Missions. The text attacks the trust and its effects, arguing the “American Beauty” requires sacrifice of small business. It warns against greed and defends Christlike charity while condemning large fortunes.
The speaker argues the lawyer’s sanction is the proper administration of law and condemns unprincipled lawyers who aid criminals. He defends defending the guilty as necessary while decrying those who profit by shielding wrongdoing and plundering others with legal talent.
The General Conference of the Metropolitian Episcopal Church South meets March 2 1916 in Birmingham Alabama and a May 1 committee meeting will pick the venue. City officials expect about 500 delegates over roughly thirty days with Birmingham Commercial Club pledging active support and hospitality. A strong local delegation plans to push for the conference here.
Important witness in the Harris brothers and Bdt Callahan cases to be tried here on charges of complicity in the murder of James Cockrill at Jackson. His absence caused three postponements of the trial.
Detla Woodall of Mansfeld Tennessee accuses Pace and a contractor of abducting her young niece. The incident occurred in Paris where officials say the men took the girl to answer for the alleged abduction. Suell
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