18 Aug 1892
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1892
Page
1
The report lists diverse items from labor strikes in Indiana to visits by state officials, international diplomacy with Chili and China, coinage debates, Warsaw and Moscow health notes, and colonial ventures. It mentions people like Jomes W. Desven, Supt Potter, and various unnamed delegates, reflecting a broad, scattered news briefing.
A collage of brief notices covers accidents and crimes across the United States. Reports include a seafold fall and death, political tensions on push for home rule, tramps entering Maytown, a fatal landslide near Whiteburg, horse stealing in Cheyenne, widespread sheep theft confession in Catawba, tax and legal actions, and Knights Templar events in Denver. Various weather, fires, drownings, and public notices appear, with multiple political and legal updates from June to August.
Telegraph items report a club manager drawing a gun during a Carrollton La game on the 15th, killing spectator Robert Jones and badly wounding Louis Foster and Richard Williams. Separate dispatches note a fatal fight in Edwardsville Ala between boys over politics, and other varied Civil War era notes.
Three hundred sixty one convicts arrived under guard and were driven from Tracy City by armed miners. The mob torched stockades and mine buildings, killing a white man and wounding a colored man as shipments and telegraph lines were cut. Miners seized convicts and marched them to the railroad, threatening further attacks at Coal Creek as militia appeals rise.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury T Spanl ing returns from Europe after five weeks studying steamship lines handling emigrants. He found companies largely comply with U S requirements and avoid pauper or sick emigrants, with strict pre embarkation and in voyage medical inspections in Hamburg Antwerp Rotterdam London and Liverpool.
RB G Dans weekly trade review notes crop reports below expectations and labor disputes dampening manufacturing, while iron and steel see mixed demand. Global shipping, gold exports, and money markets shift as factory output and wages adjust, with several western firms settling controversies and stock activity fluctuating through the week.
In Tonganoxy near Leavenworth Kansas tensions flare after Ada Waymer accuses Noah Ashby of assault. Negro residents protect Ashby as 300 armed black men stay near the jail while white residents gather armed crowds. City officials urge calm amid threats of lynching and a tense standoff.
Jackson Aug 15 Unquestioned authority confirms Henry Sherling of Morriston assassinated last Sunday at Ben Duncan’s house in Marion County acted as a Southern Express Company detective. The trio Jackson Aberdeen Eugene Bunch Col Hopgood and Ben Duncan robbed the Hlinets Central train at Tangipshos April 15. Sherling allegedly told of the robberies and was killed when he was seen as a threat.
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