14 Feb 1889
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1889
Page
1
Fragmented reports cover diverse topics including French politics, American railway workers, California agriculture, Indian policy, Arkansas law, and international affairs. Names appear inconsistently with places like Wisconsin California Connecticut New York Washington Hayti and London Contemporary Review.
Broad summary of congressional debate on trusts and funding bills, with mentions of Union Pacific funding, Sundry Civil and Des Moines river lands, Army and Naval appropriations, and a Senate Nicaragua Canal conference. Also notes private pension bills, Creek land cessions, and a presidential message. Reports of trials, fires, crimes, and other global briefs accompany a dense rounds-up style.
Reported by Senator Shemwas on foreign relations sets a Panama security mandate for U S citizens. The piece mentions Mason Portes in Haiti, Bishop Heser V. Larrescuer, and varied state and international political items including Utah admission, Idaho Wyoming Arizona, Thurston for Interior, Samoa, Berlin recall, and Samoa consular matters.
An explosion of gas in the Perry shaft at Pittston Pennsylvania killed two miners and seriously wounded another.
The Senate approved a substitute for the general desertion bill, removing desertion charges from volunteers of the late war who served to term or until May 1, 19, while detailing restoration steps for those who rejoined. It covers Navy and Marine reenlistments, Mexican War cases, and requires filings within three years. An immediate conference on the bill was requested.
Mitwacker Wis Feb 9 Irish-Americans are stirred by statements before the National League Commission about a meeting with President Sullivan. J G Donnelly, state league executive and probate official, denounces Beach testimony as false claiming Sullivan’s Milwaukee visit included Beach and a violent talk.
A Missouri delegation urges executive clemency for William Walker and John and Wiley Matthew, Christian County Bald Knobbers sentenced to hang, amid petitions from Springfield business leaders. Officials defer a final ruling, while claims the group has dissolved mount. A separate spree of violence and dynamite incidents are also noted in Stevens Point and St. Louis with ongoing investigations.
Transcripts of the Samoa conference show Germany England and the United States debating a native led election and a foreign advisor role. Key points include a new king election free of external pressure, a possible five year German mandate, and a land court to settle titles. Bayard urged native self government and equal powers while West supported a German led initial tenure. The talks adjourned to autumn for clearer instructions and protocol submission.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin account recounts an albatross kept aboard ship for six weeks amid cold decks and tropics, detailing feeding struggles and a daring capture by hand. The speaker imagines the wandering albatross enriching the hemisphere's avifauna and notes a dramatic chase alongside the vessel.
A dialogue between Mr Brown and Mr Jones argues for nurturing eccentric boys who pursue nature and experiments. They warn against punishing curiosity and propose supporting hobbies like microscopes, chemistry sets, and natural history books to foster potential inventors and scientists.
A compact reprint of aphorisms on temper, ambition, thought, and originality from authors such as Emerson Sir T Browne Thomas Brooks and Sir Philip Sidney. S&S Times style concisely comments on self knowledge and resolve.
The graphic piece links baseball to Shakespearean lines from King Lear Merry Wives Twelfth Night Hamlet Cymbeline Romeo and Juliet Alls Well Hamlet Troilus and Cressida Macbeth Timon of Athens Coriolanus and more to frame the game as a rural English pastime. The essay plays on lines about catching pitching and scoring to celebrate the sport through literary allusion.
A fashionable caterer argues that a dinner priced with champagne would cost the same with beer and lemonade. He insists propriety prevents asking any young man to wait at table without extra compensation.
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