20 Feb 1908
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
1
The judiciary committee reports oppose several bills including a state pardons board and a county officers hours seal, while favored measures move forward. Senate bills on tax refunds, education salaries, and a professions license pass, as debate over the fellow servant rule shifts to a steam vessel bill.
Both houses held committee meetings in the afternoon while preparing bills and resolutions. They accepted an invitation from Adams county representatives to join Natchez Mardi Gras festivities on March 2. A House bill would regulate primary elections for U S Senate and judicial offices, signaling a policy shift. A measure cut the 1906 Mississippi vote price from 5 to 2 with one dissent. The Senate approved an option for funding Capitol care and maintenance after delays.
Senate hourslong debate ends with bucketshop bill passed by unanimous vote after amendments by Anderson and sent back to the House for concurrence. In the House the George county creation bill failed 52 to 57 after a tight vote. A Stennis resolution proposes limiting measures reported after Saturday.
Bills listed include Vance proposing to amend code on sale of land for taxes Seawright to ban sale of goods on credit Rowas to regulate wages Hebron to secure notice for arrival and departure of trains
The committee on agriculture reported favorable on two bills. One would create a department of farmers' institutes linked to the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The other would authorize a livestock sanitary board aimed at eradicating the cattle tick. Both are believed to pass.
The Senate passes a resolution on a probe into suspected misappropriations and backs a House bill proposing a fourteenth circuit court district. Debate centers on prohibition amendments. Tucker’s plan for counties with no licensed saloons is defeated. House conducts routine business and agrees to amended Roddie bill outlawing bucketshops and future gambling from June 1, 1908.
Mr Engle stirs Senate by offering a resolution demanding the ejectment of all lobbyists from the chamber and naming men tied to the Cumberland Telephone Company. The House rains bills, including $1500 for sixteenth section land case costs and $400 to Stone & Lively for prosecuting Sheriff Poag’s killers. Levee tax and railroad worker bill advance.
Fragmentary record shows proposals by Mr Engle-Desi on liability and motives, Mr Pricee on amending code with section 12, Mr Norrell seeking a pistol ban state wide, and Mr Seawright aiming to restore cul mets with opposed poem fragment titled Poem of Coonaw.
At Meridian grand lodge the Widows and Orphans Home endowment stands at 676.25 with 57000 invested and 10346 in treasurer’s hands. the fund is nearing 100000 as a permanent home endowment. Yazoo leads common school fund allocations while significant cases and public notices appear across the state.
Witzhoff acknowledges a past residence in St. Louis and claims to have had 32 wives. The report notes the extraordinary number as part of a sensational profile in the local column.
The Evening News prints the first installment of Arthur Hynes alias F. A. Shots alias Weston and Witzhof who was sentenced in Bristol to seven years' penal servitude. He claims 32 marriages and a life of crime begun after a dentistry apprenticeship and rapid Venice-like aliases.
Admiral Simpson of the Chilean navy aboard the Chacabuco reports Admiral Evans leads the fleet toward Callao via Valparaiso. Evans is in improved health and the sea passage proceeds as planned.
Violence erupts in Van Asia Minor after Armenian resistance to Turkish soldiers over seized weapons leads to a magazine explosion. The blast destroys a church and much of the Armenian quarter, with many killed or buried amid the rubble. Van, a 20 000 population city with American mission presence, reports no mission casualties.
Report from Santa Monica describes Japanese workers on a northern bluff mapping cliff faces near the bay. A small pivot gun 185 feet above the sea is fired in different directions, stirring fears a portion of an American battleship may enter the bay for several days.
George Washington, a Black man accused of brutally assaulting his wife in Salina, was taken from Ellsworth jail by a masked mob on Wednesday. He was horsewhipped, then shot in the shoulder as he left town, and traveled to Wilson for medical care where doctors say he will recover.
In Washington the Senate debated Senator Clay of Georgia on the Aldrich currency bill. Loige and Teller offered views on government paper money. House actions included placing salaries for department secretaries into abeyance, with Macon citing an appropriation bill as the venue. Cortelyou forwarded a 2 million dollar request for a new bureau building. Judiciary committee to hold hearings on Interstate Commerce Act amendments. Rodenberg introduced a bill for notice of injunctions in employer disputes and contempt procedures.
The American fleet under Admiral Evans nears Valparaiso after passing the Magellan Strait in fast voyage. Diplomats from many nations will join a formal reception as the ships approach, with President Montt and Chilean officials aboard the training ship General Huáscar.
Berlin reports allege Tsar Nicholas II justified anti Jewish mobs in a private audience with Count Konow nitzy leader of Odessa branch of the Genuine Russians Union saying courts must convict but sentences shall not be carried out. The policy aligns with the speech, according to German Jewish Relief League sources.
Washington hearings before the house committee on labor on the Gardner bill begin Tuesday and run to February 27. The bill limits daily hours for borers and mechanics on U S government work. General Pell recommends higher pay for enlisted soldiers following the Dick Capron plan with some scale differences.
Mrs. Jane Dowie of near Muskegon aims to lead the Christian Catholic Church and reunite Zion factions. She plans to rally followers of the late John Alexander Dowie to her standard and made a secret visit to Zion City Tuesday, per statements in Waukegan Illinois.
John Bailey of Baileytown, three miles south of Millville, reports a Black Hand extortion attempt. A demand for $50, tied to an old tree on Spring Garden road, gives two weeks to pay or face death in a peculiar manner.
New Cumberland Pa veteran Probst held in Wormleyburg jailed for defending his home with a shotgun as Pennsylvania railroad sought to seize part of his back yard. Judge Saddler discharged him under $500 bond to keep the peace.
The sultan of Turkey, aged 66, has become a father to a daughter named Samieh. He now has seven sons and six daughters, making the total fourteen children.
Cape Town reports a speech in Johannesburg by General Smuts, Transvaal colonial secretary, angering Dutch South Africans due to the juxtaposition of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger.
Washington reports the death of Rear Admiral Seth M. Ackley United States Navy aged 62. He previously commanded the naval stations at Olongapo and Cavite, reflecting a distinguished career in the Asiatic fleet and naval operations.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the federal district court in Chicago after a creditors conference with Heath and Milligan, a long established paint manufacturer.
Independent Confederates based in Waco Texas report Pat Cleburne Casso of the United States Confederate Veterans adopted a resolution strongly objecting to soliciting the government for pensions for Confederate soldiers.
Robert A Ault, 37, manager of the Chicago branch of Ault-Woodford Co., was found unconscious with a cut throat in a Turkish bath at 137 Clark Street early Thursday. A knife lay nearby and he had behaved oddly all day. Doctors say he cannot recover.
In Washington the liquor issue was raised as Senator Clay of Georgia challenged a code revision vote. He argued the bill would change existing law by permitting mail order liquor into prohibition states or counties. The contention arose from omitting the prohibition from the revised criminal code.
The senate approved a bill amending railroad rate laws to include superannuated and disabled employees and furloughed workers in the free transportation provision. It also allows back and forth travel for road employees as needed.
An attempt to wreck the New York Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad occurred Wednesday. A tie and stones were placed on the track but found and moved by a section boss before the train arrived. Steve Vargo and John Metro were arrested nearby.
Vinell H. Wal lace a 21 year old guard faced a preliminary hearing after a coroner's verdict found felonious responsibility for the death of Henry Willmore, an 80 year old St. Louis private patient at the state insane asylum in Farmington Missouri.
New York photographer and former actor Burr Mcintosh, who runs a studio at 44 West Thirty-ninth Street and publishes the Burr Mcintosh Monthly, has filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition.
Middletown residents contend with a murder as Mrs Janet Bow ers a widow living alone was killed at Pleasant Walk Frederick County. The body was found in her home bearing ax marks in a grisly crime scene.
The Buckingham village of Fawley was stunned by a quintuple murder at the home of F. H. Holmes, a prosperous brewer. Police investigation begins as residents reel from the violent crime.
Memphis teen captain William M. Forrest, son of Confederate cavalry leader Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, died after paralysis struck him while watching a play. The death follows his illness and public notice of his condition.
Senator Rayner led discussion on reserves of national banks and revisited remarks from Wednesday during Aldrich currency bill debate. The session focused on legal framework and objections raised earlier in the week.
Washington Senator Fulton on Thursday introduced a bill to appropriate 403020 dollars to the archbishop of Manila as the representative of the Roman Catholic church in the Philippines. The payment would settle all claims against the United States for damage to church property caused by military occupation.
In Freeland Pennsylvania an elderly resident Peter Rosinko succumbed to pneumonia after refusing medical treatment despite a fortune teller's 1908 death prophecy. In Fort Worth Texas Emma Dillard, the city’s heaviest woman at 653 pounds, died at her residence.
Pittsburg records its first leap year marriage when John Hull, 47, a prosperous North Side bookkeeper, shoots himself in a suicide just before clocking out to go home. He leaves no note, and the sudden tragedy shocks coworkers and neighbors.
Stockholm King Gustaf opened the first parliament of his reign and stated no bill granting women the parliamentary vote would be expected in the current session.
In Meridian Mississippi near Graham's Station three African Americans fired on millman Cooper Henderson and county convict manager Samuel Culpepper Wednesday night. Henderson was fatally wounded and Culpepper seriously injured. The assailants fled but posses pursue them.
Beaumont Texas endures a day and night of heavy rainfall causing city and rural flooding. High water halts traffic and delays railroad trains while Sabine and East Texas tracks suffer serious damage. Houston reports especially severe winds with the storm.
Mrs. Josie Pratt of Leavenworth Kansas arrived here at 2 o clock Thursday morning and at noon began the trip home with her 16 year old runaway daughter Alice who had come here to marry Albert Buschek. Habeas corpus proceedings filed by Buschek were dismissed by Circuit Judge Akers.
A tram p was struck and killed instantly by an express train at the Otter Street water tank of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Bristol Pennsylvania. The victim wore three coats and three vests but could not be identified.
New York State Attorney General William J. Jackson announced on Friday a request for the appointment of a receiver for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co. The legality of certain liens on policies has been questioned.
John McMillan aged 86 died Thursday in a derelict house on the outskirts of Chattanooga Tennessee. Authorities estimate his fortune at least 150000 dollars and are examining the circumstances of his death.
The Toledo Times has been sold by the Scripps-McRae Syndicate to George Dun, owner of the Daily Citizen. The Times is described as the city's only daily morning newspaper and Dun’s purchase expands his local newspaper holdings.
Two masked men armed with pistols boarded a through freight train in the Chicago suburbs on the Chicago and Alton line. They held up the brakeman conductor and a stockman and escaped with the loot.
Mrs. Goforth of 2119 Holly Street in Kanes City reports after using a sample bottle and two 25 cent bottles of Hunt's Lightning O18 she is nearly well from catarrh and says the medicine stops her headaches and is the best she has ever used.
A Reston child wanders the town seeking a bakery, lamenting the lack of sweets amidst a leafy setting. The scene captures a small-town longing with a note of surprise at the missing familiar treats.
Fragmented text references names and places like Cheney and Tout in an unclear notice. It mentions family items and possible committee or commission context with scattered phrases about notices and public affairs.
An odd collage of street joke about a lost pocket book with $20 000 and a tramps claim, seeds and mail order catalog from Saber Co of La Crosse Wisconsin, and a note about John A Saber. It ends with a Sunday Magazine anecdote about Senator Hoar and a foolish whist partner.
A tale from Youth's Companion features Washington Lafayette Johnson desperate for money. He offers his own handwritten note as security, claiming his education has given him a good handwriting. His friends doubt the value of such an asset in hard times.
Rural postmasters were asked in a government form about their marital status. Answers varied from "Fine and dandy" to "Fairly middling" and even "The worst" as they described personal domestic life. The item notes humorous and candid responses to a sensitive census-like query.
A renowned German doctor claims caffeine in coffee weakens heart muscles and can lead to organic disease. He cites his personal and clinical experience recommending Postum as a healthful, non stimulant beverage for those with heart concerns.
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