16 Jan 1890
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1890
Page
1
A garbled late 19th century column mentions a Decate tour, misidentified figures, a penision offer, and a death. It notes masked men, a boy murderer being hanged, unrest over treaties, and church mourning. References include Africa, France, the Paris Peace year, and a World’s Fair hearing in Chicago along with political moves in the Ohio Legislature.
A review of Senate and House activities includes oath administrations to Representative Kamdall of Pennsylvania, debate on district appropriations, and tributes to mourned figures as governors, judges, and lawmakers. Obituaries, wills, and court actions surface alongside disaster reports from Nanking floods and a Riverside mills fire.
William Darragh Kelley of Pennsylvania died last evening at age about twenty six after a long cancer ordeal. Family present included daughter Julie Kelley Horstman and secretary J H Weiry. services planned at Laurel Hill Cemetery Philadelphia then likely at St. Mary’s Church. Kelley served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania and brief House of Representatives terms, with a career guiding economic and industrial policy and trade issues.
A mangled mixed list notes Mant E Kepsoap widow of a famed preacher, a Germany fortune, a monument bill for John Sevier, a thirty two quart strawberry shipment from Charleston to New York, frost and heat impacts on agriculture, a farmer killed by a runaway horse, a Virginia fugitive killed resisting arrest, and a Kentuckian crash. Also Chinese exclusion debate, railroad expansion to Georgia, and several postmasters listed.
News items describe Fred Kid hanged in Grove Hill Alabama, and four others sentenced to death with two more to be hanged in North Carolina. A fire in Summit South Carolina kills Taylor and injures his wife, while poisoning claims and a drowning in Louisville follow caisson flooding. Willie Wallace is freed from a Georgia jail by masked men. other reports cover a Chesterfield street duel, a diphtheria outbreak in West Virginia, and bonds trading in New York futures.
A long illustrated extract offers a tribune like appraisal of Andrew H. Lowry's eight year term as Mississippi governor. It discusses fiscal policy education reforms and legislative duties while urging improvements in tax collection and county administration. The piece traces national economic influences and praises Lowry’s patriotic guidance to lawmakers.
A Brooklyn disaster at 2 Trowp avenue as the Pres byterian Church walls collapsed in a night wind. Two people died from injuries and several others perished or were hurt in the chaos. Names and ages listed include Mary Purdy and Carrie Purdy among the dead, with Emma Purty among those injured. Dr. Lewis B Foote leads the church as pastor.
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