29 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1891
Page
1
A chaotic collage of reports spans politics, disasters, and crime. Witness accounts from Washington discuss Senate debates on journal appeals and rule amendments while international events unfold with floods, strikes, and unrest. Local incidents include a bricklayer’s fall, a hospital operation, and labor shifts amid wartime pressures.
Woes Howan, kin to the Hoos Howard family of Harlan County Kentucky, is jailed in San Francisco. He is accused of killing eight men and recently completed a sentence for robbing a stage in Calaveras County California. Saloons in Owensboro were closed for the first time in twenty years. Inez Sanda is mentioned. ex-Treasurer Woxhuif of Arkansas faces scrutiny showing a shortage. A fatal accident at Decatur Alabama involved Serugistexpest Wirees of the American Ona Extract Company killed when clothes were caught and dragged in machinery. The week’s ore lead and zinc output across Missouri districts is noted, along with various deaths and public-health notes. A review of General Miles’ Army of the West describes a harsh winter march and a grand parade through Sioux country near Wounded Knee, with many officers and regiments named. The piece blends crime, industry, health, and military reportage in a single sprawling dispatch.
The report recounts Eugene Story’s life of crime in Holmes and Attala counties, his brutal murder conviction, death sentence, and a dramatic jailbreak from Holmes County jail aided by friends. It notes rewards, pursuit, and later legal notes about county officials and other local matters.
Comic snippets from multiple papers include punch lines about war, social habits, and everyday quirks. The items reference Harvard Lampoon Boston Traveller Indianapolis Journal and Chicago Tribune style quips about women fashion dreams and small talk with family.
The case against Wm Rhett ticket agent of the Sa abduction of Mary Williams a twelve year old from Jersey City was heard in court yesterday Williams testified Rhett met her and a girl about six weeks ago at a ferry house sold papers on the beach promised nice things if they would come to New York They crossed the ferry and rode in a cab for about an hour He did not molest her but the testimony raises questions about his ties with the other girl Ef Batie Plyno’s story is cited as true and Rhett faces further questions.
A frustrated candidate is humiliated on stage as a heckler demands cash and the crowd reacts with scorn. The scene, described in the San Francisco News Letter, shows a faltering speaker and a defeated nominee retreating from the platform while a band plays.
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