17 Jul 1890
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1890
Page
1
The report covers diverse items including financial actions in Uruguay, political figures in New York and California, a London police strike threat, Egypt evacuation notes, Colorado land for settlers, a Russian influence on commerce, and colonial labor issues. It notes a Philippine or Latin American context and reference to patent protection, cholera in Valencia, and U.S. political intrigue with a broad array of international developments.
Senate and House wrangle over land grants railroading rights admittance of Wyoming and various appropriation bills. Conference committee reports on consular and diplomatic appropriation and the river and land acts are debated as explosions, deaths, and other incidents fill the day’s rough consolidated notices.
A Dartmouth Nova Scotia ferry landing stage collapsed tonight as about 150 people waited for the Annex from New York. Five bodies recovered include a woman named Silver and her child, plus others identified as Lynott and two eyidiers. Rescue crews saved many as the crowd surged into the water and onlookers helped from the wharf.
The Forty Fourth act approves Wyoming admission as a U S state. The report details Wyoming’s area seven point nine eight square miles and population estimates, with notes on geography rivers and the economy. It cites political leanings, territorial legislature results, and potential future rank among states.
In New York on July 12 the cloax-maxers and their employers met after a strike. Of six demands four were conceded. Pay for time lost was withdrawn temporarily, and the discharge of striking workers occupying jobs was the main sticking point. No agreement arose, a second meeting planned for today, and it is believed the strike is nearly settled.
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