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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1896
Page
1
Fragmented notes discuss a shifting era with references to a time in January 1900, changes in governance and education, and remarks on pharmacy history. The text wanders through cultural, religious, and colonial topics, mentioning various places and figures, including surveys of population and language among settlements.
The agricultural department urges schools nationwide to observe a designated third day, either separate or combined with Arbor Day, to teach native bird appreciation and protection. reports include varied international and domestic events from ports to weather, crimes, and political notes.
The column outlines vacant land statistics for Mississippi with homestead notes and county panels. It also reports on a Jackson July 11 telegrams exchange about JW Jones a showman who failed in speed trials, capitol building plans reviews by a state commission, lunatic asylum trustees’ changes, a burial notice for J Winston Cooper, and freight charges comparisons illustrating railroad costs per acre versus transport costs.
July 1 gathering of Confederate Veterans in Corinth included Maj W. Bysem as commander and addresses by Capt A Menderson and Geo FM Savery. The event featured songs by the Deagraters and a recitation by Mise Mary Lac dere, with discussions on restoration and war memory. A separate note reports Elmore’s death and a shooting death in Sardis, plus local court actions and agricultural updates from nearby towns.
A chaotic digest reports a tailor James Fueson shooting his wife near Rockford and fleeing. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s estate offered for probate in Hartford. a man fatally shot at Siloam Springs by Mrs Kinser. a terror spree of arson in Scioto Meigs and Gallia counties. immigration stats for the year. the death of Bosaxya Fouteh in Zanesville under peculiar circumstances. Judge J. Fieco ill at Paso Robles. weekly US immigration totals. a cloudburst caused extensive damage in Pittsburgh and Allegheny. a US Haiti telegraph firm incorporated in Albury. Stasler arrested in Perry county for counterfeiting. and a note on traffic fatalities and other scattered events.
A July 5 battle near Anton Maceo’s position in Cuba ends in a crushing Spanish rout. Insurgent forces reportedly kill or wound hundreds, with Spanish general Isolan killed or captured and Gen. Kimee said to be captured and held as a prisoner by Maceo. Cuban rebels hold Indian hostage to deter executions of captured officers.
The New York State Bankers Convention adopts a resolution urging maintenance of the gold standard and condemning silver coinage. It warns that a shift to silver would disrupt currency, hurt labor and business, and damage U S credit. The group calls for unity among sound money forces and a coordinated effort to influence national politics.
Malvern Arkansas at the Hot Springs railway junction was nearly wiped out by an early morning fire. The blaze destroyed the depot two hotels the bank and main business district. only three stores remain. Losses are uncertain with insurance minimal and residents fear swift retribution for alleged incendiaries.
Sheriff Fitzhugh of Malvern and a posse arrived with three men who burned Malvern’s business section. Case Wimm colored, E A Miller and Eugene Ingram white faced mob heat but were moved to Little Rock. Miller confessed implicating himself. Williams claimed St Louis as home while Ingram said Little Rock. Theft was probably their purpose.
Fire destroyed the Chicago City Street Railway Co. car barns on Thirty Fifth Street and Cottage Grove avenue last night. Dozens of cars including open and closed types were burned, along with horses and supplies. The blaze began at 7:30 and spread rapidly, collapsing an engine house wall injuring Engineer Sullivan. Local coverage notes the fire’s impact and preliminary insurance assessment.
The Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chang is to spend three or four weeks in England as a guest of the nation. He will meet with foreign officials, be received by the queen, and tour dockyards and shipbuilding yards, avoiding German deceptions about his authority.
Three people died when a fire destroyed the South Chicago Street Railway barns at Thirty ninth Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Identified by personal articles found on them are Frank Crosby, W. D. Elwell the driver, and Patrice Martin the conductor. In Wisconsin Gala time turnsfest draws forty thousand visitors with regional Vereins represented and prizes awarded today.
The special train carrying Stephen J. Field associate justice of the United States Supreme Court arrived in Tam and he was taken to rooms at the Palace hotel where he went to bed. The aged jurist walked with feeble steps but showed no other signs of serious illness.
A movement to organize the social money democrats of the state is now forming and will take practical shape in the coming days. The plan is to prepare for Kentucky action aligning with other states to adopt a platform embodying sound money views.
A fragmentary Southern Gleanings column reports a Virginia case where Mary Sauvigran, a white woman, was hanged for murdering her three‑week‑old child, with details of a mob, a court trial, and a family backdrop in Pike County. Additional items mention Georgia politics, cane crops, a Tennessee postmaster shooting, and assorted notes on deaths, marriages, fires, and incidents across several states.
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