07 Jun 1894
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1894
Page
1
A jumble of events reports a Milwaukee sob home incident and a royal audience with the Chicago cruiser. Earthquakes shake Viggianetlo Italy while Boulder Creek floods devastate towns. Political clashes, bank failures, and labor unrest ripple from London to Gravesend.
Summarizes diverse events: Hawaiian self government stance amid French and British influence, tariff and repeal debates in Congress, labor and strike actions, violent incidents and investigations, shipwreck and train accidents, royal and memorial observances, and labor migrations affecting industry in Indiana and Pennsylvania.
A mob of about 1000 striking miners gathers at Canneburg to block oil and coal shipments, prompting Sheriff Leming to seek a court injunction and warn that militia may be called if orders are refused. Deputies patrol from Colorado Springs and Pueblo as tensions rise.
The piece notes strikes and rail disruptions tightening supply in wheat and iron ore markets. It cites exhausted Carnegie works stocks near Pittsburgh and Western mills reporting weak demand, with prices for furnace products fluctuating amid ongoing labor actions.
Reports from May 24 describe a race between the steamer Iwalani and the Champion over securing a Pacific cable island near Honolulu. London officials consider a cable route from Australia to the United States via Neekarisiansi, while the Iwalani aims to plant the Hawaiian flag to claim the site. Other items note Japan’s voting-franchise tensions, labor immigration, and royalist reactions in Hawaii as the constitutional era approaches.
Condensed dispatches report Corrim and Coffin sent to prison for bank wrecking. Steece & Warner of St. Joseph assign assets around 70 to 100 thousand dollars. A cyclone near Fort Scott damages property. Piers collapse killing two men. Arbitration plan proposed by Congressman Kiefer. Lynching of a Black man near Lancaster S C. Arkansas poll tax clause challenges. Arkansas settler Gaines dies aged nearly one hundred. Frost harms crops in Kentucky. Versailles hosts large protest against Breckinridge bid. Palmyra residents hunt two gunmen who shot banker Russell and spouse.
President John McBride of the United Mine Workers orders a meeting next Tuesday with the miners National Executive Committee and district presidents to decide a course of action. A Norfolk & Western official warned against any property destruction to halt shipments, and McBride urged officials to prevent such acts.
Flood recedes fifteen feet as water remains. Quick pumping may take over a week. several bridges washed from Fountain river. coroner reports multiple missing and dead, including Hop Kee and Mary Johnson. Several townspeople seen clinging to rooves. search hampered by sinkholes and debris.
The World’s Fair Museum at the Art building was dedicated this afternoon as America’s largest museum. The event featured an opening address by Edward Mason and remarks from Edward Ayer, with Rev. F. W. Gonsantus leading the invocation. Warshall Field F. J. W. Skiff provided the endowment of 1,000,000 and served as museum director. Eleven thousand five hundred tickets were issued for the ceremony.
Direct reports say the Cragg a small Norwegian steamer earned a profit from transporting 5000 barrels of cargo to Chicago with fears paid and provisions carried back to Norway. If three more similar trips succeed a regular Chicago to Norway line may be established.
National guards from Indiana, deployed by Matthews, arrived at Goelork to protect cast train routes. They disembarked with Gatling gun bayonets and regimental colors, then marched toward the trouble site but found no active striker force. Sheriff seeks four leaders once involved.
A midlife Hebrew man W Wineman dies in Montgomery after revealing a tale of buried treasure near West Point, Georgia. The column notes other items: homicide cases, lawsuits, a lynching, a missing parent search, a university inquiry into a professor, lightning deaths, and multiple local tragedies and legal actions across Alabama and neighboring states.
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