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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
1
The cabinet decided not to push a daylight shift for federal clocks. The plan would have let clerks start early summer hours and end early afternoon, but rail, post office schedules and business interests argued against it. No change to current government work hours.
The widow of Maj. Carrington faced posthumous scrutiny of her husband’s conviction by insular courts for financial charges in the Philippines. He served with the Twenty first Infantry and Filipino scouts, was imprisoned in Bilabid, and later died while his wife and two daughters secured government positions in Washington through influential support.
H. Denham a Kentucky born elevator man turned legislator faced pneumonia during a political fight to unseat Gov. Beckham. He was carried to the state house on a stretcher at noon to vote for Bradley amid a pairing controversy and a sald dispute with Capt. Longmeyer.
A fragmentary column notes Mrs Jonathan P Dolliver wife of a senior senator, her Wellesley background and role as mathematics chair at Eastern University Evanston, and her lively Washington gatherings. It also recalls a courtroom scene where a drunk and disorderly defendant appeals to a judge who pities him due to his wife’s annual housecleaning mood.
Edward W Callahan longtime Breathitt county figure and chief lieutenant of Judge James Hargis was shot from ambush at his Crocketteville home. The attack follows a dispute over church property and ties to the Hargis clan and Denton enemies with past killings and elopement history.
Solicitor General Bowers told President Taft that added coloring or flavoring does not turn alcohol into whisky. He argues whisky retains its character unless coloring or flavoring unduly dilutes or alters its essential properties.
Leta Williamson, four, died tackling flames to rescue her baby sister Irene as fire consumed a second floor barn home in Indianapolis. Firemen rescued Irene and another sister. the mother, cooking supper, fled with Lela before the tragedy. A policeman found the girl unconscious and she died in his arms during removal.
The cabinet approves a ten year plan totaling 60 million dollars to build six Danton type battleships, six Republic type battleships, and four Gambetta type armored cruisers as part of the navy expansion.
Vice-Admiral Baron Urin of Japan and Captain Henry B. Pelly of Britain attended a dinner at Sherry's. Urin said goodwill shown to him reflected favor on Japan and cited President Taft’s attendance at his naval academy class reunion as a sign of support for his country.
New Haven reports Princeton senior James Hutchinson Jr. lay seriously ill at Dr. Austin Cheney's private sanitarium after attending the Yale Princeton baseball game. He was taken there and underwent an appendectomy as his condition improved, with recovery expected barring complications.
The balloon New York, an 85 000 rubber craft, departed Indianapolis Saturday at 5 p m and landed two and a half miles north of Corinth at 5 10 Monday morning. The track covered 524 miles by rail as it passed over nearby areas.
New Orleans victims from an excursion on the Margaret were drowned when the steamer struck near Mandeville as crowds swarmed the wharf. Reports listed 25 to 80 dead with many missing and a mass of panicked passengers pulled from the lake.
President Barrett issues call for June 24 gathering of Farmers Union state presidents and prominent businessmen in Atlanta to plan marketing of cooperative cotton warehouses and to discuss wheat movement methods. The meeting will focus on warehouse handling and similar wheat market strategies. In Washington, Capt. Samuel Lemly, navy court of inquiry witness, has been inmate at St. Elizabeths Hospital for nearly a year amid Schley Sampson controversy concerns.
Colgate Oklahoma Tom Bigbee jailer was attacked by two men early today and forced to free eleven prisoners including two charged with murder. He was seized his keys and weapons taken and choked before he was made to unlock all doors.
Philadelphia obituary notes Col Alexander K Mc Clure prothonotary of PA supreme and superior courts died Sunday after a long career in politics and journalism. He urged backing Lincoln amid Pennsylvania convention turmoil. In Hot Springs Arkansas a deed transfers ownership of Essex Park race track property to Simon Cooper per the circuit clerk filing.
Washington notes detail a Senate session on the cotton schedule with La Follette attacking Dingley rate changes and Aldrich defending the finance committee's amendments. Aldrich urges Southern senators to consider regional prosperity while predicting growing mill power in the South and coalition with the North.
A mob of over fifteen men dragged condemned prisoner Mark Morrin from his cell in the county jail early Sunday. They hanged him from a tree limb inside the jail enclosure and fired rounds into the body before fleeing, in view of the city and the governor's home nearby.
Paragould Arkansas resident James Krisco, a Black uk citizen, was seriously injured while picking mulberries when Newell Merritt and Jim Cunningham fired at a movement in a tree they mistook for a squirrel. Krisco was struck by squirrel shot and returned home with help.
Federal Judge Cotteral ruled the secretary of state's revocation of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company charter null and void in Guthrie Oklahoma. The decision bars further interference and rests on the railroad being domiciled in another state, violating a recent Oklahoma law.
William Darragh, a chauffeur, received a sentence of not less than seven nor more than twenty years in Sing Sing. He struck Ingvaard Trimble with a passing car on March 27, then left the boy in the street and fled the scene. The judge condemned the driver for the fatal hit and run.
A heated senate dialogue attacks Nelson Aldrich and the protective tariff defense as a tool for eastern trusts. The piece argues protection harms consumers, claims schedules favor manufacturers, and criticizes Taft for failing to lower duties.
The British house of commons approved new income taxes with 5.8 percent on incomes over 15009 and eight percent over 500000, and passed death, legacy and succession duties with rates from six to 15 percent. Legacy duties may push large estates toward quarter-value taxation. An auto tax was also adopted. Britain follows Germany in taxing wealth rather than poverty.
The Atlanta Constitution laments the protracted tariff debates in Congress, arguing that few lawmakers hold final authority and that the lengthy discussion wastes time without illuminating schedules or securing public interests.
The piece notes that Aldrich cannot change the public demand for lower living costs through Dingley rate revision. It argues tariff revision implies no real tariff reform and highlights voter expectations in the Republican platform debate.
The article notes minerals texts once labeled quartz as infusible, but the electric furnace enabled its use. Manufacturers now publish catalogues of quartz apparatus, highlighting two grades and their applications in chemical devices and related equipment.
The Los Angeles Herald cites Senator Rayner of Maryland and argues that the tariff harms morality. It claims high tariffs corrupt judgment, mislead common people, and threaten national interests, describing tariff policy as a spiritual law with long term damaging effects on society.
In a heated tariff dispute the South pushes for strong protection while editors like the New Orleans Picayune demand keeping the sugar duty intact. The piece argues the sugar tariff serves revenue more than protection, costs American consumers billions, and should end without harming the poor.
A prominent statesman denounces lobbying for higher duties in the Payne tariff through a banquet remark. He cites a manufacturer claiming 80 percent protection now and aims for 120 percent to block imports. The critique, quoted from the Wall Street Journal, labels such protection a premium on greed and a fraud on consumers.
The nation’s papers, led by Republican organs like the Boston Transcript, express nearly unanimous regret over the tariff bill as rates are seen as too high. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge says he never pledged to revise tariffs, indicating cautious positions without firm pledges to move prices.
The text describes two forms of silica crystals used in chemical labs. The transparent rock crystal variant resembles glass and the cheaper electroquartz or translucent form. Both resist acids except hydrofluoric and withstand temperature changes, though violently. Quartz also offers nearly perfect insulating properties.
The Mississippi charter amendment removes the word female from the Blue Mountain Female College name. The institution in Tippah county will be Mae Mountain College and continue educating girls as its central purpose.
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