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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1892
Page
1
Reports show reelection of Nersos W. Anparen in Rhode Island and Darel S. Baker Jr among others. Michigan law reshapes districts for electors. Indiana cases rule railroad crossing duties. Paris court rejects Ravachol appeal in a high-profile murder, while Chicago Press Club opens rooms for visiting journalists during the Democratic convention.
Disjointed senate chatter on the th and memos about Memorials. Reports cover the British House of Commons approving £1,000,000 to buy telephone trunks, a deadly explosion in Mageeburg, a Spanish cyclone wreck, a lava-bridge near Monte Sormina Vesarias, and various disasters. Also noted are a Belfast Loyalist convention, a river drowning near St. Louis, Wall Street profits for a NY officer, and a Chickamauga redevelopment plan with towers slated for September.
Reports detail a deadly storm in Earling where a child drowned in a pond, a storm in Quebec causing widespread damage and school destruction, a steamer capsizing near Maine with casualties, and large ice houses toppled by a southeast gale. Other items note wage debates, a new city water supply milestone, and legal seizures in Kentucky.
Telegram items note land tapping in southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas rich in minerals and timber. Other dispatches cover US and Canada business failures, wheat harvest in Kansas, a Nations Alliance official moving to Washington after a death, a New York to Boston bicycle record, Elks color policy, pensions total, Camden & Alexandria sale to St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern, a Latrobe train riot with two deaths, governors bans on sheep shipments to Montana, and a Wolffe-Wehbe infection alert.
A falsework bridge on the Licking river between Newport and Covington Kentucky collapsed at 1 am trapping about ninety men. Many workers were pulled from the wreck as rescue efforts continued and coroner inquests were ordered. The disaster left numerous dead and injured with crowds of bystanders and a heavy response from Cincinnati authorities.
Chauncey M Depew claims differences with Typographical Union No 6 are settled while a union officer says no deal reached Reid faced opposition over the nomination In Minneapolis Philadelphia and other centers the unions debate Reid as an enemy of organized labor and delay action on a censure resolution.
June 16 report notes June 78 as the dissolution date used by conservatives to dodge borough elections on Saturdays. Liberals argue Saturday voting is essential as many workingmen cannot vote on other days. They warn thousands may be disfranchised or have votes crowded out due to slow polling and late closing times.
A Mississippi judge, James Bright Morgan, was killed when Henry C. Foster fired at him from a railroad car near Horn Lake. Foster surrendered with his brother after the shooting, which followed a legal dispute over custody in Hernando.
Reports from Minnesota say the storm death toll is smaller than earlier fear. Five counties report six dead, including the Melchart daughter, and several injured at Hartland township. Earlier exaggerations arose from railway and telegraph disruptions as trains and lines recovered.
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