30 Jun 1910
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
1
John Adams writes to a friend on the day after the Declaration of Independence urging a grand national celebration. He calls for solemn acts of devotion to God and a festival of pomp games and illuminations from coast to coast, insisting the end justifies the struggles and that posterity will triumph.
A stray menu with tea service on the lawn, Lamb Tea, mint sauce, potato salad, watermelon, and cherry cake for the Fourth of July indoors. Includes recipes and a patriotic poem lines, plus basic first aid tips for burns and injuries.
A desperate man in Georgia opened fire on officers during a hostage situation. Troops stormed the house, a volley fired, and the desperado Bostwick was found dead on the floor after a chaotic pursuit that left Deputy James Gill wounded and many doors damaged. Children were moved to safety amid the bombardment.
In West Tampa near MarFarlane Park at sunrise Marco Asulo and another Cuban fought with knives. One man died within minutes after he was wounded and the other fled, vanishing on a nearby street.
Judge Burditt voided the injunction against the Scent fare law, orders Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to refund excess nine cent fares to coupon holders at Chariton Huntington and Hinton offices, and grants a sixty day stay for the railroad.
In Cambersee Massachusetts former Framingham town treasurer John B Lambird confessed to forging town notes. He collapsed when the sentence was read. his attorney sought leniency due to his age as the clerk announced the term.
President Taft, three days before Congress adjourned, began drafting a veto message for the river and harbor bill. At the last moment he chose to sign the measure after the bill’s framers clarified key points, ending the veto attempt.
Georgia assembly passes a resolution to summon Governor Joseph Brown to explain his failure to extend state options on a land tract to Chattanooga for expanding the Western & Atlantic terminal facilities. The state owns the line and the city would gain terminal access.
The article notes improved cotton yields due to warmer weather across the south and east of the Mississippi, with forecasts of continued growth and limited damage. It also covers Congress activity under Taft, detailing reforms and legislation advanced, including rail laws, state admissions, postal savings banks, public land withdrawals, campaign finance disclosure, reclamation funding, tariff board expansions, antitrafficking efforts, and federal economy commissions.
In Valladolod Yucatan a firing squad executed three men after war department murder and sedition sentences. Two brides, who had been promised to the condemned, requested marriages and were allowed to wed minutes before the executions. The ceremonies were held at the penitentiary as the sentences were carried out.
Representatives from fifty eight cotton mills across Gastonia Mecklenburg Cleveland Lincoln Catawba counties and York county South Carolina agree to a four week shutdown in July and August. Nearly ten thousand spindles idle and about 100000 pounds of yarn and cloth removed from the market weekly during the period. Spokane note mentions different tale of Mrs Dolly Travers and fortunes in Australia.
President Taft signed most measures as the sixty first congress adjourned at night. Both houses voted to investigate the McMurray Indian contracts amid charges of bribery and improper influence raised by Senator Gore and Representative Murphy. Each house created a five member select committee to probe contracts during the recess and report any member interest.
La Porte Indiana businessman Charles E. Russell sailed from New York for London to negotiate with a London syndicate for the purchase of a vast oil producing tract in the Robinson field. He aims to finalize terms after reporting on the land's productiveness and may include Indiana leases in the deal.
In Wacoa Texas the six year old Katherine Padgitt daughter of Clint Padgitt suffered a head injury when kicked by a horse. Doctors report skull fractures and loss of speech though she may relearn language with therapy.
Three people killed five seriously injured and about fifty hurt with cuts and bruises when the river excursion steamer J S burned at La Crosse Wisconsin.
Milwaukee woman Alma Naumann stands to gain one hundred thousand dollars if she marries but only the income from that sum if she remains single, under the $500000 will of Mrs. Henrietta Fried. The provision defines the unusual betrothal prize as a condition of inheritance.
New York reports Colonel Roosevelt will have surgery on his throwing arm. The exact seriousness of the ailment is unclear though a growth is suspected, possibly not serious now but with potential grave complications, to be removed.
Leavenworth Kansas General Frederick Funston commandant of the army service schools here is reported to be ill with a heart ailment at his home in Leavenworth.
In Cheyenne Wyoming prosecutors try to connect a deadly June 12 killing of Levi Tracy to a craps game that allegedly sparked the trouble. Defense contends the court should focus on the alleged motive and surrounding events.
Gov Noel opened a state immigration convention, praising latent Mississippi productivity. Leaders from industry, agriculture, railroads, and law enforcement debated farm expansion, dairy prospects, and selective immigration to attract southern newcomers and capital while urging Congress to reform federal immigration policy.
In Irvington at the Gould mansion on Tuesday Miss Helen Miller Gould received a loving cup from her employer as thanks for her welfare efforts. She also received a bound volume of 25 railroad association letters and 25 high Gould lines officials letters, bound in morocco with silver trimmings.
The report estimates Lowndes County has extensive alfalfa acreage and wheat land near the Alabama line. Alfalfa yields could total about 134 per acre in Columbus area markets, promising roughly $100,000 from the crop. The piece also notes revival meetings, public building funds, school and road developments, and local officials responding to fires and crimes.
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