05 Mar 1891
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1891
Page
1
A compilation notes the senate executive on the 4th nominating ex-Gov Foster for secretary of the treasury, a Berlin art plan abandoned amid anti-German sentiment, and various political shifts including labor, judiciary appointments and international tensions affecting figures like Peary and Vanderbilts.
Senate and House journals note numerous petitions confirmations and bills. Proposals for printing the agricultural report on horse diseases pass the Senate amid nominations and committee Work proceeds on sundry civil and immigration bills as deaths and disasters spark brief remarks and adjournments.
The Gila River flood overwhelms Toma Aris Lalli as levee failure floods the Mexican quarter and hundreds of houses, with one drowning. Convicts help, townspeople abandon lower areas, and relief drives form while rail and telegraph offices are ruined.
Telegram summaries allege Tomas Bamem accused of six murders in Wisconsin and Kentucky. arrests at Antigo and Baraboo. robberies and threats linked to train confrontations. Mobs and fears of loss of life spread near Pulse, Valley. Mormon emigration from Utah anticipated. Senate considers pension bill. Actress Marie Prescott denied divorce. residency dispute noted in Covington. Agricultural groups visit Chattanooga to study soil for vineyards. California politician Harmon dies. Kansas lobbyist ban enforced in legislature. Kentucky horse trader sells Cleo, a fast two year old, price 5900.
Dispatches report a severe flood in Paria and Las Prascisco area with Yuma telegrams noting all of the town except the Southern Pacific hotel destroyed. The Gila and Colorado rivers rose 33 feet, flooding depots and threatening the bridge, which was held by dynamite to prevent collapse.
Reports from California describe a severe storm that damaged railroad bridges and tracks from Los Angeles to the canyon entrances. Widespread washouts cut 200 miles of wire and disrupted the Sunset Route, with the Atlantic Pacific line rerouting trains east. Livestock losses and bridge wreckage were reported, but city damage remained comparatively light.
Wasuixetos February 6 Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason reports seven month fiscal year collections total 57.40 million to date up 7.46 million from last year. Major gains include spirits 319 thousand tobacco 1.85 million fermented liquors 1.89 million and oleomargarine 100 thousand. January 1991 receipts exceed January 1860 by 967 thousand.
At Temple Mississippi sixteen miles north, a fatal shootout followed a sheriff’s bid to arrest two Smith brothers accused in a cotton theft. Milton Smith was killed and S. J. Smith wounded as a posse fired on them. Milton returned fire before being shot. The case follows earlier threats and a tense countywide pursuit.
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