03 May 1888
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1888
Page
1
Compiled items note the German Emperor enjoying a greatly relished meal on the 26th with Rev Mendes offering a prayer in the United States. Other reports cover Indiana politics, peace talks, and local civic events in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh.
The Senate advanced a misaisappi mis alazema land disposal measure under homestead law limits before adjournment. In the House, a Centennial invitation for New York was referred, and tariff and land forfeiture debates dominated the sessions with private pension bills noted. Contested election case Frank v Glover was scheduled for decision.
A jumble of court verdicts and accidents from Mobile to Brooklyn, including a $5,000 damages award after a foot loss on a Louisville and Nashville freight line, a Brooklyn carriage fatality, heavy frosts in Luxembourg, suicides in Denver and New York, rail and ship news, and political notes on Cleveland Mills and Blaine.
Dispatches report six of eight men implicated in the Brillianti burglary have been captured with $50,000 of the $75,000 stolen recovered. Also noted are a boy killed by a freight near Nashville, heavy snow in Minnesota, and various regional incidents including outlaw confrontations and bond votes.
Ernst Kleeschulte shoots wife Mary Schulte and two sons in their isolated Missouri home six miles north of the area. He then kills himself, leaving one son wounded and hospitalized. local sheriff and Dr. W P Lalley report the scene and identify the killer as the estranged husband.
Three African American men Owen D Hill Jack Crow and George Moss were executed at Fort Smith Arkansas after sentences by U S District Judge Parker on February. The three murders occurred in 1871 and 1987 involving the Chehaw Nation and a wife.
Jasper Davis hanged in Anderson South Carolina for the murder of his wife Mrs Wit Axnensos. Davis appeared prepared for execution and confessed guilt. He had a history of insanity and cruelty toward his wife, who had left him for her brother’s home before the crime.
The tale lists a string of deadly events from Tennessee Kentucky and Mississippi including a hogshead crush accident death a fatal shooting in South Pittsburgh and mob actions at Somerset a violent feud near Muhlenburg County and a fatal train accident in Vicksburg It notes other tragedies from fires frost and a prison camp forecast plus various indictments and legal actions.
In a London letter reprinted by the Herald, educated women from formerly wealthy families are described taking up trades due to declining rents. Acknowledge examples include a duchess’s sister selling dresses and a former reader of fashion making cloaks, with remarks praising self-reliance and the shift toward women earning their living. The piece argues for more practical female influence in law and society, urging gradual reform and peaceful public virtue.
Rev. R. Heber Newton at All Souls' Church concludes a series on Woman in the State. He argues gradual entry of women into citizenship may educate and stabilize politics while warning of risks from mass, ignorant voters. feeling as a political force complements reason.
A Times-Democrat passage critiques the idea that pretty women are only ornamental. It argues many women combine beauty with merit of heart and mind, citing Saint Cecelia, Cleopatra, Laura Pendennis, and the Princess of Wales as examples of exceptional women who defy the stereotype.
In Woman's World the piece surveys notable women including Miss Harne Aten M D daughter of a Waterloo banker who will join Michigan State University as assistant professor of medicine. It notes large petition drives for municipal suffrage led by Mrs E A Kingsbury and profiles Christina F Haley in patent claim work. It reflects on women’s varied roles from education and medicine to business and advocacy.
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